Directors Guild of America President Martha Coolidge today announced the five nominees for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2002.
The winner will be named at the 55th Annual DGA Awards Dinner on Saturday, March 1, 2003, at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.
The nominees are (in alphabetical order):
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STEPHEN DALDRY
THE HOURS (Studio: Paramount Pictures and Miramax Films) |
Mr. Daldry's Directorial Team:
- Unit Production Managers: Jo Burn, Michael Dreyer
- Unit Production Manager (U.S. Unit): James Bigwood
- First Assistant Directors: Nick Heckstall-Smith, Martin Harrison
- First Assistant Director (U.S. Unit): Stephen Lee Davis
- Second Assistant Director: George Walker
- Second Assistant Directors (U.S. Unit): Jennifer Truelove, Kellie Jo Tackett
- Second Second Assistant Director (U.S. Unit): Peggy Jean Robinson
This is Mr. Daldry's first DGA nomination.
Click here to view Mr. Daldry's Filmography on the IMDB.
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PETER JACKSON
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (Studio: New Line Cinema) |
Mr. Jackson's Directorial Team:
- Unit Production Managers: Nikolas Korda, Zane Weiner
- First Assistant Director: Carolynne Cunningham
- Key Second Assistant Director: Guy Campbell
- Second Assistant Director: Marc Ashton
This is Mr. Jackson's second DGA nomination. He was nominated last year for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
Click here to view Mr. Jackson's Filmography on the IMDB.
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ROB MARSHALL
CHICAGO (Studio: Miramax Films) |
Mr. Marshall's Directorial Team:
- Production Manager: Joyce Kozy King
- First Assistant Director: Myron Hoffert
- Second Assistant Director: Grant Lucibello
This is Rob Marshall's first DGA Feature Film Nomination.
Click here to view Mr. Marshall's Filmography on the IMDB.
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ROMAN POLANSKI
THE PIANIST (Studio: Focus Features) |
Mr. Polanski's Directorial Team:
- First Assistant Director: Ralph Remstedt
This is Mr. Polanski's third DGA nomination. He was nominated in 1968 for Rosemary's Baby and in 1974 for Chinatown.
Click here to view Mr. Polanski's Filmography on the IMDB.
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MARTIN SCORSESE
GANGS OF NEW YORK (Studio: Miramax Films) |
Mr. Scorsese's Directorial Team:
- Unit Production Manager: Michael Hausman
- First Assistant Director: Joseph Reidy
- Second Assistant Director: Chris Surgent
- Additional Second Assistant Director: Douglas Plasse
This is Mr. Scorsese's fifth DGA nomination. He was nominated in 1976 for Taxi Driver, in 1980 for Raging Bull, in 1990 for Goodfellas and in 1993 for Age of Innocence.
Click here to view Mr. Scorsese's Filmography on the IMDB.
The DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film has traditionally been one of the industry's most accurate barometers for who will win the Best Director Academy Award.
Only five times since the DGA Award's inception in 1949 has the DGA Award winner not won the Academy Award:
- In 1968, Anthony Harvey took home Guild honors for The Lion in Winter, while the Oscar went to Carol Reed for Oliver!.
- In 1972, the DGA's selection of Francis Ford Coppola for The Godfather was overlooked by the Academy in favor of Bob Fosse for Cabaret.
- In 1985, Steven Spielberg won his first DGA Award for The Color Purple, but Academy voters selected Sydney Pollack's work on Out of Africa.
- In 1995, Ron Howard was a DGA Award-winner for Apollo 13 but failed to even receive an Oscar nomination. The Academy Award that year went to Mel Gibson for Braveheart. Last year, however, Howard won the DGA Award for his direction of A Beautiful Mind, which went on to win the Academy Award.
- In 2000, Ang Lee was chosen by the DGA for his direction of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon while Steven Soderbergh took home the Academy Award for Traffic.
