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  • DGA Awards 2026: See The Full Winners List

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    Read on for the full list of DGA Awards 2026 winners below:

    Theatrical Feature Film

    WINNER: Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another

    Ryan Coogler – Sinners
    Guillermo Del Toro – Frankenstein
    Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
    Chloé Zhao – Hamnet

    Michael Apted First Time Directorial Feature

    WINNER: Charlie Polinger – The Plague

    Hasan Hadi – The President’s Cake
    Harry Lighton – Pillion
    Alex Russell – Lurker
    Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby

    Documentary Film

    WINNER: Mstyslav Chernov – 2000 Meters to Andriivka

    Geeta Gandbhir – The Perfect Neighbor
    Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni – Cutting Through Rocks
    Elizabeth Lo – Mistress Dispeller
    Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus – Cover-Up

    Dramatic Series

    WINNER: Amanda Marsallis – The Pitt, “6:00 PM”

    Liza Johnson – The Diplomat, “Amagansett”
    Janus Metz – Andor, “Who Are You?”
    Ben Stiller – Severance, “Cold Harbor”
    John Wells – The Pitt, “7:00 A.M.”

    Comedy Series

    WINNER: Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg – The Studio, “The Oner”

    Lucia Aniello – Hacks, “A Slippery Slope”
    Janicza Bravo – The Bear, “Worms”
    Christopher Storer – The Bear, “Bears”
    Mike White – The White Lotus, “Denials”

    Limited & Anthology Series

    WINNER: Shannon Murphy- Dying for Sex, “It’s Not That Serious”

    Jason Bateman – Black Rabbit, “The Black Rabbits”
    Antonio Campos – The Beast in Me, “Sick Puppy”
    Lesli Linka Glatter – Zero Day, “Episode 6”
    Ally Pankiw – Black Mirror, “Common People”

    Movies for Television

    WINNER: Stephen Chbosky – Nonnas

    Jesse Armstrong – Mountainhead
    Scott Derrickson – The Gorge
    Michael Morris – Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
    Kyle Newacheck – Happy Gilmore 2

    Variety

    WINNER: Liz Patrick – SNL50: The Anniversary Special

    Yvonne De Mare – The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, “Julia Roberts; Sam Smith”
    Andy Fisher – Jimmy Kimmel Live!, “Stephen Colbert; Kumail Nanjiani; Reneé Rapp”
    Beth McCarthy-Miller – SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
    Paul Pennolino- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, “Public Media”

    Sports

    WINNER: Matthew Gangl – 2025 World Series – Game 7

    Steve Milton – 2025 Masters Tournament
    Rich Russo – Super Bowl LIX

    Reality/Quiz and Game

    WINNER: Mike Sweeney – Conan O’Brien Must Go, “Austria”

    Lucinda M. Margolis – Jeopardy!, “Ep. 9341”
    Adam Sandler – The Price is Right, “10,000th Episode”

    Documentary Series/News

    WINNER: Rebecca Miller – Mr. Scorsese, “All This Filming Isn’t Healthy”

    Marshall Curry – SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night, “Written By: A Week Inside the SNL Writers Room”
    Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin – Billy Joel: And So It Goes, “Part Two”
    Alexandra Stapleton – Sean Combs: The Reckoning, “Official Girl”
    Matt Wolf – Pee-Wee as Himself, “Part 1”

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  • ‘Utter Genius’ Catherine O’Hara Won The Studio Its DGA Award

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    The Studio’s Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg thanked the late Catherine O’Hara while accepting their Best Comedy Series Director award at the 2026 Directors Guild Awards. “Honestly, there’s no one we wish we could thank in person at this moment more than we would love to thank Catherine O’Hara,” Rogen said. “And the best part of her is she showed that you can be an utter genius and also the nicest person in the entire world. It was an honor to get to direct her every day and we worked very hard to make the show good enough to warrant her time and her presence So, ultimately, we would like to thank the DGA for this, but we would mostly like to thank Catherine O’Hara for being such a wonderful person and for blessing us with your presence.” Goldberg added that O’Hara was “quite literally our idol since we were children,” since the two Canadian boys grew up watching her on SCTV. 

