If Argo is the consensus vote and runaway winner — we have no director to pair it up with. It boggles my mind but there it is. It happened once before when it was Driving Miss Daisy but that was an easy choice because Oliver Stone had won the DGA and thus, won the Oscar for directing. When there is a split the director almost always goes to the DGA winner. Never has there been a year where the DGA winner wasn’t nominated for an Oscar but his film won Best Picture anyway. So this will be a first.
That leaves five directors standing there for no apparent reason. But take your pick. Who will win?