1. ROMA (BAFTA, BFCA, GG*)
Gabriela Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuarón
2. GREEN BOOK (GG, PGA)
Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga
3. BLACKkKLANSMAN
Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Jordan Peele and Spike Lee
4. THE FAVOURITE
Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday and Yorgos Lanthimos
5. VICE
Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adam McKay and Kevin Messick
6. A STAR IS BORN
Bill Gerber, Bradley Cooper and Lynette Howell Taylor
7. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (GG)
Graham King
8. BLACK PANTHER (SAG)
Kevin Feige
BAFTA - British Film Academy Awards
BFCA - Broadcast Film Critics Association (Critics Choice)
GG - Golden Globe
PGA- Producers Guild of America
SAG - Screen Actors Guild
*Foreign Language Film winner
Next up…BEST DIRECTOR
‘Wishful Thinking,’ ‘Over Your Dead Body’ Among 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival Juried and Audience Award Winners 
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 144 – ‘A Matter of Life and Death (Powell and Pressburger, 1946) with Special Guest Jesse Nussman 
Association of Motion Picture Sound (AMPS) Television and Nonfiction Nominations Announced: ‘Adolescence,’ ‘Black Mirror,’ ‘Slow Horses’ and More 
Trailer Watch: ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day,’ ‘Dune: Part Three,’ Disclosure Day,’ ‘Wild Horse Nine’