So on that front director general Tony Hall's big test is almost over.
Capturing a period when innocence was under assault on all fronts, director Julia Dyer (Late Bloomers), shooting from a script by her sister Gretchen, tells a tale old and young facing uncertain futures, not all of them with a suitable measure of grace.
The investigators determined that a nonprofit organization called the Foundation for Peace of Córdoba, seemingly set up to distribute farms to landless peasants, was in reality a money-collecting front whose directors and main benefactors were either paramilitary leaders or relatives, according to court records.
"You need to people in front of directors and chairman to say 'this is my CV, this is what I've done - can I get an opportunity?'".
On the foreign film front, Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki is nominated for Man Without a Past.
"One thing I can tell you up front, as director in El Paso, I will not compromise security for facilitation," he said.
On this front, the director general is being forced to live with the consequences of something for which he was ultimately responsible.
In front of director Nabil's lens, Minaj spends most of the time arching her back in a skintight black dress and stilettos, perched on a lone chair somewhere in the desert.
The third Jones film, co-written by Emma Thompson, Helen Fielding and Dan Mazer, has been mooted since 2009 and when it was finally time to get on set again in front of director Sharon Maguire, who made the original film, Zellweger prepared by spending time with the production crew on ITV's breakfast show, Good Morning Britain.
It should have propelled its writer and director, Tom Schiller, into the front rank of directors, or at least announced him as one of the most original younger filmmakers working at the time.
