The Hurt Locker's Kathryn Bigelow is the first woman to win the Directors Guild Award for narrative feature. The Iraq War drama can now be officially be considered the front runner in the Oscar race: last week, it won the Producers Guild Award as well. It has also won most film critics' awards to date.
Bigelow's fellow nominees were Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds, Lee Daniels for Precious, James Cameron (Bigelow's former husband) for Avatar, and Jason Reitman for Up in the Air.
Among the other winners were Louie Psihoyos' for The Cove and Ross Katz for the television movie Taking Chance, which has earned Kevin Bacon best actor awards from the Screen Actors Guild and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Since 1950, only six DGA winners have failed to win the best director Oscar. See the DGA vs. Academy Awards.
Photo: The Hurt Locker (Jonathan Olley / Summit Entertainment)
avatar will win most of the Oscars, but i don't believe it is the best movie of the year… it's only something new
Hurt locker sucks.
Avatar should have won… this is just as stupid as Slumdog Millionare winning at the Academy Awards. Notice how bad that movie was?