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1 8 I D G A M O N T H L Y Nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials Nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Michael Apted Award for First-Time Theatrical Feature Film PAYAL KAPADIA All We Imagine as Light (Sideshow & Janus Films) This is Payal Kapadia's fi rst DGA Award nomination. MEGAN PARK My Old Ass (Amazon MGM Studios) This is Megan Park's fi rst DGA Award nomination. RAMELL ROSS Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures /Amazon MGM Studios) Unit Production Manager: Kenneth Yu First Assistant Director: James Roque Second Assistant Director: Jonathan M. Warren Second Second Assistant Director: Thalia Skaleris Additional Second Assistant Director: Zachery Sherer Location Manager: Batou Chandler This is Ramell Ross's second DGA Award nomination. Ross was previously nominated for the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary Award for Hale County This Morning, This Evening in 2018. HALFDAN ULLMANN TØNDEL Armand (IFC Films) This is Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel's fi rst DGA Award nomination. SEAN WANG Dìdi (Focus Features) This is Sean Wang's fi rst DGA Award nomination. Lance Acord Park Pictures An American Love Story, Volkswagen - Johannes Leonardo Unit Production Manager: Caroline Kousidonis First Assistant Directors: Thomas Smith, Peter Jackson Second Assistant Directors: Carly Sturgeon, John Mattern Second Second Assistant Directors: Matthew Kramer, Reed Baum This is Lance Acord's fi fth DGA Award nomination. Acord was previously nominated in this category in 2016, 2012, 2011 and 2003. Kim Gehrig Somesuch A Life in Sound, SiriusXM - Uncommon First Assistant Director: Kate Greenberg Second Assistant Director: Rebecca Rogers Am I a Bad Person?, Nike - Wieden+Kennedy First Assistant Director: Guy Forgaard Find Your Friends, Apple - Client Direct First Assistant Director: Rodney Smith Second Assistant Director: John Nasraway Second Second Assistant Director: Isaac Mejia Additional Second Second Assistant Directors: Kendall Wilmot, Michael Dudley This is Kim Gehrig's third DGA Award nomination. Gehrig previously won in this category in 2023 for Run This Town, (Apple Music) and The Travelers (Expedia) and nominated in the same category in 2022 for Run Baby Run (iPhone) and Accessibility (Apple). Tim Heidecker & Eric Wareheim Prettybird Michael CeraVe, CeraVe - WPP Onefl uence (Ogilvy) First Assistant Directors: Matthew Smith, Kerstin Emhoff Second Assistant Director: Kiersten Fehlig Second Second Assistant Director: Matthew Hausmann This is Tim Heidecker's fi rst DGA Award nomination. This is Eric Wareheim's fi rst DGA Award nomination. Andreas Nilsson Biscuit Filmworks Board Game, Hennessy - Wieden+Kennedy - London First Offi ce Poo, Andrex - FCB - London One More, Apple - Client Direct First Assistant Director: Scott Harris Second Assistant Director: Ronald Misetich Whizzer, Virgin Media - VCCP - London This is Andreas Nilsson's third DGA Award nomination. Nilsson previously won in this category in 2015 for Emily's Oz (Comcast) and Time Upon a Once (General Electric); and was nominated in this category in 2023 for R.I.P Leon (Apple iPhone), Action Mode (Apple iPhone 14), Choose Happy (Les Mills Fitness) and Wait'll You See This (Snapchat). Ivan Zachariáš Smuggler Flock, Apple - Media Arts Lab First Assistant Director: Robert Phillips This is Ivan Zachariáš's second DGA Award nomination. Zachariáš was previously nominated in the same category in 2022 for Data Auction (iPhone) and This Is How We Work Now (Upwork). All winners will be announced at the 77 th Annual DGA Awards on Saturday, February 8, 2025