The Hollywood guilds have spoken. Now what?
On Tuesday, the Directors Guild of America became the last of the four major guilds to release its nominations for the best film achievements of 2013. It followed the Writers Guild and Producers Guild, whose nominations were announced last week, and the Screen Actors Guild, who revealed their candidates in December.
DGA, PGA, WGA, SAG … it’s an alphabet soup of enormous importance in figuring out what Oscar voters might be thinking. Let’s face it: It’s good for “12 Years a Slave” to be the biggest winner among critics’ awards, but far more important that guild voters, many of whom are also in the Academy, have embraced it as well.