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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The direction was the worst part by farrrrr.
Am I being too harsh or missing something?
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.
really need to watch it (ZD30 I mean)
btw is it eligible for the contests?
Edited at 2013-01-08 07:02 pm (UTC)
Since Moonrise Kingdom and Beasts have no chance, Argo is my favorite of the big movies this season. I've seen all of them except Life of Pi.
Nhf Tom getting nominated - the main problem with Les Mis was the direction.