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Scorsese wins Directors Guild prize for 'The Departed' |
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Written by asap
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Sunday, 04 February 2007 |
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 Martin Scorsese looks to be a step closer to Oscar.
The famed director won the top honor Saturday night from the Directors Guild of America for his mob saga "The Departed." It was his first win at the guild awards after six previous nominations; the guild winner usually goes on to win the best-director Oscar.
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SCORSESE SAYS: The self-deprecating director said he only became convinced the movie was doing well when the studio called with box office revenues from the first couple weekends: "If you look at the graph at the spikes at where the picture is doing really great figures, it's like looking at a veritable map of the American underworld," such as Boca Raton, Fla., he said. "Vegas, forget about it, it was amazing."
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ABOUT 'THE DEPARTED': Adapted from the Hong Kong crime thriller "Infernal Affairs," "The Departed" stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg and Jack Nicholson. It has become Scorsese's biggest commercial hit, and critics praised it as a welcome return to the vivid, bloody crime genre whose modern conventions the director helped pioneer.
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OTHER WINNERS: Walter Hill won the guild's directing honor for TV movies for the Western "Broken Trail." Other TV winners included Richard Shepard for "Ugly Betty," Jon Cassar for "24," and "Chicago" filmmaker Rob Marshall for musical variety directing for "Tony Bennett: An American Classic."
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