Christopher Nolan has been elected president of the Directors Guild of America, taking up the reins because the union prepares for upcoming negotiations with the key studios.
Nolan, an Oscar winner and one of the vital profitable helmers of his technology, succeeds Lesli Linka Glatter, who served two phrases on the helm and was first elected in 2021. He has been lively within the DGA for a while and at current is a member of its nationwide board of administrators.
“To be elected President of the Administrators Guild of America is without doubt one of the best honors of my profession,” Nolan mentioned. “Our trade is experiencing super change, and I thank the Guild’s membership for entrusting me with this duty. I additionally need to thank President Glatter for her management over the previous 4 years. I stay up for collaborating along with her and the newly elected Board to attain essential inventive and financial protections for our members.”
During the last 4 years, the DGA has targeted its lobbying efforts in Sacramento on set questions of safety. The union pushed for a pilot program that requires a security supervisor on units of productions supported by the California movie and TV tax incentive.
The union was additionally closely concerned within the lobbying effort this 12 months to develop the California tax credit score and embody a broader vary of productions.
In negotiations, the union has targeted on increasing international streaming residuals. If custom holds, the DGA can have preliminary conversations with the Alliance for Movement Image and Tv Producers someday by early subsequent 12 months. Over the past contract cycle in 2023, the DGA was the one one of many Huge Three unions to achieve a brand new contract with out a work stoppage. The DGA’s most up-to-date contract runs by June 30, 2026.
Nolan’s election marks a uncommon instance of an A-list participant taking the helm of the union on the peak of their skilled energy. Nolan earned two Oscars for his stewardship of 2023’s “Oppenheimer.” He’s confirmed himself to be one among filmdom’s most versatile and most bankable helmers along with his observe document of dealing with every little thing from style pics (“Batman Begins,” “The Darkish Knight”) to heady dramas (“Inception,” “Memento,” “Tenet”) to historic dramas (“Dunkirk,” “Oppenheimer”).
Nolan’s subsequent big-screen massive swing is “The Odyssey,” an epic journey story set for launch in July from Common Footage, the studio that scored Oscars and international field workplace with Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.”
Nolan was elected Saturday night as 167 delegates representing greater than 19,500 guild members held the DGA’s biennial nationwide conference. Among the many election outcomes:
** Laura Belsey was re-elected Nationwide Vice President
** Paris Barclay was re-elected Secretary-Treasurer
** Additionally elected had been: 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; Sixth Vice-President Lily Olszewski; and Assistant Secretary-Treasurer Joyce Thomas.
