Christopher Nolan has confirmed his position as a near-certainty for the best director Oscar after winning the top prize at the Directors Guild of America awards for Oppenheimer on Saturday.
Celine Song was voted winner of the first time feature award for Past Lives – named as best film of 2023 by the Guardian’s film critics – though, like Gerwig, she did not achieve an Oscar nomination for best director.
(The only recent exception was in 2020, when Sam Mendes won the DGA award for 1917, but lost out to Bong Joon-ho for Parasite at the Academy Awards.)
Ukrainian war documentary 20 Days in Mariupol posted a strong challenge for the best documentary Oscar after its director Mstyslav Chernov topped the DGA poll, overcoming Davis Guggenheim’s Still: A Michael J Fox Movie.