{"id":10467,"date":"2011-01-10T21:24:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T21:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=10467"},"modified":"2011-01-10T21:24:35","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T21:24:35","slug":"dga-nominees-announced-aronofsky-hooper-fincher-nolan-orussell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/01\/10\/dga-nominees-announced-aronofsky-hooper-fincher-nolan-orussell\/","title":{"rendered":"DGA Nominees Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dga.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10468\" title=\"DGA Nominees 2010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DGA-Nominees-2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The DGA nominees have been announced for this year and they include <strong>Darren Aronofsky<\/strong> (Black Swan), <strong>Tom Hooper<\/strong> (The King&#8217;s Speech), <strong>David Fincher<\/strong> (The Social Network), <strong>Christopher Nolan<\/strong> (Inception) and <strong>David O&#8217;Russell<\/strong> (The Fighter).<\/p>\n<p>The Coen Brothers are the surprise omission for True Grit, although I don&#8217;t imagine it will seriously dent that film from being a multiple nominee at the Oscars.<\/p>\n<p>The DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film is traditionally a good barometer for who will win the Best Director Oscar.<\/p>\n<p>Only six times have the DGA Awards not matched with the corresponding Academy Award:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1968: Anthony Harvey won the DGA Award for The Lion in Winter while Carol Reed took home the Oscar\u00ae for Oliver!<\/li>\n<li>1972: Francis Ford Coppola received the DGA&#8217;s nod for The Godfather while the Academy selected Bob Fosse for Cabaret.<\/li>\n<li>1985: Steven Spielberg received his first DGA Award for The Color Purple while the Oscar\u00ae went to Sydney Pollack for Out of Africa.<\/li>\n<li>1995: Ron Howard was chosen by the DGA for his direction of Apollo 13 while Academy voters selected Mel Gibson for Braveheart.<\/li>\n<li>2000: Ang Lee won the DGA Award for his direction of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon while Steven Soderbergh won the Academy Award for Traffic.<\/li>\n<li>2002: Rob Marshall won the DGA Award for Chicago while Roman Polanski received the Academy Award for The Pianist.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The winner will be announced at the 63rd Annual DGA Awards dinner and ceremony on 29th January 2011 at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood &amp; Highland.<\/p>\n<p>As of now, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000399\/\">David Fincher<\/a> seems the favourite for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1285016\/\">The Social Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dga.org\">Official DGA Site<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; Awards Season analysis at <a href=\"http:\/\/incontention.com\/\">In Contention<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awardsdaily.com\/\">Awards Daily <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DGA nominees for this year have been announced and they include Darren Aronofsky, Tom Hooper, David Fincher, Christopher Nolan and David O&#8217;Russell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[733],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}