Mank, Lee Isaac Chung for
Minari, Emerald Fennell for
Promising Young Woman and Aaron Sorkin for
The Trial Of The Chicago 7. Zhao is only the second woman ever to win this award in the DGA’s 73 years of handing out awards like this, with the other being Kathryn Bigelow for
The Hurt Locker in 2009, which also makes Zhao the first woman of color to ever win the top prize from the DGA.
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Elsewhere in the awards, Darius Marder’s good weekend went on, with
Sound Of Metal’s BAFTA win setting up a win for First-Time Feature at the DGAs. On the TV side of things, Lesli Linka Glatter won in the dramatic category for