LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- The Directors Guild of America nominated Ben Affleck, Kathryn Bigelow, Tom Hooper, Ang Lee and Steven Spielberg for its top prize Tuesday.
Affleck and Bigelow were nominated for their respective fact-based CIA thrillers "Argo" and "Zero Dark Thirty," while Hooper got the nod for his movie musical "Les Miserables," Lee for the mystical maritime fantasy "Life of Pi" and Spielberg for the Abraham Lincoln drama "Lincoln."