'La La Land,' 'Moonlight' pick up Directors Guild nominations

Their films won the top prizes at last Sunday's Golden Globes, and now Damien Chazelle and Barry Jenkins are being honored by their filmmaking peers.

Chazelle, the man behind the musical La La Land, and Jenkins, the mastermind of art-house darling Moonlight, have been nominated by the Directors Guild of America for outstanding directorial achievement in feature film for 2016.

The pair is joined in the field by Garth Davis (Lion), Denis Villeneuve (Arrival) and Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea). It's the first DGA Award nomination for the five directors and the five movies are also in the running for the top Producers Guild of America award.

Notable directors left out in the cold were previous DGA winners Martin Scorsese (Silence) and Clint Eastwood (Sully), as well as past nominee Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge).

In each of the past three years of DGA Awards, four of the five nominees also landed best director Oscar nods. In that same period, the DGA winner also won the Academy Award: Alfonso Cuaron in 2014 for Gravity and Alejandro G. Iñárritu the last two years for Birdman (2015) and The Revenant (2016). Since 2000, only four films have won the DGA but failed to win the best picture Oscar; in that same time period, there have only been three instances when the DGA winner hasn't also won the best director Oscar.

Davis is also up for the first-time feature DGA in the second year of the award. That category includes Kelly Fremon Craig (The Edge of Seventeen), Tim Miller (Deadpool), Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane) and Nate Parker (The Birth of A Nation). It's the first major honor for Parker after past rape allegations resurfaced last summer (he was tried and acquitted in 2001) and derailed the awards-season hopeful.

Winners will be announced Feb. 4 at the DGA Awards, held at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.