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Nominees: 2017 DGA Awards

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The Directors Guild of America always provides a decent set of parameters to base Oscar predictions, and following the announcement of their nominees there may be an adjustment or two among us experts.

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The biggest surprise was no Scorsese. Instead Garth Davis received his first nomination for Lion. The other nominees were expected – Chazelle, Jenkins and Lonergan among them.

See the feature film nominees below, and click here for the full list including all television categories.


2017 DGA Awards: The Nominees

Feature Film
Damien Chazelle, La La Land
Garth Davis, Lion
Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea
Denis Villeneuve, Arrival

First Time Feature Film
Garth Davis, Lion
Kelly Fremon Craig, The Edge of Seventeen
Tim Miller, Deadpool
Nate Parker, The Birth of a Nation
Dan Trachtenberg, 10 Cloverfield Lane

Documentary
Otto Bell, The Eagle Huntress
Ezra Edelman, O.J.: Made in America
Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg, Weiner
Raoul Peck, I Am Not Your Negro
Roger Ross Williams, Life, Animated

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