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1:27 pm - 01/08/2013

Directors Guild Awards: Nominations



Ben Affleck, Argo
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Tom Hooper, Les Miserables

BEN AFFLECK
Argo
(Warner Bros. Pictures)
Mr. Affleck’s Directorial Team:

  • Unit Production Manager:  Amy Herman
  • First Assistant Director:  David Webb
  • Second Assistant Director:  Ian Calip
  • Second Second Assistant Directors: Clark Credle, Gavin Kleintop
  • First Assistant Director (Turkey Unit): Belkis Turan

This is Mr. Affleck’s first DGA Feature Film Award nomination.

KATHRYN BIGELOW
Zero Dark Thirty
(Columbia Pictures)

Ms. Bigelow’s Directorial Team:

  • Unit Production Manager:  Colin Wilson
  • First Assistant Director:  David A. Ticotin
  • Second Assistant Directors:  Ben Lanning, Sarah Hood
  • First Assistant Director (Jordan Unit): Scott Robertson
  • Second Assistant Directors (Jordan Unit): Jonas Spaccarotelli, Yanal Kassay
  • Second Second Assistant Director (Jordan Unit): Tarek Afifi
  • Unit Production Manager (India Unit): Rajeev Mehra

This is Ms. Bigelow’s second DGA Feature Film Award nomination.  She won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film fo The Hurt Locker n 2009.

TOM HOOPER

Les Misérables

(Universal Pictures)

Mr. Hooper’s Directorial Team:

  • Unit Production Manager:  Patrick Schweitzer
  • First Assistant Director:  Ben Howarth
  • Second Assistant Director:  Harriet Worth
  • Second Second Assistant Director: Dan Channing Williams

This is Mr. Hooper’s second DGA Feature Film Award nomination.  He won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film fo The King’s Speech 2010) and was previously nominated for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television/Mini-Series fo John Adams n 2008.

ANG LEE

Life of Pi

(Twentieth Century Fox)

Mr. Lee’s Directorial Team:

  • Unit Production Manager:  Michael J. Malone
  • Unit Production Manager (Taiwan): Leo Chen
  • First Assistant Directors:  William M. Connor, Cliff Lanning
  • Second Assistant Directors:  Robert Burgess, Ben Lanning
  • Unit Production Manager (India Unit): Sanjay Kumar
  • First Assistant Director (India Unit): Nitya Mehra
  • Second Assistant Director (India Unit): Ananya Rane
  • Second Second Assistant Directors (India Unit): Namra Parikh, Freya Parekh
  • Second Assistant Directors (Montreal Unit): Derek Wimble, Renato De Cotiis

This is Mr. Lee’s fourth DGA Feature Film Award nomination.   He won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film fo Brokeback Mountain 2005) an Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000) and was nominated fo Sense and Sensibility n 1995.

STEVEN SPIELBERG

Lincoln

(DreamWorks Pictures/Twentieth Century Fox)

Mr. Spielberg’s Directorial Team:

  • Unit Production Manager:  Susan McNamara
  • First Assistant Director:  Adam Somner
  • Second Assistant Director:  Ian Stone
  • Second Second Assistant Directors: Eric Lasko, Trevor Tavares


So proud of Kathryn Bigelow. Even if she doesn't win this is a huge achievement, being the first woman to be nominated twice!!! Also, props to Ang Lee, the first poc to win an oscar for best direction, getting his 4th DGA nomination. Crossing my fingers for him as well. 

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friarsfire 8th-Jan-2013 06:42 pm (UTC)
What are your thoughts on Zero Dark Thirty? At least as I've received the marketing, it's being sold as almost a documentary of the assassination of Bin Laden but in interviews after the Senate opened a commission looking into their intel, they're upselling the fact that it's a documentary. It all seems really skeevy to me how much the entire 9/11 et al situation has been sensationalized and commercialized. I hate that shit and am giving 0 stars to the entire project.

Am I being too harsh or missing something?
theartistprince 8th-Jan-2013 06:45 pm (UTC)
I think it's something that could have waited a few more years before being made.
friarsfire 8th-Jan-2013 06:46 pm (UTC)
yeah, that also bothers me. btw, your un is flawless
theartistprince 8th-Jan-2013 06:48 pm (UTC)
why thank you! Your icon is foxy as well.
friarsfire 8th-Jan-2013 06:50 pm (UTC)
So I went to your icons right after I hit reply and saw your Prince icon and was SOOOOOOO JEALOUS it's amazing
stoicana 8th-Jan-2013 06:47 pm (UTC)
It never felt to me like the movie was being marketed as a documentary. Maybe living in Canada I'm seeing different marketing for the movie?

It all seems really skeevy to me how much the entire 9/11 et al situation has been sensationalized and commercialized. I hate that shit and am giving 0 stars to the entire project.

This is hardly the first movie to be made about "real tragic events."
friarsfire 8th-Jan-2013 06:48 pm (UTC)
Like the other person who replied to this pointed out, it's also how soon after he was killed was this movie being marketed. I find it all very distasteful.
ms_mmelissa 8th-Jan-2013 06:54 pm (UTC)
I've never got the impression that it's a documentary though Bigelow/Boal are certainly playing up the fact that a lot of their intel was gleaned from good sources.

assassination of Bin Laden

From what I've heard about the movie it's more a meditation of a national obsession with revenge as seen through this one woman who hunts down this one man and whether it was, in all, worth it.

I'm still highly interested in seeing it, but I guess I understand where other people are coming from when they aren't.
friarsfire 8th-Jan-2013 07:01 pm (UTC)
Hm, it's possible that I just don't much about the project and this is what I've gleaned about it from watching the news and various outlets I don't remember. Like, as you describe it, it sounds interesting.
ms_mmelissa 8th-Jan-2013 07:04 pm (UTC)
Ha! Well I'm totally obsessed with movies and haunt a bunch of film boards which is why my info is a little different from yours. Ads for the movie have been weird. If you only were gathering info from trailers you would barely know that Jessica Chastain was in it, when she's the lead who carries the entire thing.
lovefifteen 8th-Jan-2013 07:19 pm (UTC)
I've never got the impression that it's a documentary though Bigelow/Boal are certainly playing up the fact that a lot of their intel was gleaned from good sources.

The thing is when you watch the film the fact that they use real names, real places, and real events makes you THINK it's real, whether consciously or not. And then it's difficult to separate what actually happened from what's been exaggerated for creative license.
ms_mmelissa 8th-Jan-2013 07:20 pm (UTC)
Sure, but it's still in no way a documentary, just like biopics are in no way documentaries.
snoozeen 8th-Jan-2013 07:04 pm (UTC)
The raid on the compound was the best part, even though I feared the whole time it was going to get too exploitative.
just444 8th-Jan-2013 07:18 pm (UTC)
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even though i knew the ending (obviously) i was holding my breath, good scene

but it was a bit disconnecting seeing Andy Dwyer there thb
snoozeen 8th-Jan-2013 07:20 pm (UTC)
With getting these small but memorable parts in big movies the last two years (Moneyball; ZDT), he's totally going to end up being a huge movie star in five years. Watch.

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