2009 Directors Guild Awards
2009 DGA feature film nominations: January 8, 2009. Documentary and television nominations: January 9, 2009
2009 DGA award winners: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, January 31, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Following his DGA win, Danny Boyle is the odds-on favorite to win the best director Academy Award. In fact, Boyle has been the odds-on favorite for quite some time. In any case, since the DGA Awards' inception in 1949 only eight times has the DGA winner failed to win the best director Oscar. (Actually, more like six times as there was some overlapping in the 1948-49 selections. Check out the DGA Awards/the Oscars.) Slumdog Millionaire has also won the Producers Guild Award.
FEATURE FILMS
* DANNY BOYLE, Slumdog Millionaire
Mr. Boyle's Directorial Team:
* Unit Production Manager: Sanjay Kumar
* First Assistant Director: Raj Acharya
* Second Assistant Director: Avani Batra
* Second Second Assistant Director: Sonia Nemawarkar
DAVID FINCHER, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mr. Fincher's Directorial Team:
* Unit Production Manager: Daniel Stillman
* First Assistant Director: Bob Wagner
* Second Assistant Director: Allen Kupetsky
* Second Second Assistant Directors: Pete Waterman, Stephen F. Lonano
RON HOWARD, Frost/Nixon
Mr. Howard's Directorial Team:
* Unit Production Manager: Kathleen McGill
* First Assistant Director: William M. Connor
* Second Assistant Director: Kristen Ploucha
* Second Second Assistant Director: Scott R. Meyers
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN, The Dark Knight
Mr. Nolan's Directorial Team:
* Unit Production Managers: Kevin De La Noy, Susan Towner, Jan Foster
* First Assistant Director: Nilo Otero
* Second Assistant Director: Brandon Lambdin
* Additional Second Assistant Director: Jessica Franks
* Second Second Assistant Director: Greg Pawlik
* Location Manager: James R. McAllister
GUS VAN SANT, Milk
Mr. Van Sant's Directorial Team:
* Unit Production Manager: Barbara A. Hall
* First Assistant Director: David Webb
* Second Assistant Director: John R. Saunders
* Second Second Assistant Director: Ian Calip
* Additional Second Assistant Director: Cindy A. Taylor
DOCUMENTARY
Gonzalo Arijon, Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
Elizabeth Farnsworth and Patricio Lanfranco, The Judge and the General
* Ari Folman, Waltz with Bashir
Peter Gilbert and Steve James, At the Death Door House
James Marsh, Man on Wire
TELEVISION
TV MOVIES / MINISERIES
Bob Balaban, Bernard and Doris
Tom Hooper, John Adams
Kenny Leon, A Raisin in the Sun
* Jay Roach, Recount
Mikael Solomon, The Andromeda Strain
DRAMATIC SERIES
* Dan Attias, The Wire ("Transitions")
Paris Barclay, In Treatment ("Alex")
Jack Bender, Lost ("The Constant")
Alan Taylor, Mad Men ("The Mountain King")
Matthew Weiner, Mad Men ("Mediations in an Emergency")
COMEDY SERIES
Paris Barclay, Weeds ("The Three Coolers")
Julian Farino, Entourage ("Tree Trippers")
* Paul Feig, The Office ("Dinner Party")
Beth McCarthy-Miller, 30 Rock ("The Reunion: 304")
Don Scardino, 30 Rock ("Do Over")
Musical variety: Brent "Bucky" Gunts for the Opening Ceremony Beijing 2008, Olympic Summer Games (NBC)
Daytime serials: Larry Carpenter for "One Life to Live" (ABC)
Reality TV: Tony Croll for "America's Next Top Model" (CW)
Children's programming: Amy Schatz for "Classical Baby (I'm Grown Up Now): 'The Poetry Show' " (HBO)
Honorary Life Member Award: Film Critic/Author Roger Ebert
Robert B. Aldrich Award: DGA Second Vice-President/Director William Brady
Frank Capra Achievement Award (given to an Assistant Director or Unit Production Manager): Unit Production Manager Kim Kurumada
Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award (for an Associate Director or Stage Manager): DGA Assistant Secretary/Treasurer/Associate Director Scott Berger
Directors Guild of America Site
There goes the oscar suspense. Not that this was a big surprise or anything.
I hope they give it to Chris Nolan. They did something similar when Steven Spielberg wasn't nominated for The Color Purple way back.