Directors Guild of America President Taylor Hackford today announced the five nominees for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2011.

"The directors nominated this year for the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film Award have each demonstrated an inspired command of the medium. The fact that their prodigious talents have been recognized by their peers is the highest honor a director can achieve," said Hackford. "I offer my most sincere congratulations to each of the nominees."

The winner will be named at the 64th Annual DGA Awards Dinner on Saturday, January 28, 2012, at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland. The nominees are (in alphabetical order):

Woody Allen

Midnight in Paris

(Sony Pictures Classics)

Mr. Allen's Directorial Team:

  • Unit Production Managers: Matthieu Rubin, Helen Robin First Assistant Director: Gil Kenny
  • Second Assistant Director: Delphine Bertrand

David Fincher

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

(Columbia Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures)

Mr. Fincher's Directorial Team:

  • Unit Production Manager: Daniel M. Stillman
  • First Assistant Director: Bob Wagner
  • Second Assistant Director: Allen Kupetsky
  • Production Manager (Sweden Unit): Karolina Heimburg
  • Second Assistant Directors (Sweden Unit): Hanna Nilsson, Pontus Klänge
  • 2nd Second Assistant Director (Sweden Unit): Niklas Sjöström
  • 2nd Second Assistant Director (U.S. Unit): Maileen Williams
  • Unit Production Manager (Zurich Unit): Christos Dervenis
  • Unit Production Manager (U.K. Unit): Lara Baldwin
  • Second Assistant Director (U.K. Unit): Paul Taylor

Michel Hazanavicius

The Artist

(The Weinstein Company)

Mr. Hazanavicius' Directorial Team:

  • Unit Production Manager: Antoine de Cazotte
  • Production Manager (FR): Ségoléne Fleury
  • First Assistant Director (FR): James Canal
  • First Assistant Director (US): David Allen Cluck
  • Second Assistant Director (US): Dave Paige
  • Second Second Assistant Directors: Karla Strum, Ricky Robinson

Alexander Payne

The Descendants

(Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Mr. Payne's Directorial Team:

  • Unit Production Manager: George Parra
  • First Assistant Director: Richard L. Fox
  • Second Assistant Director: Scott August
  • Second Second Assistant Director: Amy Wilkins Bronson

Martin Scorsese

Hugo

(Paramount Pictures)

Mr. Scorsese's Directorial Team:

  • Unit Production Managers: Charles Newirth, Georgia Kacandes, Angus More Gordon
  • First Assistant Director: Chris Surgent
  • Second Assistant Director: Richard Graysmark
  • Second Assistant Directors: Tom Brewster, Fraser Fennell-Ball
  • Production Managers (Paris Unit): Michael Sharp, Gilles Castera
  • First Assistant Director (Paris Unit): Ali Cherkaoui