2022 Dga And Wga Award Nominations For Feature Films Include Dune Licorice Pizza More

2022 DGA And WGA Award Nominations For Feature Films Include Dune, Licorice Pizza & More

MGM By Joshua Meyer/Jan. 27, 2022 9:32 pm EST

The Directors Guild of America (DGA) and Writers Guild of America (WGA) have announced the nominees for their annual awards recognizing the best contributions in feature films. The lists, honoring releases for 2021, contain titles that should be familiar to anyone who has been following along this awards season. As usual, it’s the films that didn’t pick up nominations that might be more surprising.

First up is the DGA list for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film (via The Hollywood Reporter):

Paul Thomas Anderson – “Licorice Pizza” (Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures/United Artists Releasing) Kenneth Branagh – “Belfast” (Focus Features) Jane Campion – “The Power of the Dog” (Netflix) Steven Spielberg – “West Side Story” (20th Century Studios) Denis Villeneuve – “Dune” (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Note that for larger productions like “Licorice Pizza,” “West Side Story,” and “Dune,” there is a whole “directorial team” nominated, including unit production managers and first and second assistant directors. The DGA also has a category for Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director. Netflix made a strong showing in this category, suggesting that it remains an important outlet, at least this year, for less established, more emerging filmmakers. The nominees for said category are:

Maggie Gyllenhaal – “The Lost Daughter” (Netflix) Rebecca Hall – “Passing” (Netflix) Tatiana Huezo – “Prayers for the Stolen” (Netflix) Lin-Manuel Miranda – “Tick, Tick… Boom!” (Netflix) Michael Sarnoski – “Pig” (NEON) Emma Seligman – “Shiva Baby” (Utopia)

2022 DGA And WGA Award Nominations For Feature Films Include Dune, Licorice Pizza & More

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By Joshua Meyer/Jan. 27, 2022 9:32 pm EST

The Directors Guild of America (DGA) and Writers Guild of America (WGA) have announced the nominees for their annual awards recognizing the best contributions in feature films. The lists, honoring releases for 2021, contain titles that should be familiar to anyone who has been following along this awards season. As usual, it’s the films that didn’t pick up nominations that might be more surprising.

First up is the DGA list for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film (via The Hollywood Reporter):

Paul Thomas Anderson – “Licorice Pizza” (Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures/United Artists Releasing) Kenneth Branagh – “Belfast” (Focus Features) Jane Campion – “The Power of the Dog” (Netflix) Steven Spielberg – “West Side Story” (20th Century Studios) Denis Villeneuve – “Dune” (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Note that for larger productions like “Licorice Pizza,” “West Side Story,” and “Dune,” there is a whole “directorial team” nominated, including unit production managers and first and second assistant directors. The DGA also has a category for Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director. Netflix made a strong showing in this category, suggesting that it remains an important outlet, at least this year, for less established, more emerging filmmakers. The nominees for said category are:

Maggie Gyllenhaal – “The Lost Daughter” (Netflix) Rebecca Hall – “Passing” (Netflix) Tatiana Huezo – “Prayers for the Stolen” (Netflix) Lin-Manuel Miranda – “Tick, Tick… Boom!” (Netflix) Michael Sarnoski – “Pig” (NEON) Emma Seligman – “Shiva Baby” (Utopia)

First up is the DGA list for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film (via The Hollywood Reporter):

Note that for larger productions like “Licorice Pizza,” “West Side Story,” and “Dune,” there is a whole “directorial team” nominated, including unit production managers and first and second assistant directors.

Paul Thomas Anderson – “Licorice Pizza” (Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures/United Artists Releasing)

Kenneth Branagh – “Belfast” (Focus Features)

Jane Campion – “The Power of the Dog” (Netflix)

Steven Spielberg – “West Side Story” (20th Century Studios)

Denis Villeneuve – “Dune” (Warner Bros. Pictures)

The DGA also has a category for Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director. Netflix made a strong showing in this category, suggesting that it remains an important outlet, at least this year, for less established, more emerging filmmakers. The nominees for said category are:

Maggie Gyllenhaal – “The Lost Daughter” (Netflix)

Rebecca Hall – “Passing” (Netflix)

Tatiana Huezo – “Prayers for the Stolen” (Netflix)

Lin-Manuel Miranda – “Tick, Tick… Boom!” (Netflix)

Michael Sarnoski – “Pig” (NEON)

Emma Seligman – “Shiva Baby” (Utopia)

From the Directors Guild to the Writers Guild of America

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The nominations for Original Screenplay are:

The nominations for Adapted Screenplay are:

“Don’t Look Up” (Netflix) – Screenplay by Adam McKay, Story by David Sirota

“The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun” (Searchlight Pictures) – Screenplay by Wes Anderson, Story by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola & Hugo Guinness & Jason Schwartzman

“King Richard” (Warner Bros) – Screenplay by Zach Baylin

“Licorice Pizza” (MGM/United Artists Releasing) – Screenplay by Paul Thomas Anderson

“Becoming Cousteau,” “Exposing Muybridge,” and “Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres” were the nominees for Documentary Screenplay.

“CODA” (Apple Original Films) – Siân Heder

“Dune” (Warner Bros) – Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve, Eric Roth

“Nightmare Alley” (Searchlight Pictures) – Guillermo del Toro, Kim Morgan

“Tick, Tick … Boom!” (Netflix) – Steven Levenson

“West Side Story” (20th Century Studios) – Screenplay by Tony Kushner

Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” was frozen out of both the DGA and WGA lists, as was Mike Mills’ “C’mon C’mon.”