AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 331 – The State of the Oscar Race Post-DGA
On episode 331 of the AwardsWatch podcast, AW Editor-In-Chief, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade and Associate Editor Sophia Ciminello break down the recent DGA win by Paul Thomas Anderson for One Battle After Another and what that win means to the Oscar race at large right now.
There was a lot of anticipation leading up to last weekend’s Directors Guild of America (DGA) awards, with Anderson and Ryan Coogler (Sinners) as the top contenders angling for that win, and with it came a good deal of Oscar pundit skittishness and squirming. Although most had acquiesced to the reality that Anderson was going to be the likely winner, the fact that no Black director had ever won DGA in its 77 years (78 now) gave some of them enough to hold onto a chance of it happening, and for a momentum switch from One Battle to Sinners begin to emerge. It didn’t happen, and Producers Guild of America (PGA) voting ended days before the DGA Awards so those votes are locked in too. We won’t know those results for almost another three weeks.
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This podcast runs 1h. We will be back soon with an Oscar retrospective for the 74th Academy Awards, covering the films of 2001. Till then, let’s get into it.
Music: “Modern Fashion” from AShamaleuvmusic (intro), “B-3” from BoxCat Games Nameless: The Hackers RPG Soundtrack (outro).
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