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DGA Digs Anderson, Coens, Penn
This year's muddied Oscar race may have just gotten a little clearer...and artsier.
Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood), Sean Penn (Into the Wild) and Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men) topped the ballot Tuesday for the Directors Guild of America's Best Director award, considered one of the most accurate Academy Award predictors of the pre-Oscar season.
Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton) and Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) round out this year's field, which has a decidedly arthouse vibe.
Of all the nominees, only Joel Coen is a repeat offender, having snagged a nod for 1996's Fargo. This time, he and his brother made history as the first sibling team to be nominated.
"2008 marks the 60th anniversary of the DGA Awards. We are very proud to have today's five nominees join the illustrious list of directors that have been nominated for directorial excellence in feature filmmaking over the past 59 years," said DGA President Michael Apted.
Based on the handful of awards doled out so far, the race would seem to come down to Anderson and the Coens. They've split most of the movie-reviewer-bestowed accolades, with the Coens most recently scoring the Best Director prize at Monday's Critics' Choice Awards, while Anderson triumphed at last weekend's National Society of Film Critics contest.
The guild passed over wannabe Oscar players Tim Burton (Sweeney Todd), Ridley Scott (American Gangster) and Joe Wright (Atonement), all of whom are up for the Best Directing prize at this weekend's Golden Globes along with the Coens and Schnabel.
As the DGA likes to tout, its directorial prize is a near-flawless barometer for who will eventually go on to win the Best Director Oscar, which in turn usually goes to the helmer of the Best Picture. Only six times in guild history has the DGA-winning filmmaker not gone on to snag a corresponding Oscar.
The batting average was brought down a bit in the last decade. Ang Lee failed to repeat his DGA win for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon at the 2000 Oscar, losing to Steven Soderbergh (Traffic). And in 2003, Rob Marshall danced away with the DGA trophy for Chicago but was beaten by Roman Polanski (The Pianist) at the Academy Awards.
This year's DGA Awards will be handed out Jan. 26 at Los Angeles' Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel.
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