    Not every award winner tributed Catherine O’Hara at the 2026 DGAs, but there was a lot of love in the room for friends who have left. In his acceptance speech for One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson thanked his first AD Adam Somner. Somner died of thyroid cancer in 2024. “A lot of people in this room know our hero, our man, Adam Somner. Steven [Spielberg] knows him. His wife Carmen [Ruiz de Huidobro] is here,” he said (per Deadline). “He took this work so seriously, and did not take himself seriously at all. And that was a great gift… He made us feel safe. Think about this work that we do, how dangerous it can be, really dangerous. And to be to get through a film and no one get hurt, be safe, have an amazing experience is because of a great AD, and he was the best.” A complete list of nominees, with the winners bolded, is below.

    Theatrical Feature Film
    Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
    Ryan Coogler, Sinners
    Guillermo del Toro, Frankenstein
    Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
    Chloé Zhao, Hamnet

    Michael Apted First-Time Theatrical Feature Film
    Hasan Hadi, The President’s Cake
    Harry Lighton, Pillion
    Charlie Polinger, The Plague
    Alex Russell, Lurker
    Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby

    Documentary Film
    Mstyslav Chernov, 2000 Meters to Andriivka
    Geeta Gandbhir, The Perfect Neighbor
    Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni, Cutting Through Rocks
    Elizabeth Lo, Mistress Dispeller
    Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus, Cover-Up

    Dramatic Series
    Liza Johnson, The Diplomat, “Amagansett”
    Amanda Marsalis, The Pitt, “6:00 P.M.”
    Janus Metz, Andor, “Who Are You?”
    Ben Stiller, Severance, “Cold Harbor”
    John Wells, The Pitt, “7:00 A.M.”

    Comedy Series
    Lucia Aniello, Hacks, “A Slippery Slope”
    Janicza Bravo, The Bear, “Worms”
    Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, The Studio, “The Oner”
    Christopher Storer, The Bear, “Bears”
    Mike White, The White Lotus, “Denials”

    Limited & Anthology Series
    Jason Bateman, Black Rabbit, “The Black Rabbits”
    Antonio Campos, The Beast in Me, “Sick Puppy”
    Lesli Linka Glatter, Zero Day, “Episode 6”
    Shannon Murphy, Dying for Sex, “It’s Not That Serious”
    Ally Pankiw, Black Mirror, “Common People”

    Movies for Television
    Jesse Armstrong, Mountainhead
    Stephen Chbosky, Nonnas
    Scott Derrickson, The Gorge
    Michael Morris, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
    Kyle Newacheck, Happy Gilmore 2

    Variety
    Yvonne De Mare, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, “Julia Roberts, Sam Smith”
    Andy Fisher, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, “Stephen Colbert, Kumail Nanjiani, Reneé Rapp”
    Beth McCarthy-Miller, “SNL50: The Homecoming Concert”
    Liz Patrick, “SNL50: The Anniversary Special”
    Paul Pennolino, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, “Public Media”

    Sports
    Matthew Gangl, 2025 World Series, Game 7 – Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Toronto Blue Jays
    Steve Milton, 2025 Masters Tournament, Augusta National Golf Club
    Rich Russo, Super Bowl LIX, Philadelphia Eagles vs. Kansas City Chiefs

    Reality / Quiz and Game
    Lucinda M. Margolis, Jeopardy!, “Ep. 9341”
    Adam Sandler, The Price Is Right, “10,000th Episode”
    Mike Sweeney, Conan O’Brien Must Go, “Austria”

    Documentary Series/News
    Marshall Curry, SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night, “Written By: A Week Inside the SNL Writers Room”
    Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin, Billy Joel: And So It Goes, “Part 2”
    Rebecca Miller, Mr. Scorsese, “All This Filming Isn’t Healthy”
    Alexandra Stapleton, Sean Combs: The Reckoning, “Official Girl”
    Matt Wolf, Pee-wee As Himself, “Part 1”

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  • DGA Awards: Paul Thomas Anderson Takes Top Honor for ‘One Battle After Another’

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    The Directors Guild of America recognized the best film, TV and commercial directors of the past year at the 2026 DGA Awards.

