On our Oscar Directors Roundtable, Jon M. Chu, Nia DaCosta, Guillermo del Toro, Mona Fastvold, Rian Johnson, Benny Safdie discuss the challenges, and delights, of making movies.

Our editor in chief shares stories from the Dec. 23 issue of The Envelope, covered by our Directors Roundtable.

Now Washington has completed his debut feature as a director, an adaptation of August Wilson’s play “The Piano Lesson,” starring his brother John David Washington along with Samuel L. Jackson and ...

Gold Derby recently hosted a group discussion with four of the industry's leading television directors and producers. They each opened up about when the directing bug originally bit them, what ...

Any time you can assemble a group of creative professionals for a discussion about their work is generally a good time for us here at Gold Derby. But one of the added bonuses in gathering a few of ...

What is a director's worst nightmare, or what keeps you up at night when you're right in the thick of production? How or when do you know you have the perfect take, or is that just a mythological ...

Filmmaker Mohit Suri praised Aditya Dhar’s Dhurandhar during his appearance at the Directors Roundtable, calling the film “great” and saying he genuinely enjoyed watching it. The clip has since gone ...

Six Oscar-contending directors come clean about the question of self-confidence, unnecessary multiple takes and what it’s really like to work with Denzel Washington. By Rebecca Keegan Senior Editor, ...

Mohit Suri’s Saiyaara and Aditya Dhar’s Dhurandhar were undoubtedly two of the biggest films of 2025, which made audiences rush to theatres on release. Debut actors Ahaan Panday and Aneet Padda became ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Women directors have historically fought an uphill battle to have their work funded and produced. Little has changed over the past century. At the ...