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Taika Waititi Receives DGA Awards Nomination For Best Director For JOJO RABBIT – See All The Nominations – We Are Movie Geeks

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Taika Waititi Receives DGA Awards Nomination For Best Director For JOJO RABBIT – See All The Nominations

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Writer/Director Taika Waititi on the set of JOJO RABBIT. Photo by Larry Horricks. © 2019 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation All Rights Reserved

Directors Guild of America President Thomas Schlamme today announced the five nominees for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for 2019.

“In a year full of excellent films, DGA members have chosen an extraordinary group of filmmakers to nominate for this year’s Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film Award,” said Schlamme. “These directors represent the highest standard of filmmaking, and their films are a testament to innovative storytelling, artistic achievement, and the passion that filmmakers share with their audiences. Being nominated by their peers is what makes this award particularly meaningful for directors, and I congratulate all of the nominees for their outstanding work.”

The 72nd Annual DGA Awards will take place at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, January 25, 2020.

BONG JOON HO Parasite (Neon)

Mr. Bong’s Directorial Team:

  • Unit Production Manager: Park Min Chul 
  • First Assistant Director: Kim Seong Sik
(from left) Director Sam Mendes, Dean-Charles Chapman and George MacKay on the set of Mendes’ new epic, “1917.”
SAM MENDES 1917 (Universal Pictures)

Mr. Mendes’s Directorial Team:

  • Unit Production Managers: Callum McDougall, Hannah Godwin
  • First Assistant Director: Michael Lerman
  • Second Assistant Director: Joey Coughlin
PHOTO CREDIT Niko Tavernise/ Netflix
MARTIN SCORSESE The Irishman (Netflix)

Mr. Scorsese’s Directorial Team:

  • Unit Production Managers: John A. Machione, Carla Raij
  • First Assistant Director: David Webb
  • Second Assistant Director: Jeremy Marks
  • Second Second Assistant Director: Trevor Tavares
  • Additional Second Assistant Director: Ryan Robert Howard
  • Location Manager: Kip Myers
Quentin Tarantino directing a scene from ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD.
PHOTO BY: ANDREW COOPER © 2019 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
QUENTIN TARANTINO Once Upon a Time in … Hollywood (Columbia Pictures)

Mr. Tarantino’s Directorial Team:

  • Unit Production Managers: Georgia Kacandes, Nathan Kelly
  • First Assistant Director: William Paul Clark
  • Second Assistant Director: Christopher T. Sadler
  • Second Second Assistant Director: Brendan “Bear” Lee
  • Additional Second Assistant Directors: Debbie Chung, Katie Pruitt

Writer/Director Taika Waititi on the set of JOJO RABIT. Photo by Kimberley French. © 2019 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation All Rights Reserved
TAIKA WAITITI Jojo Rabbit (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Mr. Waititi’s Directorial Team:

  • Unit Production Managers: Václav Mottl, Pavel Voráček
  • First Assistant Director: Mark Taylor
  • Second Assistant Director: Martina Götthansová
  • Second Second Assistant Director: Martina Frimelová

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