The Directors Guild could tip the balance tonight towards one of the favorites for the Oscar for best film.
«American Hustle","Gravity" Y "Twelve Years a SlaveThey appear to be this year's big contenders for the statuette and winning the DGA would put them in a good position to win the Academy Award.
After a season of awards in which it has swept, "Twelve Years a Slave" continues to lead the bets for the award for best film, not that of best director, which seems destined for Alfonso Cuarón for "Gravity", so yes Steve McQueen defeat his great rival in the Academy Awards, added to that it was one of two winners of the Producers Guild Award it could sentence the fight for the Oscar for best picture.
Everything indicates that this is not going to be the case, since the favorite for the Directors Guild Award and the Oscar for best director is Alfonso Cuarón, being "Gravity" also one of the winners of the PGA, if you add the award for best director in the DGAWe would arrive on March 2, the day of the Oscars, with all the excitement of which of the two will win the statuette in the queen category.
But everything can get more exciting if by chance it is David O Russell chosen by the Directors Guild, this award added to the best cast in the SAG, would make him arrive on practically equal terms with his two rivals at the Academy Awards gala.
Martin Scorsese by "The Wolf of Wall Street" and Paul Greengrass by "Captain Phillips»Are practically ruled out for the triumph except for great surprise, the first opts for the Oscar, while the second was not even considered one of the five best of the year by the academics and its place was occupied Alexander payne by "Nebraska«.
Forecast for the Directors Guild:
Best Director: Alfonso Cuarón for «Gravity»
Other options: Steve McQueen for "Twelve Years a Slave" and David O. Russell for "American Hustle"
Other nominees: Alexander Payne for "Nebraska" and Paul Greengrass for "Captain Phillips"
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