Inarritu wins top DGA prize, further obscuring awards season
- 8 years ago
An unclear cinematic season got a little foggier on Saturday with Alejandro Inarritu's Directors Guild win for his harrowing frontier epic "The Revenant."
With only weeks to go before the Academy Awards on Feb. 28, the race is still as wide open as ever.
The DGA win for "The Revenant" is not insignificant.
Inarritu won last year for the showbiz sendup "Birdman," which went on to win the best picture and best director Oscar.
In fact, only seven times in the history of the DGAs has a director who won the guild's top award not gone on to win the Academy Award.
The Mexican-born Inarritu was teary-eyed as he accepted the Directors Guild prize, which he characterized as "a hug from my peers."
"This hug, this embrace you are giving me today goes to a small country, to a whole Latin American community in this country," he said.
"Your embrace makes me feel proud."
With only weeks to go before the Academy Awards on Feb. 28, the race is still as wide open as ever.
The DGA win for "The Revenant" is not insignificant.
Inarritu won last year for the showbiz sendup "Birdman," which went on to win the best picture and best director Oscar.
In fact, only seven times in the history of the DGAs has a director who won the guild's top award not gone on to win the Academy Award.
The Mexican-born Inarritu was teary-eyed as he accepted the Directors Guild prize, which he characterized as "a hug from my peers."
"This hug, this embrace you are giving me today goes to a small country, to a whole Latin American community in this country," he said.
"Your embrace makes me feel proud."