64th Directors Guild of America Awards (2011)

And tonight, as I expected, the race for Best Picture ends. The Artist won the award it needed to in order to become the key juggernaut of the season. We now have both Best Director and Best Picture at the Oscars sewn up...tomorrow's SAG awards will still leave some mystery, but we might have a few more clues. As for the accuracy of this guild? In five years, they've been perfect. You have to go back to 2000 when Ang Lee beat Steven Soderbergh for the DGA prize for the last time the DGA and Oscar winners didn't match for Best Director. More recently, it was 2005 the last time the DGA pick didn't also win Best Picture. So, there's always a possibility of an upset, but I think we've got a fairly foregone conclusion this year.

In addition to the nominees and/or winners listed below, this year, we're giving you a quick background on each individual precursor including founding year, first awards year and a glimpse at how many predictions the group has gotten right in the last five years. This data can be found below.

As promised, I have posted the history of this particular guild on my website. You can find it by following this link: Directors Guild of America.

The Awards

Best Director

Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist

Directors Guild of America Data

Year Founded: 1936
First Awards: 1948 (64)

Precursor Accuracy

KEY:

Winner won the corresponding Oscar
Winner was nominated for the corresponding Oscar
Winner was not nominated for a corresponding Oscar
Nominee was nominated for the corresponding Oscar
Nominee was not nominated for a corresponding Oscar
Total (2010-2009-2008-2007-2006)

Picture: 5 (1-1-1-1-1) W / 5 (1-1-1-1-1) N / 0 (0-0-0-0-0) I
Director: 5 (1-1-1-1-1) W / 5 (1-1-1-1-1) N / 0 (0-0-0-0-0) I

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Written by: Wesley Lovell - Jan 29, 2012 (12:24 am) | Filed under: Precursors ( Leave a comment )

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Almasy
January 30th, 2012 - 05:42

I’m very dissapointed by this years snubs in the last tuesdays nominations, but to be fair, the deserving winners were nominated and it seems they’re going to win.

The three big winners are probably going to be:

The Artist: Picture, Director, Actor, Score, Costume Design

Hugo: Art Direction, Sound Effects, Make-Up

The Help: Actress, Supporting Actress

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- Mike Furlong
  January 31st, 2012 - 04:21
  
  I will bet all the money and all my possessions in the world that Hugo will not win Best Make-up at the Oscars
  
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lallolupo
January 29th, 2012 - 17:59

Never likw this year, there’s no competition.
“The Artist” as a whole is way superior to anything else.

Well deserved.

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Wesley Lovell
January 29th, 2012 - 07:57

You’re right. I did miss that…Still 9 years since it last happened isn’t a fluke. And let’s also remember that in all the years they could have honored Scorsese (Gangs of New York, The Aviator), they opted for another film altogether. While he did finally win for The Departed and that may have broken the barrier for him to win a second, one should never bet on a split. Just like last year when fans of The Social Network insisted there would be a split for Fincher/King’s Speech, it didn’t happen. I won’t bet against the usually infallible DGA even if their record this decade has been worse than their record over their history.

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Tripp Burton
January 29th, 2012 - 00:45

2002 DGA and Oscar didn’t match…Rob Marshall/Roman Polanski.

I think Best Picture is wrapped up, but never doubt a possible split. Don’t bet on it, but Scorsese could still sneak in.

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