Martin Scorsese for The Departed
Bill Condon for Dreamgirls
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for Babel
Stephen Frears for The Queen
Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris for Little Miss Sunshine
Decent list, except... where is Paul Greengrass? Everyone on there is deserving, but Greengrass's direction on United 93 hovers way above the direction in Sunshine, and Condon did a servicable job on his picture, but it was mostly by-the-numbers. Replace either one of those with Greengrass, and you have a real list. The thing about the Directors Guild is this: the nominees here usually go on to be the Best Picture nominees... yet another reason why I'm not watching the Oscars this year.
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