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
The Hustler (film) role as Fast Eddie Felson in the 1986 film "The Color of Money", for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. A number of observers and critics have suggested that this Oscar was in belated recognition for his performance in "The Hustler". In 1997, the Library of Congress selected "The Hustler" for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." The Academy Film Archive preserved "The Hustler" in 2003. Carroll and Rossen's screenplay was selected by the Writers Guild of America in 2006 as the 96th best motion