SAG & DGA Nominations Give Real State Of The Race As Oscar Voting Begins Tomorrow – Analysis
deadline.comAfter last night’s Golden Globe thing, we had only less than 12 hours to regroup and prepare for the real deal: First SAG nominations, and then DGA, the initial two major guild indicators of where the real sentiment may lie before Oscar voting begins tomorrow.
With Producers Guild, often a very Oscar-predictive list as well, still to come also tomorrow the best barometers of where industry thinking is at the moment will be on the table.
So what did the Directors tell us? After two years in a row awarding female directors their top prize (Jane Campion, Chloe Zhao) and watching them go on to take the corresponding Oscar, it is time for the men to dominate once again.
Although there were no surprises necessarily of who made the cut including Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans); Todd Field (Tar); Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All At Once); Martin McDonagh (The Banshees Of Inisherin); and Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick), some of the omissions may have been eyebrow raising including James Cameron (whose sequel was also shut out at SAG) and Baz Luhrmann, both Globe and Critics Choice nominees for highly popular films (respectively Avatar: The Way Of Water and Elvis).
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