Kathryn Bigelow senior administrators with "Hurt Locker"

Awards LOS ANGELES - Kathryn Bigelow and "The Hurt Locker" was official warning of the season on Saturday after Bigelow won the first prize of the Directors Guild of America. The 58-year-old filmmaker is the first woman to win top honor of the guild, and it positions the movie as a shoe-ins for the Oscars. DGA has boasted of its winning the Oscar for all but gone is to win six times since 1948. "C" is the most incredible moment of my life, "Bigelow said backstage. She played her sex, and said:" I think I like to think that I am a filmmaker. "But it was the only director who won awards for his physique and his films have appointed. Bigelow, joined Quentin Tarantino for "Inglourious Basterds" Jason Reitman for "Up In The Air", Lee Daniels for "valuable" and her ex-husband James Cameron for "Avatar." Hurt Locker "– Star Jeremy Renner Bigelow as "My Lord, a warrior and leader of the players, the luckiest." Tarantino praised her as "Queen of directors." He said his fellow candidates were spending so much time together, they were "like a superstar rock band and we go on tour together. Clutching a shiny medal in memory of his DGA nomination, Tarantino said: "I do not give an insult () wins, I'm so glad to have them. "Daniels said the agents who are regularly seen in the context of the awards season in Hollywood," like a support group "for each other. We were each other's backs," he said. Bigelow He said: "They are bold. They are courageous. You are adventurous." Reitman says that winning director grew up watching his movies. "You're more of a great director, you are one of the best," he said. "I am in awe of you, too." Cameron praised his rival as "truly excellent and brilliant filmmakers." Bigelow said he was only for the honor of the Directors Guild has nominated "nature of the needle to the already wild ride," The Hurt Locker "has to sit down." The case of six hours at the Hyatt Regen cy Century Plaza Hotel aa ttir an avalanche of celebrities, including Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Jodie Foster, Jon Cryer, Cheryl Hines and Jason Bateman. All, but Jolie has as presenters at the ceremony was Saturday. Carl Reiner hosted the event to recognize achievements of the administration, as for 22 years. "Modern Family" won the top award addressed to the sitcom for the pilots, Jason Winer. "I want the DGA for the validation of the Napoleon complex, I have since I was a boy less than grateful," said the little director. The drama award went to "Mad Men" and director Leslie Linka Glatter. Ross Katz was honored for the HBO film "Taking Chance." Louie Psihoyos film "The Cove" won the documentary. "The film plays like a prequel to" Avatar ", which is real and in," said Psihoyos. Dear Norman Jewison presented with the Guild's Lifetime Achievement Award for his career in cinema. "Studio heads can have all the power, but we honor," he said. "And if the Lifetime Achievement Award, because it makes you very nervous, as you probably will fall to the pole or something like that." The 83-year-old filmmaker has accepted the award with his family, including her four grandchildren. Cher said she was honored to present to fly to the moon Jewison. "He has changed my life," Moonstruck "Star". "I love him so much." Roger Goodman has been submitted to the Guild's Lifetime Achievement Award in the new direction. Disney CEO Robert Iger and Warner Bros. chief Barry Meyer received Honorary Life Membership in the guild. Among the other winners Guild: • Programming Reality: Craig Borders Hong Kong Bridge. " • Children's programs: Liddi Allison Brown, "Princess Protection Program." Series • Day: Christopher Goutman, "As the World Turns: Once Upon a Time." • Advertising: Tom Kuntz. Among the many awards from the Hollywood Academy Awards, the Directors Guild prize for the best track records have potential for predicting Oscar winners. Oscar nominations are announced Tuesday. ___ On the Net: http://www.dga.org