WHAT: Announcement of the five nominees for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2006.
WHEN: Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - 10:00 AM
WHERE: DGA Headquarters, Theatre 2, 7920 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90046
WHO: DGA President Michael Apted to announce nominees.
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 six times since the DGA Awards began in 1949 has the Feature Film winner not gone on to win the Oscar®.
- 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.
- 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.
- Lastly, in March of 2003, Rob Marshall won the DGA Award for Chicago at the 55th Annual DGA Awards while Roman Polanski received the Academy Award for The Pianist.
The Feature Film winner will be announced at the 59th Annual DGA Awards Dinner on Saturday, February 3, 2007 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.
See this website for future DGA Awards updates.
