Ang Lee Gets Nod From DGA

By Acheron March 12, 2001 7:48 AM

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon director Ang Lee received top honors from his colleagues at the Directors Guild of America Awards. ?A sign that an Oscar may not be far off.

Ang Lee fended off the likes of Steven Soderbergh for Traffic and Erin Brockovich, Ridley Scott for Gladiator, and Cameron Crowe for his psuedo-biography, Almost Famous.

Winning the DGA honor virtually assures that a filmmaker will pick up the Academy Award for Best Director. Since the guild award's inception in 1949, only four DGA winners have not gone on to win the Academy Award: Anthony Harvey for 1968's The Lion in Winter, Francis Ford Coppola for 1972's The Godfather, Steven Spielberg for 1985's The Color Purple and Ron Howard for 1995's Apollo 13.

This is the first time that Lee has won the DGA award. He's was nominated for Sense and Sensibility in 1995.

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