| Kenneth Branagh
(Belfast) |
Jane Campion
(The Power of the Dog) |
Denis Villeneuve
(Dune) |
Guillermo del Toro
(Nightmare Alley) |
Reinaldo Marcus Green
(King Richard) |
Twenty Contenders On the Radar:
- Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)
- Steven Spielberg (West Side Story)
- Lin Manuel Miranda (Tick, Tick… Boom!)
- Joel Coen (The Tragedy of Macbeth)
- Pablo Larrain (Spencer)
- Ridley Scott (House of Gucci)
- Pedro Almodóvar (Parallel Mothers)
- Mike Mills (C’mon C’mon)
- Joe Wright (Cyrano)
- Ridley Scott (The Last Duel)
- Aaron Sorkin (Being the Ricardos)
- Sian Heder (CODA)
- Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Lost Daughter)
- Adam McKay (Don’t Look Up)
- Paolo Sorrentino (The Hand of God)
- Asghar Farhadi (A Hero)
- Wes Anderson (The French Dispatch)
- George Clooney (The Tender Bar)
- Julia Ducournau (Titane)
- Jonas Poher Rasmussen (Flee)