Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film Revenant", respectively. The Directors Guild of America Award for Feature Film has traditionally been a near perfect barometer for both Best Director and Best Picture Academy Awards. Only seven times since the DGA Award's inception has the DGA Award winner not won the Academy Award; in 1968 (Carol Reed won the Oscar for directing "Oliver!"); 1972 (Bob Fosse won the Oscar for directing "Cabaret"); 1985 (Sydney Pollack won the Oscar for directing "Out of Africa", as Steven Spielberg was not nominated for directing "The Color Purple"); 1995 (Mel Gibson won for directing "Braveheart", as Ron Howard was not nominated for
Thanks for the Memory (film) out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé. Thanks for the Memory (film) Thanks for the Memory is a 1938 film directed by George Archainbaud and starring Bob Hope and Shirley Ross. The film represented Paramount Pictures' attempt to capitalize on the overwhelmingly positive response to the Oscar winning song, "Thanks for the Memory," as performed by Hope and Ross in "The Big Broadcast of 1938", released by the studio earlier the same year. The film plot, based on a 1930 stage play "Up Pops the Devil"