    Heading into Saturday night’s ceremony — hosted this year by Kumail Nanjiani from the Beverly Hilton — Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another), Ryan Coogler (Sinners), Guillermo Del Toro (Frankenstein), Josh Safdie (Marty Supreme) and Chloé Zhao (Hamnet) were up for the top prize of outstanding directorial achievement in theatrical feature film, in what tends to be a major predictor for the best director category at the Oscars. (At the Oscars though, Sentimental Value‘s Joachim Trier is nominated in Del Toro’s place).

    Anderson took it home, emotionally taking the stage and calling his directing team up to join him.

    “This is an incredible, incredible honor. We’re going to take it with the love that it’s given and the appreciation of all our comrades in this room,” the filmmaker said, but noting “obviously we are up here minus one.” He then paid tribute to first director Adam Somner, who passed away from cancer in November 2024.

    The evening saw additional honors handed out to first-time feature filmmakers, as well as in a number of TV categories and special honors for associate director/stage manager David Charles and assistant director Gregory McCollum. It was also the first show presided over by new DGA president Christopher Nolan, who was elected to helm the Hollywood union in September.

    The night began with remarks from Nolan — emphasizing the hard times that filmmakers are currently facing — followed by Nanjiani, who teased, “Thank you Chris Nolan for opening for me… it’s like a dream, inside a dream, inside a dream.” He also joked during his opening bit that directors are “the greatest communicators on the planet. You can take a complex idea and turn it into something an actor can understand.”

    The DGA Awards are unique in that each nominee for the theatrical feature film category receives an honorary medallion and gets a moment on stage before the winner is announced. Anderson had the first presentation, following words from his One Battle After Another star Leonardo DiCaprio, who paid tribute to how he has given Los Angeles “a cinematic identity that feels almost forensic.” Michael B. Jordan was on hand to present to Coogler, saying, “Ryan builds families, not film sets” that leaves actors wanting to work with him again and again; Jacob Elordi made an appearance for Del Toro, telling him, “You’re the greatest friend a monster could have,” as the filmmaker spotted Nolan in the crowd and joked “I love saying President Nolan” because it was so rare to say a good name after “President.” (Anderson jokingly gave another nod to President Nolan in his acceptance speech.)

    Timothée Chalamet teased Safdie for his recent appearance on The Tonight Show, saying “your days of self-styling are officially over,” and called him a “quadruple threat” for the many hats he wears on set; Safdie showed off his DGA card on stage and revealed that he reads every DGA magazine front to back. The final presentation came courtesy of Steven Spielberg, who spoke on behalf of Zhao and praised her for bringing Hamnet to life, saying he and their film’s team would “follow her into a dark forest anytime.” She joked back that she wanted to play a drinking game for every time someone on stage throughout the night shouted out Spielberg as an inspiration, and went on to thank all the storytellers in the room for their “creative fire.”

    The Studio, The Pitt, Dying for Sex, SNL50, Mr. Scorsese and doc 2000 Meters to Andriivka also notched wins, while The Plague filmmaker Charlie Polinger nabbed a surprise win in the first-time feature category, thanking the collaborators who were willing to take a chance on him. Female directors made a particular splash at the show, topping five categories throughout the evening.

    Check out a complete list of this year’s DGA winners below.

    Theatrical Feature Film

    Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another (Warner Bros. Pictures)
    Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Will Weiske
    First Assistant Director: Adam Somner
    Second Assistant Director: Trevor Tavares, Ian Stone
    Second Second Assistant Director: Dominic Pacitti, Rafael Sanz-Jimenez
    Additional Second Assistant Director: Nuekellar Hardy, Chunning Chang, Kit Conners, Kasia Trojak, Tyler Young     (WINNER)

    Ryan Coogler, Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures)
    Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Will Greenfield, Kenneth Yu
    First Assistant Director: Marvin Williams
    Second Assistant Director: Amir R. Khan
    Additional Second Assistant Director: Gregg Carr, Desiree Stevenson

    Guillermo Del Toro, Frankenstein (Netflix)
    Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: J. Miles Dale
    First Assistant Director: Walter Gasparovic
    Second Assistant Director: Chad Belair

    Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme (A24)
    Unit Production Manager: Anthony Katagas, Joe Guest
    First Assistant Director: Jeremy Marks
    Second Assistant Director: Zach Citarella
    Second Second Assistant Director: Kailyn Dabkowski
    Assistant Unit Production Manager: Max Samu, Suk Yi Mar, Samson Jacobson
    Location Manager: Matthew Kania, Ross Brodar

    Chloé Zhao, Hamnet (Focus Features)

    Michael Apted First-Time Theatrical Feature Film

    Hasan Hadi, The President’s Cake (Sony Pictures Classics)
    Harry Lighton, Pillion (A24)
    Charlie Polinger, The Plague (Independent Film Company) (WINNER)
    Alex Russell, Lurker (MUBI)
    Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby (A24)

    Dramatic Series

    Liza Johnson, The Diplomat, “Amagansett” (Netflix)
    Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: John P. Fedynich
    First Assistant Director: Adam Escott
    Second Assistant Director: Tom Glick
    Second Second Assistant Director: Rachel Sikora
    Location Manager: Rob Coleman

    Amanda Marsalis, The Pitt, “6:00 p.m.” (HBO Max)
    Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Michelle Lankwarden
    First Assistant Director: Eric Tignini
    Second Assistant Director: Kevin Zelman
    Second Second Assistant Director: Nicole Jones, Rebecca Rogers, Chloe Huckins
    Additional Second Assistant Director: Michelle Akeley     (WINNER)

    Janus Metz, Andor, “Who Are You?” (Disney+)
    Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Karl Caffrey
    First Assistant Director: Sean Guest 

    Ben Stiller, Severance, “Cold Harbor” (Apple TV+)
    Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Caroline Baron
    First Assistant Director: Katie Pruitt
    Second Assistant Director: Cat McFayden
    Second Second Assistant Director: Forrest Viola
    Additional Second Assistant Director: Erin Skelly
    Assistant Unit Production Manager: Sean Fogel, Alexandra Vivas
    Location Manager: Ryan Smith, Grace Kwon

    John Wells, The Pitt, “7:00 a.m.” (HBO Max)
    Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Michelle Lankwarden
    First Assistant Director: Eric Tignini
    Second Assistant Director: Kevin Zelman
    Second Second Assistant Director: Nicole Jones, Rebecca Rogers
    Additional Second Assistant Director: Chloe Huckins 

    Comedy Series

    Lucia Aniello, Hacks, “A Slippery Slope” (HBO Max)
    Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Mark Rabinowitz
    First Assistant Director: Jeff Rosenberg
    Second Assistant Director: Kirisa Gavrin
    Second Second Assistant Director: Alaina Neumann Rafdal
    Additional Second Assistant Director: Amy Ergle 

    Janicza Bravo, The Bear, “Worms” (FX on Hulu)
    Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Carrie Holt de Lama, Tyson Bidner
    First Assistant Director: Larissa Malarek
    Second Assistant Director: Olivia Dame
    Second Second Assistant Director: Sofía Blanco
    Location Manager: Maria C. Roxas, Gilbert B. Morales
    Assistant Location Manager: Oscar Roxas

    Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg, The Studio, “The Oner” (Apple TV+)
    Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Shawn Dyrdahl
    First Assistant Director: Donald Murphy
    Second Assistant Director: Peter Dress      (WINNER)

    Christopher Storer, The Bear, “Bears” (FX on Hulu)
    Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Carrie Holt de Lama, Tyson Bidner
    First Assistant Director: Duccio Fabbri
    Second Assistant Director: Larissa Malarek, Olivia Dame
    Second Second Assistant Director: Sofía Blanco
    Location Manager: Maria C. Roxas, Gilbert B. Morales
    Assistant Location Manager: Oscar Roxas

    Mike White, The White Lotus, “Denials” (HBO Max)
    Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Regina Heyman, Mark Kamine
    First Assistant Director: Justin Ritson
    Second Assistant Director: Joe Landry
    Assistant Unit Production Manager: Aidan Sleeper 

