The Directors Guild of America recently announced their nominees for their annual DGA awards. The DGA’s are yet another high-profile stop on the road to the Academy Awards on February 24th. The categories here include film, television and commercials; however, for the sake of this blog, I have chosen to include only the feature film categories. And the nominees are:
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN FEATURE FILM
Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
Alfonso Cuarón, Roma
Peter Farrelly, Green Book
Spike Lee, BlackKklansman
Adam McKay, Vice
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT OF A FIRST-TIME FEATURE FILM DIRECTOR
Bo Burnham, Eighth Grade
Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
Carlos López Estrada, Blindspotting
Matthew Heineman, A Cold War
Boots Riley, Sorry To Bother You
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN DOCUMENTARY
Morgan Neville, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Ramell Ross, Hale Country This Morning, This Evening
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhaleyi & Jimmy Chin, Free Solo
Tim Wardle, Three Identical Strangers
Betsy West & Julie Cohen, RBG
The winners will be announced with the DGA holds their awards ceremony February 2nd.
Personally, I’m excited to see Carlos López Estrada get some love for his work. If you read my top ten movies of 2018, then you know Blindspotting cracked my top five. I love that movie.
I’m also kind of shocked to see Boots Riley’s name get a mention. I didn’t care for his movie, but more importantly, I haven’t seen Sorry To Bother You thrown around for much awards consideration this season. If it were up to me, I definitely would have replaced him with Ari Aster, who did incredible work on Hereditary.
Lastly, I’m not the least bit shocked to see Bryan Singer’s name not listed. After everything, he’s been accused of and all the drama behind the scenes of Bohemian Rhapsody, not even the cast or producers are talking about him.
Those are my thoughts, but what do you think about this year’s DGA Awards nominees? Are you shocked by any of them? Will you be rooting for any director in particular? I want to know your thoughts, so hit me up in the comments below!
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