“Crash” writer-director Paul Haggis looked natty in a dress suit as he walked through the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel and Spa lobby to attend Saturday’s Directors Guild of America Awards.

As he got on the escalator, he glanced at the large crowd of casually-attired lobby lookie-loos, desperately hoping to see some famous faces like Reese Witherspoon, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams, Clint Eastwood, George Clooney or Jake Gyllenhaal arriving for the DGA show.

He — and everyone else — couldn’t help noticing one barefoot couple wearing the hotel's thick white terry cloth bathrobes for their star-spotting adventure.

Maybe they were talking a breather between the jacuzzi and the mani-pedi?

“That’s a good look,” a surprised Haggis told a fellow escalator rider. “I could have gotten away with wearing that tonight. After all, the event’s not televised.”

The award-winning writer and first-time feature film director didn't win the top honors."Brokeback Mountain" director Ang Lee did. But one attendee noted, "This really is the one awards where you really are happy just to be nominated."

Still, bet a cuddly white terry robe might cheer him up.

Photo: Give this man a fluffy white bathrobe, stat! Paul Haggis shows off his nominee platter backstage at the Directors Guild of America Awards
(Steve Granitz / WireImage)