Recognition: The DGA Takes Credit

John Ford was fond of recounting a nightmare in which, as he died and approached heaven, he noticed a sign above the pearly gates that read “Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck.”¹ Such an obsession with credits is not unique to Ford. Bernard Weinraub, a New York Times reporter with longstanding experience on the Hollywood scene, wrote in 1995, “If money is the driving force in Hollywood, credits on a movie screen are a close runner-up.”² In a similar spirit, Hollywood entertainment lawyer Schuyler M. Moore has commented, “More acrimonious fights are fought over who gets what credit and in what