Director's Guild spurns Moore film
It may have been nominated for an Oscar last week but Michael Moore’s controversial documentary Bowling for Columbine has been spurned by The Directors’ Guild of America.
It was not nominated in the DGA’s category for directorial achievement in documentary.
Nonetheless Moore is up for a best documentary Oscar for Bowling for Columbine and a Writers’ Guild of America award for best original screenplay.
And his film, which explores America’s gun obsession, has been a major box office success on the arthouse circuit, taking more than £15m (€22.4m), which makes it the top-performing non-concert documentary ever.
Meanwhile Prisoner of Paradise was the only documentary nominated this year by both the DGA and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The DGA winner will be announced on March 1 and the Oscar winner on March 23.
