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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