Lee Wins DGA !!

Ang Lee takes yet another step toward Oscar Gold, with his victory at the Directors Guild tonight. The vast majority of DGA winners will eventually go on to win the Oscar as well. 21 out of the last 25 DGA winners have gone on to win the Oscar. The ones who did not? Steven Spielberg lost to Sydney Pollack in 1985. Ron Howard lost to Mel Gibson in 1995. Ang Lee lost to Steven Soderbergh in 2000. And Rob Marshall lost to Roman Polanski in 2002. I suppose this is Lee's chance to rectify his loss for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. A little sidenote on the four DGA-winners-turned-Oscar-losers. Two of them (Spielberg in '85 and Howard in '95) ended up not even getting nominated for an Oscar in those years - although both would go on to win Oscars later on (Spielberg twice now).