Alfonso Cuaron and the team behind “Gravity” are celebrating after a big night at the 66th Directors Guild Awards. Cuaron, who won a Golden Globe for his direction of the film, won the night’s top honor: the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures.
Cuaron’s win had been predicted by pundits across the board, and didn’t come as much of a surprise. This award was notable in that Cuaron became the first Hispanic recipient of the award. Another contender for the honor, “12 Years a Slave” director Steve McQueen would have become the first black recipient had he taken home the award.
“We saw all these photographs of earth from space, and it’s absolutely beautiful; hues of greens and blues,” said Cuaron, “Everything seems so organic (from space). Those silly lines and boundaries we put on political maps, you can’t see that from space. It’s a bizarre experiment of nature, that is the human experience. And it’s what we as directors try to sort out as filmmakers.”
Alfonso Cuaron Becomes First Hispanic Recipient of DGA Top Award was originally published on zonadesabor.com
