Best movie of the year? Neither Spielberg nor Top Gun Maverick at the 2023 DGA Awards

On March 12, Kinoplaneta has a meeting at the 95th Oscar ceremony. Above the Hollywood crowd, a few events are starting to produce winners… or shuffle cards. This is the case 75th DGA Awardswhich took place this Saturday, February 18 in Los Angeles, and which crowned the year’s best directors as chosen by their approximately 19,000 peers from the Directors and Directors Guild.

While Steven Spielberg, who has been nominated for the 13th time in his career, was a heavy favorite after picking up a Golden Globe earlier in the year for The Fabelmans, he ultimately preferred another director. Or rather, two, because it was the duo of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, who won the award for the best cinematography of the year, for the film “All at once.” An award that now positions them as likely Oscar winners in a few weeks, the DGA Awards’ list of winners has differed from the Oscars only eight times in 75 years.

The multiverse film, the year’s surprise Atlantic hit with more than $70 million, also favored Martin McDonough (The Banshees of Inisherin), Todd Field (Tár) and Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun maverick). The film carried Tom Cruise, the savior “Hollywood Bread” However, according to Spielberg himself, he did not leave empty-handed, with (very) direct attacks on master of ceremonies Judd Apatow in his speech.

The director thereby caused the size of the actor (“The special effects were so good I couldn’t see the pile of phone books Tom Cruise was sitting on to get to the controls”), his old escapades (“Remember when Tom Cruise was jumping off couches we all thought he was crazy, and now he’s jumping off a cliff on a motorcycle and thinks he’s fine!”) or membership in the Church of Scientology (“Every time he does a new stunt, I feel like I’m watching a Scientology commercial. Is it in Dianetics? Because there’s nothing in the Torah about jumping off a cliff.”). the atmosphere.

The other winners were Euphoria (Director for a Drama Series), Barry (Director for a Comedy Series, the third title for Bill Hader… in three seasons!), Station Eleven (Director for a Miniseries), Documentary Fire of Love, and Aftersun for First Feature Director. In this category, the feature film by Charlotte Wells, which was released on our screens on February 1, was preferred over two French works: Alice Diop’s Saint Omer and Audrey Divane’s L’Evénement.

DGA Awards 2023 winners

Best achievement for cinema

• Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – everything everywhere at once

Best Directing for a First Feature Film

• Charlotte Wells – Aftersun

Best Directing for a Drama Series

• Sam Levinson – Euphoria (S2E5 “Standing Like a Hummingbird”)

Best Directing for a Comedy Series

• Bill Hader – Barry (S3E6 “710N”)

Best Directing for a Miniseries

• Helen Shaver – Station Eleven (S1E8 “Who’s There?”)

Best Directing for a Documentary Film

• Sara Dosa – Fire of Love