Sean Baker wins Best Film Director for Anora

DGA Awards: Sean Baker Wins Top Film Prize For ‘Anora'; Ramell Ross Takes First-Time Feature Prize; ‘Porcelain War', ‘Shōgun', ‘Hacks' Among Winners - Full List
Anora helmer Sean Baker won the marquee Theatrical Feature Film prize at the 77th annual DGA Awards, which were handed out tonight at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. Check out the winners list below.
2025 Directors Guild Awards - Sean Baker & RaMell Ross Big Winners
This weekend, the winners of the 77th Annual DGA Awards were announced at a wonderful celebration in Los Angeles. The 2024 awards season starting to wrap up with DGA and PGA winners this weekend, and ending with the Academy Awards airing in early March soon enough.
Sean Baker scores DGA Award for Best Feature for 'Anora'
Sean Baker scored the Directors Guild of America Award for Best Feature for "Anora" at a ceremony in Beverly Hills Saturday.
DGA Awards: Sean Baker Wins for ‘Anora,’ Gaining Major Oscar Momentum (Full Winners List)
"Anora" director Sean Baker has won the DGA Award for Theatrical Feature, gaining significant Oscar momentum ahead of final voting.
Sean Baker Takes DGA Awards Top Prize For ‘Anora’ – How This Could Predict Oscars
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film – for Anora. And if past statistics are a signifier of what’s to come, this is a major indicator for the Oscars Best Director category. “My imposter syndrome is skyrocketing right now,
‘Nickel Boys’ Writer-Director RaMell Ross Talks Reinventing a Point of View
Ross walks THR through a protagonist POV scene in which Elwood, the film’s main character, first catches a glimpse of his new home at reform school after being accused of stealing a car.
Brad Pitt Talks to Director RaMell Ross About How His Basketball Career Unexpectedly Influenced ‘Nickel Boys’
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How RaMell Ross made best picture nominee ‘Nickel Boys’ as ‘visceral’ as real life
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‘The way we shot the film is point of view, which means that the audience is the character’: RaMell Ross on ‘Nickel Boys’
The director of the Academy Award-nominated adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel sees his movie as a chance to touch the ...
Payal Kapadia loses to RaMell Ross
Time Theatrical Feature Film category for her critically acclaimed film All We Imagine As Light at the DGA Awards 2025.
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RaMell Ross reimagines Blackness’s aesthetic in Nickel Boys
When RaMell Ross speaks about filmmaking, he doesn’t talk about entertainment or box office success. Instead, he describes his work as “knowledge production” – a means of engaging with the world’s ...
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How ‘Nickel Boys’ Became One of the Year’s Most Visually Striking Films
When the filmmaker and photographer RaMell Ross first read “The Nickel Boys,” Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two Black boys in a dangerous reform school in the 1960s ...
'We feel what they feel': 'Nickel Boys' actress on the film's perspective and power
The new film 'Nickel Boys' is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead and it focuses on the friendship ...