The Directors Guild Of America (DGA) have announced their nominations representing the best in directing for 2025. The winners will be announced February 7th. Here are this year’s nominees…
FEATURE FILM
Paul Thomas Anderson – “One Battle After Another” (Warner Bros.)
Ryan Coogler – “Sinners” (Warner Bros.)
Guillermo Del Toro – “Frankenstein” (Netflix)
Josh Safdie – “Marty Supreme” (A24)
Chloe Zhao – “Hamnet” (Focus Features)
FIRST-TIME THEATRICAL FEATURE FILM
Hasan Hadi – “The President’s Cake” (Sony Pictures Classics)
Harry Lighton – “Pillion” (A24)
Alex Russell – “Lurker” (Mubi)
Charlie Polinger – “The Plague” (IFC)
Eva Victor – “Sorry, Baby” (A24)
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 this year:
Paul Thomas Anderson – CCA, DGA, GG
Ryan Coogler – CCA, DGA, GG
Guillermo del Toro – CCA, DGA, GG
Chloe Zhao – CCA, DGA, GG
Josh Safdie – CCA, DGA
Joachim Trier – CCA, GG
Jafar Panahi – GG
The BAFTA longlists still need to come out and we unfortunately won’t know the final nominees for that awards organization until after the Oscar nominations have already been announced. 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 with just a BAFTA nomination only:
Michael Heneke – Amour (2012)
Paweł Pawlikowski – Cold War (2018)
Thomas Vinterberg – Another Round (2020)
Ryusuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car (2021)
Jonathan Glazer – The Zone Of Interest (2023)
Justine Triet – Anatomy Of A Fall (2023)
And here are the directors who made the Oscar lineup 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)
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