DGA Awards: Greta Gerwig, Christopher Nolan Among 2024 Film Nominees:

On Wednesday, the Directors Guild of America (DGA) announced its film nominations for the 2024 DGA Awards.

Nominees include Greta Gerwig (Barbie), Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things), Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer), Alexander Payne (The Holdovers) and Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon). In the first-time director category, Cord Jefferson (American Fiction), Manuela Martelli (Chile ’76), Noora Niasari (Shayda), A.V. Rockwell (A Thousand and One) and Celine Song (Past Lives) received nominations.

This is Scorsese’s 11th DGA nomination in the same category — he won for The Departed in 2007. Only Steven Spielberg has received more, with 13. Nolan now has five under his belt, with no wins so far. Payne was nominated twice before but didn’t win the award either year. Gerwig, whose nomination is the 13th time a woman has been nominated in the category, received a nod in 2018 for Lady Bird.

Last year, female directors were notably shut out from the nominations, in a year where several awards contenders had female filmmakers. However, that year, female directors fared much better in the first-time director category, with women picking up four of the five nominations.

Also last year, the DGA renamed its first-time filmmaker award as the Michael Apted Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First-Time Theatrical Feature Film, in honor of past DGA president Michael Apted.

“In a year full of so many extraordinary films, DGA members have nominated an incredible group of gifted storytellers,” DGA president Lesli Linka Glatter said in a statement. “Their films fused technical prowess with unique artistic visions that captured the depth of the human experience and left an indelible impact on audiences around the world. Congratulations to these superb directors on their well-deserved nominations.”

The DGA announced its nominations for outstanding directing in television, commercials and documentaries Tuesday. The winners in all categories will be revealed at the 76th Annual DGA Awards, which will take place on Feb. 10 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.

See the nominees at The Hollywood Reporter.