The Director’s Guild of America introduced its nominated movies on Wednesday, forward of a Feb. 8 ceremony to announce the winners.
The nominees are Jacques Audiard for “Emilia Pérez”, Sean Baker for “Anora”, Edward Berger for “Conclave”, Brady Corbet for “The Brutalist” and James Mangold for “A Complete Unknown”.
The DGA winner is among the many most dependable indicators of a future Oscar win. Nineteen of the final 22 DGA Award winners have received the Oscar for guiding. This is the primary DGA recognition for all 5 of this yr’s inductees.
Nominees for the Michael Apted Award for Director of a First Feature Film are Payal Kapadia for “All We Imagine as Light,” Megan Park for “My Old Ass,” Ramell Ross for “Nickel Boys,” Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel for “Armand” and Sean Wang for “Didi.”
Last yr’s winners had been Christopher Nolan for “Oppenheimer” and Celine Song for “Past Lives.”
In the TV classes, drama sequence nominees are Alex Graves for “The Diplomat,” Hiromi Kamata for “Shogun,” Issa Lopez for “True Detective: Night Country,” Frederick EO Toye for “Shogun” and Jonathan Van The key to “Shogun.”
Nominees for comedy sequence are Lucia Aniello for “Hacks,” Ayo Edebiri for “The Bear,” Duccio Fabri for “The Bear,” Jeff Schaffer for “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and Christopher Storer for “The Bear.”
For tv movies and restricted sequence the nominees are Kevin Bray for “The Penguin”, Alfonso Cuarón for “Disclaimer”, Jennifer Getzinger for “The Penguin”, Helen Shaver for “The Penguin” and Steven Zaillian for “Ripley” .
The nominees for the documentary are Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev for “Porcelain War”, Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie for “Sugarcane”, Johan Grimonprez for “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”, Ibrahim Nash’at for “Hollywoodgate” and Natalie Rae and Angela Patton for “Daughters”.
