Everything Everywhere All At Once directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert won the Directors Guild of America (DGA) award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film on Saturday (February 18), boosting their standing going into next month’s Oscars.
Kwan and Scheinert took the award for the first time, and after their first nominations, from an all-male field that included three other best director Oscar nominees: Todd Field for Tar, Martin Mc Donagh for The Banshees Of Inisherin and Steven Spielberg, a three-time DGA award winner and 13-time nominee, for The Fablemans.
Winners of the DGA feature directing award have gone on to win the best director Oscar in all but eight of the last 74 years. Last year, Jane Campion followed her DGA award for The Power Of The Dog with the Oscar and in 2021 Chloe Zhao scored the same double for Nomadland.
In the DGA Awards ceremony in Beverly Hills the Guild’s award for a first-time feature went to Scottish filmmaker Charlotte Wells for Aftersun (financed by BBC Film, BFI and Screen Scotland, in association with Tango). Four of the five first-time directing nominees were women.
The DGA Award for documentary directing went to Sara Dosa for Fire of Love. Four of the five films represented in the documentary category - Fire of Love, All That Breathes, All The Beauty And The Bloodshed and Navalny - have also been nominated for the documentary feature Oscar.
The DGA gave its award for directing a drama series to Sam Levinson for his Stand Still Like The Hummingbird episode of Euphoria.
The Guild’s award for television movie or limited series direction went to Helen Shaver for the Who’s There episode of limited series Station Eleven.
Also presented during the DGA ceremony were three special awards.
Robert Fishman got the DGA’s Lifetime Achievement Award in television.
Mark Hansson was named winner of the Frank Capra Achievement Award recognising an assistant director or unit production manager.
Valdez Flagg received the Franklin J Schaffner Achievement Award recognising an associate director or stage manager.
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