Steven Prusakowski
Capping off another huge day of precursors, we have the Directors Guild of America nominations to share. The DGA five often can correlate heavily with the Oscar lineup for Best Director, so study this one heavily, like with any guild!
Here now are the DGA nominations:
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN THEATRICAL FEATURE FILM
- Steven Spielberg, “The Fabelmans” (Universal Pictures)
- Todd Field, “Tár” (Focus Features
- Martin McDonagh, “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight Pictures)
- Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)
- Joseph Kosinski, “Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount Pictures)
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT OF A FIRST-TIME FEATURE FILM DIRECTOR
- Charlotte Wells, “Aftersun” (A24)
- Alice Diop, “Saint Omer” (Neon)
- Audrey Diwan, “Happening” (IFC Films)
- John Patton Ford, “Emily the Criminal” (Bleecker Street)
- Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović, “Murina” (Kino Lorber)
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT OF A DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
- Shaunak Sen, “All That Breathes” (HBO Documentary Films/Sideshow)
- Ryan White, “Good Night Oppy” (Amazon Studios)
- Daniel Roher, “Navalny” (CNN/Warner Bros.)
- Matthew Heineman, “Retrograde” (National Geographic Films)
- Laura Poitras, “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” (Neon)
- Sara Dosa, “Fire of Love” (National Geographic Documentary/Neon)
- Margaret Brown, “Descendant” (Netflix)
- Alex Pritz, “The Territory” (National Geographic)
I haven’t seen all of the Debut Feature Film Director nominees so I can’t make the same blanket declaration I did last year, but I will say that I adamantly believe Audrey Diwan and especially Charlotte Wells, at least, could stand toe-to-toe with all five of the Main Feature Film Director nominees.
I figured a few of these nominees would strike your fancy!