MUMBAI: Directors Guild of America has announced the DGA's nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television for the year 2004.

The Superman movie star Christopher Reeve who died last October at age 52, nine years after he was paralyzed in a horse-riding accident, is among the five nominees. Reeve was nominated for the first time for the movie The Brooke Ellison Story.

Other nominees include Robert Altman for Tanner on Tanner - Parts 1-4, Sundance Channel; Joe Sargent for Something the Lord Made, HBO; Stephen Hopkins The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, HBO and Lloyd Kramer, Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven , ABC.

"This year marks the 40th anniversary of the first movie created exclusively for television. The works of the five nominated directors exemplifies the power and strength of the art form for the past forty years -- where controversial social issues and compelling personal stories are writ large for the small screen," says DGA President Michael Apted.

The winners will be announced at the 57th Annual DGA Awards Dinner on Saturday, 29 January at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.