'Green Book' is up and 'Black Panther' is down: What the Directors Guild awards mean for Oscars
by Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times
Jan 09, 2019
3 minutes
The last movie to win the Oscar for best picture without having the Directors Guild of America nominate its helmer was "Driving Miss Daisy" nearly three decades ago.
That means, in the wake of Tuesday's DGA Awards nominations, this year's best picture race likely comes down to "A Star Is Born," "Roma," "BlacKkKlansman," "Vice" and "Green Book," the latter, a crowd-pleasing movie about race relations that some critics have compared to "Driving Miss Daisy," typically with derision.
The connection is noteworthy. "Driving Miss Daisy" and Peter Farrelly's "Green Book," which won
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