The Directors Guild of America has nominated Barbie‘s Greta Gerwig, Oppenheimer‘s Christopher Nolan, Poor Things’ Yorgos Lanthimos, Killers of the Flower Moon’s Martin Scorsese and The Holdovers’ Alexander Payne for the top feature film prize at its 76th annual DGA Awards.
See the full list below. After nominating no women for its marquee prize last year, the guild only went 1-for-5 this time, after Gerwig’s Barbie became the No.
1 movie of 2023. Also following its 2023 script, the guild’s nominees for its First-Time Feature Film Prize include four women and one man: Manuella Martelli (Chile ’76), Noora Niasari (Shayda), A.V.
Rockwell (A Thousand and One) and Celine Song (Past Lives), along with Cord Jefferson (American Fiction). The DGA is a strong predictor of Oscar success historically, missing the eventual Best Director winner only eight times in 75 years.
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