14/03/2005

The second annual Directors’ Guild Awards for Outstanding Directorial Achievement will be awarded on March 20 at a gala ceremony in London and the 2005 nominees for the (Directors’ Guild of Great Britain DGGB) Awards have just been announced.
In the ‘International film category’, Bill Condon’s film Kinsey will compete against Clint Eastwood’s Oscar winning Million Dollar Baby, Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator.
The best director of a British film will be chosen among Mike Leigh for Vera Drake [+see also:
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film profile], Shane Meadows for Dead Man’s Shoes, Roger Michell for Enduring Love [+see also:
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film profile] and Pawel Pawlikowski for My Summer of Love [+see also:
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interview: Jean-Paul Rougier
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interview: Tanya Seghatchian
film profile].

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In the foreign language category, four directors will compete: Pedro Almodovar for Bad Education [+see also:
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The nominees in the short film category include Gaelle Denis for City Paradise, Brendan Grant for London Fields Are Blue, Toby Haynes for The Baader Meinhoff Gang Show and Eddy Marshall for The Wreck of the Mary Celeste.
During the ceremony, Sam Mendes, the Oscar winning director of American Beauty will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in theatre and film, and director Simon McBurney an Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatre.
Last year, the winners in the Foreign language category was Wolfgang Becker for Goodbye Lenin! and in the British film category Michael Winterbottom for In This World.