The Directors Guild of America has announced its 2025 award nominees, shaking up an already-chaotic awards season. Emilia Pérez ’s Jacques Audiard, Anora ’s Sean Baker, Conclave ’s Edward Berger, The Brutalist ’s Brady Corbet,

The Brutalist’s Adrien Brody was choked up and shaking accepting a NYFCC award while the Los Angeles fires continues.

The directors of "A Complete Unknown" and "The Brutalist" are among the five nominees for the 2025 Directors Guild of America Awards. Find out who else was nominated.

Jacques Audiard, Sean Baker, Edward Berger, Brady Corbet, and James Mangold are the 2025 Directors Guild Award nominees. The Directors Guild announced the DGA Awards nominees on Wednesday, hours after the Screen Actors Guild Award revealed its 2025 nominations.

In his best-director acceptance speech during Sunday's Golden Globe Awards, "The Brutalist" filmmaker Brady Corbet sent his support to Plaza, whose husband, Jeff Baena, died on Friday.

We update our picks through awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2025 Oscar predictions. Once again, the last time the Best Original Screenplay Oscar was won exclusively by someone who did not direct the film was in 2011 for "The King's Speech.

The nominations for the 2025 Bafta were announced by Mia McKenna Bruce and Will Sharpe at the organisations London headquarters.

Ahead of next week's announcement, BBC Culture's film critics forecast the likely contenders – from a musical about a trans crime boss to an architectural epic with Adrien Brody.

Adrien Brody won best actor at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards and gave an emotional speech reflecting on the California fires.

Sean Baker for “Anora,” Brady Corbet for “The Brutalist,” James Mangold for “A Complete Unknown,” Jacques Audiard for “Emilia Pérez,” and Edward Berger for “Conclave” have been nominated for the Feature Film directing prize from the DGA Awards on behalf of the Directors Guild of America.

"Anora," Sean Baker's raucous dramedy about a Brooklyn sex worker who falls for the scion of a Russian mobster, is the best film of the year, said the Houston Film Critics Society in a Tuesday morning release.

The Brutalist director Brady Corbet clarified how AI tools were used on the film during postproduction after social media outrage about the practice spread widely over the weekend. In a statement provided to Gold Derby,