    Limited and Anthology Series

    Jason Bateman, Black Rabbit, “The Black Rabbits” (Netflix)
    Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Becky Phillips, Erica Kay
    First Assistant Director: John Silvestri
    Second Assistant Director: Nick Notte
    Second Second Assistant Director: Jimmy Rosario, Jilly Blundell
    Location Manager: Paul Eskenazi 

    Antonio Campos, The Beast in Me, “Sick Puppy” (Netflix)
    Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Caroline Baron
    First Assistant Director: Tomas Deckaj
    Second Assistant Director: Scott Bowers
    Second Second Assistant Director: Matt Merksamer, Sean Fogel
    Location Manager: Grace Kwon

    Lesli Linka Glatter, Zero Day, “Episode 6” (Netflix)
    Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Amy Herman
    First Assistant Director: Michael Lerman
    Second Assistant Director: Scott Bowers
    Second Second Assistant Director: Kaitlin Heins
    Additional Second Assistant Director: Davis Woodall
    Assistant Unit Production Manager: Mike Buonanno
    Location Manager: Ronnie Kupferwasser

    Shannon Murphy, Dying for Sex, “It’s Not That Serious” (FX on Hulu)
    Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Francesca M. Mannix
    First Assistant Director: Julie A. Bloom
    Second Assistant Director: Findlay Ward Zotter
    Second Second Assistant Director: Kristin Dombroski, Laura E. Rizer (WINNER)

    Ally Pankiw, Black Mirror, “Common People” (Netflix)
    Unit Production Manager: Shawn Williamson

    Movies for Television

    Jesse Armstrong, Mountainhead (HBO Max)
    Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Jill Footlick
    First Assistant Director: Christo Morse
    Second Assistant Director: MarSchelle Walker
    Location Manager: Paul Eskenazi

    Stephen Chbosky, Nonnas (Netflix)
    Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Pamela Hirsch, Kara Doherty
    First Assistant Director: Chris Surgent
    Second Assistant Director: Takahide Kawakami
    Second Second Assistant Director: Cary Lee
    Location Manager: Tatiana Forster     (WINNER)

    Scott Derrickson, The Gorge (Apple TV+)
    Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Greg Goodman
    First Assistant Director: Cliff Lanning
    Second Assistant Director: Lee Tailor

    Michael Morris, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (Peacock)

    Kyle Newacheck, Happy Gilmore 2 (Netflix)
    Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Brittany Sugarman, David Bausch
    First Assistant Director: David M. Bernstein
    Second Assistant Director: Ryan Robert Howard
    Second Second Assistant Director: Kaitlin Heins
    Additional Second Assistant Director: Mia Bruno
    Location Manager: Louis Zuppardi
    Assistant Location Manager: Scott Ferlisi

    Variety

    Yvonne Demare, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, “Julia Roberts; Sam Smith” (CBS)
    Directorial Team:
    Associate Director: Karen Yaeger
    Stage Manager: Mark McKenna, Jeff Leib

    Andy Fisher, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, “Stephen Colbert; Kumail Nanjiani; Reneé Rapp” (ABC)
    Directorial Team:
    Associate Director: Jeri-Ann Wong, Amy Stober, David Craig
    Stage Manager: Alec Potter, Josh Wader, Christian Jensen, Peter Epstein 

    Beth McCarthy Miller, SNL50: The Homecoming Concert (Peacock)
    Directorial Team:
    Associate Director: Susan Sullivan
    Stage Manager: Lynn Finkel, Linda Carrizzo, Joey Despenzero, Phyllis Digilio-Kent, John Esposito, Andrew Feigin, Steve Hollander, Greg Kasoff, Alissa Levisohn Hoyo, Arthur Lewis, Jennifer Marquet, Cyndi Owgang, Jason Pacella, Tammy Raab, Elise Reaves, Cheryl Teetzel-Moore, Niclana Tolmasoff, Bret Warren, Ari Woog 

    Liz Patrick, SNL50: The Anniversary Special (NBC)
    Directorial Team:
    Associate Director: Michael Mancini, Michael Poole, Laura Ouziel Mack, Janine DeVito, Amy Mancini, Dan Dome
    Stage Manager: Gena Rositano, Chris Kelly, Eddie Valk, Peter Epstein, Karen Tasch Weiss, Steve Bautista, Joey Despenzero, Frank Fernandez, Doug Fogel, Jeffry Gitter, Cyndi Owgang, Elise Reaves, Niclana Tolmasoff, Leslie Williams (WINNER)

