75th Directors Guild of America Awards Nominations Announced

The Directors Guild of America has announced their nominations for the 75th Directors Guild of America Awards. The only true surprise in the final five nominees would be Joseph Kosinski for Top Gun: Maverick. Most pundits aren’t considering Kosinski a strong contender for a Best Director Oscar nod and DGA hasn’t matched the Academy 5/5 in more than 15 years.

Disappointingly, there are no female nominees in the Theatrical Feature Film category this year. However, four of the five nominees for First-Time Feature Film are female filmmakers.

The Directors Guild of America Awards will be announced on Saturday, February 18. Full list of nominations below.

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film
Todd Field – TÁR
Joseph Kosinski – Top Gun: Maverick
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All at Once
Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin
Steven Spielberg – The Fabelmans

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First-Time Feature Film
Alice Diop – Saint Omer
Audrey Diwan – Happening
John Patton Ford – Emily the Criminal
Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović – Murina
Charlotte Wells – Aftersun

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentaries
Sara Dosa – Fire of Love
Matthew Heineman – Retrograde
Laura Poitras – All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Daniel Roher – Navalny
Shaunak Sen – All That Breathes


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Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.