The Directors Guild of America has nominated Bradley Cooper, Alfonso Cuarón, Peter Farrelly, Spike Lee and Adam McKay as the best feature film directors of 2018 in Directors Guild Awards announced on Tuesday.Cooper was nominated for “A Star Is Born,” Cuarón for “Roma,” Farrelly for “Green Book,” Lee for “BlacKkKlansman” and McKay for “Vice.”Lee is only the fifth black directors nominated for the award.
All five of those nominations have come in the last decade, starting with Lee Daniels in 2010 and including Steve McQueen in 2014, Barry Jenkins in 2017 and Jordan Peele in 2018.For the last five years in a row, four of the five DGA nominees have gone on to receive Oscar nominations for Best Director.
Over their seven-decade history, the Directors Guild Awards have been an extremely accurate predictor of the Oscars,
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