Over the last 66 years, the winner of the top prize at the DGA Awards went on to win the best director Oscar on all but seven occasions.
Moreover, the film for which they won went on to win the Best Picture Oscar on all but 14 occasions.
Discrepancies btewen the DGA and the Oscar occurred:
Year DGA Oscar
1968 Anthony Harvey (The Lion in Winter) Carol Reed (Oliver!)
1972 Bob Fosse (Cabaret) Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather)
1985 Sydney Pollack (Out of Africa) Steven Spielberg* (The Color Purple)
1995 Mel Gibson (Braveheart) Ron Howard (Apollo 16)
2000 Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) Steven Soderbergh (Traffic)
2002 Rob Marshall (Chicago) Roman Polanski (The Pianist)
2012 Ben Affleck** (Argo) Ang Lee (Life of Pi)
* Spielberg was not even nominated for Best Director Oscar, though Color Purple received 10 nominations.
**Affleck was not nominated by his peers in the Director Branch, but Argo went on to win the Best Picture Oscar.
