H@ppy Friday. Tomorrow, January 30 is The Directors Guild Awards. With the Golden Globes [Best Motion Picture winner: Avatar] and The Screen Actors Guild Awards last weekend [Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture: Inglourious Basterds] behind us and the Oscars [The Hurt Locker?] a few weeks away, The Director’s Guild Awards marks the mid-point of the 2010 award season. The DGA for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film has traditionally been a near perfect barometer for the Best Director Academy Award.
Only twice since 1970, when the current method began of selecting five nominees from which one winner is chosen, has a director received two DGA Feature Film nominations in the same year. In 1974, Francis Ford Coppola was nominated for both The Godfather Part II and The Conversation (Coppola received that year's DGA for The Godfather Part II); Steven Soderbergh was nominated for both Erin Brockovich and Traffic for the year 2000.  Out of this year’s five nominee in the feature film category, only 2 have an active  Twitter account: Jason Reitman [1,393 tweets as of 1/29 ] and Quentin Tarantino [6 tweets as of 1/29].  Here are our sample Tweets from insiders, outsiders, movie lovers, and fans. And the  best tweets go to...