Directors from FX’s “Fosse/Verdon” earned three of the six Directors Guild of America nominations Monday for TV movies/limited series.
Thomas Kail, Minkie Spiro and Jessica Yu were all nominated for their work on various episodes of the series, which centers on choreographer Bob Fosse and actress/dancer Gwen Verdon. Also earning nods in the category were Ava DuVernay for Netflix’s “When They See Us,” Vince Gilligan for Netflix’s “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie” and Johan Renck for HBO’s “Chernobyl.”
Directors of episodes of “Real Time With Bill Maher,” “CBS Sunday Morning,” “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” “Saturday Night Live” and “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” scored nominations for regularly scheduled variety/talk/news/sports directing, while reality programming nods went to directors from “Queer Eye,” “Encore!,” “The Chef Show,” “First Responders Live” and “American Ninja Warrior.”
DGA nominations in feature film categories will be announced Tuesday, while additional television nominations, including comedy and drama series, will be unveiled Friday.
The DGA Awards will be presented Jan. 25 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.
Here is a complete list of DGA nominees announced Monday:
MOVIES FOR TELEVISION AND LIMITED SERIES
— Ava DuVernay, “When They See Us” (Netflix)
— Vince Gilligan, “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie” (Netflix)
— Thomas Kail, “Fosse/Verdon — Nowadays,” (FX Networks)
— Johan Renck, “Chernobyl” (HBO)
— Minkie Spiro, “Fosse/Verdon — All I Care About Is Love” (FX Networks)
— Jessica Yu, “Fosse/Verdon — Glory” (FX Networks)
VARIETY/TALK/NEWS/SPORTS – REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING
— Paul G. Casey, “Real Time With Bill Maher” (HBO)
— Nora S. Gerard, “CBS Sunday Morning” (CBS)
— Jim Hoskinson, “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (CBS)
— Don Roy King, “Saturday Night Live” (NBC)
— Paul Pennolino, Christopher Werner, “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” (HBO)
REALITY PROGRAMS
— Hisham Abed, “Queer Eye” (Netflix)
— Jason Cohen, “Encore!” (Disney+)
— Jon Favreau, “The Chef Show” (Netflix)
— Ashley S. Gorman, “First Responders Live”(Fox)
— Patrick McManus, “American Ninja Warrior” (NBC)
CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS
— Dean Israelite, “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” (Nickelodeon)
— Jack Jameson, “Sesame Street’s 50th Anniversary Special” (HBO Documentary Films)
— Luke Matheny, “Ghostwriter” (Apple TV+)
— Amy Schatz, “Song of Parkland” (HBO Documentary Films)
— Barry Sonnenfeld, “A Series of Unfortunate Events” (Netflix)
COMMERCIALS
— Fredrik Bond, “Lighter Than Air,” HP Elite Dragonfly – Media Monks; “Take it Lightly,” Coca-Cola Light – Ingo; “Nap,” iPhone – Apple
— Spike Jonze, “Dream It,” Squarespace – Squarespace; “The New Normal,” Medmen – Mekanism
— Mark Molloy, “Underdogs,” Apple – Apple
— Ridley Scott, “The Seven Worlds,” Hennessy X.O. – DDB Paris
— Dougal Wilson, “Train,” AT&T – BBDO NY
DOCUMENTARY
— Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, “American Factory” (Netflix)
— Feras Fayyad, “The Cave” (National Geographic Documentary Films)
— Alex Holmes, “Maiden” (Sony Picture Classics)
— Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska, “Honeyland” (Neon)
— Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang, “One Child Nation” (Amazon Studios)