Once one of them starts giving out awards they all start giving out awards and with the Golden Globe awards starting it all off and BAFTA’s announced the DGA have announced their nominations. The ceremony itself will be held February 4th at the Beverly Hilton Hotel and here are the nominees……
Feature Film
Damien Chazelle (“La La Land”)
Garth Davis (“Lion”)
Barry Jenkins (“Moonlight”)
Kenneth Lonergan (“Manchester by the Sea”)
Denis Villeneuve (“Arrival”)
First-Time Feature Film
Garth Davis (“Lion”)
Kelly Fremon Craig (“The Edge of Seventeen”)
Tim Miller (“Deadpool”)
Nate Parker (“Birth of a Nation”)
Dan Trachtenberg (“10 Cloverfield Lane”)
Documentary
Otto Bell (“The Eagle Huntress”)
Ezra Edelman (“O.J.: Made in America”)
Josh Kriegman & Elyse Steinberg (“Weiner”)
Raoul Peck (“I Am Not Your Negro”)
Roger Ross Williams (“Life, Animated”)
So ‘La LA Land’, ‘Lion’ and’Manchester by the Sea’ crop up once again. Seems to be a bit of a pattern emerging here……
