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		</div><p>La La Land swept up another major Hollywood prize in its bid for Oscars glory, as Damien Chazelle was honoured at the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards.</p>
<p>Damien, who directed the musical starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, won the DGA Award for feature film at the star-studded ceremony in Los Angeles.</p>
<p>The award is seen as an accurate predictor for Academy Award success, as 12 of the last 13 winners have gone on to win the Oscar for best director.<br />
On stage, Damien, 32, said: “I’m a movie maker because I love movies. I was three years old watching Cinderella on loop.</p>
<p>“I felt that movies were powerful because they speak to everyone: all countries all cultures.”<br />
Damien is bidding to become the youngest ever winner of the best director award at the Oscars on February 26, where La La Land has earned a record-equalling 14 nominations.</p>
<p>Ryan, who attended the DGA Awards with his co-star Emma, said Damien had “great vision, unbridled creativity and is a real collaborator.”<br />
“He directed his birth in a single take,” the film star joked.</p>
<p>Alejandro Inarritu, the Oscar-winning director of Birdman and The Revenant, appeared to take aim at US president Donald Trump’s administration before he presented the award to Damien.<br />
“We all know the story being written now is really, really bad,” he said on stage.</p>
<p>“Actually it’s a bad remake of one of the worst stories of the last century.<br />
“The only way we win is by telling good, complex and truthful human stories. No alternative facts or false statistics will defeat that.”</p>
<p>Denis Villeneuve, the French Canadian director of Oscar-nominated film Arrival, had earlier referred on stage to Mr Trump’s controversial travel ban.</p>
<p>“In the morning the first thing I do is go on Twitter to see if my visa is still legal,” he said.<br />
British director Sir Ridley Scott was presented with a lifetime achievement award by actor Michael Fassbender.</p>
<p>On stage, the Alien director, 79, said: “My fellow directors, I salute you. Do try to raise the bar and most importantly, try not to punch anyone because I’ve come close quite a few times.”</p>
<figure id="attachment_106106" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-106106" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IMG_0637.jpg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IMG_0637.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="915" class="size-full wp-image-106106" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-106106" class="wp-caption-text">Sir Ridley Scott</figcaption></figure>
<p>Paying tribute to Sir Ridley, Christopher Nolan, who directed the Dark Knight trilogy, said: “If I was asked to point to one filmmaker who inspired me to get into film, it would be Sir Ridley Scott.”</p>
<p>Australian director Garth Davis won the DGA for first-time feature film for his moving drama Lion.<br />
The film, which has earned Oscar nominations for its stars Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman, tells the true story of a young man who was adopted in Australia and uses Google Earth to trace his family in India.</p>
<p>Collecting his award, Garth paid tribute to the cast including child actor Sunny Pawar, who was sat next to Nicole at the ceremony at the Beverly Hilton hotel.</p>
<p>“There’s no doubt as a director, I was lucky,” Garth said.<br />
“I was gifted such a magnificent and beautiful script but with that came immense responsibility.<br />
“The first half of the film relies on the performance of a five-year-old child who did not speak English. I love you Sunny.”</p>
<p>There was more British success as Miguel Sapochnik won the DGA Award for dramatic series for Game Of Thrones.</p>
<p>And fellow Briton Becky Martin won the DGA for a comedy series for her work on the political satire Veep.<br />
On stage, Martin thanked the show’s creator Armando Iannucci and its star Julia Louis-Dreyfus for her “boundless energy”.</p>
<p>“She’s not a bad actor – one to look for in the future if you’re casting,” Becky joked.</p>
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