Alfonso Cuarón took a giant leap towards Best Director Oscar glory after winning the Directors Guild of America award on Sunday. And what I wrote there was funny because Gravity is a film about space and a man said ‘giant leap’ in space once.
Until the Academy took a rather peculiar turn last year and totally blanked Affleck the elder like a gang of high school bitchwads, the DGAs had correctly predicted the last nine Best Director Oscar winners. So we must now assume that Cuarón’s slender Central American nose has edged just inches in front of Steve McQueen’s conk in the race.
Further furthermore more, 11 of the last 12 DGA winning films have gone on to pick up the Best Picture Academy Award – only Ang Lee’s tragic Brokeback Mountain failure preventing a distinguished dozen after Crash inexplicably trounced it.
So Gravity is, I don’t know, rising up in to the stratosphere, I guess, leaving, I suppose, 12 Years a Slave looking like a mere ant, ok, down on Earth, right?