Awards Coverage: DGA

The Director's Guild nominations are out and they are quite foretelling of Oscars to come. The DGA winner has won the Best Director Academy Award for 51 out of 57 years. The nominees are Bill Condon (Dreamgirls), Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine), Stephen Frears (The Queen), Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel) and Martin Scorsese (The Departed). Notable absences include Clint Eastwood (Letters from Iwo Jima), Robert Altman (A Prairie Home Companion), Todd Field (Little Children), and Paul Greengrass (United 93) among many others.