The second annual Directors Guild Awards for Outstanding Directorial Achievement will be awarded at a gala ceremony at the Curzon Mayfair in London on 20 March 2005.

The Guild is delighted to confirm that the ceremony will be compered by founding member and long-standing supporter, Michael Winner. Mr Winner has hosted all of the Guild’s previous Lifetime Achievement Award ceremonies that have honoured some of the most prestigious film directors of our times, from Fred Zinnemann through Stanley Kubrick to Sir Alan Parker.

The 2005 DGGB Nominations for Outstanding Directorial Achievement are as follows:



International Film

Bill Condon Kinsey

Clint Eastwood Million Dollar Baby

Michel Gondry Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Martin Scorsese The Aviator



British Film

Mike Leigh Vera Drake

Shane Meadows Dead Man’s Shoes

Roger Michel Enduring Love

Pawel Pawlikowski My Summer of Love



Foreign Language Film

Pedro Almodovar Bad Education

Agnes Jaoui Look at Me

Wong Kar Wai 2046

Walter Salles Motorcycle Diaries



Short Film

Gaelle Denis City Paradise

Brendan Grant London Fields Are Blue

Toby Haynes The Baader Meinhoff Gang Show

Eddy Marshall The Wreck of the Mary Celeste



Radio

Ned Chaillet

Dirk Maggs

Jane Morgan



Commercial

Frank Budgen Mountain (Sony Playstation 2)

Eric Lynne Hole In One (HSBC)

Malcolm Venville Kids (Anti – Smoking)

Ivan Zacharias Matroiskha (Smirnoff)



Television Documentary

Clifford Bestall Ethiopia: A Journey with Michael Buerk

Patrick Collerton The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off

Adam Curtis The Power of Nightmares - Baby It’s Cold Outside

Jeremy Gilley Peace One Day



Television Movie / Mini Series

Leo Regan Comfortably Numb

Adrian Shergold Dirty Filthy Love

Pete Travis Omagh

David Yates Sex Traffic



60 Minute Television

Jonny Campbell Spooks Series 3 Episode 1

Mark Mylod Shameless

Bharat Nalluri Hustle 1

John Strickland Bodies



30 Minute Television

Craig Cash Early Doors Series 2 Episode 6

Jon Jones The Alan Clark Diaries Episode 2

Justin Molotnikov Shoebox Zoo Episode 1

Beryl Richards My Life as a Popat