COMING ATTRACTIONS

The Directors Guild of America is scheduled to announce today its five nominees for best film director of 1986, an event that is usually a reliable tipoff to the movies that will dominate the Academy Awards. Considered shoo-ins for DGA nominations are Woody Allen (“Hannah and Her Sisters”) and Oliver Stone (“Platoon”). The remaining three are likely to come from a list that includes Roland Joffe (“The Mission”), Rob Reiner (“Stand By Me”), James Ivory (“A Room With a View”), David Lynch (“Blue Velvet”), Francis Coppola (“Peggy Sue Got Married”) and Randa Haines (“Children of a Lesser God”). Only three times since the DGA began voting awards has its winners not gone on to win Oscars. Last year, Steven Spielberg (“The Color Purple”) became the only DGA winner to have not even received an Academy Award nomination.