Directors Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan emerged triumphant at the 75th annual DGA Awards held Saturday night at the Beverly Hilton. The duo topped a field that included Todd Field, Steven Spielberg, Joseph Kosinski and Martin McDonagh.
The award to the Daniels for their “Everything Everywhere All at Once” was presented by Chloe Zhao, who took home the top prize for “Nomadland”in 2020.
Judd Apatow hosted the show for the fourth time, getting in zingers like “This show is so irrelevant, it’s shocking Elon Musk hasn’t bought it yet.” He also noted the lack of female nominees in the top category of outstanding directorial achievement in theatrical feature film.
“Some people are complaining this year that all five of the best director nominees are men, but that’s not true,” Apatow said. “One of the nominees is two men (the Daniels). … It must be tough for James Cameron to have made yet another one of the most technically innovative films of all time and then lose out on a DGA nomination to two guys who made a movie with a dildo fight.”
Yet women directors fared well in the first time director’s category with four of the five nominees being female. The trophy was taken by Charlotte Wells for “Aftersun,” although she was in London for the BAFTAs and could not attend.
You can check out all the winners here.
