Dune 2 and Anora
The Best Director race for the Oscars 2025 includes some notable directors who have yet to win in the category, as well as some previous winners hoping to pull an upset. The 2025 awards season has a very different group of contenders for Best Director compared to 2024. While Martin Scorsese and Christopher Nolan were the clear top two choices to win, this new year is a more wide-open competition.
There's also the group of filmmakers who could break through with a nomination even if the Best Picture nom does not accompany the film. Jason Reitman , Pablo Larraín , Luca Guadagnino , Coralie Fargeat , and Chris Sanders are a few directors who remain in the discussion. These names will need some excellent campaigns to become stronger contenders for a nomination, though.
It is worth noting that the Silver Lion is not always a direct sign that a director will get a Best Director nomination, let alone win it all. Since 2010, only one director has won the Silver Lion and then got a Best Director nomination: Jane Campion for The Power of the Dog. Campion did notably win the category in 2022, but the Academy rarely lines up with Venice's choice for Best Director.
This would be Denis Villeneuve's second Best Director nomination if it happens. He was nominated in 2017 for Arrival but lost to Damien Chazelle for La La Land. Getting the nomination would be a great sign for Dune 2's Oscar chances overall, but whether it can actually get Villeneuve a win in the category is a different question. If the movie came out later in the year and Villeneuve's technical mastery was fresh in voters' minds, it could have a better shot.
The case for Sean Baker's nomination and possible win currently rests largely on Anora's standing in Oscar circles and a rather important win at Cannes. Anora won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize. This is notable for Baker because the directors of three out of the last four Palme d'Or winning movies went on to get Oscar nominations: Bong Joon-ho , Ruben Östlund , and Justine Triet . Of those three, Bong Joon-ho was the only one to win Best Director at the Oscars.
Audiard currently does not have a lot of precursors that help point toward him edging out the competition for a win, nor does he have a strong history with the Academy. His film The Prophet was nominated for Best International Feature Film in 2010, but his directing was not directly recognized. That makes his selection here more of a showing of faith in Emilia Pérez as a legitimate Oscars contender across the board.
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