Being the Ricardos suddenly popped up in the all important PGA and WGA nominees lists- could it snag a Best Picture nomination?
The Producers Guild nominations are here! The PGA often matches Best Picture and uses the same kind of ballot as the Academy, though theirs may have one or two mismatches. The big surprise of the PGA is Being the Ricardos, which suddenly showed up both here and at WGA (which kinda makes it seem like Nicole Kidman might be the lock for Best Actress?) And the big snub was Spider-Man, which I actually thought would get in at PGA, and that the Academy would be the harder swing for it. If it couldn’t even manage it here, the guild that nominated Avengers, Wonder Woman and Deadpool…I’d say that BP nom is probably not happening.
2022 PGA NOMINEES
Being the Ricardos
Belfast
CODA
Don’t Look Up
Dune
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
The Power of the Dog
tick, tick…BOOM!
West Side Story
Now, the DGA. The Directors Guild is still the most important one for Best Picture, as the winner will always be one of these five films. I wouldn’t say there were any big surprises here (though maybe Paul Thomas Anderson is one, as he’s more of a highbrow choice for the usually populist DGA- he couldn’t even get in here for Phantom Thread). In fact, usually the directors branch of the Academy goes four for five or even three for five with the DGA, but this year I suspect these five will the ones chosen in the end by the Academy too. Unless Spielberg falls out for someone else, given West Side Story’s relative weakness in the guilds, but for who? The directors branch is usually more elite and arthouse, so if someone like Adam McKay, Aaron Sorkin or Reinaldo Marcus Green made it there over here, that’d be a surprise. But it could happen.
2022 DGA NOMINEES
Jane Campion has long been the frontrunner for Best Director this year, for The Power of the Dog- can it take Picture too?
Theatrical Feature
Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice PIzza
Kenneth Branagh, Belfast
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Steven Spielberg, West Side Story
Denis Villenueve, Dune
First Time Feature
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter
Rebecca Hall, Passing
Tatiana Huezo, Prayers for the Stolen
Lin-Manuel Miranda, tick, tick…BOOM!
Michael Sarniski, Pig
Emma Seligman, Shiva Baby
