Sunday, January 26, 2014

2014 Directors Guild Awards

Prior to the 66th Annual Directors Guild ceremony tonight, the race for Best Picture was very close between Gravity, 12 Years A Slave and American Hustle. The DGA were not televised but were hosted by Jane Lynch at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles. Ben Affleck, Sandra Bullock, Tom Hanks, Don Cheadle, Kerry Washington, Anna Kendrick, Steve Coogan and Bill Hader were all scheduled presenters. The guild honors directing achievement in film and television. Alfonso Cuar n won Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for Gravity. Interestingly enough, at the DGA, each nominated director for feature film gives a Feature Film Nomination Presentation. Basically they each give an acceptance speech just for being nominated. Winners and nominees for all categories are listed below.

It should also be noted that at the 25th Annual Producers Guild Awards last Sunday, Gravity and 12 Years A Slave tied for Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures. Basically, the Best Picture equivalent of that ceremony. The guilds are very interesting because while not as well know as the Golden Globes, the membership in the guilds overlaps with the voting branches of the Academy. Actors vote in the four acting categories, directors for Best Director, make-up artists for Best Hair and Make-up, etc and everyone votes for Best Picture. The guilds can be a much more accurate predictor of the winners that the Academy will select. In the previous 24 years of PGA Awards, the guild has correctly matched the eventual Best Picture winner 17 times (including Argo last year). The PGA Awards use a preferential ballot system to crown a winner much like the Academy. The Directors Guild gave Best Director to Ben Affleck for Argo last year and it was part of the whole brouhaha about him not being nominated for a Best Director Oscar. In the 65 year history of the DGA awards, the winner has failed to also take home the Best Director Oscar only seven times. Argo ultimately won Best Picture last year and as a producer of the film, Affleck still got his Oscar and an acceptance speech on the Oscar stage. Only time will tell if Cuar n will win Best Director and if the guild wins will accurately predict a win for Gravity for Best Picture. I think at this point American Hustle and the other nominees are out. It will continue to be a close race between 12 Years A Slave and Gravity.




Winners list:

FEATURE FILM:



* WINNER: ALFONSO CUAR N, GRAVITY

* Paul Greengrass, Captain Phillips

* Steve McQueen, 12 Years A Slave

* David O Russell, American Hustle

* Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street



DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:



* Zachary Heinzerling, Cutie and the Boxer

* WINNER: JEHANE NOUJAIM, THE SQUARE

* Joshua Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing

* Sarah Polley, Stories We Tell

* Lucy Walker, The Crash Reel



COMEDY SERIES:



* Mark Cendrowski, The Big Bang Theory (for the episode "The Hofstadter Insufficiency")

* Bryan Cranston, Modern Family (for the episode "The Old Man and the Tree)

* Gail Mancuso, Modern Family (for the episode "My Hero")

* WINNER: BETH MCCARTHY-MILLER, 30 ROCK (FOR THE EPISODE "HOGCOCK/LAST LUNCH")

* Anthony Rich, The Big Bang Theory (for the episode "The Love Spell Potential")



REALITY PROGRAMS:



* Matthew Bartley, The Biggest Loser

* WINNER: NEIL P DEGROOT, 72 HOURS

* Paul Starkman, Top Chef

* J Rupert Thompson, The Hero

* Bertram van Munster, The Amazing Race



VARIETY/TALK/NEWS/SPORTS -- SPECIALS:



* Louis CK, Louis CK: Oh My God

* Joel Gallen, 2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

* Louis J. Horvitz, The 55th Annual Grammy Awards

* Don Mischer, The 85th Annual Academy Awards

* WINNER: GLENN WEISS, THE 67TH ANNUAL TONY AWARDS



CHILDREN'S PROGRAMS:



* Stephen Herek, Jinxed

* Jeffrey Hornaday, Teen Beach Movie

* Jonathan Judge, Swindle

* WINNER: AMY SCHATZ, AN APOLOGY TO ELEPHANTS

* Adam Weissman, A.N.T. Farm



VARIETY/TALK/NEWS/SPORTS:



* Dave Diomedi, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

* Andy Fisher, Jimmy Kimmel Live

* Jim Hoskinson, The Colbert Report

* WINNER: DON ROY KING, SNL

* Chuck O'Neil, The Daily Show



MOVIE FOR TV AND MINISERIES:



* Stephen Frears, Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

* David Mamet, Phil Spector

* Beth McCarthy-Miller and Rob Ashford, The Sound of Music Live!

* Nelson McCormick, Killing Kennedy

* WINNER: STEVEN SODERBERGH, BEHIND THE CANDELABRA



DRAMATIC SERIES:



* Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad (for the episode "Blood Money")

* David Fincher, House of Cards (for the episode "Chapter 1")

* WINNER: VINCE GILLIGAN, BREAKING BAD (FOR THE EPISODE "FELINA")

* Lesli Linka Glatter, Homeland (for the episode "The Star")

* David Nutter, Game of Thrones (for the episode "The Rain of Castamere")



COMMERCIALS:



* Fredrik Bond, "Voyage" for Heineken and "From the Future" for Johnny Walker

* John X Carey, "Real Beauty Sketches" for Dove

* WINNER: MARTIN DE THURAH, "THE MAN WHO COULDN'T SLOW DOWN" FOR HENNESSY AND "HUMAN RACE" FOR ACURA

* Matthijs van Heijningen, "Perfect Day" for Playstation and "48" for Verizon"

* Noam Murro, "Basketball" for Guinness and "Kids" for DIRECTV and "Mask" for VW



FRANKLIN J SCHAFFNER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Vincent DeDario (presented by Keith Jackson)

ROBERT B ALDRICH AWARD FOR SERVICE: Steven Soderbergh

FRANK CAPRA ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Lee Blaine

DIVERSITY AWARD: Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers
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