"The best documentary filmmaking not only provides a look inside a particular place or time, but also leaves us feeling like we've been transported to the middle of it – as a real eyewitness," said DGA President Michael Apted. "All five of these filmmakers have expertly taken us to places we haven't been, introduced us to people we never would have met, and let us experience life from a vantage point we didn't have before. I congratulate them for their extraordinary work."
The nominees are (in alphabetical order):
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SAM GREEN & BILL SIEGEL The Weather Underground |
The Free History Project
Shadow Distribution
This is both Green's and Siegel's first DGA Nomination
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ANDREW JARECKI Capturing the Friedmans |
Hit The Ground Running Films, LLC
in association with HBO/Cinemax Original Programming
Magnolia Pictures
This is Jarecki's first DGA Nomination.
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NATHANIEL KAHN My Architect |
The Louis Kahn Project, Inc.
HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films
New Yorker Films
This is Kahn's first DGA Nomination.
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ERROL MORRIS The Fog of War |
@radical.media & SenArt Films Production
in association with Globe Department Store
Sony Pictures Classics
This is Morris' third DGA Award nomination and his second this year. He has also received a DGA Nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials for 2003. Morris was also nominated in the category of Documentary in 1999 for his direction of Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred Leuchter, Jr.
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JOSE PADILHA Bus 174 |
Zazen Productions
THINKFilm
This is Padilha's first DGA Nomination.
