Jon M. Chu, Denis Villeneuve, and Luca Guadagnino shut out of DGA nominations
Sean Baker, Edward Berger, Brady Corbet, and more scored nods from the Directors guild this year.
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And the Oscar goes to… honestly, no idea. We’re no closer to predicting the winning director—or even which filmmakers will actually secure one of those coveted nominations—than we were before awards season began in earnest. Emilia Pérez led the Golden Globe film nominations, and this morning, Wicked—and especially Jonathan Bailey—cleaned up at the SAG Award noms. This afternoon, however, Wicked helmer Jon M. Chu was nowhere to be found amongst the list of nominees for the DGA Awards, which honor the best directors of the year. This really is shaping up to be one of the most open Oscar races in recent memory.