Thursday, January 07, 2010

Helmer Honor

The Directors Guild of America named their top directors of the year:



Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker), James Cameron (Avatar), Lee Daniels (Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire) Jason Reitman (Up in the Air ), and Quentin Tarantino. (Inglourious Basterds)

The nominees for this year's awards were each notified by a phone call by DGA president Taylor Hackford. "I started crying and embarrassed myself in front of Taylor," Daniels the first African-American DGA nominee confessed to Variety. "It was a surreal, humbling, out-of-body experience."

The award will be presented on January 30th.

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