Directors on Directors: Guillermo del Toro, Kristen Stewart, Ryan Coogler, Chloe Zhao and More
Variety’s Directors on Directors, presented by Klimon, returns on January 5 with the visionaries behind some of this year’s biggest awards contenders.
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Featured in this year’s Directors on Directors lineup are:
- Guillermo del Toro (“Frankenstein”) & Bradley Cooper (“Is This Thing On?”)
- Kristen Stewart (“The Chronology of Water”) & Jesse Eisenberg (“A Real Pain”)
- Ryan Coogler (“Sinners”) & Spike Lee (“Highest 2 Lowest”)
- Chloé Zhao (“Hamnet”) & Josh Safdie (“Marty Supreme”)
“Coming off our biggest Actors on Actors ever, these Directors on Directors conversations will continue to surprise and engage film fans around the world,” said Variety’s co-president and co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh. “The best way to kick off awards season in 2026 is through our latest video series.”
The conversations will be released from Jan. 5-8 across Variety.com and its social media channels. The Directors on Directors print issue comes out on Dec. 31.
Directors on Directors comes on the heels of Variety’s most-watched “Actors on Actors” season ever, which debuted on CNN’s new streaming platform and has generated more than 247 million social views.
The series included interviews with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennnifer Lawrence, Ariana Grande and Adam Sandler, Julia Roberts and Sean Penn, Dwayne Johnson and Brendan Fraser, Alexander and Stellan Skarsgård, Teyana Taylor and Oscar Issac, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jacbo Elordi and more.
