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This tumultuous Oscar season has a certified front-runner.<\/p>\n
On Saturday night in Los Angeles, more than a month after \u201cAnora\u201d lost every award it was nominated for at the Golden Globes, the Sean Baker-directed comedy took top honors at awards shows held by the Directors Guild of America and the Producers Guild of America. The later victory is especially telling: Since 2009, when both the PGA and the academy expanded their number of best-film nominees from five, the PGA winner has gone on to claim the best-picture Oscar all but three times.<\/p>\n
The ceremonies were held opposite each other in Beverly Hills and Baker had to race from the DGAs, which wrapped first, to the PGAs. While accepting his award at the earlier ceremony, he appeared gobsmacked.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy impostor syndrome is skyrocketing right now,\u201d Baker said, \u201cas well as my cortisol levels.\u201d<\/p>\n
The victories capped a good weekend for \u201cAnora,\u201d which also won the top prize at the Critics Choice Awards<\/a> on Friday night. And though Baker may be battling impostor syndrome, 18 of the last 20 DGA winners also went on to take the best-director Oscar, which puts him in good company.<\/p>\n Other winners at both shows included \u201cShogun,\u201d and \u201cHacks,\u201d which won drama-series and comedy-series awards, respectively. \u201cNickel Boys\u201d director RaMell Ross took the DGA award for first-time theatrical filmmaker.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u201cEmilia P\u00e9rez,\u201d which led the Oscar field with 13 nominations but has been battered by controversy involving old tweets made by its star Karla Sof\u00eda Gasc\u00f3n<\/a>, failed to take a prize at either ceremony.<\/p>\n Here is the list of PGA winners:<\/p>\n Feature Film<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cAnora\u201d<\/p>\n Animated Feature<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe Wild Robot\u201d<\/p>\n Documentary<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cSuper\/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story\u201d<\/p>\n Episodic Drama<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cShogun\u201d<\/p>\n Episodic Comedy<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cHacks\u201d<\/p>\n Limited or Anthology Series<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cBaby Reindeer\u201d<\/p>\n Television Movie or Streamed Movie<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe Greatest Night in Pop\u201d<\/p>\n Nonfiction Television<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cSTEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces\u201d<\/p>\n Live, Variety, Sketch, Stand-up or Talk Show<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d<\/p>\n Game or Competition Show<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe Traitors\u201d<\/p>\n Sports Program<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cSimone Biles Rising\u201d<\/p>\n Children\u2019s Program<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u201cSesame Street\u201d<\/p>\n Short-Form Program<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cSuccession: Controlling the Narrative\u201d<\/p>\n And here is the list of DGA winners. For the complete list, go to dga.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n Feature<\/strong><\/p>\n Sean Baker, \u201cAnora\u201d<\/p>\n Read our review.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n First-Time Feature<\/strong><\/p>\n RaMell Ross, \u201cNickel Boys\u201d<\/p>\n Read our review.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Documentary<\/strong><\/p>\n Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev, \u201cPorcelain War\u201d<\/p>\n Drama Series<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cShogun,\u201d Frederick E.O. Toye<\/p>\nFilm<\/span><\/h3>\n
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