BEST DIRECTOR
Director - Film	Comment
Martin Scorsese - The Departed	Becoming a fait accompli
Stephen Frears - The Queen	Respected
Bill Condon - Dreamgirls	Undervalued
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - Babel	Virtuoso... though fading a bit
Clint Eastwood - Letters From Iwo Jima	They want to give it to him... now we'll see if the film is up to it
Gabriele Muccino - The Pursuit of Happyness
Mel Gibson - Apocalypto	More likely at DGA than Academy, but ya never know
Steven Soderbergh - The Good German
Oliver Stone - World Trade Center
Todd Field - Little Children
Robert DeNiro - The Good Shepherd

Charts from November 16 PictureX Director xx...Actor/Supporting Actor XActress/Supporting Actress xScreenplay/Adapted Screenplay

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November 30, 2006
- by David Poland