By Matt Neglia
The Directors Guild Of America (DGA) have announced their nominations representing the best in Directing for 2020. The winners will be announced April 10th.
Click below to see the nominations.
NARRATIVE FEATURE FILM
Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
David Fincher – Mank
Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Chloe Zhao – Nomadland
FIRST TIME NARRATIVE FEATURE FILM
Radha Blank – The Forty-Year-Old Version
Fernando FrÃas de la Parra – I’m No Longer Here
Regina King – One Night in Miami
Darius Marder – Sound of Metal
Florian Zeller – The Father
​DOCUMENTARY
Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw – The Truffle Hunters
Pippa Ehrlich & James Reed – My Octopus Teacher
David France – Welcome to Chechnya
Amanda Mcbaine & Jessie Moss – Boys State
Benjamin Ree – The Painter and the Thief
​The full list of nominations including television can be found here. So what do you think? The Oscar’s Directing lineup has matched with the DGA Nominees very rarely (Last time was 2009). So who is going to carry over to the Oscars?
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Looking at how the season has gone so far, here are all the directors who have scored major nominations this year:
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland: CCA, GG, BAFTA, DGA
Lee Isaac Chung – Minari: CCA, BAFTA, DGA
Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman: CCA, GG, DGA
David Fincher – Mank: CCA, GG, DGA
Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7: CCA, GG, DGA
Regina King – One Night in Miami: CCA, GG
Spike Lee – Da 5 Bloods: CCA
Sarah Gavron – Rocks: BAFTA
Shannon Murphy – Babyteeth: BAFTA
Thomas Vinterberg – Another Round: BAFTA
Jasmila Žbanić – Quo Vadis, Aida?: BAFTA
So while it is likely that our five final Best Director nominees will come from above, below is a list of directors who made the Oscar lineup in their respective years without any of the above precursors:
Terrence Malick – The Tree Of Life (2011)
Ben Zeitlin – Beasts Of The Southern Wild (2012)
Bennett Miller – Foxcatcher (2014)
Lenny Abrahamson – Room (2015)
Paul Thomas Anderason – Phantom Thread (2017)
Is there a chance that someone from the outside sneaks their way in? If so, who gets bumped? Check out our predictions for Best Director here. Let us know your thoughts in the comments below or on our Twitter account.
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