It Happened One Christmas airwaves on an annual basis, the remake slipped into obscurity. The reviews were mixed. After its initial airing a "New York Times" follow-up article revealed that Frank Capra, the director of the 1946 film "It's A Wonderful Life", had denounced the remake as "plagiaristic." The ratings, however, were good enough that it was rebroadcast on ABC twice, in 1978 and 1979. But by that time the original "It's A Wonderful Life" had begun its resurgence on television and eventually eclipsed the remake. "It Happened One Christmas" is rarely shown today, and has not, as of 2017, been issued on DVD.
Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film directing "Apollo 13"); 2000 (Steven Soderbergh won the Oscar for directing "Traffic"); 2002 (Roman Polanski won the Oscar for directing "The Pianist"); and 2012 (Ang Lee won the Oscar for directing "Life of Pi" as Ben Affleck was not nominated for directing "Argo"). This does not count 1948–49, when the DGA used a non-calendar award year (unlike the Academy Awards); both 1948 and 1949 DGA winners competed for the 1949 Academy Award for Best Director, which went to the 1948 DGA winner (Joseph L. Mankiewicz for "A Letter to Three Wives"). Conversely, sixteen times has the representing film directed by