    Paul Pennolino, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, “Public Media” (HBO Max)
    Directorial Team:
    Associate Director: Elliot Mendelson
    Stage Manager: Jeff Leib, Mark McKenna, Craig Spinney

    Sports

    Matthew Gangl, 2025 World Series – Game 7 – Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Toronto Blue Jays (FOX Sports)
    Directorial Team:
    Associate Director: Larry Lancaster, Aaron Stojkov, Bryan Colucci
    Stage Manager: Dominick Tringali, Dan Frank     (WINNER)

    Steve Milton, 2025 Masters Tournament – Augusta National Golf Club (CBS Sports)
    Directorial Team:
    Associate Director: Robert Matina, Chris Svendsen, Andy Freedman, Eric Spitzer, Ade Ellis, Tyler Jahn, Josh Weingardt, Brian Maher, Stuart Millstein, Katie Keane, Adam Cohen, Jack Kempner, George Wishart, Dan Obermuller
    Stage Manager: Cory Fishman

    Rich Russo, Super Bowl LIX – Philadelphia Eagles vs. Kansas City Chiefs (FOX Sports)
    Directorial Team:
    Associate Director: Rich Gross, Casey Garland

    Reality / Quiz and Game

    Lucinda M. Margolis, Jeopardy!, “Ep. 9341” (Syndicated)
    Directorial Team:
    Associate Director: Chloe Corwin
    Stage Manager: James F. McGuire 

    Adam Sandler, The Price is Right, “10,000th Episode” (CBS)
    Directorial Team:
    Associate Director: Jazmin Eckenberg
    Stage Manager: Steven Hollander, Jason Galland, Alex Weston

    Mike Sweeney, Conan O’Brien Must Go, “Austria” (HBO Max)
    Directorial Team:
    Associate Director: Jason Chillemi     (WINNER)

    Commercials

    Kim Gehrig (Somesuch)

    You Can’t Win. So Win. – Nike | Wieden+Kennedy
    Directorial Team:
    First Assistant Director: Peter Jackson, John Mattern
    Second Assistant Director: Melina Greene
    Second Second Assistant Director: Chelsea Meador
     
    I’m Not Remarkable – Apple | Client Direct
    First Assistant Director: Guy Forgaard
    Second Assistant Director: Amanda Johnson
    Second Second Assistant Director: Michael Dudley, Clyde Broom (WINNER)

    Miles Jay (Smuggler)

    Dish – ChatGPT | Isle of Any
    Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Yianni Papadopoulos
    First Assistant Director: George Nessis
    Second Assistant Director: Rachel Obering
    Second Second Assistant Director: Reed Baum

    Pull Up – ChatGPT | Isle of Any
    Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Yianni Papadopoulos
    First Assistant Director: George Nessis
    Second Assistant Director: Rachel Obering
    Second Second Assistant Director: Reed Baum
     
    Trip – ChatGPT | Isle of Any
    Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Yianni Papadopoulos
    First Assistant Director: George Nessis
    Second Assistant Director: Julia Blanford
    Second Second Assistant Director: K.J. Walsh
     
    Home for the Holidays – Meta | Droga5
    Directorial Team:
    First Assistant Director: David Webb

    Secret Santa – Meta | Droga5
    Directorial Team:
    First Assistant Director: David Webb  

    Spike Jonze (MJZ)

    Someday – Apple Airpods 4 | TBWAMedia Arts Lab
    Directorial Team:
    First Assistant Director: Steve Danton, Kate Greenberg
    Second Assistant Director: Matthew Dennis Smith
    Second Second Assistant Director: Amy Hughes, Carly Sturgeon

    Andreas Nilsson (Biscuit Filmworks)

    Conquer the First School Poo – Andrex | FCB London
     
    Garrett – Apple iPhone 16 Pro | Client Direct
    Unit Production Manager: James Veal
    First Assistant Director: George Nessis
    Second Assistant Director: Reed Baum

