Never won a Directing Oscar: Kubrick, Hitchcock, Godard, Welles, Kurosawa, Lynch, PTA, Chaplin, Tarantino, Cronenberg, Malick, Fellini, Bergman, Varda, Leone, Fincher, Altman, Hawks, Lumet, Herzog, Scott, Gilliam, Preminger, Cassavetes, Lang— It’s all meaningless, folks.
That’s fine, though. Because auteurs extraordinaires Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan will most likely win Best Director come Oscar night on March 12th. They’ll forever be enshrined in Academy lore with this one.
Of course, it’s always fun to speculate way ahead of time when it comes to the last bastion of hope we have with the Oscars. Why? Because we want the best filmmakers to win so that they have more freedom to make more movies. It’s as simple as that.
This means The Daniels will most likely not have any problems financing their next few pictures. Maybe we’ll get the “Everything Everywhere All At Once” sequel that Film Twitter so desperately wants or maybe we’ll get another buttplug multiverse dramedy or, better yet, a sequel to their corpse farting work of art “Swiss Army Man.”