BEST DIRECTOR
Director - Film	Comment
Martin Scorsese - The Departed	The clear frontrunner
Bill Condon - Dreamgirls	Could rise...
Stephen Frears - The Queen	Solid
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - Babel	Style with guile
Gabriele Muccino - The Pursuit of Happyness	Not in the club... but his work overreaches expectations
Steven Soderbergh - The Good German	Beautiful images could put him in the five
Oliver Stone - World Trade Center
Todd Field - Little Children
Clint Eastwood - Flags of Our Fathers
Robert DeNiro - The Good Shepherd

Charts from November 2 PictureX Director xx...Actor/Supporting Actor XActress/Supporting Actress xScreenplay/Adapted Screenplay

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November 9, 2006
- by David Poland