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    A Nomination Tradition: DGA Award, Best Director Oscar Discrepancy Continues

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    Director Edward Berger (l) and actor Ralph Fiennes on the set of "Conclave" (photo by Philippe Antonello/courtesy of Focus Features)

    Coralie Fargeat earns Academy Award nod but is not among Guild nominees; Edward Berger scores DGA recognition but no directorial Oscar nomination

    By Robert Goldrich, The Road To Oscar Series, Part 13

    LOS ANGELES (AP) --

    The awards season norm has seen the nearly annual occurrence of at least one difference between the lineups of Best Director Oscar and the DGA Award nominees. In only five of the  77 years of the DGA Awards have the Guild nominations exactly mirrored their Academy Award counterparts.

    This time around Edward Berger and Coralie Fargeat are in line with the predominant history. Fargeat earned a Best Director Oscar nomination this week for The Substance (MUBI). Berger, who didn’t make the directorial Oscar cut, earned a DGA Award nomination for Conclave (Focus Features).

    Four of the five directors vying for the DGA Award and the Outstanding Achievement in Directing Oscar are in sync this year: Jacques Audiard for Emilia Pérez (Netflix) Sean Baker for Anora (Neon), Brady Corbet for The Brutalist (A24), and James Mangold for A Complete Unknown (Searchlight).

    On the flip side of tradition, if Fargeat were to win the directing Oscar, that development wouldn’t be aligned with but rather bucking history. Only eight times has the DGA Award winner not gone on to win the Oscar. That happened most recently in 2020 when Sam Mendes won the DGA Award for 1917 while Bong Joon-ho scored the Oscar for Parasite.

    Fargeat has already made a bit of history, scoring just the 10th Best Director Oscar nomination ever for a woman.

    The Substance is up for five Oscars–the other nominations being for Best Picture, Leading Actress (Demi Moore), Original Screenplay (Fargeat), and Makeup & Hairstyling  (Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stephanie Guillon, Marilyne Scarselli).

    Even without a Best Director nomination, Conclave tallied eight Oscar nods–for Best Picture, Leading Actor (Ralph Fiennes), Supporting Actress (Isabella Rossellini), Adapted Screenplay (Peter Straughan), Film Editing (Nick Emerson), Production Design (production designer Suzie Davies, set decorator Cynthia Sleiter), Costume Design (Lisy Christi) and Original Score (Volker Bertelmann)

    Topping this year’s overall Oscar nominations derby was Emilia Pérez with 13, followed by The Brutalist and Wicked (Universal) with 10 apiece.

    The nominees for best picture are: Anora; The Brutalist; A Complete Unknown; Conclave; Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros.Pictures); Emilia Pérez; I’m Still Here (Sony Pictures Classics); Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios); The Substance; and Wicked.

    This is the 13th installment of our weekly 16-part The Road To Oscar Series of feature stories. The 97th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 2.

    Category:Road To Oscar Annual Series
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    Thursday, January 23, 2025

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