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  • Clint Eastwood to receive DGA’s lifetime achievement award

    Clint Eastwood to receive DGA’s lifetime achievement award

    MUMBAI: The Director’s Guild of America (DGA) president Michael Apted has announced that director Clint Eastwood will receive the DGA’s Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his career in directing.

    The 58th Annual DGA Awards will be held on 28 January, 2006.

    Apted said, “Clint Eastwood is the consummate filmmaker. As one of the most prolific, versatile directors in the history of the medium, there isn’t a genre that Clint Eastwood hasn’t mastered in the more than 25 films he has directed over the past 35 years. The DGA is proud to honor his deft craftsmanship and brilliant vision with its Lifetime Achievement Award. His ongoing body of work continues to touch generations of moviegoers and bring huge audiences into movie theaters. He does it all with great class, intelligence, and style.”

    The DGA Lifetime Achievement Award winner is selected by the present and past presidents of the Guild. In the Guild’s 70-year history, only 31 directors have been recognised with the honour as the award is not presented every year. Eastwood now joins this illustrious list, which includes Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Billy Wilder, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Capra and John Ford.

    Earlier this year Eastwod won the DGA award for Million Dollar Baby.
     

  • Michael Apted to direct 3 episodes of HBO’s ‘Rome’

    MUMBAI: Film director Michael Apted of Coal Miner’s Daughter and The World Is Not Enough fame will direct the first three episodes of the new drama series Rome.
    As reported earlier by Indiantelevision.com, Rome is a co-production between HBO and the BBC. It will begin shooting in Bulgaria next March. Production for the series will be based at Rome’s Cinecitta Studios, with additional location work throughout Europe and North Africa. The first season of 12 episodes is scheduled to air on HBO and BBC Two in 2005.
    Carolyn Strauss and Anne Thomopoulos will oversee the project for HBO. BBC Controller of Drama Commissioning Jane Tranter and Gareth Neame will oversee the project for the BBC. HBO and the BBC previously partnered on the world war II miniseries Band of Brothers, which won the 2002 Emmy Award for Miniseries.
    Rome deals with two ordinary Roman soldiers and their families. An intimate drama of love and betrayal, masters and slaves, and husbands and wives, it chronicles the time that saw the fall of a republic and the creation of an empire. The series begins in 51 BC, when Gaius Julius Caesar has completed his masterful conquest of Gaul after eight years of war and is preparing to return to Rome.