2017 Awards Season: DGA Nominations

January 11, 2018

Directors Guild of America is one of those awards groups that spread out their nominations, but the last of them were announced today. There are some pleasant surprises and what is possibly the biggest shock of Awards Season so far. The only film to earn two nominations was Get Out.

The categories and nominees are...

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film

• Guillermo del Toro for The Shape of Water
• Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird
• Martin McDonagh for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Christopher Nolan for Dunkirk
• Jordan Peele for Get Out

• Ken Burns and Lynn Novick for The Vietnam War
• Bryan Fogel for Icarus
• Matthew Heineman for City of Ghosts
• Steve James for Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
• Errol Morris for Wormwood

• Geremy Jasper for Patti Cake$
• William Oldroyd for Lady Macbeth
• Jordan Peele for Get Out
• Taylor Sheridan for Wind River
• Aaron Sorkin for Molly’s Game

• Greta Gerwig earned a nomination for Best Director for Lady Bird. This is great news, as DGAs are a great predictor for the Oscars.
• Jordan Peele earned two nominations for Get Out. One has to assume he’s a lock for Best First Time Director.
• Jane didn’t get a nomination for Best Documentary. This is the biggest shock of Awards Season so far. The second-biggest shock is the overall collection of documentary nominees, as three of the five were not theatrical releases.

- C.S.Strowbridge

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