Awards Season Is (Still) On – The DGA & the PGA

The Directors Guild of America announced today the five nominees for the 59th Annual DGA Awards, which will reward Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2006.

Bill Condon (Dreamgirls), Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine), Stephen Frears (The Queen), and Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel) all received their first DGA feature nods, while The Departed’s Martin Scorsese (pictured, at right, with that film’s Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon) was nominated for a seventh time

The winner will be named on Feb. 3 at a ceremony in Los Angeles.

The DGA nominations come a week after the Producers Guild of America announced its nominees in the Best Film of 2006 category. Babel, The Departed, Dreamgirls, Little Miss Sunshine, and The Queen all received nods (winners will be named on Jan. 20).

Not for nothing, but both lists have a lot of similarities to this one. And I have a sneaking suspicion that come Oscar Nom Morning (Jan. 23), the PGA’s list might sound very familiar.

I’m just sayin’.

Photo: Warner Bros. (The Departed).