{"id":211939,"date":"2025-12-30T20:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/211939\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T20:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:20:07","slug":"varietys-directors-on-directors-back-with-ryan-coogler-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/211939\/","title":{"rendered":"Variety&#8217;s Directors on Directors Back With Ryan Coogler and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tVariety\u2019s\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/directors-on-directors\/\">Directors on Directors<\/a>, presented by\u00a0Klimon, returns on Jan. 5 with the visionaries behind some of this year\u2019s biggest awards contenders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFeatured in this year\u2019s Directors on Directors lineup are:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Guillermo del Toro (\u201cFrankenstein\u201d) &amp; Bradley Cooper (\u201cIs This Thing On?\u201d)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kristen Stewart (\u201cThe Chronology of Water\u201d) &amp; Jesse Eisenberg (\u201cA Real Pain\u201d)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Coogler (\u201cSinners\u201d) &amp; Spike Lee (\u201cHighest 2 Lowest\u201d)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chlo\u00e9 Zhao\u00a0(\u201cHamnet\u201d) &amp; Josh Safdie (\u201cMarty Supreme\u201d)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cComing off our biggest Actors on Actors ever, these\u00a0Directors on Directors\u00a0conversations will continue to surprise and engage film fans around the world,\u201d said Variety\u2019s co-president and co-editor-in-chief Ramin\u00a0Setoodeh.\u00a0\u201cThe best way to kick off awards season in 2026 is through our latest video series.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe conversations will be released from Jan. 5-8 across Variety.com and its social media channels. The Directors on Directors print issue comes out on Dec. 31.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOver the years, Directors on Directors has drawn the biggest filmmakers in the industry, including James Cameron, Denis Villeneuve, Greta Gerwig, Luca Guadagnino, Ava DuVernay, Michael Mann, Yorgos Lanthimos and Sean Baker.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDirectors on Directors comes on the heels of Variety\u2019s most-watched \u201cActors on Actors\u201d season ever, which debuted on CNN\u2019s new streaming platform and has generated more than <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/digital\/news\/actors-on-actors-oscars-season-franchise-record-1236612984\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">247 million social video views<\/a>. The series included interviews with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennnifer Lawrence, Ariana Grande and Adam Sandler, Julia Roberts and Sean Penn, Dwayne Johnson and Brendan Fraser, Alexander and Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd, Teyana Taylor and Oscar Issac, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jacbo Elordi and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Variety\u2019s\u00a0Directors on Directors, presented by\u00a0Klimon, returns on Jan. 5 with the visionaries behind some of this year\u2019s biggest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,118078,146,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-211939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-directors-on-directors-2026","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}