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Directors Guild Announces 2007 Nominees
The DGA (Directors Guild of America) have announced the nominees for their Best Director of the Year honor. It’s a pretty solid list too. The nominees are:
Paul Thomas Anderson – There Will Be Blood
Tony Gilroy – Michael Clayton
Sean Penn – Into the Wild
Ethan and Joel Coen – No Country for Old Men
Julian Schnabel – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
It’s hard to complain about any of these nominees. Personally, I would drop Penn (I liked Into The Wild, but wasn’t that enamored with it), Tony Gilroy and Julian Schnabel… and in their place put Jason Reitman for Juno, Ben Affleck for Gone Baby Gone and Brad Bird for Ratatouille. But that’s just me.
As for the 5 nominees, to me the winner is clearly Paul Thomas Anderson. The way in which “There Will Be Blood” was told, the use of every sense possible to tell the story (There isn’t a word of dialog for about the first 10 minutes of the movie… it’s amazing) and the power in which he told it was nothing short of breath taking. That’s not a knock on any of the other nominees at all… it’s just that Anderson was superb.
@”There isn’t a word of dialog for about the first 10 minutes of the movie… it’s amazing”
I consider that a spoiler. You’ve robbed me of ten minutes of discovery for a film I’ve been looking forward to for two years and hasn’t opened in my market.
Where the fuck is Andrew Dominik for the Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
I have to disagree on Diving Bell. I saw it a few months ago and still can’t shake it. One of those rare flicks I find myself still thinking about long after I have seen it.
I think Michael Clayton is WAY overrated … like when everyone went crazy for Syrianna a few years ago.
John didn’t ruin anything. If that’s spoiling a film for you, then I suggest you avoid the internet until seeing the film. Every review, every article I’ve read for the THERE WILL BE BLOOD remarks on how incredible the opening of the film is. But forget about the opening, the whole film is amazing….I hope I didn’t ruin it for you.
Well, I don’t know how you can disagree that he’s ruined ten minutes of discovery for me.
I don’t know what “every review” says about THERE WILL BE BLOOD because I have been avoiding them. This was an article about some award show. Which made me feel kind of ambushed.
As for avoiding the internet until I see the film. Well, I agree you go to these movie news sites at your own peril and I do accept a certain amount of the blame. However the film’s been screen for critics since at least August, it’s January and the movie hasn’t even opened in my city. Am I really expected to “avoid the internet” for six months? An alternate solution is John could just not put spoilers for film in tangentally related articles. Especially for films that have not opened yet.