Golden Globe-winning director Brady Corbet is among five people who will compete Saturday evening for the coveted Directors Guild of America Award for feature films, while directors from "Shogun," "The Bear" and "The Penguin" lead the way in the TV categories.
Corbet is nominated in the feature film category for "The Brutalist." Also nominated are Jacques Audiard for "Emilia Pérez," Sean Baker for "Anora," Edward Berger for "Conclave" and James Mangold for "A Complete Unknown."
Since 1948, there have only been eight times that the winner of the DGA award for feature film directing has not gone on to win the Oscar for best director. The most recent time was in 2020, when Sam Mendes won the DGA Award for "1917," but the Oscar went to Bong Joon Ho for "Parasite."
Christopher Nolan won the DGA Award and the Oscar last year for "Oppenheimer."
Nominations for the DGA's Award for first-time theatrical films went to Payal Kapadia for "All We Imagine as Light," Megan Park for "My Old Ass," Ramell Ross for "Nickel Boys," Halfdan Ullmann Tondel for "Armand" and Sean Wang for "Didi."
On the small screen, FX's Emmy winner and awards-season favorite "Shogun" has three directors nominated in the drama series category, with nods going to Hiromi Kamata, Frederick E.O. Toye and Jonathan Van Tulleken. Other nominees in the drama category are Alex Graves for Netflix's "Dreadnought" and Issa López for HBO's "True Detective: Night Country."
In the comedy series category, meanwhile, FX's "The Bear" has directing nods for Ayo Edebiri, Duccio Fabbri and Christopher Storer. The other nominations in the category went to Lucia Aniello for "Hacks" and Jeff Schaffer for "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
In the category of movies for television and limited series, HBO's miniseries "The Penguin" has nods for Kevin Bray, Jennifer Getzinger and Helen Shaver. Other nominees are Alfonso Cuarón for "Disclaimer" and Steven Zaillian for "Ripley."
Winners will be announced Saturday at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Ang Lee, best known for helming films including "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Brokeback Mountain" and "Life of Pi," will receive the DGA's Lifetime Achievement Award, the organization announced in December.
-- Hiromi Kamata, Shogun, "Ladies of the Willow World" (FX)
-- Issa López, True Detective: Night Country, "Part 6" (HBO)
-- Jeff Schaffer, Curb Your Enthusiasm, "No Lessons Learned" (HBO)
-- Jennifer Getzinger, The Penguin, "A Great or Little Thing" (HBO)
Variety/Talk/News/Sports - Regularly Scheduled Programming
-- Paul G. Casey, Real Time with Bill Maher, "Jiminy Glick, Andrew Cuomo, Adam Kinzinger" (HBO)
-- Jim Hoskinson, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, "Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez & Mavis Staples w/ Jeff Tweedy" (CBS)
-- David Paul Meyer, The Daily Show, "Indecision 2024: The Democratic National Convention - Plot Twist!" (Comedy Central)
-- Liz Patrick, Saturday Night Live, "John Mulaney / Chappell Roan" (NBC)
-- Paul Pennolino, Last Week Saturday evening with John Oliver, "India Elections" (HBO)
Variety/Talk/News/Sports - Specials
-- Hamish Hamilton, The 96th Annual Academy Awards (ABC)
-- Beth McCarthy-Miller, The Roast of Tom Brady (Netflix)
-- David Paul Meyer, The Daily Show Presents A Live Election Night Special With Jon Stewart: Indecision 2024: Nothing We Can Do About It Now (Comedy Central)
-- Neil DeGroot, Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted, "The Cliffs of Ireland" (National Geographic Channel)
-- Joseph Guidry, Deal Or No Deal Island, "Are You Decisive?" (NBC)
-- Ari Katcher, Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show, "Road Trip" (HBO)
-- Patrick McManus, American Ninja Warrior, "Las Vegas Finals 4" (NBC)
-- Kat Coiro, The Spiderwick Chronicles, "Welcome to Spiderwick" (Roku Channel)
-- Michael Goi, Avatar: The Last Airbender, "Aang" (Netflix)
-- Jim Mickle, Sweet Tooth, "This Is a Story" (Netflix)
-- Jennifer Phang, Descendants: The Rise of Red (Disney+)
-- Lance Acord, Park Pictures, "An American Love Story," Volkswagen - Johannes Leonardo
-- Kim Gehrig, Somesuch (3 commercials, one nomination), "A Life in Sound," SiriusXM - Uncommon; "Am I A Bad Person?", Nike - Wieden+Kennedy"; "Find Your Friends," Apple - Client Direct
-- Tim Heidecker & Eric Wareheim, Prettybird, "Michael CeraVe, CeraVe" -- WPP Onefluence (Ogilvy)
-- Andreas Nilsson, Biscuit Filmworks, "Board Game," Hennessy - Wieden+Kennedy-London
-- Ivan Zachariá, Smuggler, "Flock," Apple - Media Arts Lab
Documentary
-- Brendan Bellomo & Slava Leontyev, "Porcelain War" (Picturehouse)
-- Julian Brave Noisecat & Emily Kassie, "Sugarcane" (National Geographic)
-- Johan Grimonprez, "Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat" (Kino Lorber)