January 7, 2008

Directors Guild of America Predictions

The Directors Guild of America will announce their nominees tomorrow and this will definitely clear the Best Picture race up a little bit. At this point, The Coen Bros. are the only lock and any of the predictions 2 through 5 can be left off for any of the alternates. So, your guess is as good as mine. Leave your predictions on the post. And thanks to Joey M. for covering the coverage of the BFCA's, analysis and comments will come tomorrow. This is what happens when you have a Monday night class that doesn't understand the importance of awards season.

  1. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen-No Country for Old Men
  2. Sean Penn-Into the Wild
  3. Paul Thomas Anderson-There Will Be Blood
  4. Joe Wright-Atonement
  5. Julian Schnabel-The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Alternates

  1. Ridley Scott-American Gangster
  2. Tim Burton-Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  3. Jason Reitman-Juno
  4. Tony Gilroy-Michael Clayton
  5. Sidney Lumet-Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

18 comments:

  1. Despite the BFCA upset, I'm still predicting Tim Burton for a nomination. Call me a cock-eyed optimist. So here my predix:

    Burton (Sweeney Todd)
    Coen Brothers (No Country for Old Men)
    Lumet (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead)
    Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
    Wright (Atonement)

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  2. Anytime Clay


    I'll take a shot at this:

    Paul Thomas Anderson (Blood)
    Coen Brothers (No Country)
    Sean Penn (Into the Wild)
    Julian Schnabel (Diving Bell)
    Ridley Scott (Gangster)

    my oddball alternates are Affleck, Lumet, and Reitman

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  3. No Burton, Joey? Am I the only one that still has hope?

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  4. i gave his spot to Lumet...figured age before beauty...but who knows

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  5. Ah. Yes, I've got Lumet in my predictions. If there's any sentimentality at all in the guild, they'll honor him.

    And maybe Adrienne Shelley for Waitress. That's my long long shot, No Guts No Glory prediction.

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  6. Paul Thomas Anderson
    Coen's
    Julian Schnabel
    Sean Penn
    Sidney Lumet

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  7. Here are my predictions:

    Ethan and Joel Coen (No Country for Old Men)
    Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood)
    Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
    Joe Wright (Atonement)
    Ridely Scott (American Gangster)

    Although I do have this feeling that Tim Burton's going to sneak in... we'll see.

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  8. Here they are:

    Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood
    Joel and Ethan Coen - No Country For Old Men
    Sean Penn - Into The Wild
    Joe Wright - Atonement
    Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and The Butterfly

    Who I left out:

    Ridley Scott - American Gangster
    Jason Reitman - Juno
    Sidney Lumet - Before The Devil Knows You're Dead
    Tim Burton - Sweeney Todd

    *I have a feeling about Burton, he is a close call, and I haven't completely lost hope on him, he can be sneaky. My toss up is Joe Wright, if it isn't him, it's Burton or Scott, in my opinion.

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  9. PT Anderson (Blood)
    Coens (No Country)
    Lumet (Before the Devil...)
    Schnabel (Diving Bell)
    Penn (Into The Wild)

    Alternates:
    Wright (Atonement)
    Burton (Sweeney)
    Scott (Gangster)

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  10. I'd have to say

    P.T. Anderson - There Will be Blood
    Tim Burton - Sweeney Todd
    The Coen Brothers - No Country for Old men
    Ridley Scott - American Gangster
    Joe Wright - Atonement

    The winner will probably be the Coen brothers. If there's any justice, Burton will win. Even if Sweeney gets left out of the pest picture race, Burton and Depp should at least both be nominated for their incredible work on this film and their overall body of work in general.

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  11. official nominees:

    Paul Thomas Anderson
    Coen Brothers
    Tony Gilroy
    Sean Penn
    Julian Schnabel

    read 'em and weep, atonement fangirls, it's finally (deservedly) out of the race.

    I called Scott over Gilroy... still, puts it in a safe spot for BP. Looking like

    Into the Wild
    Michael Clayton
    No Country for Old Men
    There Will Be Blood

    and one wild card - diving bell, juno (needs pga), god forbid maybe even atonement?

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  12. Well, I got 3/5 right. Gilroy was a shocker to me and I had Penn as an alternate.

    Anonymous, don't be surprised if Wright replaces one of these five in the Oscar lineup. If one puts stock in Mark Harris' observations of Academy patterns, there is always one British director that gets in. Just saying. :)

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  13. Wow, dead on except for Gilroy, although I'm thrilled he got in. I thought Michael Clayton was a magnificent film, very deserving of accolade, but I guess I didn't see Gilroy as enough of a name to compete with higher profiles like Burton or Scott or Lumet (who was my one wrong pick. Meanwhile, There Will Be Blood is going rapidly uphill, Into the Wild is looking more like a lock, and Atonement's fate is becoming very uncertain.

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  14. As usual, Burton gets snubbed completely. Why do the guilds and academy hate him? Who knows.... =(

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  15. Hey, don't necessarily count him out at the Oscars yet. Admittedly, his chances have become significantly weaker now, but stranger things have happened, and Burton could still pick up a nod at the academy.

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  16. I hope you're right Myles. I think it's borign to keep honoring people that already have oscars. Why not get some new people into the oscar race for once? Thats why, despite that fact that I love Clint Eastwood's films, I always hate it when he makes one because he (and Woody Allen) get nominated every goddamn time. Sometimes it seems like the academy nominates their royalty just so they can say they did.

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  17. Clayton, do you even know what you are talking about?

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  18. I agree completely Neo. Though I'll confess to not being the biggest fan of Burton's body of work, I thought Sweeney Todd in particular was masterfully done and well deserving of accolade, and though it's lost a lot of buzz I'm still pulling for a surprise nod in the key categories. A PGA nomination would be a huge boost, so fingers crossed.

    And nightmare, don't go accusing Clayton of not knowing what he's talking about. To quote The Departed: "If we only had an idea of what we do, we would not be very good at what we do, now would we? We would be cunts. You calling us cunts?"

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