VETS SPIELBERG, LEE LEAD PACK OF DGA NOMINEES.Byline: - Greg Hernandez Two past winners of the Directors Guild of America's top prize received nominations again Thursday and will square off against a trio of first-time nominees with far fewer feature film directorial credits. Veterans Ang Lee and Steven Spielberg Noun 1. Steven Spielberg - United States filmmaker (born in 1947) Spielberg are in contention for ``Brokeback Mountain'' and ``Munich,'' respectively, while George Clooney George Timothy Clooney (May 6, 1961) is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter who gained fame as the lead doctor in the long-running television drama, ER (``Good Night, and Good Luck''), Paul Haggis (``Crash'') and Bennett Miller (``Capote'') earned their 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) nods. For Lee, ``Brokeback'' marked his third DGA nomination overall. He won the award in 2001 for ``Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'' and was also nominated in 1996 for ``Sense and Sensibility Sense and Sensibility is a novel by the English novelist Jane Austen, that was first published in 1811. It was the first of Austen's novels to be published, under the pseudonym "A Lady". .'' Spielberg's nod for ``Munich'' marked his ninth DGA nomination, dating back to ``Jaws'' in 1976, in addition to his receiving the DGA's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. Along the way, he won the best director honor for ``Saving Private Ryan'' in 1999, ``Schindler's List'' in 1994 and ``The Color Purple'' in 1986, with nominations for ``Amistad,'' ``Empire of the Sun,'' ``E.T. the Extra Terrestrial'' and ``Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'' Spielberg has also been nominated for a Golden Globe Award for ``Munich,'' but the movie was snubbed Wednesday by both the Writers Guild of America The Writers Guild of America is a term often referring to the joint efforts of the Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, west. Jointly, the two guilds act as the collective bargaining representative, or labor union, for writers in the motion picture and and the Producers Guild of America. ``Good Night'' has been a real tour de force for actor-turned-director Clooney, who co-wrote the screenplay and portrays former CBS news executive Fred Friendly to David Strathairn's Edward R. Murrow Noun 1. Edward R. Murrow - United States broadcast journalist remembered for his reports from London during World War II (1908-1965) Edward Roscoe Murrow, Murrow in the movie. ``Capote'' director Miller received the DGA nod for what is his first nondocumentary feature film. His previous directorial credit was the 1998 documentary ``The Cruise.'' ``Crash'' director Haggis earned his first DGA feature film nod. Haggis, who also wrote and produced the film, has been a successful screenwriter (``Million Dollar Baby''), but his directorial efforts had been mostly in television shows, including ``thirtysomething.'' The winner will be announced at the 58th annual DGA Awards Dinner, Jan. 28, at the Hyatt Regency 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. |
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