The Directors Guild of America (DGA) announced their nominations for the 70th DGA Awards.

Yesterday, the guild announced their selections for television and documentary. Today's announcement was about feature films. The DGA is one of the most significant indicators of Academy Award nominations.

This year's feature film nominees include four first-time nominees, and one who is receiving his fourth nomination from the guild.

This year's nominees are:

Feature Film Nominees

Guillermo del Toro, "The Shape of Water" (Fox Searchlight)
*First Nomination

Greta Gerwig, "Lady Bird" (A24)
*First Nomination

Martin McDonagh, "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" (Fox Searchlight)
*First Nomination

Christopher Nolan, "Dunkirk" (Warner Bros)
*Fourth Nomination

Jordan Peele, "Get Out" (Universal Pictures)
*First Nomination, also nominated for First-Time Feature Film

First-Time Feature Film

Geremy Jasper, "Patti Cake$" (Fox Searchlight)

William Oldroyd, "Lady Macbeth" (Roadside Attractions)

Jordan Peele, "Get Out" (Universal Pictures)

Taylor Sheridan, "Wind River" (Acacia Entertainment)

Aaron Sorkin, "Molly's Game" (STX Entertainment)

The winners in all categories will be announced at the 70th Annual DGA Awards on Saturday, February 3 in Los Angeles.

Have you missed a precursor?  Click the “PRECURSORS 2017” tag to bring up all the prizes thus far!

CLICK THE CATEGORY TO SEE THE OSCAR PREDICTIONS:

| MOTION PICTURE | DIRECTOR |
| LEAD ACTOR | LEAD ACTRESS | SUPPORTING ACTOR | SUPPORTING ACTRESS | 
| ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY | ADAPTED SCREENPLAY | ANIMATED FEATURE |
| PRODUCTION DESIGN | CINEMATOGRAPHY | COSTUME DESIGN | FILM EDITING | MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING | SOUND MIXING | SOUND EDITING | VISUAL EFFECTS |
| ORIGINAL SCORE | ORIGINAL SONG |
| FOREIGN LANGUAGE | DOCUMENTARY FEATURE |
| ANIMATED SHORT | DOCUMENTARY SHORT | LIVE ACTION SHORT |

 

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