Directors guild honors Ben Affleck

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Directors guild honors Ben Affleck

Published: Feb. 3, 2013 at 10:13 AM

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Ben Affleck won the best director award for his film "Argo" at the Directors Guild of America Awards ceremony in Hollywood.

"I don't think this makes me a real director, but I think it means I'm on my way," Affleck said of his second directing project Saturday evening.

Only six times has a DGA best director winner not also won the Academy Award for the same category, The Hollywood Reporter said. This year, that number increases to seven because Affleck was not nominated for a best director Oscar.

The film has so far won two Golden Globes, two Critics Choice Awards, the Producers Guild of America award and the Screen Actors Guild ensemble award. It has been nominated for seven Academy Awards.

Kathryn Bigelow, "Zero Dark Thirty;" Tom Hooper, "Les Miserables;" Ang Lee, "Life of Pie;" and Steven Spielberg, "Lincoln," were also nominated for the DGA best director award.

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It's as though the entire industry is rubbing the nose of the Academy in it for failing to nominate Affleck.

And, that is just fine with this Bostonian (albeit by adoption). IOW, I don't wish to thank the Academy.

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1. I'm glad for the "entire industry".

I think the Academy has started caving in to right wing influence.

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2. Very definitely.Show biz folk under, say 45, are as likely to be

Republican as Democrat and likelier to be Dembots than liberals (even Streisand and Speilberg seem to fall in love with the Democrat du jour, instead of hewing to principles).

Show biz folk 35 may even be slightly likelier to be Republican conservatives than Democratic, especially if you focus more on TV and country music than the stereotypers of "Hollywood liberals" tend to focus.

And, as I mentioned on another Affleck thread, you have the spectacle of a liberal like Clooney speaking out publicly against Damon because Damon had the "gall" to say he was disappointed in Obama.

We definitely are not in Kansas anymore.

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3. Clooney misunderstands. nt