spielberg 's nomination was the 11th of his career ; he won for 1998 's saving private ryan , 1993 's schindler 's list and 1985 's the color purple .
kelsey grammer will be held feb. 2 in the ray dolby ballroom at hollywood & highland .
besides " lincoln , " best film nominees are " argo , " " les miserables , " " life of pi " and " zero dark thirty . "
lee had been nominated three times since the dga awards began in 1948 has the
among the directors who failed to make the cut are django unchained 's quentin tarantino , silver linings playbook 's david o. russell , the master 's paul thomas anderson -- all previous dga award nominees -- and moonrise kingdom 's wes anderson .
kelsey grammer will host the 65th annual event feb. 2 .
affleck , who was welcomed into the club for his work on argo , was nominated along with four past winners of the dga award : kathryn bigelow , nominated for zero dark thirty ; tom hooper , les miserables ; ang lee , life of pi ; and steven spielberg , lincoln .
tom hooper 's musical " les miserables " and ang lee 's adventure " life of pi " received nine nominations each from the british academy of film and television arts , while the james bond thriller " skyfall " earned eight nominations .
steven spielberg 's " lincoln " dominated the nominations for the ee british academy film awards early wednesday .