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| DIRECTING | Erik Anderson | Bryan Bonafede | Chris Pepper | Evan Kost | James Narvey | Kenneth Polishchuk | Júlia Albuquerque | Monika Nikolić | Richard Anthony | Robert Schirmer | TOTAL POINTS |
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| 1 | Damien Chazelle – La La Land | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 50 |
| 2 | Barry Jenkins – Moonlight | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 40 |
| 3 | Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 30 |
| 4 | Denis Villeneuve – Arrival | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 18 |
| 5 | Garth Davis – Lion | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 8 | |||
| 6 | Martin Scorsese – Silence | 4 | 5 | 3 | ||||||||
| 7 | David Mackenzie – Hell or High Water | 5 | 1 | |||||||||
| OTHER CONTENDERS | ||||||||||||
| Mel Gibson – Hacksaw Ridge | ||||||||||||
| Tom Ford – Nocturnal Animals |
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