The Directors Guild of America announced its nominations Thursday for outstanding directorial achievement in theatrical feature film, offering one of the clearest snapshots yet of the Oscar race for director as guild voters begin to weigh in.<\/p>\n
Nominated for the DGA\u2019s top film award are Paul Thomas Anderson for \u201cOne Battle After Another,\u201d Ryan Coogler for \u201cSinners,\u201d Guillermo del Toro for \u201cFrankenstein,\u201d Josh Safdie for \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d and Chlo\u00e9 Zhao for \u201cHamnet.\u201d <\/p>\n
Winners will be announced at the 78th DGA Awards on Feb. 7 at the Beverly Hilton.<\/p>\n
The DGA award remains one of the strongest predictors of Oscar success. Twenty of the last 23 recipients of the guild\u2019s top directing prize have gone on to win the Academy Award for director. Last year\u2019s DGA winner, \u201cAnora\u201d director Sean Baker, went on to repeat at the Oscars.<\/p>\n
Several of this year\u2019s nominees are familiar figures to the guild. Anderson\u2019s nod for \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d<\/a> marks his third time being recognized by the DGA in the top film category, following his earlier nominations for \u201cThere Will Be Blood\u201d and \u201cLicorice Pizza.\u201d Zhao, who won both the DGA Award and the Oscar for \u201cNomadland,\u201d receives her second nomination for the wrenching period drama \u201cHamnet,\u201d <\/a>making her one of a small group of women \u2014 including Jane Campion, Kathryn Bigelow and Greta Gerwig \u2014 to be recognized more than once by the guild.<\/p>\n Del Toro<\/a>, who won the DGA Award for \u201cThe Shape of Water,\u201d earns his second career nomination in the category for his long-gestating \u201cFrankenstein\u201d adaptation, while Safdie receives his first DGA nomination for theatrical feature film for his gonzo sports drama \u201cMarty Supreme.\u201d<\/p>\n The DGA nominations often track closely with the Oscars in part because of overlapping membership: Most directors in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are also members of the guild. While the groups vote independently, that shared base has made the DGA one of the most reliable bellwethers in the Oscar directing race.<\/p>\n This year\u2019s DGA nominations overlap significantly with the Golden Globe nominations<\/a> for directing, which also included Anderson, Coogler, Del Toro and Zhao. The Globes additionally recognized<\/a> Jafar Panahi for \u201cIt Was Just an Accident\u201d and Joachim Trier for \u201cSentimental Value,\u201d two filmmakers who didn\u2019t appear in the DGA lineup. The differences highlight the contrasting makeup of the Globes\u2019 voting body of international critics and the DGA\u2019s more industry-focused membership.<\/p>\n The guild also announced nominees for the Michael Apted Award for outstanding directorial achievement in first-time theatrical feature film, a category that has increasingly served as a spotlight for emerging talent. This year\u2019s nominees are Hasan Hadi for \u201cThe President\u2019s Cake,\u201d Harry Lighton for \u201cPillion,\u201d Charlie Polinger for \u201cThe Plague,\u201d Alex Russell for \u201cLurker\u201d and Eva Victor for \u201cSorry, Baby.\u201d Last year\u2019s Apted Award winner, RaMell Ross<\/a>, went on to earn a best picture Oscar nomination for \u201cNickel Boys.\u201d<\/p>\n Television, documentary and other DGA nominations were announced earlier this week, recognizing directing work across drama, comedy, limited series and nonfiction programming. In dramatic series, nominees included \u201cSeverance,\u201d \u201cAndor,\u201d \u201cThe Diplomat\u201d and HBO Max\u2019s \u201cThe Pitt,\u201d while comedy series nominees included \u201cThe Bear,\u201d \u201cHacks,\u201d \u201cThe White Lotus\u201d and Apple TV+\u2019s \u201cThe Studio.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Directors Guild of America announced its nominations Thursday for outstanding directorial achievement in theatrical feature film, offering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[56982,65579,65575,65577,65581,65576,25320,48,52,51,7036,47,50,49,65582,65580,2219,48465,2211,14952,65578],"class_list":{"0":"post-126538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-anderson","9":"tag-chloe-zhao","10":"tag-dga","11":"tag-dga-nomination","12":"tag-globes","13":"tag-guild-voter","14":"tag-guillermo-del-toro","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-la-headlines","17":"tag-la-news","18":"tag-last-year","19":"tag-los-angeles","20":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","21":"tag-los-angeles-news","22":"tag-membership","23":"tag-michael-apted-award","24":"tag-nominee","25":"tag-oscar","26":"tag-race","27":"tag-ryan-coogler","28":"tag-theatrical-feature-film"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}