DGA Nominations

So as award season continues the Director's Guild of America have nominated what they consider to be the five Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2006:

Bill Condon, Dreamgirls
Jonathan Dayton Valerie Faris, Little Miss Sunshine
Stephen Frears, The Queen
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Babel
Martin Scorsese, The Departed

All right, so the biggest surprise, if you can call it that, was the nominations for the two directors of Little Miss Sunshine ... and speaking of this movie; I just don't get where all this award love if coming from. Is it a good movie? Yes. Did I enjoy/like it? Yes I sure did. But I mean, really, it was nothing that remarkable and certainly it wasn't one of the five best directed films of the year. Did the DGA even think of Pan's Labyrinth, Volver or Children of Men? Those would have been better nominations, IMO.

As far as the other nominees goes I am thrilled for Gonzaléz Iñarritu and happy that my fellow mexican filmmakers are getting recognition for their work.

I am with those that think this is probably going to be the Best Picture lineup for the Oscars, although I do think Clint Eastwood will be able to sneak into the Best Director category, replacing the 'Sunshine' directors.

And as far as the winner goes, this is Marty's all the way. There is no way he's going to lose this one and there is no way he is going to lose the Oscar.