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Christopher Nolan And Celine Song Win Top Film Prizes at DGA Awards
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The Directors Guild of America Awards, considered an important precursor to the Academy Awards in March, handed out top prizes to directors Celine Song and Christopher Nolan.
Who won for movies: Christopher Nolan won the theatrical feature film award for Oppenheimer, his fifth career nomination in the category. Oppenheimer is up for 13 Oscar statues, including best director. Celine Song won the DGA's first-time theatrical feature film category for Past Lives, which is up for best picture and best original screenplay at the Academy Awards.
Who won in TV: Peter Hoar won the dramatic series category for directing The Last of Us episode "Long, Long Time," while Christopher Storer won the DGA's comedic series award for directing The Bear's episode "Fishes."
Who else was nominated: Christopher Nolan beat out fellow directors Martin Scorsese, Yorgos Lanthimos, Alexander Payne and Greta Gerwig, the latter of whom was controversially snubbed for the Oscar best director nomination for Barbie. The first-time directing nominees included Cord Jefferson, who's up for best picture at the Oscars for American Fiction.
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See the full list of DGA winners here, and check out Larry Mantle's conversation with Celine Song below on the making of Past Lives and her plans for the future.
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