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Awards || BY Jen Yamato || 01 08 2013 4:24 PM

Directors Guild Award Nominations: Was The Wrong Director Snubbed?

Directors Guild Award Nominations: Was The Wrong Director Snubbed?

Quentin Tarantino and David O. Russell were edged out of the pack in today's Directors Guild Award nominations announcement, giving way to a rather conservative quintet of Oscar hopefuls. So let the DGA backlash begin: Between Ben Affleck (Argo), Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty), Steven Spielberg (Lincoln), Tom Hooper (Les Miserables), Ang Lee (Life of Pi), which nominee should have gotten the shaft to make the DGA race even remotely interesting?
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Awards || BY S.T. VanAirsdale || 01 09 2012 1:30 PM

2012 DGA Nominations: Scorsese, Allen, Fincher In; Spielberg Snubbed

2012 DGA Nominations: Scorsese, Allen, Fincher In; Spielberg Snubbed

That unsubtle backhand slap you just heard was the sound of Steven Spielberg being whacked off his awards-season pedestal by the Directors Guild of America, which just announced Woody Allen, David Fincher, Michel Hazanavicius, Alexander Payne and Martin Scorsese as its 2012 Best Director nominees. This one has to hurt.
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