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
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