Can Brady Corbet Hold Off Denis Villeneuve and Ridley Scott for Best Director? - 'For Your Consideration'

On an all-new episode of For Your Consideration — Hollywood’s #1 awards-themed talk show — Scott Mantz, Perri Nemiroff and Jeff Sneider discuss the Best Director race.

Right now, the only real lock who we think will 100 percent be nominated is Sean Baker, the director of Anora, which seems to be the movie that other filmmakers wish they had made this year.

There are still a bunch of contenders that no one will see until NYFF, AFI Fest, and beyond, and those titles hail from master filmmakers such as Clint Eastwood (Juror No. 2), Robert Zemeckis (Here), Ridley Scott (Gladiator II), and Steve McQueen (Blitz), so we’ll revisit this list several times over the next six months ahead of Oscar Sunday.

This week’s episode features plenty of compromises, as I still have a strong suspicion — sight unseen — that McQueen will make the cut with his WWII movie Blitz, while Scott feels that September 5 director Tim Fehlbaum is better positioned.

Reading the tea leaves, it’s looking like it’ll be an uphill battle for any female filmmakers to crack the final five, though Coralie Fargeat (The Substance) remains a distinct possibility, and I urge folks to watch Anna Kendrick’s remarkably assured directorial debut Woman of the Hour when that serial killer thriller hits Netflix next month.

As of now, our CURRENT PREDICTIONS include Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez), Sean Baker (Anora), Edward Berger (Conclave), Brady Corbet (The Brutalist), and Denis Villeneuve (Dune: Part Two).

We have ambitious plans for FYC this season, as we’d like to incorporate some interviews into the show, and possibly host some roundtables as well. So if you represent crafts contenders in the below-the-line categories, or you represent documentaries, animated movies, or international features, please reach out, as we’d love to work with you, and our advertising rates are a bargain considering our collective reach across social media.

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