5 FILMMAKERS GET DGA NODS.The directors of ``The English Patient,'' ``Fargo,'' ``Jerry Maguire This article has multiple issues: * It does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by citing reliable sources. * It reads like a personal reflection or essay. ,'' ``Secrets & Lies'' and ``Shine'' were nominated Tuesday for the Directors Guild of America's highest honor. The DGA's nominees ``for outstanding directorial achievement in feature films'' are closely watched in Hollywood, because only four times since 1949 has the winner not gone on to win the best director Oscar. Anthony Minghella (``The English Patient'') and Joel Coen (``Fargo'') will compete with Cameron Crowe (``Jerry Maguire''), Mike Leigh (``Secrets & Lies'') and Scott Hicks (``Shine''). It is the first DGA DGA Directors Guild of America (movie directors union) DGA Délégation Générale pour l'Armement (France) DGA Directeur-Grootaandeelhouder (Dutch: Managing Director and Major Shareholder) nomination for all five directors. Left out of the DGA list was Milos Miloš, prince of Serbia Miloš or Milosh (Miloš Obrenović) (both: mĭ`lôsh ōbrĕ`nəvĭch) Forman, who won the best director Golden Globe Award Sunday night from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for ``The People vs. Larry Flynt.'' Another Golden Globe nominee passed over by the DGA was ``Evita'' director Alan Parker. Of the five movies directed by the DGA nominees, only ``Jerry Maguire'' was a big studio project. The winner will be announced March 8 at DGA Awards banquets at the Century Plaza hotel The Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles is a landmark 19-story luxury hotel forming a sweeping crescent design fronting the spectacular fountains on Avenue of the Stars adjacent to the twin Century Plaza Towers. in Los Angeles and at the Sheraton in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . CAPTION(S): Photo, Box Photo: MINGHELLA Box: The weekend's top 10 (Box Office) |
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