Scorsese Scores 11th Directors Guild Nod, McQueen Nabs First

LOS ANGELES: Filmmakers film producer, Steve McQueen, David O. Russell, Alfonso Cuaron and Paul Greengrass were appointive  for administrators order (DGA) film awards on weekday, AN honor that always foreshadows laurels success.

British director McQueen, 44, scored his initial administrators order film award nomination for historical slavery drama "12 Years a Slave," as did fellow Briton Greengrass, 58, for Somali piracy heroic tale "Captain Phillips."

Mexican director Cuaron, 52, earned  his initial DGA nomination for existential house drama "Gravity."



Scorsese, 71, received his eleventh nomination for the real-life tale of monetary greed "The Wolf of Wall Street," and Russell, 55, earned  his second nomination for Nineteen Seventies corruption caper "American Hustle."

Despite Scorsese's ten earlier nominations, he has solely won the DGA award once, in 2006 for crime heroic tale "The Departed," that he additionally won the most effective director laurels.

McQueen may be the primary black director to win the DGA's prime honor."I'm deeply honored and excited with my DGA nomination," he aforementioned during a statement. "To be enclosed in such a tremendous cluster of filmmakers and additionally to be honored by my peers makes ME feel terribly humble and proud."

Lee Daniels, AN African-American film producer, was antecedent appointive  in 2009 for the drama "Precious" however failed to score a nod this year for his amount drama "The pantryman."

The DGA has systematically been a key predictor of the nominees and ultimate winner of the most effective director laurels, which frequently additionally wins the highest laurels prize for best image.

Since 1948, there are solely seven occasions once the DGA award winner has not gone on to win the corresponding Academy Award. Last year's DGA winner, mountain Affleck, wasn't appointive  for the most effective director laurels award, that was given to home reserve Lee for "Life of Pi."

Notable omissions from this year's nominations embody Alexander Payne, Who received a best director Golden Globe nomination for his family comedy-drama "Nebraska," Spike Jonze for artistic movement romance "Her" and Joel and Ethan Coen for dark popular music comedy "Inside Llewyn Davis."

The winner of the DGA picture class are going to be unconcealed at a dinner ceremony on Jan twenty five in l.  a.  , six weeks before the Academy Awards.