Directors Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award winners Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese will be among those competing Saturday night for the guild's feature-film directing award, an honor that historically leads to victory on Oscar night.

Kelsey Grammer will host the DGA awards in the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood & Highland complex.

For Allen, the nomination for Midnight in Paris is his fifth. Scorsese will carry his ninth and 10th career nominations into the ceremony, thanks to his feature-film nod for Hugo and his nomination in the documentary category for his portrait of the late Beatle George Harrison.

Also competing for the feature film honor are David Fincher, who earned his third DGA nomination for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; Michel Hazanavicius, who has his first nomination for The Artist; and Alexander Payne, who earned his second DGA nomination for The Descendants.

Since 1948, there have only been six times that the winner of the DGA Award for feature film directing has not gone on to win the Academy Award for best director. The most recent year was 2002, when Rob Marshall won the DGA Award for Chicago but the Oscar went to Roman Polanski for The Pianist.

Among those expected to serve as presenters at the ceremony are The Artist co- stars Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo, along with George Clooney, Jessica Chastain, Jon Cryer, Laura Dern and Ben Kingsley.

Allen won the DGA Award in 1977 for Annie Hall. He was also nominated for Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters and Crimes and Misdemeanors. He won the DGA Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996.

Fincher was nominated for the DGA's feature film award last year for The Social Network and in 2008 for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. He won a DGA Award in 2003 for commercials for Nike and Xelibie phones.

Scorsese won the DGA Award in 2006 for The Departed. He was previously nominated for Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, The Age of Innocence, Gangs of New York and The Aviator. He won a DGA Award last year for dramatic television for directing Boardwalk Empire. He received the DGA's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003.

Scorsese is also nominated for a DGA Award for his documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World. Also nominated in the documentary category are Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky for Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory; Steve James for The Interrupters; James Marsh for Project Nim; and Richard Press for Bill Cunningham New York.

On the small screen, the directors of drama series including Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones and comedy series such as Modern Family and Curb Your Enthusiasm are among the nominees.

The Emmy-winning Modern Family has two nominations for directors in the comedy series category, for Fred Savage and Michael Spiller. Curb Your Enthusiasm also has two directing nods, for David Steinberg and Robert B. Weide.

Also nominated in the category is Don Scardino for an episode of 30 Rock.

For drama series, nominees are Michael Cuesta for Homeland, Vince Gilligan for Breaking Bad, Patty Jenkins for The Killing, Tim Van Patten for Game of Thrones and Michael Waxman for Friday Night Lights.

The list of nominees in the made-for-television movie/miniseries category is particularly star-studded, thanks to the Lifetime program Five, which included segments directed by Demi Moore, Jennifer Aniston, Alicia Keys, Penelope Spheeris and Patty Jenkins. They will collectively compete with Jeff Bleckner for Beyond The Blackboard, Jon Cassar for The Kennedys, Stephen Gyllenhaal for Girl Fight and Michael Stevens for Thurgood.

Here is a complete list of television nominees:

Feature Film

-- Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris

-- David Fincher, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

-- Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist

-- Alexander Payne, The Descendants

-- Martin Scorsese, Hugo 

Documentary

-- Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

-- Steve James, The Interrupters

-- James Marsh, Project Nim

-- Richard Press, Bill Cunningham New York

-- Martin Scorsese, George Harrison: Living in the Material World 

Movies for Television and Mini-Series

-- Jeff Bleckner, Beyond The Blackboard

-- Jon Cassar, The Kennedys

-- Stephen Gyllenhaal, Girl Fight

-- Demi Moore, Jennifer Aniston, Penelope Spheeris, Alicia Keys, Patty Jenkins, Five

-- Michael Stevens, Thurgood 

Dramatic Series

-- Michael Cuesta, Homeland, pilot episode

-- Vince Gilligan, Breaking Bad -- Face Off

-- Patty Jenkins, The Killing, pilot episode

-- Tim Van Patten, Game of Thrones — Winter is Coming

-- Michael Waxman, Friday Night Lights — Always 

Comedy Series

-- Fred Savage, Modern Family — After the Fire

-- Don Scardino, 30 Rock — Double-Edged Sword

-- Michael Spiller, Modern Family — Express Christmas

-- David Steinberg, Curb Your Enthusiasm — The Divorce

-- Robert B. Weide, Curb Your Enthusiasm — Palestinian Chicken 

Musical Variety

-- Louis J. Horvitz, The Kennedy Center Honors

-- Don Roy King, Saturday Night Live With Host Justin Timberlake

-- Don Mischer, 83rd Annual Academy Awards

-- Chuck O'Neil, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

-- Glenn Weiss, 65th Annual Tony Awards 

Reality Programs

-- Neil P. DeGroot, Biggest Loser

-- Eytan Keller, The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs

-- Brian Smith, Master Chef

-- J. Rupert Thompson, Fear Factor 2.0

-- Bertram Van Munster, The Amazing Race 

Daytime Serials

-- Larry Carpenter, One Life to Live

-- Casey Childs, All My Children

-- Mike Denney, The Young and the Restless

-- William Ludel, General Hospital

-- Scott McKinsey, General Hospital

-- Cynthia J. Popp, The Bold and the Beautiful

-- Angela Tessinari, All My Children 

Children's Programs

-- John Fortenberry, Fred 2: Night of the Living Fred

-- Jeffrey Hornaday, Geek Charming

-- Michael Lembeck, Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure

-- Patricia Riggen, Lemonade Mouth

-- Damon Santostefano, Best Player

-- Amy Schatz, A Child's Garden of Poetry 

Commercials

-- Lance Acord, for The Force, VW Passat; Paint the Town, NIKE Basketball; Sweetest Moment, NBA; The Chosen, NIKE

-- Dante Ariola, for Parallels, Jim Beam; Black Betty, Volkswagen; Gas Powered Everything, Nissan Leaf

-- Fredrik Bond, for Date, Heineken; The Entrance, Heineken

-- Steve Miller, for Pommel Horse, Dos Equis; Speed Dating, Dos Equis; Pygmy, Dos Equis; Guinea Pigs, Geico; Sushi, Geico; Fort, Cheetos; Parking Lot, Ortega

-- Noam Murro, for Handle Bar Moustache, Heineken Premium Light; Hot House, DirecTV; Pinata, Volkswagen Tiguan; Is It Real?, EA Battlefield 3