Alfonso Cuarón took the top feature film award for Roma at tonight’s 71st Annual DGA Awards, fellow feature film nominee Adam McKay took the TV drama series nod for Succession and Bo Burnham snagged the first-time director nod for Eighth Grade.
“Roma simply doesn’t exist without the generosity of spirit and effortless grace of Yalitza (Aparicio) and Marina (De Tavira). They somehow with the rest of my beautiful cast managed to bring to life this film from my memory,” Cuarón said in accepting the award for his film that is an homage to his childhood.
The guild award has been a top bellwether for the best directing Oscar. Last year’s winner Guillermo del Toro, who presented tonight’s award to Cuarón, went on to win the Academy Award in directing for The Shape of Water. The film won four Oscars in all, including best picture. The guild...
“Roma simply doesn’t exist without the generosity of spirit and effortless grace of Yalitza (Aparicio) and Marina (De Tavira). They somehow with the rest of my beautiful cast managed to bring to life this film from my memory,” Cuarón said in accepting the award for his film that is an homage to his childhood.
The guild award has been a top bellwether for the best directing Oscar. Last year’s winner Guillermo del Toro, who presented tonight’s award to Cuarón, went on to win the Academy Award in directing for The Shape of Water. The film won four Oscars in all, including best picture. The guild...
- 2/3/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
“Roma” filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron won one of the top prizes at Saturday night’s 71st Directors Guild of America Awards, beating out Bradley Cooper for “A Star Is Born,” Spike Lee for “BlacKkKlansman,” Adam McKay for “Vice,” and Peter Farrelly for “Green Book” for the feature film award.
Bo Burnham was also among the guild’s big winners, taking home the first-time feature film prize for his coming-of-age drama “Eighth Grade.” He was up against Cooper, Carlos Lopez Estrada for “Blindspotting,” Matthew Heineman for “A Private War,” and Boots Riley for “Sorry to Bother You.”
While Cooper lost out on both awards, two other actors-turned-directors were victorious: Ben Stiller and Bill Hader. Stiller won in the movies for television and limited series category for his prison-break drama “Escape at Dannemora,” while Hader won for comedy series for “Barry,” which he also toplines.
McKay didn’t take the top film award,...
Bo Burnham was also among the guild’s big winners, taking home the first-time feature film prize for his coming-of-age drama “Eighth Grade.” He was up against Cooper, Carlos Lopez Estrada for “Blindspotting,” Matthew Heineman for “A Private War,” and Boots Riley for “Sorry to Bother You.”
While Cooper lost out on both awards, two other actors-turned-directors were victorious: Ben Stiller and Bill Hader. Stiller won in the movies for television and limited series category for his prison-break drama “Escape at Dannemora,” while Hader won for comedy series for “Barry,” which he also toplines.
McKay didn’t take the top film award,...
- 2/3/2019
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
The Directors Guild of America announced its television, commercial and documentary nominations on Monday, unveiling a lineup of nominees that includes actors-turned-directors Jason Bateman, Donald Glover, Bill Hader, Ben Stiller and Sacha Baron Cohen.
Bateman was nominated for an episode of “Ozark,” Glover for “Atlanta,” Hader for “Barry” and Stiller for “Escape at Dannemora” — while Baron Cohen shared a directing nomination with three others for an episode of his Showtime series “Who Is America?”
Other nominees included Adam McKay for the series “Celebration,” Jean-Marc Vallee for “Sharp Objects,” Barry Levinson for “Paterno” and Spike Jonze for his Apple Homepod commercial.
As usual, the roster of nominees was predominantly male, with 44 men nominated and only seven women.
Also Read: Female Directors Dropped to Just 8 Percent of the Top 250 Films in 2018, Study Finds
Shows receiving multiple nominations include “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and “Atlanta,” each of which have two nominations in the comedy category,...
Bateman was nominated for an episode of “Ozark,” Glover for “Atlanta,” Hader for “Barry” and Stiller for “Escape at Dannemora” — while Baron Cohen shared a directing nomination with three others for an episode of his Showtime series “Who Is America?”
Other nominees included Adam McKay for the series “Celebration,” Jean-Marc Vallee for “Sharp Objects,” Barry Levinson for “Paterno” and Spike Jonze for his Apple Homepod commercial.
As usual, the roster of nominees was predominantly male, with 44 men nominated and only seven women.
Also Read: Female Directors Dropped to Just 8 Percent of the Top 250 Films in 2018, Study Finds
Shows receiving multiple nominations include “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and “Atlanta,” each of which have two nominations in the comedy category,...
- 1/7/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The Directors Guild of America is out with the TV, documentary and commercial nominees for its 71st annual DGA Awards. Check out the full list below.
Its 2019 film nominations will be released Tuesday, and the winners will be read February 2 during the trophy show at Hollywood & Highland’s Ray Dolby Ballroom. Kathleen McGill, Mimi Deaton and Don Mischer will receive career honors that night, and FX Networks will pick up the DGA Diversity Award.
Here is full list of its TV, docu and commercial nominees, with annotations by the guild.
Its 2019 film nominations will be released Tuesday, and the winners will be read February 2 during the trophy show at Hollywood & Highland’s Ray Dolby Ballroom. Kathleen McGill, Mimi Deaton and Don Mischer will receive career honors that night, and FX Networks will pick up the DGA Diversity Award.
Here is full list of its TV, docu and commercial nominees, with annotations by the guild.
- 1/7/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
As the Summer cinema season gives way to the Fall, yet another compelling feature documentary joins a most impressive 2018 roster. And as with several earlier releases, it is part of the show biz sub-genre of docs. It’s main focus (and marketing draw) is an insider look into the “golden age” of studio movies, though close to its waning days after the end of WWII and into the mid-fifties, when television began to chip away at their luster. But this is no flowery puff profile waxing nostalgic about those glory days of iconic “larger than life” movie stars. That’s because many of them had to “act” all the time, in and out of the sound stages, carefully evading any hint of scandal. We saw a bit of this is the fictionalized story of a studio “fixer” a couple years ago in the Coen Brothers’ Hail Caesar. This is the unvarnished “real deal” from,...
- 8/23/2018
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
During his hiatus from chasing down cursed historical artifacts in Syfy's "Warehouse 13," which returns for a new season on Monday, July 11, Eddie McClintock went into orbit.
In "Sky High," the Thursday, June 23, episode of NBC's romantic anthology series "Love Bites," McClintock appears in one of the three segments as astronaut Col. Scott Bowers, who suspects his girlfriend is unfaithful while he's in space.
With the help of colleagues Captain Craig (Isaiah Mustafa) and Takashi ("Community" star Ken Jeong), he appropriates a high-powered satellite to learn the truth.
"We play astronauts that are up at the International Space Station," McClintock tells Zap2it. "It was so much fun. Krista Allen plays my girlfriend. I think she's cheating on me. We use some government resources to find out whether or not that's true."
Although he was playing with two other guys -- and one of them was the guy who played...
In "Sky High," the Thursday, June 23, episode of NBC's romantic anthology series "Love Bites," McClintock appears in one of the three segments as astronaut Col. Scott Bowers, who suspects his girlfriend is unfaithful while he's in space.
With the help of colleagues Captain Craig (Isaiah Mustafa) and Takashi ("Community" star Ken Jeong), he appropriates a high-powered satellite to learn the truth.
"We play astronauts that are up at the International Space Station," McClintock tells Zap2it. "It was so much fun. Krista Allen plays my girlfriend. I think she's cheating on me. We use some government resources to find out whether or not that's true."
Although he was playing with two other guys -- and one of them was the guy who played...
- 6/22/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
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