Now that Hollywood has returned to normal, award season is in full swing with every organization honouring the best of their field.  Over the past few days the Director’s Guild of America has presented their nominations for the best direction in film and television.

“Oppenheimer” director Christopher Nolan, “Barbie” Director Greta Gerwig, and “Killers of the Flower Moon” director Martin Scorsese are all up the Guild’s top award.

This year marks the 76th anniversary of the Director’s Guild Awards.  This year the awards will be presented on February 10.

The 2024 Director’s Guild Award nominees are…

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Dramatic Series:
Peter Hoar for “The Last of Us – Long, Long Time”
Becky Martin for “Succession – Rehearsal”
Mark Mylod for “Succession – Connor’s Wedding”
Andrij Parekh for “Succession – America Decides”
Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman for “Succession – Tailgate Party”

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Comdey Series:
Erica Dunton for “Ted Lasso – La Locker Room Aux Folles”
Bill Hader” for “Barry – ‘wow’”
Declan Lowney for “Ted Lasso – So Long, Farewell”
Christopher Storer for “The Bear – Fishes”
Ramy Yussef for “The Bear – Honeydew”

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television and Limited Series:
Shawn Levy for “All the Light We Cannot See”
Tara Miele for “Lessons in Chemistry, Introduction to Chemistry”
Millicent Shelton for “Lessons in Chemistry – Poirot”
Sarah Adina Smith for “Lessons in Chemistry – Her and Him”
Nzingha Stewart for “Daisy Jones & The Six – Track 10: Rock  ‘n’ Rol Suicide”

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Variety, Talk, News, or Sports – Regularly Scheduled Programming:
Paul G. Casey for “Real Time with Bill Maher – Episode 217”
Jim Hoskinson for “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, January 19, 2023: Rep. Adam Kinsinzer, Meet Me at the Alter”  Special appearance by Harvey Guillen
Michael Mancini and Liz Patrick for “Saturday Night Live” with Pedro Pascal and Coldplay
David Paul Meyer for “The Daily Show” with singer Charley Crockett
Paul Pennolino for “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver – Episode 1018: Dollar Stores”

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety, Talk, News, or Sports Specials:
Joel Gallen for “Chris Rock: Selective Outrage”
Stan Lathan for “Dave Chappelle: The Dreamer”
Linda Mendoza for “Wanda Sykes: I’m an Entertainer”
Paul Miller for “Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love”
Glenn Weiss for “The 95th Annual Academy Awards”

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Reality Programs:
Niharika Desai for “Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss, ‘Happiness is a Bottle of Cod Liver Oil’”
Ken Fuchs for “The Golden Bachelor – Premiere”
Joseph Guidry and Alexandra Lipsitz for “Project Greenlight: A New Generation, PGL vs. Gray Matter Problem”
Rich Kim for “Lego Masters – Is it Brick?”
Patrick McManus for “American Ninja Warrior – Season 15 Finale”

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children’s Programs:
James Bobin for “Percy Jackson and the Olympians – I Accidentally Vaporized My Pre-Algebra Teacher”
Destin Daniel Cretton for “American Born Chinese – What Guy are You”
Rob Letterman for “Goosebumps – Say Cheese and Die”
Amy Schatz for “Stand Up & Shout: Song from the Philly High School”
Dinh Thai for “American Born Chinese – A Monkey on a Quest”

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials:
Martin de Thurah for “Fair Exchange” and “Legends Never Die – Levi’s 501 Jeans
Seb Edwards for “Rumble” – Battle of the Baddest”
Kim Gehrig for “Run this Town” – Apple Music
Craig Gillespie for “Waiting Room” – Apple iPhone
Andreas Nilsson for “R.I.P. Leon” – Apple iPhone, “Action Model” – Apple iPhone 14, “Choose Happy” – Les Mills Fitness, “Wait’ll You See This” – Snapchap

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Documentary:
Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp for “Bobi Wine: The People’s President”
Mstyslav Chernov for “20 Days in Mariupol”
Madeleine Gavin for “Beyond Utopia”
Davis Guggenheim for “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie”
D. Smith for “Kokomo City”

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Theatrical Feature Film:
Greta Gerwig for “Barbie”
Yorgos Lanthimos for “Poor Things”
Christopher Nolan for “Oppenheimer”
Alexander Payne for “The Holdovers
Martin Scorsese for “Killers of the Flower Moon”

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a First-Time Theatrical Feature Film:
Cord Jefferson for “American Fiction”
Manuela Martelli for “Chile ‘76”
Noora Niasair for “Shayda”
A.V. Rockwell for “A Thousand and One”
Celine Song for “Past Lives”