DGA president Lesli Linka Glatter opened the show with a call for production to return to Los Angeles in the wake of the devastating L.A. wildfires, and Apatow — hosting the show for the sixth time — took the stage as he joked, “I’m what Mel Brooks would look like if he took ‘The Substance.'”

Palme d'Or winner 'Anora' became the Best Picture Oscar frontrunner after winning the top prizes at the PGA and DGA Awards.

"Anora" director Sean Baker has won the DGA Award for Theatrical Feature, gaining significant Oscar momentum ahead of final voting.

Alexa, play “Greatest Day,” because Anora had one on Saturday. The Neon film regained pole position in the Best Picture Oscar race after taking both the Directors Guild of America Award for Sean Baker and the Producers Guild of America Award.

Sean Baker's freewheeling fractured fairy tale took top honors from both the producing and directing guilds, restoring its front-runner status at the Oscars.

So unusually both PGA and DGA, two ever-so-important guild awards ceremonies that can predict the Oscars somehow landed, for the first time I can recall, on the same night in two nearby hotels in Beverly Hills.