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Oscar season is in full swing, and so is amateur prognostication about who will win. But for all thebox office numbers, awards show results, and ever-elusive buzz, there's never been a predictor soreliable as the winner of the Director's Guild of America's top prize, the DGA Award for OutstandingDirectorial Achievement in Motion Pictures. On Saturday night that award went to Alfonso Cuaron,for his terrifying sci-fi film Gravity.

The DGA has a nearly 90-percent success rate

The Guild has given the award 65 times, the Hollywood Reporter found, and 58 times the winningfilm has gone on to win Best Director at the Oscars. 52 times, the film has won Best Picture. Theaward is decided by the Guild's 15,000-some members, which includes virtually every major-studiodirector on the planet. They decide awards for TV, documentary film, and even children'sprogramming, but the most coveted -- and most prescient -- is for directors like Cuaron.

This year's Oscar race has been famously close, with a handful of deserving movies and directors. 12Years a Slave and Gravity are thought to be the two front-runners, but this may indicate Cuaron hasthe race won. Of course, this year's presenter was Ben Affleck, who won the DGA Award last yearand didn't go on to win Best Director (for Argo, which did win Best Picture), so Cuaron's nerves maynot be totally calmed yet.SourceThe Hollywood ReporterRelated Itemsawards oscars academy awards director gravity alfonsocuaron dga dga awards[% var len = Math.min(data.comments.length,

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