Charles Ferguson has won the DGA Award for Best Director of a Documentary, Inside Job, which is also up for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary Feature category. Inside Job tells the ugly story behind the economic meltdown of 2008. Unlike the DGA-Oscar match-ups in the Narrative Feature category — all but eight* DGA winners have won Best Picture Oscars the same year — nearly all DGA documentary winners have failed to take home an Academy Award statuette. In fact, many DGA winners weren't even nominated for an Academy Award, e.g., Asger Leth's Ghosts of Cité Soleil (2007), Arunas Matelis' Before Flying Back to Earth (2006), Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man (2005), and Steve James' Hoop Dreams (1994). Last year, Louie Psihoyos' The Cove managed to win both the DGA Award and the Oscar. * See DGA Award vs. Academy Award Winners: From John Huston to Roman Polanski...
- 1/30/2011
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
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