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Brokeback Mountain Takes Directors Award
But Loses Actors Guild Prizes
By Rich Drees
 January
30, 2006-
Ang Lee took top honors at Saturday night’s Director’s Guild Awards
for Brokeback Mountain, but the film’s cast went home
empty-handed the following evening at the conclusion of the Screen
Actors Guild Awards ceremony.
Beating out
nominees George Clooney (Good Night, And Good Luck), Paul
Haggis (Crash), Bennett Miller (Capote) and Steven
Spielberg (Munich), the award is Lee’s second trophy from the
Directors Guild. He previously won in 2001 for Crouching Tiger,
Hidden Dragon. He was also nominated for a Directors Guild Award
in 1996 for Sense And Sensibility.
Brokeback
Mountain
already won the Best Picture award from the Producers Guild last
weekend. Lee has also been nominated for a British Academy Award and
an Independent Spirit Award for his film about two modern day
cowboys who fall in love. Best Director and Picture nominations are
expected at tomorrow’s Academy Award nominations announcement.
German director
Werner Herzog won the Guild’s award for Best Documentary for
Grizzly Man, the story of a man who studied and lived among
grizzly bears. Clint Eastwood was given the Guild’s Lifetime
Achievement Award.
Meanwhile, at
the Screen Actors Guild Awards Sunday evening, roles in bio-pics
seemed to have the edge as Philip Seymour Hoffman bagged the Best
Actor Award for his performance in the title role in the film
Capote while Reese Witherspoon won Best Actress for her
portrayal of June Carter in the Johnny Cash biography Walk The
Line. Paul Giamatti won the Best Supporting Actor Award for his
role as real-life boxing coach Joe Gould in The Cinderella Man,
the life story of Depression-era boxer James J. Braddock. Rachel
Weisz took home the Best Supporting Actress Award for her role as a
British diplomat in the thriller The Constant Gardner, the
only role of the four major winners not based on a real person.
The Screen
Actors Guild Award for best ensemble cast went to the film Crash.
Former child star Shirley Temple Black was awarded the Guild’s
lifetime achievement award.
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