Danny Boyle Wins Directors Guild Award

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01Feb2009

Danny Boyle Wins Directors Guild Award

Sunday, February 1, 2009 at 1:30AM

If there is one accurate divining rod for the Academy Awards, it's the Directors Guild of America honors. In the past 61 years, the winner of the DGA has gone on to win the Best Director Oscar 56 times. However, half of the ones that have gone against the grain have occurred since 1995.

But Danny Boyle's victory is no surprise, and because he's won nearly every other major directing award this year, he's the absolute favorite to win Best Director at the Academy Awards for Slumdog Millionaire.

After the win, Boyle commented on being handed this year's prize by last year's winners, Joel and Ethan Coen. "To step into the shoes of people like the Coen brothers, I mean, it's phenomenal, because I have, as I admitted in the earlier speech, I've stolen from them all my career," he said.

"I mean in a naked and appalling way."

Waltz with Bashir director Ari Folman picked up the prize for documentary filmmaking, and Roger Ebert was awarded an honorary life membership by the Guild, and luminaries the likes of Spielberg, Eastwood, Scorsese, and Stone recorded testimonials praising the 40-plus years of work Ebert has dedicated to film.

"The motion picture is the art form I love above all others," said Ebert in a recorded statement, relayed by his ubiquitous synthetic voice. "It is the symphony, and you are the conductors."

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