LOS ANGELES, Jan. 27, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) — The winners of the 2007 Directors Guild of America Outstanding Directorial Achievement Awards and the recipients of the Guild’s 2008 Career Achievement Awards were announced Saturday night during the 60th Annual DGA Awards Dinner at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen won the DGA’s Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for No Country for Old Men.Following the welcome from DGA President Michael Apted to an audience of more than 1,500 guests, Actor/Director/Comedian Carl Reiner hosted the Awards ceremony for the twenty-first time.
Presenters included: Josh Brolin (No Country for Old Men), DGA Secretary-Treasurer Gil Cates, Kristin Chenoweth and Chi McBride (Pushing Daisies), Marion Cotillard* (La Vie En Rose), Daniel Day-Lewis* (There Will Be Blood), Adrian Grenier (Entourage), Emile Hirsch and Hal Holbrook* (Into the Wild), Helen Hunt (Then She Found Me), Kathleen Kennedy and Jon Kilik (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), John Larroquette (Boston Legal), Debra Messing (The Starter Wife), Ellen Page* (Juno), Anna Paquin (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee), Amy Ryan* (Gone Baby Gone), Tilda Swinton* and Tom Wilkinson* (Michael Clayton), Vanessa Williams (Ugly Betty) and 2006 DGA Feature Film Award winner/DGA Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Martin Scorsese.
Read the complete list of DGA Award Recipients at REELot.com
This is good news and the DGA Award is often, though not always, a good indication of Oscar results. Not that I put any great stock in the Oscars and haven’t since “Kramer Vs. Kramer” beat out “Apocalypse Now” and “Ordinary People” trumped “Raging Bull” (question: when was the last time you watched either of those “winners” and compare that to how many times you’ve viewed the losers”–nuff said). The Coen boys have delivered some might terrific films in their canon and deserve any special mention or citation for excellence they get…
Comment by Cliff Burns — January 27, 2008 @ 1:10 pm |