Hazanavicius wins at Directors Guild for Artist

LOS ANGELES (AP) The

Directors Guild of America Awards

are a latest

Hollywood

film honors to go silent.

Hollywood's tip filmmakers organisation presented a feature-film honour Saturday to

Michel Hazanavicius

for his wordless film "The Artist," giving him a inside lane for a best-director esteem during a Academy Awards.

"I unequivocally adore directors. we unequivocally have honour for directors. So this is unequivocally really relocating and touching for me," pronounced

Hazanavicius

, whose black-and-white wordless charmer has spotless adult during progressing Hollywood honors and could emerge as a best-picture favorite during a Feb. 26 Oscars.

The

Directors Guild

honors are one of a most-accurate forecasts for who competence go on to take home an Oscar. Only 6 times in a 63-year story of a guild awards has a leader unsuccessful to win a Oscar for best director. And some-more mostly than not, whichever film earns a directing Oscar also wins best picture.

French filmmaker Hazanavicius, whose credits embody a view spoofs "

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

" and "OSS 117: Lost in Rio," had been a practical different in Hollywood until "The Artist." His reversion to early cinema centers on a silent-era star whose career crumbles when articulate cinema take over in a late 1920s.

First-time hopeful Hazanavicius won over a margin of guild heavyweights that enclosed past winners Martin Scorsese for "Hugo" and Woody Allen for "Midnight in Paris." Past nominees David Fincher for "The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo" and Alexander Payne for "The Descendants" also were i n a running.

Accepting his assignment board progressing in a rite from his stars in "The Artist," Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo, Hazanavicius removed his childhood preparation in good cinema, including Hollywood classics such as "Red River" and "Rio Bravo."

Hazanavicius pronounced he felt he was being welcomed by a Directors Guild for a denunciation they had in common: cinema.

"Maybe we noticed, though I'm French. we have an accent. we have a name that is really formidable to pronounce," Hazanavicius said. "I'm not American, and I'm not French, actually. I'm a filmmaker. ... we feel like I'm being supposed by we not as Americans though as filmmakers."

James Marsh won a film documentary esteem for "Project Nim," his account of a triumphs and trials of a chimpanzee that was lifted like a tellurian child. It was a latest vital Hollywood esteem for Marsh, who warranted a documentary Academy Award for 2008's "Man on Wire."

Scorsese went zero-for-tw o during a guild awards. He also had been nominated for a documentary endowment for "George Harrison: Living in a Material World."

Robert B. Weide won a TV comedy directing endowment for an part of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," while Patty Jenkins warranted a TV play esteem for a commander of "The Killing."

The endowment for TV film or miniseries went to Jon Cassar for "The Kennedys."

Other radio winners were:

Reality programming: Neil P. DeGroot, "The Biggest Loser."

Musical variety: Glenn Weiss, "The 65th Annual Tony Awards."

Daytime serials: William Ludel, "General Hospital."

Children's programs: Amy Schatz, "A Child's Garden of Poetry."

Commercials: Noam Murro.

At a start of a ceremony, Guild President Taylor Hackford led a throng in a toast to one of his predecessors, Gil Cates, a maestro writer of a Oscar promote who died final year.

The Directors Guild awards were a initial of dual vital Hollywood honors this weekend. The Screen Actors Guild hands out a prizes Sunday.

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Online:

http://www.dga.org

(news.yahoo.com)