The Best Director nominees for theOscars 2025include some of Hollywood’s rising voices hoping to secure their first win.
The 2025 awards season has a very different group of contenders for Best Director compared to 2024.
It’s often the heavyweight contenders that bring the director into the Best Director race.
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That adds attention to2025’s Best Picture nominated movies.
The results speak for themselves.
That creates an open race as we look to predict the winner.
A woman has only won Best Director twice at the Oscars, too.
Fargeat becomes the ninth woman nominated in the category.
All three helped her get a place in the Best Director race.
It’s even more noteworthy that she got the nomination, considering she was overlooked at DGA.
The 10 Best Picture nominees for the 2025 Oscars are now confirmed.
Here’s each movie ranked in tiers based on their possibility of winning.
Furthermore, there are only eight instances where the DGA winner did not win Best Director at the Oscars.
His only notable nomination for direction before the Oscars was with the DGA.
He otherwise had been mostly recognized for hisA Complete Unknownscreenplay.
That’s not where my head is at, so he belongs near the bottom here.
Here’s how it could impact the film.
His filmThe Prophetwas nominated for Best International Feature Film in 2010, but his directing was not directly recognized.
But he failed to win at each ceremony, cratering his chances to win the Oscar.
However, only Campion and Cuaron won.
Even though no other Venice nominees got Oscar nominations, it remains an early season win for him.
The biggest boost for Corbet came after winning the Golden Globe for Best Director.
However, that was beforeThe Brutalist’s AI controversy.
He fell short of winning at DGA and Critics Choice following the development.
It could’ve given him a final push before Oscars voting closed.
It earned six nominations, including Sean Baker in Best Director.
However, Bong Joon-ho was the only one to win Best Director at the Oscars.
I believe Baker will do the same.
Baker’s odds to win jumped up thanks to his surprise win at DGA.
Overall, the winners match 69 out of 96 times, a 71% match rate.
