DGA Sets Host and Presenters for 63rd Annual DGA Awards Dinner

LOS ANGELES – DGA President Taylor Hackford announced today that Carl Reiner will return as host for the 63rd Annual Directors Guild of America Awards. This year will mark the 23rd time Reiner has hosted the DGA Awards, which will take place on Saturday, January 29, 2011 at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles.

Slate of presenters for the DGA Awards as of January 25:

Michael Apted	Kathryn Bigelow	Steve Buscemi	James Cameron
Helena Bonham Carter	Francis Ford Coppola	Claire Danes	Leonardo DiCaprio
Clint Eastwood	Colin Firth	Jenna Fischer	Andrew Garfield
Taylor Hackford	Armie Hammer	Jennifer Lawrence	Melissa Leo
Jack McGee	Helen Mirren	Jim Parsons	Natalie Portman
John Rich	Katey Sagal	Martin Scorsese	Steven Spielberg
Julia Stiles	Sofía Vergara	Mark Walhberg

The nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2010:

DARREN ARONOFSKY Black Swan	DAVID FINCHER The Social Network
TOM HOOPER The King's SPeech	CHRISTOPHER NOLAN Inception
	The DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film has traditionally been one of the industry’s most accurate barometers for who will win the Best Director Academy Award. Only six times since the DGA Awards began in 1948 has the Feature Film winner not gone on to win the corresponding Academy Award.
DAVID O. RUSSELL The Fighter

DGA 75th Anniversary

The DGA will launch a year-long celebration of the DGA’s 75th anniversary at the DGA Awards on January 29, 2011. Past DGA Award winners Kathryn Bigelow, James Cameron, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, John Rich, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, the evening’s co-chairs, will join the program in special presentations to highlight game-changing moments in DGA history. Past-president Michael Apted is serving as chair of the year-long anniversary celebration, whose theme is “Game Changers.” Throughout 2011, the DGA will hold events honoring directors whose impact on film and television forever “changed the game” and influenced generations of filmmakers that followed.