“1917" filmmaker Sam Mendes won the top prize at the Directors Guild Awards on Saturday night, moving his celebrated movie one step closer to winning the Oscar for best picture. It’s Mendes’ second DGA honor. He won 20 years ago for “American Beauty.” Mendes won the Oscar for the movie too. Across town, cinematographer Roger Deakins collected the American Society of Cinematographers award, as expected, further cementing his inevitable second Oscar. Jason Cohen earned Disney+ its first DGA award for the “Annie” episode of the reality program “Encore!” The children’s programming winner was Amy Schatz for the HBO documentary “Song of Parkland.”

Source: Los Angeles Times January 26, 2020 06:53 UTC