Because it's almost impossible for a film to receive a Best Picture or Best Director nomination without a nod from the PGA or the DGA The scores in the Picture and Director Categories GET DIVIDED BY 2.5 UNLESS: The movie has a nomination from the Producers Guild and/or the Directors Guild. The movie is nominated for Best Picture at the Golden Globes (Drama or Comedy) and Best Ensemble at the Screen Actors Guild Award. BUT: If the film doesn’t win a Golden Globe, it needs to be nominated for a Writers Guild Award. The two Golden Globe Best Picture Winners (Drama and Comedy) just need a Writers Guild Award nomination. The Producers and Directors of those films are lucky: not only are their scores not divided by 2.5 anymore, they also receive three extra points! However! They won't get the extra points, and their scores will be divided by 2.5 anyway if: The director won a Best Directing Oscar within the last 10 years OR They are directors and producers of a Too Early Front Runner! OR They are directors and producers of an 'Over-Estimated Comedy'! See the calculations (Collumn F) of the Best Picture Category and the Best Director Category

Here's a list of the films who profit by this rule. (The producers and directors of those films received the three points extra!) 2008 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe) The Dark Knight (PGA, DGA) Milk (PGA, DGA) Slumdog Millionaire (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe, WGA+GlobeWin) Films by Oscar winning directors: Frost/Nixon (Howard) (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe). Too Early Front Runner: None. Over-Estimated Comedy: None. 2007 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (PGA, DGA) Into the Wild (DGA) Juno (PGA) Michael Clayton (PGA, DGA) No Country for Old Men (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe) There Will Be Blood (PGA, DGA) Films by Oscar winning directors: None. Too Early Front Runner: None. Over-Estimated Comedy: None. 2006 Babel (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe) The Departed (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe) Little Miss Sunshine (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe) The Queen (PGA, DGA) Films by Oscar winning directors: None. Too Early Front Runner: None. Over-Estimated Comedy: Dreamgirls (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe) 2005 Brokeback Mountain (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe) Capote (PGA, DGA) Films by Oscar winning directors: Munich (Spielberg) (DGA) Too Early Front Runner: Crash (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe), Good Night and Good Luck (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe) Over-Estimated Comedy: Walk the Line (PGA) 2004 The Aviator (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe, WGA+GlobeWin) Hotel Rwanda (SAG+Globe) The Incredibles (PGA) Million Dollar Baby (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe) Ray (DGA, SAG+Globe) Sideways (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe, WGA+GlobeWin) Films by Oscar winning directors: None. Too Early Front Runner: Finding Neverland (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe) Over-Estimated Comedy: None. 2003 The Last Samurai (PGA) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe, WGA+GlobeWin) Lost in Translation (DGA, WGA+GlobeWin) Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (PGA, DGA) Mystic River (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe) Seabiscuit (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe) Films by Oscar winning directors: Cold Mountain (Minghella) (PGA) Too Early Front Runner: None. Over-Estimated Comedy: None. 2002 The Hours (DGA, SAG+Globe, WGA+GlobeWin) Gangs Of New York (PGA, DGA) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe) My Big Fat Greek Wedding (PGA, SAG+Globe) The Pianist (DGA) Films by Oscar winning directors: Road to Perdition (Mendes) (PGA) Too Early Front Runner: Adaptation (PGA, SAG+Globe) Over-Estimated Comedy: Chicago (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe, WGA+GlobeWin) 2001 A Beautiful Mind (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe, WGA+GlobeWin) Black Hawk Down (DGA) Gosford Park (SAG+Globe) Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone (PGA) In the Bedroom (SAG+Globe) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe) Shrek (PGA) Films by Oscar winning directors: None. Too Early Front Runner: Memento (DGA) Over-Estimated Comedy: Moulin Rouge (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe, WGA+GlobeWin) 2000 Billy Elliot (PGA, SAG+Globe) Chocolat (SAG+Globe) Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (PGA, DGA) Erin Brockovich (PGA, DGA) Gladiator (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe) Traffic (DGA, SAG+Globe) Films by Oscar winning directors: None. Too Early Front Runner: None. Over-Estimated Comedy: Almost Famous (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe, WGA+GlobeWin) 1999 American Beauty (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe, WGA+GlobeWin) The Cider House Rules (PGA) The Green Mile (DGA) The Hurricane (PGA) The Sixth Sense (DGA) Films by Oscar winning directors: None. Too Early Front Runner: Being John Malkovich (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe), The Insider (PGA, DGA) Over-Estimated Comedy: None. 1998 Gods and Monsters (PGA) Life is Beautiful (PGA, DGA) Shakespeare in Love (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe, WGA+GlobeWin) The Thin Red Line (DGA) The Truman Show (DGA) Waking Ned Devine (PGA) Films by Oscar winning directors: Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg) (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe, WGA+GlobeWin) Too Early Front Runner: None. Over-Estimated Comedy: None. 1997 The Full Monty (SAG+Globe) Good Will Hunting (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe) Titanic (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe, WGA+GlobeWin) Films by Oscar winning directors: Amistad (Spielberg) (PGA, DGA) Too Early Front Runner: L.A. Confidential (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe) Over-Estimated Comedy: As Good As It Gets (PGA, DGA, WGA+GlobeWin) 1996 The Birdcage (SAG+Globe) The English Patient (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe, WGA+GlobeWin) Hamlet (PGA) Jerry Maguire (DGA) The People vs Larry Flint (PGA) Secrets and Lies (DGA) Shine (PGA, DGA, SAG+Globe) Films by Oscar winning directors: None. Too Early Front Runner: Fargo (PGA, DGA) Over-Estimated Comedy: None.