Oscars Watch: 69th Annual Directors Guild of America Award Nominees

• DAMIEN CHAZELLE
  “La La Land”
  (Lionsgate)

• GARTH DAVIS
  “Lion”
  (The Weinstein Company)

• BARRY JENKINS
  “Moonlight”
  (A24)

• KENNETH LONERGAN
  “Manchester by the Sea”
  (Amazon Studios and Roadside Attractions)

• DENIS VILLENEUVE
  “Arrival”
  (Paramount Pictures)

OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT OF A FIRST-TIME FEATURE FILM DIRECTOR FOR 2016

• GARTH DAVIS
  “Lion”
  (The Weinstein Company)

• KELLY FREMON CRAIG
  “The Edge of Seventeen”
  (STX Entertainment)

• TIM MILLER
  “Deadpool”
  (Twentieth Century Fox)

• NATE PARKER
  “The Birth of a Nation”
  (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

• DAN TRACHTENBERG
  “10 Cloverfield Lane”
  (Paramount Pictures)