2018 Awards Season: DGA - Nominations

January 9, 2019

Directors Guild of America announced their theatrical nominations this week and we are starting to see some real patterns emerge and I think the Oscar picture is getting clearer.

The categories and nominees are...

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film

• Bradley Cooper for A Star is Born
• Alfonso Cuarón for Roma
• Peter Farrelly for Green Book
• Spike Lee for BlacKkKlansman
• Adam McKay for Vice

• Julie Cohen and Betsy West for RBG
• Morgan Neville for Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
• RaMell Ross for Hale County This Morning, This Evening
• Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin for Free Solo
• Tim Wardle for Three Identical Strangers

• Bo Burnham for Eighth Grade
• Bradley Cooper for A Star is Born
• Carlos López Estrada for Blindspotting
• Matthew Heineman for A Private War
• Boots Riley for Sorry to Bother You

• Every single nominee for Best Feature Film director was also nominated for a Best Director in the Golden Globes. So when I said, “starting to see some real patterns emerge”, it was a bit of an understatement.
• Four of the five Best Documentary nominees also earned a PGA nomination. Again, “patterns”.
• Bradley Cooper got two nominations for A Star is Born, so he’s a lock to win Best First Feature.

- C.S.Strowbridge

Filed under: Awards Season, A Star is Born, Vice, Roma, BlacKkKlansman, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Sorry to Bother You, Blindspotting, RBG, Eighth Grade, Three Identical Strangers, Green Book, A Private War, Hale County This Morning, This Evening, Free Solo, Bradley Cooper, Alfonso Cuarón, Peter Farrelly, Spike Lee, Adam McKay, Bo Burnham, Morgan Neville, Matthew Heineman, Boots Riley, Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Carlos Lopez Estrada, Julie Cohen, Betsy West, Tim Wardle, RaMell Ross