American directors chose the best
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Los Angeles hosted the 72nd Directors Guild of America Awards, which are awarded annually to directors for excellence in film and television. The event was hosted by director Judd Apatow for the second year in a row.The Guild includes about 17.5 thousand people, and many of them are in addition members of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Therefore, analysts often rely on the opinion of the Directors Guild in predicting Oscar winners. Still, over the past two decades, the union has only a few times failed to guess the future winner of the Oscar. Sam Mendes, who was named the best director of a feature film by his colleagues, significantly increased his chances of winning the upcoming Academy Awards ceremony. Mendes' victory seems more likely if we remember that thanks to the drama 1917, the director added a Golden Globe to his collection at the beginning of the year. 2020 Directors Guild of America Awards winners: Best Feature Film Director Sam Mendes - "1917"  Bong Joon-ho - "Parasites" Martin Scorsese - "The Irishman" Quentin Tarantino - "Once Upon a Time in ... Hollywood" Taika Waititi - Jojo Rabbit Best Debutant Director Alma Harel - Sweetheart  Mati Diop - Atlantic Melina Matsukas - "Queen and Slim" Mike Schwartz and Tyler Neilson - "The Peanut Falcon" Joe Talbot - "The Last Black in San Francisco" Best Documentary Director Stephen Bognar and Julia Reichert - "American Factory"  Firas Fayad - "The Cave" Alex Holmes - Maiden Lyubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska - "Country of Honey" Nanfu Wang and Zhang Ling - "One Child Nation" Best Director, Drama Series Nicole Cassel - Watchmen  Mark Mylod - "The Descendants" David Nutter - Game of Thrones Miguel Sapochnik - Game of Thrones Stephen Williams - Watchmen Best Comedy Series Director Bill Hader - "Barry"  Daniel Etties - The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel David Mandel - "Vice President" Daniel Palladino - The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Amy Sherman-Palladino - The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Best Director for a Miniseries or TV Movie Johan Renck - Chernobyl  Ava DuVernay - "When They See Us" Vince Gilligan - "El Camino: Breaking Bad" Thomas Kail - Fossey / Verdon Minky Spiro - Fossey / Verdon Jessica Yu - Fossey / Verdon The Topic of Article: American directors chose the best. |
