Best Director

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	Julian Schnabel	*GG, DGA	1, 0
Juno	Jason Reitman		1, 0
Michael Clayton	Tony Gilroy	DGA	1, 0
No Country For Old Men	Ethan, Joel Coen	*NYFC, GG, *DGA	2, 0 [Joel] 1,0 [Ethan]
There Will Be Blood	Paul Thomas Anderson	*LAFC, *NSFC, DGA	1, 0

The Euro crowd digs Diving Bell, but winning Director without a Picture nod is next to impossible. There Will Be Blood has the sprawl and scale of a Directing winner, but for some weird reason, everybody likes the other Western better. So Ethan and Joel become the first directing team to win this award since Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise for West Side Story in 1961. Prediction: No Country For Old Men Personal Pick: Anderson. Or Reitman. Or Anderson.