Christopher Nolan voted President of Directors Guild or America

Christopher Nolan has been voted president of the Directors Guild of America and takes over the reins while the Union is preparing for coming negotiations with the large studios.

Nolan, an Oscar winner and one of the most successful helmers of his generation, succeeds Lesli Linka Glatter, who served two terms at the helm and was first elected in 2021. He has been active in the DGA for some time and is currently a member of the National Board of Directors.

“Mosists as President of Directors Guild of America is one of the biggest awards of my career,” said Nolan. “Our industry experiences enormous change, and I thank the membership of the Gilde for entrusting this responsibility. I also want to thank President Glatter for her leadership in the past four years. I look forward to working with her and the newly chosen board to achieve important creative and economic protection for our members.”

In the past four years, the DGA has aimed its lobby efforts in Sacramento on set security problems. The trade union insisted on a pilot program that requires a safety supervisor on sets of productions supported by the California Film and TV Tax Incentive.

This year the trade union was also seriously involved in the lobby effort to expand the tax credit in California and to include a broader range of productions.

During negotiations, the trade union focused on expanding residues of foreign streaming. If tradition applies, the DGA will initially have conversations with the Alliance for Motion Picture and television producers somewhere early next year. During the last contract cycle in 2023, the DGA was the only one of the large three trade unions that reached a new contract without a work break. The most recent contract of the DGA runs until June 30, 2026.

The Nolan elections mark a rare example of an A-list player that takes the helm of the Union at the peak of their professional power. Nolan earned two Oscars for his stewardship of 2023’s ‘Oppenheimer’. He has proven to be one of the most versatile and most bankable helmers of Filmdom with his track record of dealing with everything, of genre photos (“Batman starts”, “The Dark Knight”) to heady dramas (“Memento”, “Principe”) to historic dramas (“)).

The next big swing from Nolan is ‘The Odyssey’, an epic adventure story released in July from Universal Pictures, the studio that Oscars and Global Box Office scored with Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’.

Nolan was elected on Saturday evening as 167 representatives who represented more than 19,500 Guild members, held the biennial national convention of the DGA. Among the election results:

** Laura Belsey was re-elected in the National Vice President
** Paris Barclay was re -elected
** also chosen: first vice-president Todd Holland; Second Vice President Ron Howard; Third vice-president Gina Prince-Bythewood; Fourth Vice President Seith Mann; Fifth Vice President Millicent Shelton; The sixth vice-president Lily Olszewski; and assistant secretary-treasurer Joyce Thomas.