85th Annual Academy Awards (2013)

[Tacit Ronin]

Wasn't he nominated for Inglorious Basterds?

Strange. He was. Well what do you know. He has a lot of privileges taken from him for not being a guild member, so for some reason I thought it extended to award seasons as well. Guess not.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Hooper is an awful, awful. I'm not shocked at the nom though. It is their little party and their opinions though so whatever.

 

[Kane52630]

Directors Guild Announces the Five Nominees for the DGA Award

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/weekendwarriornews.php?id=98635

Directors Guild of America President Taylor Hackford today announced the five nominees for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2012.

"DGA members have chosen an incredibly rich and varied group of filmmakers to nominate for this year's Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film Award. These directors represent the highest standard of filmmaking, and their films are a testament to artistic achievement, innovative storytelling and the passion that filmmakers share with their audiences," said Hackford. "Being nominated by their peers is what makes this award particularly meaningful for directors, and I congratulate all of the nominees for their outstanding work."

The winner will be named at the 65th Annual DGA Awards Dinner on Saturday, February 2, 2013 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland. The nominees are (in alphabetical order):

BEN AFFLECK
Argo
(Warner Bros. Pictures)
Mr. Affleck's Directorial Team:
· Unit Production Manager: Amy Herman
· First Assistant Director: David Webb
· Second Assistant Director: Ian Calip
· Second Second Assistant Directors: Clark Credle, Gavin Kleintop
· First Assistant Director (Turkey Unit): Belkis Turan
This is Mr. Affleck's first DGA Feature Film Award nomination.

KATHRYN BIGELOW
Zero Dark Thirty
(Columbia Pictures)
Ms. Bigelow's Directorial Team:
· Unit Production Manager: Colin Wilson
· First Assistant Director: David A. Ticotin
· Second Assistant Directors: Ben Lanning, Sarah Hood
· First Assistant Director (Jordan Unit): Scott Robertson
· Second Assistant Directors (Jordan Unit): Jonas Spaccarotelli, Yanal Kassay
· Second Second Assistant Director (Jordan Unit): Tarek Afifi
· Unit Production Manager (India Unit): Rajeev Mehra
This is Ms. Bigelow's second DGA Feature Film Award nomination. She won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for The Hurt Locker in 2009.

TOM HOOPER
Les Misérables
(Universal Pictures)
Mr. Hooper's Directorial Team:
· Unit Production Manager: Patrick Schweitzer
· First Assistant Director: Ben Howarth
· Second Assistant Director: Harriet Worth
· Second Second Assistant Director: Dan Channing Williams
This is Mr. Hooper's second DGA Feature Film Award nomination. He won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for The King's Speech (2010) and was previously nominated for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television/Mini-Series for "John Adams" in 2008.

ANG LEE
Life of Pi
(Twentieth Century Fox)
Mr. Lee's Directorial Team:
· Unit Production Manager: Michael J. Malone
· Unit Production Manager (Taiwan): Leo Chen
· First Assistant Directors: William M. Connor, Cliff Lanning
· Second Assistant Directors: Robert Burgess, Ben Lanning
· Unit Production Manager (India Unit): Sanjay Kumar
· First Assistant Director (India Unit): Nitya Mehra
· Second Assistant Director (India Unit): Ananya Rane
· Second Second Assistant Directors (India Unit): Namra Parikh, Freya Parekh
· Second Assistant Directors (Montreal Unit): Derek Wimble, Renato De Cotiis
This is Mr. Lee's fourth DGA Feature Film Award nomination. He won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for Brokeback Mountain (2005) and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and was nominated for Sense and Sensibility in 1995.

STEVEN SPIELBERG
Lincoln
(DreamWorks Pictures/Twentieth Century Fox)
Mr. Spielberg's Directorial Team:
· Unit Production Manager: Susan McNamara
· First Assistant Director: Adam Somner
· Second Assistant Director: Ian Stone
· Second Second Assistant Directors: Eric Lasko, Trevor Tavares
This is Mr. Spielberg's eleventh DGA Feature Film Award nomination. He won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film three times for Saving Private Ryan (1998), Schindler's List (1993) and The Color Purple (1985). He was also nominated in this category for Munich (2005), Amistad (1997), Empire of the Sun (1987), E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial (1982), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and Jaws (1975). Mr. Spielberg was honored with the DGA's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000.

Yay Life of Pi.

 

[kvz5]

Team Life of Pi

 

[Earthland]

I feel sorry for those who constantly bash Hooper. He IS a great director, even if you can not bring yourselves to appreciate that.

Edit: Oh ... my first post outside Les Miserables topic. Feels weird.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Hooper, as I said in another thread, is too much of a tv director. He can be great if he learns to be more cinematic for film.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I feel sorry for those who constantly bash Hooper. He IS a great director, even if you can not bring yourselves to appreciate that.

