Directors Guild Nominees Include Jane Campion, Steven Spielberg, Kenneth Branagh

Jane Campion, Kenneth Branagh, Denis Villeneuve, Steven Spielberg and Paul Thomas Anderson have been nominated as the very best administrators of 2021 by the Administrators Guild of America, the DGA introduced on Thursday.

Ending off a exceptional day through which the Producers Guild, Writers Guild and American Cinema Editors additionally introduced their nominations, the Administrators Guild nominated Campion for “The Energy of the Canine,” Branagh for “Belfast,” Villeneuve for “Dune,” Spielberg for “West Facet Story” and McKay for “Don’t Look Up.”

Campion’s nomination marked the eleventh time a girl has been nominated within the DGA’s feature-film class, and made her the second lady to be nominated twice within the class. Her first nod got here in 1994 for “The Piano.”

The one different feminine director with two feature-film nominations is Kathryn Bigelow, who gained for 2009’s “The Harm Locker” and was nominated for 2012’s “Zero Darkish Thirty.” (Bigelow is a DGA nominee this 12 months within the industrial class, for an iPhone advert.)

Spielberg’s nomination is his twelfth within the class, breaking his personal document because the director with probably the most nominations. Martin Scorsese is second with 10, and no different dwelling director has greater than 5.

Different administrators who had been anticipated to be in rivalry for the nomination included Adam McKay for “Don’t Look Up,” Joel Coen for “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” Guillermo del Toro for “Nightmare Alley,” Sian Heder for “CODA,” Reinaldo Marcus Inexperienced for “King Richard,” Ruysuke Hamaguchi for the critics’ favourite “Drive My Automotive” and Maggie Gyllenhaal for “The Misplaced Daughter.”

Gyllenhaal, although, was nominated within the First-Time Characteristic Movie class. Different nominees in that class, the place Netflix movies took 4 of the six nominations, had been Rebecca Corridor for “Passing,” Lin-Manuel Miranda for “tick, tick…BOOM!,” Tatiana Huezo for “Prayers for the Stolen,” Michael Sarnoski for “Pig” and Emma Seligman for “Shiva Child.”

Whereas DGA nominations have traditionally been among the many most correct guild noms for predicting what Oscar voters will do, and a DGA win has been much more dependable at predicting an Oscar victory, the 2 teams haven’t matched up five-for-five since 2010.

Since then, the Academy’s Administrators Department has gotten more and more idiosyncratic and worldwide, selecting Thomas Vinterberg over DGA nominee Aaron Sorkin final 12 months, and earlier than that choosing Yorgos Lanthimos and Pawel Pawlikowski over Bradley Cooper and Bobby Farrelly, Lenny Abrahamson over Ridley Scott, and Michael Haneke and Benh Zeitlin over Ben Affleck and Bigelow.

Winners will probably be introduced throughout the DGA Awards ceremony on Saturday, March 12. Additionally at that ceremony, first assistant director Joseph P. Reidy will obtain the Frank Capra Achievement Award, and stage supervisor Garry W. Hood will obtain the Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award.

Nominees within the TV, industrial and documentary classes had been introduced on Wednesday.

The nominations:

OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN THEATRICAL FEATURE FILM

Paul Thomas Anderson
Licorice Pizza
(Metro Goldwyn Mayer Photos/United Artists Releasing)
Mr. Anderson’s Directorial Crew:

• Unit Manufacturing Supervisor: Sue McNamara 
• First Assistant Director: Adam Somner 
• Second Assistant Director: Trevor Tavares 
• Second Second Assistant Administrators: Kasia Trojak, Bob Riley, David Marnell 

Kenneth Branagh
Belfast
(Focus Options)

Jane CampionThe Energy of the Canine
(Netflix)

Steven Spielberg
West Facet Story
(twentieth Century Studios)

Mr. Spielberg’s Directorial Crew:

• Unit Manufacturing Managers: Carla Raij, Daniel Lupi 
• First Assistant Director: Adam Somner 
• Second Assistant Director: Jeremy Marks
• Assistant Unit Manufacturing Supervisor: Robert T. Striem 
• Second Second Assistant Director: Josh Muzaffer 
• Extra Second Assistant Director: Billy Brennan 
• Location Managers: Robert T. Striem, Katherine Delaney 

Denis Villeneuve
Dune
(Warner Bros. Photos)

Mr. Villeneuve’s Directorial Crew:

• Unit Manufacturing Managers: Joe Caracciolo, Jr., James Grant 
• First Assistant Director: Chris Carreras 
• Second Assistant Director: Tom Rye 

OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT OF A FIRST-TIME FEATURE FILM DIRECTOR

Maggie Gyllenhaal
The Misplaced Daughter
(Netflix)

Rebecca Corridor
Passing
(Netflix)

Tatiana Huezo
Prayers for the Stolen
(Netflix)

Lin-Manuel Miranda
Tick, Tick… Growth!
(Netflix)
Mr. Miranda’s Directorial Crew: 

• Unit Manufacturing Supervisor: Deb Dyer 
• First Assistant Director: Mariela Comitini 
• Second Assistant Administrators: Josh A. Muzaffer, Luca Waldman
• Second Second Assistant Administrators: Melissa Morphet, Lincoln Main
• Extra Second Assistant Director: Zach Citarella
• Location Supervisor: Ryan Smith

Michael Sarnoski
Pig
(NEON)

Emma Seligman
Shiva Child
(Utopia)