'The Artist' tops DGA Honours

"The Artist" director Michel Hazanavicius has won the Company directors Guild of America feature film award. In France They director capped Woodsy Allen for "Night time in Paris," David Fincher for "The Lady using the Dragon Tattoo," Alexander Payne for "The Descendants" and Martin Scorsese for "Hugo." "It's maybe the greatest recognition I possibly could hope," Hazanavicius stated in the acceptance. "I really like company directors, I recognition company directors making this an recognition for me personally.InchThe black and whitened quiet -- referred to through the helmer like a "love letter" to Hollywood -- is occur the times throughout the transition to talkies."It's strange to check films and say which is better but I am thrilled to understand this,Inch Hazanavicius came to the conclusion in the acceptance speech.The trophy was presented Saturday evening in the Hollywood and Highland ballroom by Tom Hooper, champion of last year's DGA award for "The King's Speech." James Marsh won the documentary trophy for "Project Nim," dedicated to a chimpanzee's existence among humans. The comedy series trophy visited Robert B. Weide for "Palestinian Chicken" episode of HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm." "Modern Family" had won the course for 2 years consecutively.Patty Jenkins won the dramatic series award applies to the pilot of AMC's "The Killing."The DGA win came around the first nomination for Hazanavicius - and marks the very first time that the quiet film has won the DGA trophy.The champion from the DGA Award has matched up the Oscar champion in most but six years since 1948, including this past year, when Tom Hooper required both trophies for "The King's Speech." The final divergence arrived 2002, when Take advantage of Marshall won the DGA Award for "Chicago" and Roman Polanski received the Academy Award for "The Pianist."Amy Schatz won the DGA Award for kids programming for "Children's Garden of Poetry"Noam Murro won the DGA advertisements award and also got a large laugh together with his two-word acceptance -- "ThanksInchDay time serials award visited William Ludel for "General Hospital." The truth award visited Neil P. DeGroot for "The Greatest Loser."Woodsy Allen would be a no-show as always but received large laughs on his videotaped speech for getting a DGA nom -- "This really is approximately the very best, the Nobel Prize, and also the bottom, the Republican primary." Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com