With the Oscar nominations due out tomorrow, the awards season is in full swing, with the Director’ Guild of America handing out their awards on Saturday. For the first time in its 60 year history, the Guild picked a female winner for their top film prize – Oustanding Direction Of A Feature Film – by awarding it to Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker.
This now puts her at the top of the list for the Best Director Oscar, as only twice in the past 60 years has the DGA not given their Best Director gong to the person who went on to win the Academy Award. It’d certainly be interesting, as not only would she be the first woman to win the Best Director Oscar (and one of only a handful ever to nominated), they’d also be giving it to James Cameron’s ex-wife during the year he’d tore of the box office rulebook with Avatar.
The DGA gave its Oustanding Direction Of A Feature Documentary prize to Louie Psihoyos for The Cove, which makes that film, about the capturing and killing of dolphins ina remote Japanese town, a hot contender for the Best Documenary Oscar.
Now we just need to wait for tomorrow, when the speculation about the Academy Awards will go into hyperdrive, with the announcement of the nominees.