But if there's one director on the planet who can take bad notices on the chin, it's Soderbergh.
One director on the 14-member board disassociated himself from the failed campaign when asked whether he was comfortable with the message of the highway advertisement.
You made a very good film, so feel good about that and start working on the next one," director Spike Lee said last month during a candid interview with The Daily Beast in response to DuVernay's omission from the Best Director category.
It is also a crucial one in painting a picture as majestically terrible as the one director Steve McQueen takes on: With the subtlest of strokes, the chat expands our understanding of baroque Southern social structure, both white and black and baroque Southern sexual relationships, too.
For The Hollywood Reporter, too, there were flashes of real talent, but the influences issue - with Gosling referencing Refn, majoring on Malick, channelling Cianfrance and lathering on the Lynch (the one director of those four he hasn't recently worked with) - proving too big a stumbling block.
"The captain remains on the boat," said one director, who did not want his name used because of the sensitivity of the situation.
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