Edit: Oh ... my first post outside Les Miserables topic. Feels weird.

I feel sorry that I saw two of his bad, boring films in theaters. That is my bad though, I won't make that mistake a 3rd time.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Eesh, tell me how you really feel Spidey.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Eesh, tell me how you really feel Spidey.

Lol. Yeah, I get to passionate about things. If Hooper wins the DGA award and the oscar again, I'm just going to laugh this time. I sure wasn't laughing when he won last time.

 

[jacobed]

He won't. He doesnt stand a chance. It'll be Bigelow, with Spielberg or Affleck being a close second

 

[FilmNerdJamie]

This is Affleck's time.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I'm not as hot on Affleck as everyone else is but anybody but ****ing Tom Hooper.

 

[FilmNerdJamie]

Failing to see the problem with Hooper. The King's Speech was great and Les Mis was pretty good. He won't win anyway.

 

[lime]

final predictions before the nominations in all categories except for directing and picture. I'm waiting on dga before i finish those two.

final predix are complete.

 

[danoyse]

Failing to see the problem with Hooper. The King's Speech was great and Les Mis was pretty good. He won't win anyway.

Les Mis was awesome.

I think it will be Affleck too. But I'm good with anything Les Mis gets nominated for, of course.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Failing to see the problem with Hooper. The King's Speech was great and Les Mis was pretty good. He won't win anyway.

I didn't like either film. I hate his sloppy direction but that's just me.

 

[FilmNerdJamie]

Affleck has the narrative (the come-back) the others lack this year. Also everyone else, assuming the DGA matches the Oscar nominations, has won in the Directing category. That helps him too.

 

[jacobed]

Les Mis was a good movie but I thought the direction was terrible

 

[CapedCrusader14]

Yeah his films are fine. It's his direction we have a problem with.

 

[FilmNerdJamie]

How is the direction bad? Curious.

It was Hooper's direction that gave us this movie. The actors doing all the singing on set, performing as if its a "normal" acting performance only singing with all the ticks, subtitles, looks, etc. one associates with acting. All him. He directed Hathaway to her (soon to be) Oscar-winning performance. Can't say, "Oh... that was just her!" No, she couldn't have gotten to what she achieved in that film without him.

DGAs were announced today. Heard nothing but ******** Tarantino fanboys whining about his being "snubbed" for Django Unchained over Hooper and Lee for Life of Pi. But those were frankly better directed and showed more directorial restraint (i.e. the pointless, final 20 minutes of Django). I don't see a problem with the 5 directors nominated.

Feel like people are taking issue with Hooper just because its trendy (Remaining resentment of King's Speech beating Social Network? If so, GET OVER IT!) and "everyone else does it."

 

[CapedCrusader14]

Maybe the better word to choose is we have a problem with his composition, which can partly be taken up with the cinematographer Danny Cohen. I'm sure you've heard all the complaints though.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

No one had any problems with the acting. The problem was the camera work, and the composition of shots. The over use of close-ups, in addition to other shot choices just made it feel less cinematic. I feel as though the other movies were stronger directing wise and the directing was downright weak at times.

Keep in mind I had no problem with Hooper getting nominated for The King's Speech (and in the 83rd Academy Awards thread a few years back you could see me defending him. Him winning's another story.), but I felt as though Les Mis was a weaker directing effort overall.

Surely, as a blogger, you had to have heard of many various complaints about Hooper's directing of Les Mis.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I see we are going to have to agree to disagree. I think that endless pointless close ups and dutch angles count as bad direction. Also his films look incredibly ugly. It's fine if you think that he is great Jamie but I have never liked his direction in the films I've seen of his. That has nothing to do with The Social Network or any other film. I'm judging Hooper and Hooper alone and all I see is a cheesy T.V director who made bad to mediocre movies worse.

I don't have to adore a director to admit that he or she is talented. I have no idea what people see in him but I'm not going to accuse them of anything just because they like or love his films.

 

[CapedCrusader14]

A story like Les Miserables is grand in scale and I feel as if the composition didn't really support the story at all, except for a few scenes such as Valjean's Soliloquy and I Dreamed A Dream.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Though I'm not as harsh on Hooper and I don't dislike Hooper at all, Spidey does get out some of the things I'm trying to say. His style is too much too suited for tv. He uses too many close-ups and dutch angles in addition to lacking enough wide shots in his movies. I see the first scene in the movie, where we set down and see the prisoners pulling the ship. Why couldnt we see more shots like that. Hooper restrains himself too much stylistically and he limits the visual potential of the scenes too much, which is why I call him a TV director. They have to limit scenes because they don't have a budget as big as movies to shoot scenes.