The guild awards cycle moved on to the Directors Guild of America on Saturday night, and Alejandro González Iñárritu headed back to the podium after last year's win for Birdman and picked up the Feature Film award for The Revenant.
We're also happy to see that Alex Garland picked up another award for Ex Machina, scoring the First-Time Feature Film Prize. And kudos to Veep's Chris Addison for the TV prize.
Elsewhere, it was a blend of regular winners (Game Of Thrones often scores such awards) and new faces, such as Cartel Land's Matthew Heineman).
So what does the DGA win for Iñárritu tell us? Mostly that the Oscar race is still wide open in terms of the big categories, but it's got to make him once more the clear favorite to take Best Director. To see more on Oscar prognostication, see our guide here. The full list of DGA winners is below.
Feature Film
Alejandro González Iñárritu, The Revenant
Outstanding Directorial Achievement Of A First-Time Feature Film Director
Alex Garland, Ex Machina
Outstanding Directorial Achievement In Dramatic Series
David Nutter, Game Of Thrones, “Mother’s Mercy”
Outstanding Directorial Achievement In Comedy Series
Chris Addison, Veep, “Election Night”
Outstanding Directorial Achievement In Movies For Television And Miniseries
Dee Rees, Bessie
Outstanding Directorial Achievement In Documentary
Matthew Heineman, Cartel Land
Outstanding Directorial Achievement In Reality Programs
Adam Vetri, Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Challenge, “Gods Of War”
Outstanding Directorial Achievement In Children’s Programs
Kenny Ortega, Descendants
Outstanding Directorial Achievement In Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Specials
Don Roy King, Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special
Outstanding Directorial Achievement In Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Regularly Scheduled Programming
Dave Diomedi, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, “Episode #325”
Outstanding Directorial Achievement In Commercials
Andreas Nilsson, Emily’s Oz for Comcast, Time Upon A Once for General Electric, Dad Song for Old Spice