Every last Gold Derby handicapper but one picked The Brutalist‘s Brady Corbet to win the DGA top prize tonight, and he hasn’t! The GD know-it-alls were all wrong because Anora‘s Sean Baker has won it!

10:06 pm update: Anora has also won the Producers Guild Daryl F. Zanuck award….amazing! Pop the champagne!!

This means, of course, that Baker will almost certainly take the Best Director Oscar, and that Anora is now very well positioned to take the Best Picture Oscar as well.

On top of Anora‘s Critics Choice win last night, this is truly glorious news!

Brady Corbet is almost certainly wearing a long face right now. The pot-bellied director of HE’s least favorite film of the year has come up short, and all the angels in heaven are singing a joyful hymn composed by Miklos Rozsa.

Every HE commenter who’s been shitting on Anora and/or its Oscar chances needs to drop to his or her knees right now and kiss HE’s ass. You know who you are. Admit you were wrong…don’t hide your faces.

I find it hilarious that “This Is Heavy, Doc”, the pushiest, most full-of-toxic-conviction anti-Anora commenter in HE-land, hasn’t said a word so far. He’s hiding! He’s in shock!

Gold Derby wrongos!!

February 8, 2025by Jeff WellsNo Comments