NEW YORK (AP) โ Christopher Nolan, Greta Gerwig and Martin Scorsese have been nominated by the Directors Guild for its top award.
The nominations to the 76th DGA Awards, which followed those by the Screen Actors Guild earlier Wednesday, went as expected. The other two nominees for the guild's top award, for outstanding directorial achievement, are Alexander Payne for โThe Holdovers" and Yorgos Lanthimos for โPoor Things.โ
Nolan's nomination, for โOppenheimer,โ is his fifth DGA nod though he's never won before. Gerwig, nominated for โBarbie,โ was previously nominated for 2017's โLady Bird.โ Scorsese's nomination for โKillers of the Flower Moonโ is his 13th DGA nod; he has previously won for 2006's โThe Departedโ and for the series โBoardwalk Empire.โ

The Directors Guild nominees often closely align with those of the Academy Awards. Over the past two decades, the winner of the DGA award has nearly always also triumphed at the Oscars. Last year, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert won both awards for โEverything Everywhere All at Once.โ
The DGA's nominees for first-time feature filmmaker went to Cord Jefferson for โAmerican Fiction,โ Manuela Martelli for "Chile '76"," Noora Niasari for โShayda,โ A.V. Rockwell for โA Thousand and Oneโ and Celine Song for โPast Lives.โ
The guild earlier on Tuesday announced other categories. The DGA nominations for best documentary are: โ20 Days in Mariupol,โ โBobi Wine: The Peopleโs President,โ โBeyond Utopia,โ โKokomo City" and โStill: A Michael J. Fox Movie." HBOโs โSuccessionโ led the TV nominations, with four out of five nominations for direction.
76th annual DGA Awards will be held Feb. 10.