The Directors Guild of America announced its five nominees for the Best Director of 2015. The award is an incredibly reliable predictor of who eventually wins the Oscar.
This year’s nominees are Alejandro G. Inarritu for The Revenant; Tom McCarthy for Spotlight; Adam McKay for The Big Short; George Miller for Mad Max: Fury Road; and Ridley Scott for The Martian.
Inarritu, who won the Golden Globe for Best Director on Sunday, also won the DGA award last year for Birdman. He went on to win the Oscar and the film won Best Picture. Inarritu also has a DGA nomination for Babel (2006).
Scott has also been nominated for Thelma and Louise (1991), Gladiator (2000) and Black Hawk Down (2001).
The other three nominees have never been nominated before.
The DGA is really good at predicting the eventual Oscar winner. While their nomination fields might differ, since 2001, only two directors lost the Oscar and won the DGA award. Those are Rob Marshall for Chicago (2002) and Ben Affleck for Argo (2012). Even more impressive is the fact that since the DGA Award began in 1948, only seven winners didn’t win the Oscar.
The DGA also added a new category to honor first-time directors. The nominees in that category are Fernando Coimbra for A Wolf at the Door; Joel Edgerton for The Gift; Alex Garland for Ex Machina; Marielle Heller for The Diary of a Teenage Girl; and Laszlo nemes for Son of Saul.
The DGAs are on Feb. 6 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza. Jane Lynch is hosting.
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