Directors name their 2010 favourites

The Directors Guild of America has announced its nominations for Best Director. They are:
Darren Aronofsky/Black Swan
David Fincher/The Social Network
Tom Hooper/The King's Speech
Christopher Nolan/Inception
David O Russell/The Fighter

For Nolan, that's his third nom, while Fincher grabs only his second nom (surely some mistake?!). Understandably, Russell and Hooper are first-time nominees, but so also, unexplicably, is Aronofsky...

The winner will be revealed on 29 January. Only six times since 1948 has the DGA winner not gone on to win the Best Director Oscar. For the record, those six occasions are:
• 1968: Anthony Harvey won the DGA for The Lion in Winter while Carol Reed took home the Oscar for Oliver!
• 1972: Francis Ford Coppola won the DGA for The Godfather while the Oscar went to Bob Fosse for Cabaret.
• 1985: Steven Spielberg received his first DGA for The Color Purple, but the Oscar went to Sydney Pollack for Out of Africa.
• 1995: Ron Howard won the DGA for Apollo 13 while Oscar voters selected Mel Gibson for Braveheart.
• 2000: Ang Lee won the DGA for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, while Steven Soderbergh won the Oscar for Traffic.
• 2002: Rob Marshall won the DGA for Chicago while Roman Polanski received the Oscar for The Pianist.