There are creative challenges in every project. One is never really more important or difficult than the next. Finding the creative energy at the beginning of each project is an ever changing process. It might come swiftly and with ease, but it can also take days of banging your head against a wall, and going to bed unfulfilled and disappointed in the day’s work. When I partner with an agency, we want to make the most creative content we can. In most cases there are so many people that need to approve these things, by the time we go through the layers at the agency, up the chain of clients, and finally to legal and network approvals, the end result is sometimes not what we had in mind. The discovery of working with other creative people to try and elevate the project is always surprising, and I often find myself missing the people that went on the journey with me. When you truly connect with something, the reward is there and the struggle was worth it. I’m currently working on a feature documentary, and I’m in the rough cut stage. In both worlds all I want to provide is beautiful work. Now is the time to be creative; it’s a magical and perfect moment of struggle and bliss. I’m connecting with my characters in a way that no one else can. I learn something from each of these struggles, and I take it with me to the next. There is always a next time, and a new reason to walk away smiling.
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DGA Feature Nominees: Audiard, Baker, Berger, Corbet and Mangold
The field of feature nominees for the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards spanning two categories is set. Nominated for the DGA honor for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for 2024 are: Jacques Audiard for Emilia Pérez, Sean Baker for Anora, Edward Berger for Conclave, Brady Corbet for The Brutalist, and James Mangold for A Complete Unknown.
The DGA also revealed the nominees for the Michael Apted Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First-Time Theatrical Feature Film. The first-time narrative feature directors are: Payal Kapadia for All We Imagine as Light, Megan Park for My Old Ass, RaMell Ross for Nickel Boys, Halfdan Ullman Tondel for Armand, and Sean Wang for Diddy.
“2024 has been a truly extraordinary year for storytelling--and today’s nominees have created audacious and unique films that expand the possibilities of cinematic excellence,” said DGA president Lesli Linka Glatter. “I am thrilled to congratulate all our nominated directors for their brilliant work, which is visionary, inspirational and speaks to the depth of the human experience. To be chosen by one’s peers is the true marker of outstanding directorial achievement and what makes these nominations so very special.”
The winners will be announced at the 77th Annual DGA Awards on Saturday, February 8.
Here’s a fuller rundown of the nominees in both DGA Award categories:
THEATRICAL FEATURE FILM
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for 2024 (in alphabetical order):
JACQUES AUDIARD
Emilia Pérez
(Netflix)
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