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Directors Guild announces documentary nominations

By Susan Kingwriter 
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The nominees for the Directors Guild of America Award for outstanding directorial achievement in a documentary were announced Wednesday morning. The nominees are Lixin Fan for ‘Last Train Home,’ Charles Ferguson for ‘Inside Job,’ Alex Gibney for ‘Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer,’ Davis Guggenheim for ‘Waiting for ‘Superman,’’ and Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger for ‘Restrepo.’

The winner will be announced at the DGA Awards ceremony Jan. 29.

-- Susan King

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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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