2012 Directors Guild Award Winner Announced

Jason Sparks

Just because only serious movies seem to ever get nominated, doesn't anybody think The Avengers was very well directed? Just curious of people's thoughts.

Feb 3 - 10:36 PM

Jason Sparks

Also, I really liked Life of Pi and thought Ang Lee (who I find boring sometimes) did a great job too. I thought Argo was great, and Affleck got snubbed by the Oscars, and "Beasts of the Souther Wild" is my pick for Most Overrated Movie of the Year (I'll prob get ripped by posters for saying it).

Feb 3 - 10:37 PM

Joshua Ryan

Am I the only one that didn't like Zero Dark Thirty? Good job Affleck.

Feb 4 - 12:22 AM

Salomé Maré

Great for Ben Affleck. This should tell Academy how wrong they were for at least not nominating him for Argo. True stories are difficult since you are dealing with factual events that you have to work with.

Feb 4 - 12:35 AM

John Ianni

I been reading over many of the posts and I've come to the conclusion that there is really no one clear frontrunner for best picture at the Oscars this year.
I enjoyed Argo, but it's a relatively straight forward story....it's well excuted, but we've seen it before. I also enjoyed ZDT, but I can understand how some people don't like it - it's not for everyone.
My own favourite this season is Life of Pi - I believe that the director's job is to tell a story,using all the techiques at his or her disposal. I believe that Ang Lee has done a masterful job by this account. Of all the movies that have been nominated for the various awards, I think that director who added the most value to the production is Ang Lee. Lincoln was really carried by Daniel Day Lewis and several of the others in the cast....Same with Les Mis. But the only movie where the director shown brightest, it's Life of Pi.

Feb 4 - 08:08 AM

Brian Smith

It's easy to talk of an Oscar 'snub' in terms of Argo -- or ZDT, for that matter. But which director do you remove from the Oscar list? The french film was probably the most acclaimed film of the year, recognized worldwide far more than the others. And Beasts is a remarkable accomplishment from a first-time director -- one that shows far more imagination, ambition and visual flair than pretty much anything else this year -- and all on a miniscule budget. The idea that all these various award shows should fall into line with each other is, in fact, the thing that should be questioned. That all these various groups -- the Globes, the DGA, SAG, and critics groups -- would all share the exact same tastes and preferences makes no sense, any more than everyone on this thread would share the same tastes. (The fact that some of you will let me know you hated Beasts or loved the largely fictional Argo proves my point.)

What's remarkable to me is that so many of the same movies, directors and actors show up on all the same nominee lists. There seems to be a bit of a pack mentality there. That's why it's refreshing to occasionally see something out of left field, even if it's Salmon Fishing in the Yemen or the Exotic Marigold Hotel movie. I consider them both undeserving of the Globe nods they got, but so what. It's all subjective -- which is why it would be nice to see even more disparity and less expectation that, if something is on this shortlist, it should be on that one. Predictability is what's made the Oscars such a bore.

Interestingly, Affleck's award haul, combined with the Oscar snub, has actually livened things up this year, because the Picture race seems wide open. If he was nominated, it'd be Argo; as it is, it might be, or it could be Lincoln or something else. Personallu, as much as I thought it fell apart in the final half hour -- turning into a standard rom-com -- I think Silver Linings Playbook could be the BP shocker, as it has the director nod usually required and clearly, based on the four actor nods, it has lots of support in the biggest voting block. A

Let's not forget that it's not important who wins and lose at the show; it's who wins and loses the office pool.

-B

Feb 4 - 08:13 AM

Nile Saulter

argo is paying some people off clearly.

Feb 4 - 11:00 AM

THGhost .

Can't believe this hack won something. Still haven't forgiven him for Daredevil. Should have gone to Spielberg, end of.

Feb 4 - 03:36 PM

Joe O'Leary

Replace Hooper with Tarantino and you have a list of 5 worthy winners there, there's certainly not one director you could say was undeserving. Especially if your opinion is some sweaty, half-baked, pseudo-political, cut and pasted comment that has nothing to do with actual filmmaking.

Feb 4 - 04:38 PM

Zane Morrow

Argo is the best of 2012 Ben Affleck totally deserved it.

Feb 4 - 05:35 PM

Kyle Bailey

Argo was good but the directing wasn't anything special. Tom Hooper's directing was magnificent though and Quentin was snubbed for Django!

Feb 4 - 08:07 PM

Brandon Bausch

I loved Argo, and I'm happy it has won so many awards this year... However, I really thought Kathryn Bigelow deserved this one. The way she handled Zero Dark Thirty was incredible to me.

Feb 4 - 08:13 PM

Dharmesh Bharucha

Its too bad The Grey came out in January of 2012--- I haven't seen Argo, but I thought The Grey was better than ZDT / Lincoln/ Django--

Feb 5 - 09:57 AM

Christopher Greffin

I really wonder if part of this Argo momentum is people being astrounded at Affleck being a pretty darn good director. Spielberg is put to such a high standard has has won this award multiple times. Bigelow has won this award once and Ang Lee has won it twice. Hooper won it once when he has no business beating David Fincher for TSN. So I don't cry for any of the losers, and Argo is a very fine film, but I'm not sure it wasn't a little judging on a curve here; just a little bit.

Feb 5 - 11:44 AM

Rod Guzman

Argo is Ben Affleck's Citizen Kane, the academy knows the movie is Awesome but they don't want Affleck to know his work was awesome too, they did the same with Orson Wells.

Feb 5 - 11:47 AM

Tom Wilson

BEN AFFLECK is about as appealing as a Subway Sandwich.

Feb 5 - 12:24 PM

John Mancz

I think people tend to overlook if someone deserves to win or even be nominated by asking the simple question "Is this so and so's best work (or in their top body of work)?". It also applies to the ever popular "overrated" comment and would help keep the same group of people always being nominated. With all the directors in Hollywood why do we see the same names year after year with maybe one or two new ones thrown in every couple years to make us feel like it isn't just a popularity contest..

Feb 6 - 03:29 AM