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Martin Scorsese receives 10th DGA nomination

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Three days after earning a feature film nomination for the Directors Guild of America Award for ‘Hugo,’ Oscar-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese is back in the guild’s nomination circle.

Scorsese earned a nomination for outstanding directorial achievement in documentary Thursday for ‘George Harrison: Living in the Material World.’ It is his 10th DGA nomination; he won the feature film award five years ago for ‘The Departed.’

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Other documentary nominees are Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky for ‘Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory,’ Steve James for ‘The Interrupters,’ James Marsh for ‘Project Nim’ and Richard Press for ‘Bill Cunningham New York.’ Press is the only first-time nominee among the five.

The awards will be handed out at a ceremony at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland on Jan. 28.

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Susan King

Susan King is a former entertainment writer at the Los Angeles Times who specialized in Classic Hollywood stories. She also wrote about independent, foreign and studio movies and occasionally TV and theater stories. Born in East Orange, N.J., she received her master’s degree in film history and criticism at USC. She worked for 10 years at the L.A. Herald Examiner and came to work at The Times in January 1990. She left in 2016.

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