Andrew Barker Senior Features WriterThe Directors Guild of America Awards have long been closely watched by awards junkies, giving as they do a strikingly reliable set of clues to where Oscar voting might lead a few weeks down the road.
And this year, the DGA Awards look to once again play a role in the award season narrative, with four of the five Oscar director nominees set to duke it out for the guild’s feature film directing award.But for the organization’s 18,000 members across film, TV and commercials, the annual awards are more than that, offering a chance to survey the guild’s breakthroughs and victories from the past year, and take stock of the challenges to come.
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