UPDATED with PGA win: Sean Baker won both the PGA Awards ‘ and DGA Awards ‘ top prizes for Neon’s Anora — on the same night. And if past statistics are a signifier of what’s to come, it is a major indicator for both the Oscars’ Best Director category as well as Best Picture.

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.'”

In what might be termed a mild surprise, Anora director Sean Baker took home the Feature Film Director prize at the 77th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards Saturday night, instantly thrusting him into the driver’s seat as the frontrunner for the Best Director trophy at the Academy Awards on March 2.