Fellow nominees include Alfonso Cuarón, Peter Farrelly, Spike Lee and Adam McKay.
Could these be this year's Oscar nominees for Best Director?
On Tuesday, the Directors Guild announced their 2019 nominees, generally a primo prognosticator for the the Academy's nominations. This rounds out the major guild awards, with the Screen Actors, Producers and Writers Guilds having previously announced this year's contenders.
Bradley Cooper leads the pack with duel nominations for Outstanding Achievement in Feature Film and in First-Time Feature Film, the former of which recognizes fellow first-time nominees Peter Farrelly and Spike Lee, plus Alfonso Cuarón and Adam McKay. (The same five as Sunday's Golden Globe Awards, where Cuarón came out on top.)
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN FEATURE FILM
Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
Alfonso Cuarón, Roma
Peter Farrelly, Green Book
Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman
Adam McKay, Vice
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT OF A FIRST-TIME FILM
Bo Burnham, Eighth Grade
Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
Carlos López Estrada, Blindspotting
Matthew Heineman, A Private War
Boots Riley, Sorry to Bother You
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN DOCUMENTARY
Morgan Neville, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
RaMell Ross, Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, Free Solo
Tim Wardle, Three Identical Strangers
Betsy West and Julie Cohen, RBG
Guillermo del Toro won with the DGA for The Shape of Water last year and went on to win the Oscar. This year's winner will be announced on Feb. 2 at the 71st Annual DGA Awards at the Hollywood & Highland Center's Ray Dolby Ballroom in Hollywood, California.
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