Wide open race, people. Following The Big Short's win at PGA, Spotlight's ensemble prize at SAG, comes the Director's Guild Award for... The Revenant.
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Bonafide three-way race for Best Picture which is not common. Whoever wins we'll know that it was close -- unless a sweep reveals otherwise. Hell, Oscar's Best Director competition is also fierce though the advantage goes to Iñárritu at this point.
TRIVIA!
Incidentally, this prize for Alejandro González Iñárritu is his second consecutive from his guild. Though several directors have won twice, a consecutive win has never happened before at the DGA. It has happened at the Oscars, though, and twice at that: John Ford won two in a row for The Grapes of Wrath (1940) and How Green Was My Valley (1941). And not quite a decade later Joseph L Mankiewicz pulled off the same trick with A Letter To Three Wives (1949) and All About Eve (1950). Here's their interesting commonality. In both cases those consecutive wins did not come with consecutive Best Pictures. No director has ever helmed two consecutive Best Picture winners. If The Revenant comes out on top on Oscar night, Iñárritu will be the first to accomplish it in the Academy's 88 years.
Do you think history will be made? (Final Picture/Director predictions are going to be tough this year.)
The complete list of DGA winners and some photos from the event are after the jump...
Dee Rees picking up her prize. With Bryan Cranston in the press room
Alex Garland (Ex Machina) with Steven Spielberg
FEATURE FILM Alejandro González Iñárritu, The Revenant
FIRST TIME FEATURE Alex Garland, Ex Machina
MOVIES/MINISERIES FOR TELEVISION Dee Rees, Bessie
DOCUMENTARY Matthew Heineman, Cartel Land
Angela Bassett with David Nutter, who won for Game of Thrones
DRAMATIC SERIES David Nutter, Game of Thrones, "Mother's Mercy"
Lily Tomlin accepted for the absent Veep director in Comedy Series
COMEDY SERIES Chris Addison, Veep, "Election Night"
VARIETY/TALK/NEWS REGULAR Dave Diomedi, The Tonight Show Featuring Jimmy Fallon, "Episode #325"
VARIETY/TALK/NEWS SPECIAL Don Roy King, Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special
REALITY PROGRAMS Adam Vetri Steve Austin's Broken Skull Challenge, "Gods of War"
CHILDREN'S PROGRAM Kenny Ortega, Descendants
COMMERCIALS Andreas Nilsson, Emily's Oz, Comcast / Time Upon a Once, General Electric / Dad Song, Old Spice
George Miller (Best Director nominee) and his wife Margaret Sixel (Best Film Editing nominee) 
Whoa! Nate Parker (Birth of a Nation) is already working for next year's nomination
Regina King looking amazing as usual of late
OMG. Even Geena Davis showed up. 
Rachel McAdams, happy to be there.