Danny Boyle Receives 2009 DGA Award

Danny Boyle received the Director’s Guild of America award for Slumdog Millionaire last night. That definitely puts him ahead of the pack for the big nod by the Academy– since its beginnings in 1948, the DGA award has only gone to 6 directors who did not go on to win the Oscar for that year.

Ari Folman won the best documentary award for Waltz with Bashir, which is up for Best Foreign-Language Film at the Oscars. Best television film/miniseries award went to Jay Roach for Recount.

Complete list of DGA awards and more about the evening’s festivities at the Hollywood Reporter.

Video of the Day: Danny Boyle and Darren Aronofsky Talk Film

Fox Searchlight has produced a great 7-part video sit-down between Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) and Aronofsky (The Wrestler).  For the moment, it’s being released piecemeal to different film sites. Three are up so far, and hopefully the entire thing will soon be available.

Here are the 3 available parts, courtesy of YouTube:

Part 1:  The technology of Slumdog Millionaire; originally posted on slashfilm.com:

Part 2:  Directing Styles; originally posted on firstshowing.net:

Part 3:  Writing and Developing Projects; originally posted on cinematical.com: