"The King's Speech" wins Directors Guild of America's awardJanuary 30, 2011 - 17:12 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Tom Hooper won the Directors Guild of America's award four outstanding directorial achievement in feature film at the 63rd annual DGA Awards as "The King's Speech" gathered further momentum in its awards season quest. The Weinstein Co. release also took the top prize at the Producers Guild of America's awards ceremony and led the field by capturing 12 Academy Awards nominations. British-born Hooper was previously nominated by the DGA in its television miniseries category for HBO's John Adams in 2008, but this was his first feature film nomination. "Oh my god," Hooper exclaimed as he accepted the prize for the film, thanking his cast and crew and the DGA before concluding, "I'm overwhelmed." Earlier in the evening, he also acknowledged his mother for first telling him about writer David Seidler's play, which became the basis of the movie, and his father, who was present, for supporting his directorial ambitions when he was just a kid. Hooper now becomes the front-runner to capture the Oscar for best director since on only six occasions since the DGA Awards began in 1948 has the DGA winner failed to go on to win the Oscar for best director, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Top stories Ara Aivazian said Azerbaijan continues the traditions of Turkey after seizing territories and forced Armenians out. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Partner news | Iran’s Red Crescent sends aid to Armenia’s flood-hit regions The Iranian Red Crescent Society has sent humanitarian aid to the victims of deadly floods that hit northern Armenia on May 25-26. Putin congratulates Pashinyan’s birthday Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on his birthday on June 1. Opposition motorcade en route to Gyumri for large rally A motorcade of protesters headed by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan is heading to the city of Gyumri. Ruling MPs, Foreign Minister talk Armenia-Azerbaijan processes MOs from the ruling Civil Contract party met with the Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan in the Armenian parliament. |