Never Too Early For Oscar

The 2007 Academy Awards may seem like a long way off for the casual viewer or even for the avid movie fan, but not for the studios or the hollywood insider. There are 279 days and 2 hours until Oscar strikes again. Anything can happen. Yet, this fact hasn't stopped David Poland from declaring this The Year Of The Director. Noted filmmakers such as Francis Ford Coppola, Milos Forman, Werner Herzog, Brian DePalma, Clint Eastwood, Steven Soderbergh, Anthony Minghella, Steven Zaillian, Mel Gibson, David Fincher, Martin Scorsese, Sofia Coppola, Bill Condon, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Philip Noyce, Marc Forster, among many others will grace us with the presence of their projects up on the silver screen this year.

Here is Poland's first Oscar chart of the award season detailing the race as he sees it.