A lengthy evening

DGA prexy Taylor Hackford with host Kelsey Grammer George Clooney, Christine Lahti, Thomas Schlamme and Paris Barclay work the ballroom Saturday evening at Hollywood & Highland. Kaira Grey and Martin Scorsese attend the organization company directors Guild Honours.Director Penelope Spheeris and actress-director Jennifer Aniston Norman Jewison, Jon Favreau and Penelope Ann Burns talk movies.It made an appearance the always extended DGA Honours would always more leave site visitors nodding off far past their mattress time as nominees stubbornly milled across the Hollywood & Highland ballroom Saturday evening. "People in the DGA, this light signal is ideal for you," an announcer told site visitors who used the occasion to get together with old pals and strike a deal or two. "A year ago we celebrated the 75th anniversary getting a show of spiritual length, old testament spiritual. Even James Cameron believe it is too extended, " emcee Kelsey Grammer told everybody else. "The Artist" ongoing its golden climb as Michel Hazanavicius needed home the guild's top prize. Nevertheless the other nominees also made their presence felt. Martin Scorsese received a standing ovation while he walked to the stage to just accept his nomination medallion for "Hugo." And before inviting "The Descendants" director Alexander Payne to the stage to just accept his DGA nom medallion, George Clooney personified each nommed director just like a Greek god, saving a distinctive deity for uncle. "I'm inside the service in the Greekiest of gods, Alexander 'Uranus' Payne," Clooney mentioned. "Of all the gods this humble servant has offered, Uranus remains the greatestthis is my final plea, pick Uranus!" Woodsy Allen recognized his nom medallion via video. "I am not there because I realize after i came I will have to mingle which i do not endure personally," he mentioned. "I'll be the only real guy there who wears tweed jackets with elbow patches and who's Jewish while not smart." Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com