DGA Award Film Nominees Announced

The Directors Guild of America has announced the nominees for the 69th DGA Awards. All five nominees in the Feature Film category are first-time contenders. The big surprise is Nate Parker being nominated in the first-time director category for The Birth of a Nation. For whatever reason, either personal or likely because the film isn’t that great, neither Parker nor the film had been recognized by other voting bodies. The full list of film nominees is below.

The DGA Awards ceremony will be held on February 4th in Los Angeles.

OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A FEATURE FILM FOR 2016

Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
Garth Davis (Lion)
Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)
Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea)
Denis Villeneuve (Arrival)

OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT OF A FIRST-TIME FEATURE FILM DIRECTOR FOR 2016

Garth Davis (Lion)
Kelly Fremon Craig (The Edge of Seventeen)
Tim Miller (Deadpool)
Nate Parker (The 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)