Scorsese Wins Directors Guild Award

Martin Scorsese finally won his first DGA award, for The Departed, for directing the right movie at the right time. And because he didn't think it was an award season movie, and didn't wear his Oscar hopes on his sleeve, the master auteur is easing on down the road to an Oscar win. Here's THR's Carl DiOrio:

It looks like it really could be Marty's year. In what well might finally signal an Oscar win for the oft-nominated director, Martin Scorsese copped the DGA feature film award Saturday for "The Departed." The Irish mob film overcame competition from the helmers of "Dreamgirls," "Little Miss Sunshine," "The Queen" and "Babel."

Walter Hill won in the DGA's telefilm category for the AMC Western "Broken Trail." And Arunas Natelis was honored for his documentary "Before Flying Back to the Earth."

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