DGA Winners: Jane Campion, Maggie Gyllenhaal and more...
by Nathaniel R
As expected Jane Campion took Best Director at the Directors Guild Awards, their third female winner after Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) and Chloe Zhao (Nomadland). The DGA win has long been the most predictive precursor prize for future Oscar glory. Their winner almost always repeats at the Oscar. Splits are rare but the most recent was very recent indeed during the Parasite vs 1917 war; Sam Mendes took the DGA but Bong Joon-ho won the Oscar.
Maggie Gyllenhaal took the coveted First Time Feature award making this the first year were both of those prizes went to women. All the prizes and more comments after the jump...