The Directors Guild of America handed its top prize for feature filmmaking to Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” putting them on course to win at the Academy Awards next month.
held at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, on Saturday evening, denied Steven Spielberg a record-extending four wins for the guild's top honor. Spielberg had once been expected to cruise through awards season with his autobiographical “The Fabelmans,” but the strong affection for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” —In the past 10 years, all but once has the DGA winner gone on to win at the Academy Awards. Last year, Jane Campion won at each.
The other nominees were: Todd Field , Martin McDonagh and Joseph Kosinski . The same filmmakers are nominated for best director at the March 12 Oscars, with one exception. The academy picked Ruben Östlund rather than Kosinski. Kwan and Scheinert, the filmmaking pair known as “The Daniels,” are just the third duo to win the DGA's top award, following Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for “West Side Story” and Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for “No Country for Old Men” . They're also uncommonly young and early in their careers to win with the guild — especially over a veteran like Spielberg. He holds the record for most DGA nominations with 13.
No women were nominated by the DGA or the film academy for best director this year. But both of the guild's other top awards went to female filmmakers. Best first feature went to
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