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DGA Awards: Sean Baker Wins for ‘Anora,’ Gaining Major Oscar Momentum (Full Winners List)
The DGA Awards winners are being announced.
In the Guild’s 88-year history, just 36 directors have been recognized with this honor, including Frank Capra (1959), Alfred Hitchcock (1968), Orson Welles (1984), Billy Wilder (1985), Steven Spielberg (2000), Martin Scorsese (2003), Miloš Forman (2013), Ridley Scott (2017), and most recently Spike Lee (2022). Since the award’s inception, only eight times has the DGA winner failed to secure the Oscar: Anthony Harvey (“The Lion in Winter”), Francis Ford Coppola (“The Godfather”), Steven Spielberg (“The Color Purple”), Ron Howard (“Apollo 13”), Ang Lee (“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”), Rob Marshall (“Chicago”), Ben Affleck (“Argo”) and Sam Mendes (“1917”). Brendan Bellomo & Slava Leontyev – “Porcelain War” (Picturehouse) Julian Brave NoiseCat & Emily Kassie – “Sugarcane” (National Geographic) Johan Grimonprez – “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” (Kino Lorber) Ibrahim Nash’at – “Hollywoodgate” (Fourth Act Film) Natalie Rae & Angela Patton – “Daughters” (Netflix)
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