Director David Cronenberg attends Telefilm Canada's Tribute to Canadian Talent Presents The Birks Canadian Diamond Prize during the 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival at Carlton Beach. His film Cosmopolis is based on a novel of the same name by Don DeLillo.
Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images for Telefilm CanadaTORONTO – Canadian filmmakers David Cronenberg, Jon Cassar, Sarah Polley and Jeremy Podeswa were nominated Thursday for Director Guild of Canada awards. Cronenberg snagged a DGC nomination for A Dangerous Method in the best movie direction category, where he’ll go up against Polley for Take This Waltz, Michael Dowse for the hockey fighting drama Goon and David Weaver for the Samuel L. Jackson-starrer The Samaritan.
The best TV movie direction competition saw Cassar score a nomination for The Kennedys, as he goes up against Charles Biname for Cyberbully, Paul A. Kaufman for Magic Beyond Words: The JK Rowling Story and Jeff Woolnough for The Wrath of Grapes: The Don Cherry Story.
And the best TV series direction category sees Podeswa snag two DGC nominations, one for his work on The Borgias and another for Camelot, while Kelly Makin earned a nomination for Flashpoint and David Straiton got one for is work on The Firm.
A complete list of DGC award nominees is available at www.DGC.ca.
The 2012 DGC Awards are to be handed out on October 20, 2012 in Toronto.
