The Directors Guild Of America (DGA) have announced their nominations representing the best in directing for 2024. The winners will be announced February 8th. Here are this year’s nominees…
FEATURE FILM
JACQUES AUDIARD – Emilia Pérez
SEAN BAKER – Anora
EDWARD BERGER – Conclave
BRADY CORBET – The Brutalist
JAMES MANGOLD – A Complete Unknown
FIRST-TIME THEATRICAL FEATURE FILM
PAYAL KAPADIA – All We Imagine as Light
MEGAN PARK – My Old Ass
RAMELL ROSS – Nickel Boys
HALFDAN ULLMANN TØNDEL – Armand
SEAN WANG – Dìdi
The documentary, television and commercial nominations were announced yesterday and can be read here.
Looking at how the season has gone so far, here are all the directors who have scored major nominations (with BAFTA being the longest) this year:
Jacques Audiard: BAFTA, CCA, DGA, GG
Sean Baker: BAFTA, CCA, DGA, GG
Edward Berger: BAFTA, CCA, DGA, GG
Brady Corbet: BAFTA, CCA, DGA, GG
Coralie Fargeat: BAFTA, CCA, GG
Payal Kapadia: BAFTA, GG
Denis Villeneuve: BAFTA, CCA
James Mangold: DGA
Nora Fingscheidt: BAFTA
Ellen Kuras: BAFTA
Alice Rohrwacher: BAFTA
Jon M. Chu: CCA
RaMell Ross: CCA
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)
Ruben Östlund – Triangle Of Sadness (2022)
What do you think of the nominations? Please check out our predictions for Best Director here and let us know your thoughts on our X account. Click here for more important upcoming dates this awards season and here for the most recent tally of awards season winners for the current year.
