Jack Shea's letter is the DGA's first response to the issue since the talks broke down.
Inside Job, a chronicle of the 2008 economic meltdown, won the documentary DGA prize.
Only six times in the DGA's history has the winner failed to take the Oscar for best director.
The Graduate director Mike Nichols will receive the DGA lifetime achievement award at the ceremony on 7 February.
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The DGA contract (like those of SAG, AFTRA and the WGA) expires in mid-2011, but the DGA always negotiates early.
The timing of the DGA negotiations increases the likelihood that they will.
The winner of the DGA gong has gone on to win the Oscar for best director on all but six times since 1948.
The historical drama, starring Colin Firth, had been up against the directors of four other Oscar frontrunners for the DGA award, including The Social Network's David Fincher.
Instituciones colaboradoras: DGA, CONAF, SERNAGEOMIN, FAO, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores.
Among the other DGA winners were Searching for Sugar Man director Malik Bendjelloul, who won the guild's documentary award for his study of the obscure singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriquez.
Hopefully, SAG, AFTRA and the DGA will coordinate their proposals.
Still, the DGA timing may reduce the likelihood of significant change in the new media provisions of the contracts, unless the DGA is pushing for the same changes as well.
Despite the efforts of DGA and WGA diversity initiatives, two new reports show women losing the ground they secured during the early years of the new century.
This time however, SAG and AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) are officially on board, as well as the DGA (Directors Guild of America).
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Instituciones colaboradoras: DGA, AGUAS ANDINAS S.A., AIDIS SOCHID.
Just six times since 1949 has there been a difference in winners at the two awards, although last year the DGA plumped for Rob Marshall for Chicago while the Oscar went to Roman Polanski for The Pianist.
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Indeed, the announcement also says that the DGA will engage in informal discussions with the AMPTP before mid-November, which will prepare the DGA to do a deal promptly before the holiday season sucks the wind out of the town.
Owners Jeff Kwatinetz and Rich Frank released a statement today that said they signed agreements with the Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the DGA to make it possible to air the soaps.
We will use these discussions to confirm that both parties are committed to negotiating a fair agreement that will protect the economic and creative rights of DGA members while accomplishing the important objective of keeping our industry working in this challenging period.
And Hooper and Lee are absolutely deserving, with Hooper rising high on my list of likely nominees after I (finally) saw Les Miserables last week (leading me to move that film high on my list of likely Oscar nominees, a list on which the top four movies are from among these five DGA nominees).
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