News: Directors Guild Helps Clarify Competitive Director's Race

     The Directors Guild of America (DGA) today came out with their nominations (click here to take a look) for their five best directors of the year. There are a lot of big name auteurs in this year's race, which makes it one of the most interesting races of the season, and probably one of the hardest to predict. Coming into today, there where about 7 or 8 names that all seemed very credible competitors, but after the DGA's nominations I think is more of a six-way race. Of course, there are many more members of the DGA than the smaller, more exclusive, directors branch of the Academy, so I may be premature in narrowing the race down to six. Personally, with the recent box office success of 'True Grit", and the fact that many of the members of the DGA may not have had the opportunity to see the movie before they sent in their ballots, I think when it comes down to Oscar time the Coen brothers will end up replacing Christopher Nolan in the Best Director category, but they may just be me. Either way, it will be interesting to see, because as you may have guessed by the name of this blog, outside of Best Picture, Best Director is my favorite category.