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Robert Aldrich: Directors Guild
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Robert Butler and Tom Donovan, both DGA television and feature film directors, will be the recipients of the Directors Guild of America’s 2001 Robert B. Aldrich Achievement Award, DGA President Jack Shea and Awards Committee Chairperson Howard Storm announced today. The Aldrich Award, given for extraordinary service to the Directors Guild of America and to its membership, will be presented to Butler and Donovan at the DGA Awards on March 10, 2001.
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The industry in which Aldrich began his career had enjoyed decades of relative institutional stability. Suddenly it was undergoing profound changes, all of which would effect and mould his career options as a filmmaker. These changes include: the phenomenon of Orson Welles's Citizen Kane (USA 1941) and the ensuing re-definition of the role of directors in the industrial culture; the 1948 divestiture decree; the simultaneous rise of network television; the re-designing of United Artists, a model subsequently taken up by all the major studios; the growth of a viable independent production sector; the proliferation of personal and independent production companies; and globalisation of capital in the form of international co-productions(2). While Aldrich has usually been written about in terms of style, theme, or genre, it may ... be useful to approach his career in this industrial context. Aldrich, of course, was not alone in this situation. He was one of a generation of new directors during the period.
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Taylor was DGA Vice President from 1977 to 1981, and under Robert Aldrich's presidency spearheaded a committee to analyze the DGA pension and health plans. That six-month study led to recommendations resulting in significant improvements in the Guild's pension and health plans. Taylor was elected DGA President and served from 1981-1983. He continues to serve as an ex-officio member of the Western Directors Council.
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