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
Ariel Award for Best Director Film in 2003. Since 1976, Felipe Cazals has been nominated at least once every decade, winning three times for "El Año de la Peste" (1980), "Bajo la metralla" (1984), and "Las Vueltas del Citrillo" (2006). Buñuel and Amat Escalante won the Ariel for Best Director and the same award at the Cannes Film Festival for "Los Olvidados" and "Heli", respectively. Alejandro González Iñárritu was awarded the Ariel for "Amores Perros", and received the Academy Award for Best Director for "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)" and "The Revenant". Since its inception, the award has been given to 38 directors.