Ebert to receive special DGA Award

December 16, 2008 Film critic and author Roger Ebert will receive the DGA's 2009 Honorary Life Member Award, which recognizes "outstanding creative achievement, or contribution to the Guild, or the profession of directing," at the 61st annual DGA Awards dinner on Jan. 31 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Century City. DGA president Michael Apted and awards chair Howard Storm have also announced three guild members that will be honored at the event. Board member Kim Kurumada, a unit production manager, will receive the Frank Capra Achievement Award, given to an assistant director or unit production manager in recognition of career achievement in the industry and service to the DGA.

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