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Revenant's Inarritu wins top directing award at DGA

Alejandro Inarritu has won the top prize at the Directors Guild of America (DGA) awards for The Revenant, adding weight to his chances at the Oscars.

The Revenant, starring Leonardo Di Caprio as a frontiersman fighting for survival, leads the Oscars race with 12 nominations, including best director. Past DGA award winners have often gone on to claim the best director Oscar and the best film category. Inarritu won the DGA award for Birdman in 2015 and then won the Oscars double.

The DGA is the industry's leading group of film and TV directors and its opinion carries a lot of weight. To date, there have been only seven occasions when the DGA winner has not then won the subsequent Academy Award.

For Inarritu, Saturday night's accolade makes the Mexican the first director to win back-to-back DGA awards. Inarritu has already won the Golden Globe for best director for the Revenant and he is nominated for the directing Bafta.

My opinion:

It it great for Inarritu to win such a well respected prize and this definitely puts him in a good place for the Oscars. BBC News represented the story well, with a good amount of information but they didn't overdo it so the viewer knew what they needed to and there were also pictures to break it down. I have watched The Revenant and all people seem to be talking about is whether it will finally win Leo an oscar but I personally believe that although it was really good, the main thing that stood out to me was the cinematography and not necessarily the performance although it was very effective. I think people are making assumptions that this will win all the Oscars and they want it to but I think films such as Room had better performances and deserve it more.