Continuing in the awards-heavy season as part of the run up to the Oscars at the end of this month, Martin Scorsese has received the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award for Filmmaker of the Year for his Oscar-nominated “The Departed’.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, UK film Critics have honoured Paul Greengrass’ 9/11 drama “United 93′ as the best film of the year at the 34th Annual Evening Standard British Film Awards.
Dame Judi Dench (“Notes on a Scandal’) beat out Oscar favourite Helen Mirren to win best actress, with the new James Bond, Daniel Craig (“Casino Royale’) winning best actor. Sacha Baron Cohen won the Peter Sellers comedy award for “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan’. (Source: Studio Briefing)
