Housewives, Lost Get Directors' Nods
The freshman hit series Desperate Housewives and Lost earned nominations Wednesday from the Directors Guild of America.
Desperate Housewives, a sexy, satiric take on life in suburbia, received bids in the comedy series category for directors Charles McDougall and Arlene Sanford.
J.J. Abrams, executive producer of Lost, was nominated for the pilot episode of the drama series about airplane crash survivors stranded on a mysterious island.
Others directors nominated in the comedy category were Bryan Gordon, Curb Your Enthusiasm; Tim Van Patten, Sex and the City; and Robert B. Weide, Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Nominees for dramatic series direction were Christopher Chulack, ER; Walter Hill, Deadwood; John Patterson, The Sopranos; and Van Patten, The Sopranos.
The guild also announced nominees in categories for musical variety program, soap opera and children's programming. Winners will be announced at the 57th annual awards presentation Jan. 29.
Last week, the guild announced movie director nominations, including a bid for the late actor Christopher Reeve for "The Brooke Ellison Story."
AP 1/13/05
Lost Pilot Finds Directors Guild Glory
The pilot for ABC's Lost, an expensive and epic production which launched one of the season's smash hit shows, is one of the leading awards contenders as the Directors Guild of America announced its nominees for outstanding achievement in episodic television.
Series creator J.J. Abrams directed the Lost pilot and this is Abrams' first DGA nod. He's facing a field of established veterans working on some of television's most decorated dramas. Sopranos directors John Patterson (for the episode "All Due Respect") and Tim Van Patten (for "Long Term Parking") are former winners with three and four nominations to their credit. Christopher Chulack, nominated for the "Time of Death" episode of NBC's ER, is a two-time winner with four nominations on his resume.
Walter Hill, who directed the pilot for HBO's Deadwood, is a first-time DGA nominee, but Hill is an established and respected feature film director.
Van Patten is also nominated on the episodic comedy side for his work on the "An American Girl in Paris: Part Deux" episode of HBO's Sex and the City. Fellow HBO comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm grabbed nominations for Robert Weide ("The Carpool Lane") and Bryan Gordon ("The 5 Wood"). Those premium cable offerings will face off against two directors from ABC's Desperate Housewives, Charles McDougall (for that hit's pilot) and Arlene Sanford ("Pretty Little Picture"). Patten, of course, has been nominated four times and Gordon twice, while this is the first DGA nomination for the other three.
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