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| Power Rankings for 2/6/17 Best Director
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| P/R | Last | C/R | Person/Film | 
	
| 1 | 1 | 99 | Damien Chazelle - La La Land | 
	|  | DGA sealed it-- no one has won the DGA and lost here if nominated in over a decade | 
		
| 2 | 2 | 69 | Barry Jenkins - Moonlight | 
	|  | Any other year his labor of love would have been rewarded. Not this year | 
	
| 3 | 3 | 30 | Kenneth Lonergan - Manchester by the Sea | 
	|  | Again the question has become-- is the movie gonna go home empty handed? | 
		
| 4 | 4 | 20 | Denis Villeneuve - Arrival | 
	|  | Denis has Arrived with the nomination and hopefully will get other chances | 
	
| 5 | -- | 10 | Mel Gibson - Hacksaw Ridge | 
	|  | Mel is back. I did not see this coming but I should have. The Directors as snarky as they are love actors directing | 
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