The 77th annual Director Guild Awards were one of several awards that took place on Saturday 8 February on a hectic evening in Los Angeles, with less than a month before the Academy Awards. Judd Apatow hosted the ceremony for the sixth time.
Four of this year’s five DGA nominated were also nominated for Oscar, with Jacques Audiard (“Emilia Pérez”), Sean Baker (“Anora”), Brady Corbet (“The Brutalist”) and James Mangold (“A Complete Unknown”)))))) Landing nomes from both groups but DGA -nominated Edward Berger (“Conclave”) were replaced by Coralie Fargeat (“Subject”) by Academy’s Director Branch.
Director Guild Award for Theatrical Feature Film is one of the most reliable Oscar indicators. During the first 76 years of the Director Guild Awards, first given in 1948, the DGA winner has won Oscar for Best Picture 68 times, and his or her film has won the best picture Oscar 57 times.
Over the past ten years, however, the picture/director has taken place more often. During that time, DGA and the academy have agreed on the director nine times, but the movie that won with Guilden has only won the best picture Oscar five times.
Voting for theater films closed on Friday 7 February, which means that the debate about malignant “Emilia Pérez” star Karla Sofía Gascón may have a hand in determining the result of the race.
Nominated for the first time theater function included Ramell Ross for “Nickel Boys”, which is a nominated Oscar Best Picture; Payal Kapadia for “everything we imagine as light”; Megan Park for “My Old Ass”; Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel for “Armand”; and Sean Wang for “Dìdi.”
In the TV categories, “Shōgun”, “The Bear” and “The Penguin” were the leaders with three nominations per piece.
Ang Lee received the Lifetime Achievement Award, while Mary Rae Thewlis was honored with Robert B. Aldrich Service Award and Thomas J. Whelan took home the Frank Capra Achievement Award.
Here is the full list of winners.
Theater film
Jacques Audiard, “Emilia Pérez”
Sean Baker, “Anora”
Edward Berger, “Conclave”
Brady Corbet, “The Brutalist”
James Mangold, “A Completely Unknown”
The first time theater film
Payal Kapadia, “Everything we imagine as light”
Megan Park, “My Old Ass”
Ramell Ross, “Nickel Boys”
Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, “Armand”
Sean Wang, “Dìdi”
DOCUMENTARY
Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev, “Porcelain War”
Julian Brave Noisecat and Emily Kassie, “Sugarcane”
Johan Grimonprez, “soundtrack to a coup d’etat”
Ibrahim Nash’at, “Hollywoodgate”
Natalie Rae and Angela Patton, “Daughters”
Dramatic series
Alex Graves, “The Diplomat” (“Dreadnought”)
Hiromi kamata, “shōgun” (“Ladies of the Willow World”)
Issa López, “True Detective: Night Country” (“Part 6”)
Frederick Eo Toye, “Shōgun” (“Crimson Sky”) **WINNER**
Jonathan van Tullek, “Shōgun” (“Anjin”)
Comic series
Lucia Aniello, “Hacks” (“Bulletproof”)
Available, “Bear” (“Napkin”)
Duccio Fabbri, “The Bear” (“Doors”)
Jeff Schaffer, “Curb your enthusiasm” (“No Lessons”)
Christopher Stores, “The Bear” (“Tomorrow”)
Movies for TV and limited series
Kevin Bray, “The Penguin” (“Tophat”)
Alfonso Cuarón, “Responsibility”
Jennifer Getzinger, “The Penguin” (“A Fantastic or Little Thing”)
Helen Shaver, “The Penguin” (“Cent’anni”)
Steven Zaillian, “Ripley” **WINNER**
Variety/Talk/News/Sports – regularly scheduled programming
Paul G. Casey, “Real Time with Bill Maher” (“Jiminy Gick, Andrew Cuomo, Adam Kinzinger”)
Jim Hoskinson, “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” (“Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez & Mavis Staples W/ Jeff Tweedy”)
David Paul Meyer, “The Daily Show” (“Injection 2024: The Democratic National Convention – Plot Twist!”)
Liz Patrick, “Saturday Night Live” (“John Mulanay/Chappell Roan”) **WINNER**
Paul Pennolino, “Last week tonight with John Oliver” (“India Val”)
Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Specials
Hamish Hamilton, “The 96th Annual Academy Awards”
Beth McCarthy-Miller, “The Roast of Tom Brady” **WINNER**
David Paul Meyer, “The Daily Show presents a Live Valnatt Special with Jon Stewart: Incision 2024: Nothing we can do about it now”
Glenn Weiss, “The 77th annual Tony Awards”
Ali Wong, “Ali Wong: Single Lady”
Reality program
Neil degroot, “Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted” (“The Cliffs of Ireland”) **WINNER**
Joseph Guidry, “Deal or No Deal Island” (“Are you crucial?”)
Ari Katcher, “Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show” (“Road Trip”)
Patrick McManus, “American Ninja Warrior” (“Las Vegas Finals 4”)
Mike Sweeney, “Conan O’Brien must go” (“Ireland”)
Children’s program
Kat Coiro, “The Spiderwick Chronicles” (“Welcome to Spiderwick”)
Michael Goi, “Avatar: The Last Airbender” (“Aang”)
Jim Mickle, “Sweet Tooth” (“This is a Story”)
Jennifer Phang, “Descendants: The Rise of Red”
Amber Sealey, “Out of My Mind” **WINNER**
Advertising
Lance Accord, “An American Love History”, Volkswagen (Johannes Leonardo)
Kim Gehrig, “A Life in Sound”, Siriusxm (unusual); “Is Ia bad person?,” Nike (Wieden+Kennedy); “Find your friends”, Apple (Client Direct)
Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, “Michael Cerave, Cerave,” WPP Onefluence (Ogilvy)
Andreas Nilsson, “board game”, Hennessy (Wieden+Kennedy); “First Office Poo”, Andrex (FCB); “One more”, Apple (Client Direct); “Whizzer,“ Virgin Media (VCCP) **WINNER**
Ivan Zachariáš, “Flock”, Apple (Media Arts Lab)
