'Birdman's' Alejandro Inarritu Takes Top Film Honors at Directors Guild Awards Gregg Kilday - The Hollywood Reporter
go to original February 8, 2015

'Birdman' director Alejandro G. Inarritu (Variety)

Birdman's Alejandro G. Inarritu took top film honors at the 67th annual Directors Guild of America Awards, which were held Saturday at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Century City. His pal Alfronso Cuaron, last year's winner for Gravity, presented the award to Inarritu, who had flown into Los Angeles to attend the event from Canada, where he is currently filming The Revenant.

In his acceptance, Inarritu commented that making a movie is not as hard as it once was because of new technologies, but "to make a good film we all know is war, and we have just to survive it. If this is considered a great film, it doesn't have anything to do with me. It's a miracle."

Coming in the wake of previous wins from the Producers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild, Birdman continues to build momentum heading toward the Academy Awards. The DGA Award is considered a particularly telling signal, because the winner of the DGA Award has gone on to win the Oscar as best director in all but seven years since the DGA Award was created. Birdman triumphed at the DGA over American Sniper, Boyhood, The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Imitation Game.

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Birdman is a black comedy that tells the story of an actor - famous for portraying an iconic superhero - as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. (FoxSearchlight)

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