The Directors Guild of America has announced the winners of this year’s DGA Awards. As expected, Chloé Zhao continued her incredible awards season run with a win for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for Nomadland, while Darius Marder took out the First-Time Feature Film category for his directorial debut Sound of Metal. In the documentary category, Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw were awarded for The Truffle Hunters, which is not nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the Academy Awards, meaning their win won’t help your final Oscar predictions.
Winners in bold below.
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film
Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
David Fincher – Mank
Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First-Time Feature Film
Radha Blank – The Forty-Year-Old Version
Fernando Frías de la Parra – I’m Not Longer Here
Regina King – One Night in Miami
Darius Marder – Sound of Metal
Florian Zeller – The Father
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentaries
Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw – The Truffle Hunters
Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed – My Octopus Teacher
David France – Welcome to Chechnya
Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss – Boys State
Benjamin Ree – The Painter and the Thief