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Scorsese Up for DGA...Again
It's looking more and more like perennial Oscar loser Martin Scorsese will get another chance to win.
The victory-deprived filmmaker was nominated Thursday by the Directors Guild of America as best director for his latest epic, The Aviator.
Scorsese, who has been as unlucky in the prestigious DGA derby as the Oscar one, will vie for his first competitive guild award against: Clint Eastwood, in the game for the second year in a row with Million Dollar Baby; Marc Forster (Finding Neverland); Taylor Hackford (Ray); and Alexander Payne (Sideways).
Of the group, only Eastwood is a previous DGA winner. He took the honor in 1993 for Unforgiven. Like most DGA winners, Eastwood went on to duplicate the victory later that year with the Best Director Academy Award.
The DGA likes to tout its uncanny ability to predict Oscar success. Since the guild began honoring its own in 1949, about 90 percent of its winners--50 out of 56--have become Oscar winners.
Rob Marshall was the most recent exception to the rule. The film newcomer took the DGA in 2003 for Chicago, only to be denied the Oscar by Roman Polanski, who won in exile for The Pianist.
Scorsese knows well of award-show snubs. The 62-year-old has made the classic likes of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and GoodFellas, and has nothing but the abiding love of cineastes--and a vast collection of honorary hardware (such as the DGA Lifetime Achievement Award, presented last year)--to show for them.
To date, Scorsese is 0-for-five at the DGAs; 0-for-six at the Oscars, including two writing nominations.
Scorsese's most recent DGA nomination--and loss--was for 2002's Gangs of New York. He made good on that defeat at the Academy Awards, losing out, like Marshall, to Polanski.
Eastwood, 74, is a three-time DGA contender. In addition to Unforgiven, he was nominated last year for Mystic River.
The thirtysomething Forster and the 42-year-old Payne are DGA Award first-timers.
Hackford, 60, is now a two-time nominee. His nod for the Ray Charles biopic comes 22 long years after his initial DGA bid for An Officer and a Gentleman.
This year's roster of DGA hopefuls contained no surprises. Scorsese and Payne long ago positioned themselves, and their films, as frontrunners. Eastwood and Forster also have been in the mix in all the major races.
Hackford's nomination arguably was the most iffy. Ray has generated the most buzz for star Jamie Foxx, but the film's studio, Universal Pictures, has taken to hyping Hackford in recent ads.
The winner of the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film will be announced Jan. 29 at the 57th Annual DGA Awards Dinner in Beverly Hills. Longtime Academy Awards producer Gil Cates will be presented with the guild's honorary Presidents Award.
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