Guild Noms: DGA

The Directors Guild announced their nominations yesterday and...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....huh, what? I'm sorry; I just fell asleep from reading the nominations. It's the same list as the PGA, and about every other group. No excitement. The DGA is often a better indication of the Best Picture lineup than of the Best Director lineup come Oscar time, so expect these five films to be the Best Picture nominees. I doubt, however, that all five of these directors will receive a nod. One of them will probably be left off, and while Ron Howard would make the most sense for a snub, I'm fearing it might be Gus Van Sant. If one of them is left off you can expect the fifth slot to go to either Mike Leigh for Happy-Go-Lucky or Darren Aronofsky for The Wrestler. I can't decide. Then again, this could be a year where the Best Picture and Director categories match up, or it could be like the past few years where a film, which is nominated by all the precursors and guilds, gets snubbed for Best Picture by the Academy, like Into the Wild and Dreamgirls. I'm hoping this is the case.