    Big Flex – Apple iPhone 16 Pro | Client Direct
    Unit Production Manager: James Veal
    First Assistant Director: George Nessis
    Second Assistant Director: Reed Baum

    Trunk Trucker – Virgin Media | VCCP London

    Steve Rogers (Biscuit Filmworks)

    Bring a Book to Life – Amazon | Droga5 London

    A Tale as Old as Websites – Squarespace| Client Direct

    Everything is Fine – Coinbase | Mother London

    Documentary Film

    Mstyslav Chernov, 2000 Meters to Andriivka (PBS) (WINNER)
    Geeta Gandbhir, The Perfect Neighbor (Netflix)
    Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni, Cutting Through Rocks (Assembly Releasing)
    Elizabeth Lo, Mistress Dispeller (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
    Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus, Cover-Up (Netflix)

    Documentary Series / News

    Marshall Curry, SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night, “Written By: A Week Inside the SNL Writers Room” (Peacock)
    Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin, Billy Joel: And So It Goes, “Part Two” (HBO Max)
    Rebecca Miller, Mr. Scorsese, “All This Filming Isn’t Healthy” (Apple TV+) (WINNER)
    Alexandra Stapleton, Sean Combs: The Reckoning, “Official Girl” (Netflix)
    Matt Wolf, Pee-Wee as Himself, “Part 1” (HBO Max)

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  • Paul Thomas Anderson Wins Top DGA Film Prize For ‘One Battle After Another’, Pays Tribute To Producer & AD Adam Somner: “He Would Love This”

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    One Battle After Another director Paul Thomas Anderson has won the DGA Awards‘ top prize — Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film — which marks a highly significant Oscar predictor.

    “It’s an honor, President Nolan,” he told DGA president Christopher Nolan, to loud laughter from the audience Saturday at the Beverly Hilton.

    This was Anderson’s third DGA nomination. Most recently, he was nominated for Licorice Pizza in 2021 and, before that, for There Will Be Blood in 2007.

    Ever since the first DGA Awards ceremony in 1948, the winner of its Theatrical Feature Award has predicted the Best Director Oscar winner in all but eight instances. This makes the DGA Awards a major bellwether for Oscar. Add to that, the DGA Theatrical Feature win and Oscars Best Director has matched every year for the past five.

    Anderson referenced Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, saying, “It’s like we’re all here for a reason, some cosmic thing brought us to this room, and it was that call to the mountain. It’s that feeling that we all love making sh*t and we need to do it. We need to do it or it’s an addiction, I’m not quite sure.”

    Paul Thomas Anderson and team accept the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for ‘One Battle After Another’ on Saturday at the DGA Awards

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    On a more somber note, Anderson paid tribute to his close friend, producer and longtime first AD Adam Somner, who died in 2024 from thyroid cancer.

    “Obviously we are up here, minus one,” Anderson said. “A lot of people in this room know our hero, our man, Adam Somner. Steven [Spielberg] knows him. His wife Carmen [Ruiz de Huidobro] is here.”

    Anderson continued, “He took this work so seriously, and did not take himself seriously at all. And that was a great gift… He made us feel safe. Think about this work that we do, how dangerous it can be, really dangerous. And to be to get through a film and no one get hurt, be safe, have an amazing experience is because of a great AD, and he was the best.”

    Choking up a little, Anderson went on, “I wish everyone in this room the love that I had with him, may you be blessed with a relationship that I had with him, and if you have one already, hold them close, remind them that you love them. He would love this. He’d be so f*cking happy.”

    Adam Somner

    Adam Somner

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    Last year, the big DGA win went to Anora’s Sean Baker, who went on to win the Directing Oscar and the film took Best Picture. Two years ago, Christopher Nolan won at the DGAs ahead of picking up Best Director and Best Picture Oscars for Oppenheimer.

    Other nominees in this same DGA category tonight Ryan Coogler for Sinners, Chloé Zhao for Hamnet, Guillermo del Toro for Frankenstein and Josh Safdie for Marty Supreme.

    Coogler is only the fifth Black director ever to be recognized in this DGA Awards category. The last was Spike Lee for BlacKkKlansman in 2018. But no Black filmmaker has ever won this top DGA prize.

