The DGA Nominations for Best Director are....

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The road to the Oscars continues on....

The Director's Guild of America (DGA) announced their nominees for Best Director for the year of 2007.

Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
Sean Penn, Into the Wild
Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

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No Joe Wright?
Atonement gets no love.
Well, except getting more Golden Globe nominations than any other film.

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dibiaseisgood said:

No Joe Wright?
Atonement gets no love.
Well, except getting more Golden Globe nominations than any other film.

Like the protagonist, ATONEMENT failed to act in time for enough buzz, or shake off its (right or wrong) "Oscar Bait" image.

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I'm sure the BAFTA's will make up for it. They're never biased towards English films.
Except for when they are biased.
Which is always.

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dibiaseisgood said:

I'm sure the BAFTA's will make up for it. They're never biased towards English films.
Except for when they are biased.
Which is always.

When what they view is a quality UK film, or one that's ignored by the major awards establishment, BAFTAs easily go nationalistic.

Take CASINO ROYALE in 2006. Its Britain's great cinema hero in James Bond hip again, and BAFTAs gladly rewarded it as such.

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rra said:

dibiaseisgood said:

I'm sure the BAFTA's will make up for it. They're never biased towards English films.
Except for when they are biased.
Which is always.

When what they view is a quality UK film, or one that's ignored by the major awards establishment, BAFTAs easily go nationalistic.

Take CASINO ROYALE in 2006. Its Britain's great cinema hero in James Bond hip again, and BAFTAs gladly rewarded it as such.

The BAFTA's royally pissed me off a few years back. When Titanic won all the Oscars at the expense of The Full Monty, Good Will Hunting, As Good as it gets and L.A Confidential I was annoyed. Not just because L.A Confidential is a masterpiece, but also because Titanic was the weakest of the 5 films nominated that year. Not to mention Titanic was the biggest film of the year (and indeed all-time)
So I thought the BAFTA's would recognise what was truly the better film.
And then they gave it to The Full Monty. Which made an astonishing £50 million in the UK.
Now I like the Full Monty, but to say it was better than L.A Confidential made me sick.

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dibiaseisgood said:

rra said:

When what they view is a quality UK film, or one that's ignored by the major awards establishment, BAFTAs easily go nationalistic.

Take CASINO ROYALE in 2006. Its Britain's great cinema hero in James Bond hip again, and BAFTAs gladly rewarded it as such.

The BAFTA's royally pissed me off a few years back. When Titanic won all the Oscars at the expense of The Full Monty, Good Will Hunting, As Good as it gets and L.A Confidential I was annoyed. Not just because L.A Confidential is a masterpiece, but also because Titanic was the weakest of the 5 films nominated that year. Not to mention Titanic was the biggest film of the year (and indeed all-time)
So I thought the BAFTA's would recognise what was truly the better film.
And then they gave it to The Full Monty. Which made an astonishing £50 million in the UK.
Now I like the Full Monty, but to say it was better than L.A Confidential made me sick.

Nationalism is blind to taste sometimes. That's why the BAFTAs aren't considered seriously by Oscar pundits.

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I actually think the BAFTA's are just behind the Oscars in prestige terms. They do sometimes go with the less obvious choices that were snubbed at the Oscars (Bill Murray for Lost in Translation, Paul Greengrass for United 93, Pedro Almodovar winning best Director).
But they have this Nationalistic thing which the Oscars are just as (if not more) guilty of doing. But there is already a BAFTA for best British film, so it shouldn't matter where the film is made.

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dibiaseisgood said:

I actually think the BAFTA's are just behind the Oscars in prestige terms. They do sometimes go with the less obvious choices that were snubbed at the Oscars (Bill Murray for Lost in Translation, Paul Greengrass for United 93, Pedro Almodovar winning best Director).
But they have this Nationalistic thing which the Oscars are just as (if not more) guilty of doing. But there is already a BAFTA for best British film, so it shouldn't matter where the film is made.

Very true indeed.

Hell, remember 1997?

The lone American woman winning the Best Actress Oscar over the other British nominees.

And that same woman hasn't been seen since.

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I actually think this looks like a good list, although No Country and Blood are pretty much locks at this point.

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realfakerazor said:

I actually think this looks like a good list, although No Country and Blood are pretty much locks at this point.

Yeah there are, and arguably the front-runners at this very moment at the Oscars.