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ARE OSCAR FRONTRUNNERS<br />
STARTING TO EMERGE?<br />
IS NOW<br />
<strong>The</strong> action isn’t slowing down yet: <strong>The</strong> Directors Guild has<br />
weighed in, and the writers are next up on Feb. 11 as the Academy’s<br />
day of judgment draws ever closer By Scott Feinberg<br />
DIRECTOR<br />
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Guillermo del Toro,<br />
<strong>The</strong> Shape of Water<br />
<strong>The</strong> Golden Globe and Producers Guild<br />
of America winner added the DGA’s top<br />
award to his mantelpiece Feb. 3. Only<br />
seven times in 69 years has the top DGA<br />
Award winner not gone on to win the<br />
best director Oscar.<br />
ACTOR<br />
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour<br />
<strong>The</strong> prohibitive frontrunner to win<br />
the Oscar — his portrayal of Winston<br />
Churchill has earned Globe and<br />
SAG awards — was feted at the Santa<br />
Barbara International Film Festival,<br />
where received the fest’s Maltin Master<br />
Award on Feb. 2.<br />
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE<br />
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail<br />
Acclaimed filmmaker Steve James<br />
(Hoop Dreams) got his first doc nomination<br />
for this look at a small bank that<br />
fell victim to the financial crisis. But at<br />
the DGA Awards, he lost the doc prize<br />
to Matthew Heineman’s City of Ghosts,<br />
which isn’t Oscar-nominated.<br />
Jordan Peele, Get Out<br />
He may have lost the DGA Award for<br />
film directing to Guillermo del Toro, but<br />
he remains in play after scoring the next<br />
best thing — the DGA’s prize for feature<br />
directorial debut — and earning a standing<br />
ovation at the ceremony as he headed<br />
to the stage.<br />
SUPPORTING ACTOR<br />
Christopher Plummer,<br />
All the Money in the World<br />
He was one of only five acting nominees<br />
who couldn’t make it to the Nominees<br />
Luncheon on Feb. 5 (along with Daniel<br />
Day-Lewis, Denzel Washington, Woody<br />
Harrelson and Lesley Manville), missing<br />
an opportunity for glad-handing voters.<br />
SONG<br />
“This Is Me”<br />
<strong>The</strong> Greatest Showman<br />
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul’s Golden<br />
Globe-winning tune, sung by Keala<br />
Settle, is getting lots of primetime exposure<br />
in NBC advertisements for the<br />
Winter Olympics, including one featured<br />
during the Super Bowl.<br />
DEL TORO: FREDERICK M. BROWN/GETTY IMAGES. PEELE: KEVORK DJANSEZIAN/GETTY IMAGES FOR DGA. DARKEST: COURTESY OF FOCUS FEATURES. MONEY: FABIO LOVINO/FOCUS FEATURES. ABACUS: SEAN LYNESS/PBS. SHOWMAN: NIKO TAVERNISE/TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX.<br />
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