The Directors Guild of America (DGA) has shaken up the Oscar race for Best Director with a very surprising list.Its nominations are: Paul Thomas Anderson for There Will Be Blood; the Coens (Ethan left) for No Country For Old Men; Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton; Sean Penn for Into The Wild; and Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and The Butterfly.
Both Schnabel and Gilroy must be considered shocks, while the list of high profile/highly fancied directors that have been snubbed: include Joe Wright (Atonement), Ridley Scott (American Gangster), Brad Bird (Ratatouille), Jason Reitman (Juno), Paul Greengrass (Bourne), Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (Lives of Others), Ang Lee (Lust, Caution), and Mike Nichols (Charlie Wilson's War) to name a few.
Why are the DGA noms so important? Only six times since 1949 has the DGA winner not gone on to win the Best Director Oscar...
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