Martin Scorsese, Steve McQueen nommed for Directors Guild Award January 8, 2014 - 10:48 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Martin Scorsese and Steve McQueen are among the directors nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in this year's Directors Guild of America Awards, Digital Spy said. Alfonso Cuarón, Paul Greengrass and David O Russell complete the list of five nominees who are up for the DGA Award. The winner will be announced on January 25 in Los Angeles. Cuarón, Greengrass and McQueen received their first DGA Feature Film Award nomination for Gravity, Captain Phillips and 12 Years a Slave respectively. Meanwhile, Russell was previously nominated in this category for The Fighter in 2010, while he has now been nominated for American Hustle. The Wolf of Wall Street has seen director Scorsese pick up his eleventh DGA Award nomination. He previously won the DGA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003. Notable absentees from the list include the Coen brothers and Spike Jonze. DGA President Paris Barclay said in a statement: "To be chosen by your peers in a year full of incredibly well-crafted films is the true marker of outstanding directorial achievement. "The passion and vision of each of the nominees resulted in tremendously diverse films that kept audiences mesmerised. Congratulations to each of the nominees on a job very well done." Related links:   Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news Your home is in Armenia – Ameriabank offers mortgage loans for the Diaspora  To buy real estate, Diasporans can apply to Ameriabank online to buy, renovate or build a home anywhere in Armenia.Armenia-Qatar ties discussed in Doha The Secretary of Armenia’s Security Council met with the Deputy Secretary General of the National Security Council of Qatar.Surveying works underway in Armenia’s Kirants Surveying works are underway in the Armenian village of Kirants in the northern Tavush province.Armenia calls for prohibiting threats of attacks on nuclear facilities Armenia has raised the need for a treaty prohibiting attacks on nuclear facilities devoted to peaceful purposes. |
