New jump from ANDeverything Everywhere at once towards the Oscars 2023: Best Director Award DGA awards actually went Daniel Kun & Daniel Scheinertbetter known (and usually signed) as “Daniels“, directors of the acclaimed film by A24 with Michelle Yeoh.
That night it took place right there in the United States 75th edition of Directors Guild of America Awardsthe Hollywood Directors’ Union Awards, which along with the SAG, WGA, and PGA (actors, writers, and producers, respectively) are the four Guild Awards, the only “unions” most critical to steering and governing the Oscar race understand how it will end on the most important night in Hollywood heaven.
From 1950 to the present, DGA winners have missed the Best Director Oscar just eight times: most recently in 2020, when Sam Mendes won the DGA for 1917, but the Best Director Oscar went to Bong Joon-ho for Parasite. The most recent DGA winner is Jane Campion, who later also received the Golden Statuette for Best Director for The Power of the Dog.
The Daniels beat out competition from Todd Field (Tár), Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick), Martin McDonagh (Island Spirits) and Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans), while Best New Director is Charlotte Wells For After suntriumphing in a five piece also composed by Alice Diop (Saint Omer), Audrey Diwan (Anne’s Choice – L’Événement), John Patton Ford (Emily the Criminalizziate) and Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović (Murina).
Below is the full list of all winners.
BEST DIRECTOR IN A FILM
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
Everything everywhere at once
BEST DEBUT FILM DIRECTOR
Charlotte Wells
After sun
(A24)
BEST DIRECTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Sam Levinson
Euphoria, stand still like a hummingbird (HBO)
BEST DIRECTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Bill Hader
Barry, 710N (HBO)
BEST DIRECTOR OF A MINISERIES OR TV FILM
Helen Shaver
Station eleven, who’s there? (HBO Max)
BEST DIRECTOR OF A DOCUMENTARY
Sarah Dosa
Fire of Love (National Geographic)