Alfonso Cuaron’s Oscar hopes received a major boost last night with the Director’s Guild of America honouring the filmmaker with the DGA Award for Best Feature Film for his acclaimed Netflix drama Roma.
The DGA Award is seen as a major indicator for the Best Director Oscar, having only differed with the Academy Awards on seven occasions since its inception in 1949. Cuaron previously won the DGA Award for Gravity, and went on to receive the Best Director Award that same year, while last year’s winner Guillermo del Toro also won the Oscar for the Best Picture-winning The Shape of Water.
Other winners from the 71st annual DGA Awards including Bo Burnham (First Time Feature Film Director for Eighth Grade), Tim Wardle (Documentary Director for Three Identical Strangers), Adam McKay (Drama Series Director for Succession), Bill Hader (Comedy Series Director for Barry) and Ben Stiller (Movies for Television and Limited Series Director for Escape at Dannemora).
Here’s a full list of the winners…
Feature Film
BRADLEY COOPER – “A Star Is Born”
ALFONSO CUARON – “Roma”
PETER FARRELLY – “Green Book”
SPIKE LEE – “BlacKkKlansman”
ADAM MCKAY – “Vice”
First Time Director
BO BURNHAM – “Eighth Grade”
BRADLEY COOPER – “A Star Is Born”
CARLOS LOPEZ ESTRADA – “Blindspotting”
MATTHEW HEINEMAN – “A Private War”
BOOTS RILEY – “Sorry to Bother You”
Documentary Director
MORGAN NEVILLE – “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
RAMELL ROSS – “Hale County This Morning, This Evening”
ELIZABETH CHAI VASARHELYI & JIMMY CHIN – “Free Solo”
TIM WARDLE – “Three Identical Strangers”
BETSY WEST & JULIE COHEN – “RBG”
Drama Series
Jason Bateman – “Ozark”
Episode: “Reparations”
Lesli Linka Glatter – “Homeland”
Episode: “Paean to the People”
Chris Long – “The Americans”
Episode: “START”
Adam McKay – “Succession”
Episode: “Celebration”
Daina Reid – “The Handmaid’s Tale”
Episode: “Holly”
Comedy Series
Donald Glover – “Atlanta”
Episode: “FUBU”
Bill Hader – “Barry”
Episode: Chapter One: Make Your Mark”
Hiro Murai – “Atlanta”
Episode: “Teddy Perkins”
Daniel Palladino – “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”
Episode: “We’re Going to the Catskills!”
Amy Sherman-Palladino – “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”
Episode: “All Alone”
TV Movies or Limited Series
Cary Joji Fukunaga – “Maniac”
David Leveaux (directed by) and Alex Rudzinski (live television directed by) – “Jesus Christ Superstar”
Barry Levinson – “Paterno”
Ben Stiller – “Escape at Dannemora”
Jean-Marc Vallee – “Sharp Objects”
Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Regularly Scheduled Programming
Paul G. Casey – “Real Time with Bill Maher”
Episode: “#1633”
Sacha Baron Cohen, Nathan Fielder, Daniel Gray Longino, and Dan Mazer – “Who Is America?”
Episode:”Episode 102″
Jim Hoskinson – “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”
Episode:”#480″
Don Roy King – “SNL”
Episode: “Adam Driver: Kanye West”
Paul Pennolino – “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver”
Episode: “Episode 502 Italian Election”
Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Specials
Louis J. Horvitz – “The 60th Grammy Awards”
Tim Mancinelli and Glenn Clements – “The Late, Late Show Carpool Karaoke Primetime Special 2018”
Beth McCarthy-Miller – “Bill Maher: Live from Oklahoma”
Marcus Raboy – “Steve Martin & Martin Short’s An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life”
Glenn Weiss – “The 72nd Annual Tony Awards”
Reality Programs
Neil P. DeGroot – “Better Late Than Never”
Episode: “How Do You Say Roots in German?”
Eytan Keller – “Iron Chef Gauntlet”
Episode: “Episode 201”
Patrick McManus – “American Ninja Warrior”
Episode: “Miami City Quarterfinals”
Russell Norman – “The Final Table”
Episode: “Japan”
Bertram van Munster – “The Amazing Race”
Episode: “It’s Just a Million Dollars, No Pressure”
Children’s Programs
Jack Jameson – Sesame Street
Allan Arkush – A Series of Unfortunate Events
Greg Mottola – The Dangerous Book for Boys
Barry Sonnenfeld – A Series of Unfortunate Events
Bo Welch – A Series of Unfortunate Events
Commercials
Steve Ayson – “Getting Ready,” Dollar Shave Club
Fredrik Bond – “Harmony,” Virgin
Martin de Thurah – “Final Breath,” Audi RS 5 Coupe
Spike Jonze – “Wecome Home,” Apple Homepod
David Shane – “Alien,” Babbel