    Zhao won this DGA top honor in 2021 for Nomadland (which also earned Best Picture and Best Director at Oscar) and now, with this Hamnet nomination, she joins Kathryn Bigelow, Jane Campion and Greta Gerwig as the only women to earn multiple DGA nominations.

    In 2018, Del Toro won the DGA top film prize for The Shape of Water, while this was Safdie’s first DGA nomination.

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  • Everything Everywhere All at Once Gets Its “Holy Shit” Awards Moment

    Everything Everywhere All at Once Gets Its “Holy Shit” Awards Moment

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    This awards season has been very long, and fairly consistent, but Saturday night still delivered a major turning point: The industry actually gave out a major award. We’d heard from the journalists who vote on the Critics Choice Awards and Golden Globes, but so far the major industry awards—BAFTA, SAG, the Oscars— had only announce their nominees. But on Saturday the Directors Guild of America gave us our first palpable sense of who Hollywood is getting behind for best picture of the year. The answer, after a long and winding three-hour-plus ceremony: Everything Everywhere All at Once.

    It’s not a huge shock, following the A24 miracle movie’s utter dominance at the Critics Choice Awards and its huge Oscar nomination tally of 11. But for a genre-mashing, boundary-defying, hot-dog-finger-wielding movie such as this, going all the way over the likes of Steven Spielberg and Top Gun: Maverick with a bunch of directors still speaks volumes. Early in the ceremony, host Judd Apatow perhaps set the tone by remarking that James Cameron wasn’t nominated by his peers for his technically masterful Avatar sequel, while the two men behind the film with “the dildo fight” were. Welcome to 2023.

    Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert were in attendance, as were their fellow nominees Spielberg, Maverick’s Joseph Kosinski, and Tár’s Todd Field. (Martin McDonagh, the fifth nominee, was absent.) Bleeding into Sunday’s BAFTA Awards, the event ended just in time for Kwan, Scheinert, and Field to hop on a plane to London, where they’re also competing, while Spielberg is flying out to Berlin where he’s being lauded with an Honorary Golden Bear. Yes, it is that time of year. But each got their moment first, as the DGA ceremony gives every nominee his own presentation. Highlights included Paul Thomas Anderson describing “drooling” over Tár and Jerry Bruckheimer very earnestly commending Kosinski, the director who too rarely gets credit for Maverick’s artistic achievements.  

    And then there’s Spielberg, who loomed over the night. This may be the end of the road for his Oscar campaign, despite The Fabelmans’ auspicious start in Toronto last fall. The film simply hasn’t connected on an industry level in the way his competition seems to have; remember, he’s not even a BAFTA nominee. It’s a strange dynamic when virtually everyone inside the DGA Ceremony at the Beverly Hilton, from the Daniels and Field to presenters like Anderson and Denis Villeneuve, all but worship at the legendary Spielberg’s feet from the stage, even as the voters prepare to reward someone different. The dynamic was eerily similar to last year, when Spielberg was nominated for West Side Story and lost to Jane Campion. 

    The DGA is typically a safer voting body than the Academy—going with 1917 over Parasite, say—which makes Everything Everywhere’s triumph here all the more notable. You might be tempted to point to Power of the Dog’s similar combo at this point in the game—DGA and Critics’ Choice wins, Oscar noms leader—and plead caution for calling this thing over. Of course, nothing is sure yet. But unlike the case of Power, Everything Everywhere is a SAG ensemble front-runner too; that mix of acting- and directing-branch support is rare and potent. And anyway, in the last 21 years, 20 DGA winners for best film have gone on to win the Oscar for best picture and/or director. Something big is almost certainly happening for this movie. 

    So when Kwan and Scheinert hit the stage, you can understand why the latter wrapped up his speech by saying, “​​Holy shit. This is crazy.” This was the moment the industry affirmed this little-film-that-could was the one to beat. The BAFTAs have a chance to lift the likes of Banshees and Tár, to puncture that scrappy A24 momentum; the producers’ guild weighs in next week, where Maverick faces its own last stand. But right now, it’s everything everywhere for Everything Everywhere. No sign, still, of that changing.

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    David Canfield

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