Christopher Nolan has confirmed his position as a near-certainty for the best director Oscar after winning the top prize at the Directors Guild of America awards for Oppenheimer on Saturday.
Nolan’s rivals for the award, voted on by members of the US’s premier guild for film and TV directors, included Martin Scorsese for Killers of the Flower Moon and Yorgos Lanthimos for Poor Things. Greta Gerwig was also in the running for Barbie, having failed to secure an Oscar nomination, but Nolan was the strong favourite, having already won a string of best director awards this year, including at the Golden Globes, and the American and Canadian Critics Choice awards.
