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A30 PEOPLE & ARTS
Monday 5 February 2018
Guillermo del Toro wins

top Directors Guild Award

By LINDSEY BAHR best year of my life hand’s their “decades long fight”
AP Film Writer down,” Peele said. “At the to ensure the participation
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) same time I’ve had to bal- of women and people of
— The fantasy romance ance that with the knowl- color in the director’s chair.
“The Shape of Water” add- edge that this is not a good “This is not just a fight
Sally Hawkins, left, and Richard Jenkins, right, pose with ed another key prize in its year for this country. This is by women for women,”
Guillermo del Toro and a plaque honoring his nomination for awards season run with not a good year for many Schlamme said. “They
outstanding directorial achievement in a feature film for “The Guillermo del Toro’s win at of us.” didn’t create this problem.”
Shape of Water” at the 70th annual Directors Guild of America the Directors Guild Awards Other winners Saturday The DGA, which represents
Awards at The Beverly Hilton hotel on Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018, in Saturday. included Matthew Heine- more than 17,000 entertain-
Beverly Hills, Calif.
Associated Press “The Shape of Water,” man for the documentary ment industry professionals,
about a mute woman “City of Ghosts,” Jean- sent its members a set of
who falls in love with an Marc Valle for “Big Little guidelines detailing proce-
underwater creature, has Lies,” Reed Morano for dures for handling sexual
emerged as the awards “The Handmaid’s Tale” and harassment on Thursday.
season front runner with Glenn Weiss for directing The guild also joined the
a Producers Guild Award the 89th Academy Awards. Anita Hill-chaired Commis-
and a leading 13 Acade- Morano thanked her pro- sion on Sexual Harassment
my Award nominations. ducers and Hulu for being, and Advancing Equality in
Del Toro said his movie is “the rare people who were the Workplace.
one that is, “Full of many seeking the opportunity to Heineman, who won for
reasons why it shouldn’t work with women instead “City of Ghosts,” about a
work and they are the of fearing it.” group of citizen journalists
reasons that it works.” He Representation and the who banded together af-
dedicated the honor to his ongoing cultural shift hap- ter ISIS took over their land,
mother and father, who pening in Hollywood and took his moment on stage
has been ill. across the country regard- to spotlight those in his doc-
He won out over fellow ing sexual misconduct was umentary.
directors Greta Gerwig at least an undertone of “In the era of fake news
(“Lady Bird”), Martin Mc- many of the speeches of where facts seem to be
Donagh (“Three Billboards the evening, as the top- malleable and journalism is
Outside Ebbing, Mis- ics have been throughout under fire, I think it is impor-
souri”), Christopher Nolan awards season. tant to celebrate groups
(“Dunkirk”) and Jordan DGA President Thomas like RBSS (Raqqa Is Being
Peele (“Get Out”), al- Schlamme kicked off the Slaughtered Silently) that
though Peele did win the evening addressing the are courageously speaking
prize for first-time feature moment head on. He truth to power,” Heineman
film for his blockbuster hor- stressed a drive toward re- said.
ror film. spectful and inclusive work- The Directors Guild also
“This whole thing is a very places and said that “we honors directing live-action
surreal, conflicting experi- must keep our foot firmly on and scripted programming
ence. This has been the the pedal and not let up” in and even commercials. q

‘Coco’ sweeps Annie Awards with 11 wins

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pixar’s
“Coco” swept the 45th
Annie Awards, winning
11 trophies at the annual
ceremony honoring the
year’s best in animation. As
expected, the Dia de los
Muertos (Day of the Dead)
tale was dominant at the
Annies, held Saturday night
at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los
Angeles. In addition to best
animated feature, “Coco”
won for its direction (direc-
tor Lee Unkrich and co- In this image released by Disney-Pixar, character Hector, voiced
director Adrian Molina), by Gael Garcia Bernal, left, and Miguel, voiced by Anthony
best writing, voice acting Gonzalez, appear in a scene from the animated film, “Coco.”
(Anthony Gonzalez), mu- Associated Press
sic, animated effects and Breadwinner,” directed by Twomey, whose movie is
character animation. The Nora Twomey and execu- about an Afghan girl grow-
strong showing only rein- tive produced by Angelina ing up under Taliban rule, is
forces “Coco” as the fa- Jolie, won for best indepen- the first solo woman direc-
vorite at the Oscars. “The dent animated feature. tor to win the award.q