EASTWOOD TAKES DIRECTORS GUILD AWARD
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Written By: John H. Foote
     In what could be the last move before winning his second Academy Award for best director, Clint Eastwood was named best director of 2004 for Million Dollar Baby by the Directors Guild of America.
  
This marks the second time Eastwood has earned the honour having won in 1992 for his western masterpiece Unforgiven.
 
  Sadly, this could mean that the long overdue Academy Award for Martin Scorsese will still be just that…long overdue. The great director watched as Eastwood won the award over his work for The Aviator (2004) which was expected to bring him his first Directors Guild award as well as his first Oscar. Previously nominated by the Guild for Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), Goodfellas (1990), The Age of Innocence (1993) and Gangs of New York (2002), Scorsese lost on his sixth nomination.
 
  Only six times has the winner of the DGA not gone on to win the Oscar for best director. Most recently, Roman Polanski won the Oscar for The Pianist (2002) while Rob Marshall won the Directors Guild Award for Chicago (2002), while in 2000 Steven Soderbergh won the Oscar for Traffic (2000) while Ang Lee took the DGA for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000).









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