Inarritu is the second Mexican director to win the award in two years, after Alfonso Cuaron.
The Director’s Guild Awards are kind of like an early warning system for the Best Director and Best Picture Oscar – good news for Birdman and its director Alejandro J. Inarritu. Inarritu and his movie scooped up top honours at the DGA Awards this past Saturday, boosting Birdman’s chances at the Academy Awards in two weeks. The DGAs have matched the Oscars Best Director winner 10 out of the past 11 years.
Inarritu on set for his new movie, The Revenant, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
Birdman, a satire about the flaws of showbusiness, has quickly become Inarritu’s most influential work to date. The movie stars Michael Keaton as a superhero movie star at the tail end of his career, who tries to revive it with his own Broadway play.
More: Alejandro Inarritu's Birdman Could Have Oscars Shout [Trailer + Pictures]
Inarritu triumphed over four other directors - Clint Eastwood for Iraq war drama American Sniper, Richard Linklater for coming-of-age tale Boyhood, Morten Tyldum for the Alan Turing story adaptation The Imitation Game and Wes Anderson for The Grand Budapest Hotel – but remained humble in his winner’s speech.
Watch the Birdman trailer below.
More: Leonardo DiCaprio Stars in Alejandro Inarritu's Follow-Up to Birdman
"If this is considered a great film, it has nothing to do with me, it is a miracle," Inarritu said alongside last year's DGA winner, fellow Mexican Alfonso Cuaron.
"I actually say that humbled," he added, "because I never expected to be here tonight talking to you, never in my life."
On the same day that Glastonbury welcomed back Margate's adopted sons, The Libertines, Margate itself put on it's very own Leisure Festival as it...
Sheffield's very own all girl group Pretty Fierce are still on a high after the recent release of their debut single - 'Ready For Me'.
Three nights before the end of his current tour Will Varley returned to his home town of Deal to delight a sold out crowd in The Astor Theatre.
With only a few days to go before Portsmouth based songstress and producer WYSE releases her new single, 'Belladonna', we caught up with her to find...
Colorado raised, Glasgow educated and Manchester based Bay Bryan is nothing if not a multi-talented, multi-faceted artist performing as both...
Former Marigolds band member Keelan Cunningham has rediscovered his love of music with his new solo project Keelan X.
Wiltshire singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio, formally known as Folk Boy, is set to release is latest album - 'The Banquet' via AntiFragile Music on...
Electronic music pioneer and producer Annie Elise says that the release of her first EP - 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' feels "both vulnerable and...