The nominations 73rd Directors Guild of America (DGA) were announced on Tuesday and for the first time ever, two women, Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) and Chloé Zhao (Nomadland), are nominated in the top film category. Zhao is also the first Chinese-American woman ever nominated by the DGA.
Fennell and Zhao are just the 9th and 10th women ever nominated by the DGA. As with the Oscars, Lina Wertmüller was first for 1975’s Seven Beauties. Then came Randa Haines (1985’s Children of a Lesser God), Barbra Streisand (1990’s Prince of Tides), Jane Campion (1993’s The Piano), Sofia Coppola (2003’s Lost in Translation), Valerie Faris (2006’s Little Miss Sunshine, shared with Jonathan Dayton), Kathryn Bigelow (2009’s The Hurt Locker and 2012’s Zero Dark Thirty) and Greta Gerwig (2017’s Lady Bird). Wertmüller, Campion, Coppola, Bigelow (for The Hurt Locker) and Gerwig are the only to translate their DGA nominations into Oscar nominations. Bigelow is still the only woman ever to win DGA or the directing Oscar, both for The Hurt Locker.
Earlier this morning, BAFTA dropped its nominations, also setting a record in their directing category with four women nominated in a field of six.
Also nominated in the category with Fennell and Zhao were Lee Isaac Chung for Minari, David Fincher for Mank and Aaron Sorkin for The Trial of the Chicago 7. Of those men, only Chung earned a BAFTA nomination this morning.
In the First-Time Feature category, Regina King (One Night in Miami) and Radha Blank (The Forty-Year Old Version) are nominated alongside Fernando Frías de la Parra (I’m No Longer Here). The category has three people of color for the first time in its six years of existence.
There have been four women previously nominated for first-time director: Marielle Heller (The Diary of a Teenage Girl), Kelly Fremon Craig (The Edge of Seventeen), Melina Matsoukas (Queen & Slim) and Alma Har’el (Honey Boy), who won last year.
Here are the nominations for the 73rd Directors Guild of America (DGA) awards. Winners will be announced on April 10 after a full month of voting, which begins tomorrow.
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentaries
Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt… Read More
SFFILM announced the winners of the juried Golden Gate Awards competition and the Audience Awards at the 67th San Francisco International… Read More
Apple TV+ today debuted the teaser for Presumed Innocent, the upcoming, eight-part limited series starring… Read More
Michael Showalter was a bit of a weirdo comedy maverick during his initial years in… Read More
Frameline48, the largest LGBTQ+ cinema showcase in California, runs June 19-29, 2024 and will announce… Read More
In what feels like a long time ago, in our own galaxy not far, far… Read More
This website uses cookies.