DGA Announces Documentary Nominees

LOS ANGELES -- Directors Guild of America President Taylor Hackford today announced the DGA's nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentaries for the year 2010.

"The best documentary filmmaking provides the audience with the rare opportunity of experiencing a life, a place or a situation that might otherwise be too remote or too unknown to ever discover on our own," said Hackford. "The excellent work of our five nominees illuminates, educates and inspires us in extraordinary ways. My congratulations to each of our nominees."

The winners will be announced at the 63rd Annual DGA Awards Dinner on Saturday, January 29, 2011 at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles.

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DOCUMENTARY

The nominees for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary for 2010 are (in alphabetical order):

LIXIN FAN

Last Train Home

Eye Steel Film, ITVS, Canada

Council for the Arts

Zeitgeist Films

This is Mr. Fan's first DGA Award nomination.

CHARLES FERGUSON

Inside Job

Representational Pictures

Sony Pictures Classics

This is Mr. Ferguson's first DGA Award nomination.

ALEX GIBNEY

Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

ES Productions

Magnolia Pictures

This is Mr. Gibney's second DGA Award nomination. He was previously nominated in this same category for Taxi to the Dark Side in 2007.

DAVIS GUGGENHEIM

Waiting for "Superman"

Public Education LLC

Paramount Vantage

Mr. Guggenheim's Directorial Team:

· Unit Production Manager: Shari Tavey

This is Mr. Guggenheim's first DGA Award nomination.

TIM HETHERINGTON AND SEBASTIAN JUNGER

Restrepo

Outpost Films

National Geographic Entertainment

This is the first DGA Award nomination for Mr. Hetherington and Mr. Junger.