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DGA Awards 2009

2009 Directors Guild Awards
2009 DGA feature film nominations: January 8, 2009. Documentary and television nominations: January 9, 2009
2009 DGA award winners: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, January 31, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Following his DGA win, Danny Boyle is the odds-on favorite to win the best director Academy Award. In fact, Boyle has been the odds-on favorite for quite some time. In any case, since the DGA Awards’ inception in 1949 only eight times has the DGA winner failed to win the best director Oscar. (Actually, more like six times as there was some overlapping in the 1948-49 selections. Check out the DGA Awards/the Oscars.) Slumdog Millionaire has also won the Producers Guild Award.
 

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Directors Guild Awards 2008

2008 Directors Guild Awards
2008 DGA feature film nominations: January 8, 2008. Documentary and television nominations: January 10, 2008
2008 DGA award winners: January 26, 2008
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men
 

FEATURE FILMS
Paul Thomas Anderson – There Will Be Blood (Paramount Vantage)
Unit Production Manager: Daniel Lupi
First Assistant Director: Adam Somner
Second Assistant Directors: Eric Lasko, Ian Stone, Richard Oswald Second Second Assistant Director: Jenny Nolan
* Joel Coen & Ethan Coen – No Country for Old Men (Miramax Films and Paramount Vantage)
Unit Production Manager: Robert J. Graf
First Assistant Director: Betsy Magruder Second Assistant Director: Bac DeLorme Second Second Assistant Director: Jai James
Tony Gilroy – Michael Clayton (Warner Bros.)
Unit Production Manager: Christopher Goode First Assistant [...]

DGA Awards 2007: Martin Scorsese Wins

Leonardo DiCaprio in The Departed

Well on his way to his first Academy Award, last night Martin Scorsese received the Directors Guild of America’s feature-film top honors for The Departed, Scorsese’s way overrated I-can-smell-a-rat gangster flick that the director himself has referred to as his "B-movie." (And despite the presence of stellar names such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, and Jack Nicholson, that’s really what The Departed is — though without the flair of some of the better crime B’s of the ’40s and ’50s.)
Needless to say, Scorsese’s DGA win — much like his by now inevitable Oscar win — should be seen as a career award instead of recognition for a single achievement. It was Scorsese’s seventh DGA nomination, [...]

Directors Guild Awards 2007

2007 Directors Guild Awards
2007 Directors Guild of America nominations: feature film nominees on January 9, 2007; made-for-TV movies on January 10, 2007; other television nominees on January 11; and documentary and commercials nominees on January 16, 2007
2007 DGA Award winners: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on February 3, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Steven Spielberg, DGA winner Martin Scorsese, and Leonardo DiCaprio © DGA
 

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film:
BILL CONDON – Dreamgirls (Paramount Pictures)
Bill Condon’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Patricia Whitcher
First Assistant Director: Richard Graves
Second Assistant Director: Eric Sherman
Second Second Assistant Director: Renee Hill-Sweet
JONATHAN DAYTON & VALERIE FARIS – Little Miss Sunshine (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Michael Beugg
First Assistant [...]

DGA Awards 2007: Nominations

Helen Mirren in The Queen (top); Brad Pitt in Babel (middle); Jennifer Hudson, Beyoncé Knowles, Anika Noni Rose in Dreamgirls (bottom)

The Directors Guild of America has announced the five features nominated for the 2007 DGA Award.
The biggest surprise was the absence of the much-revered Clint Eastwood — for either Flags of Our Fathers or Letters from Iwo Jima, or both — winner of last year’s DGA Lifetime Achievement Award. (In The Envelope, Tom O’Neil states that DGA members, who weren’t able to receive screeners this year, didn’t get a chance to check out Letters from Iwo Jima, which opened late in December.)
Also missing from the DGA list were Paul Greengrass, whose United 93 has been chosen best film of [...]

DGA vs. Academy Winners

DGA vs. Academy Winners

Catherine Zeta Jones in Chicago (top); Adrien Brody in The Pianist (bottom)

Since its inception in 1948, 51 out of 59 winners of the Directors Guild Award have gone on to win the best director Academy Award.
The eight exceptions are:
 
1948
DGA – Joseph L. Mankiewicz for A Letter to Three Wives*
AA – John Huston for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
* Mankiewicz won the 1948 DGA for A Letter to Three Wives, as the award period extended into early 1949. He went on to win a 1949 Oscar for that film.
 
1949
DGA – Robert Rossen for All the King’s Men
AA – Joseph L. Mankiewicz for A Letter to Three Wives (see above)
 
1968
DGA – Anthony Harvey [...]

The DGA vs. the Academy: 2000s

Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge (top); Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring in Mulholland Dr. (bottom)

The DGA vs. the Academy: 1990s
2000
DGA: Cameron Crowe for Almost Famous
AMPAS: Stephen Daldry for Billy Elliot
 
2001
DGA: Baz Luhrmann for Moulin Rouge and Christopher Nolan for Memento
AMPAS: Robert Altman for Gosford Park and David Lynch for Mulholland Dr.
 
2002
DGA: Peter Jackson for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
AMPAS: Pedro Almodóvar for Talk to Her
 
2003
DGA: Gary Ross for Seabiscuit
AMPAS: Fernando Meirelles for City of God
 
2004
DGA: Marc Forster for Finding Neverland
AMPAS: Mike Leigh for Vera Drake
 
2006
DGA: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris for Little Miss Sunshine and Bill Condon for Dreamgirls
AMPAS: Clint Eastwood for Letters from Iwo Jima and Paul [...]

The DGA vs. the Academy: 1990s

Harrison Ford in The Fugitive (top); Madeleine Stowe, Tim Robbins in Short Cuts (bottom)

The DGA vs. the Academy: 1980s
1990
DGA: Barry Levinson for Avalon and Giuseppe Tornatore for Cinema Paradiso [the 1988 best foreign language film Oscar winner; ineligible for the 1990 Academy Awards]
AMPAS: Stephen Frears for The Grifters and Barbet Schroeder for Reversal of Fortune
 
1991
DGA: Barbra Streisand for The Prince of Tides
AMPAS: John Singleton for Boyz n the Hood
 
1992
DGA: Rob Reiner for A Few Good Men
AMPAS: Martin Brest for Scent of a Woman
 
1993
DGA: Martin Scorsese for The Age of Innocence and Andrew Davis for The Fugitive
AMPAS: Jim Sheridan for In the Name of the Father and Robert Altman for Short Cuts
 
1994
DGA: Mike Newell for Four Weddings and a Funeral [...]

The DGA vs. the Academy: 1980s

Bob Hoskins, Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (top); Willem Dafoe in The Last Temptation of Christ (bottom)

The DGA vs. the Academy: 1970s
1980
DGA: Michael Apted for Coal Miner’s Daughter
AMPAS: Roman Polanski for Tess
 
1982
DGA: Taylor Hackford for An Officer and a Gentleman
AMPAS: Sidney Lumet for The Verdict
 
1983
DGA: Lawrence Kasdan for The Big Chill and Philip Kaufman for The Right Stuff
AMPAS: Mike Nichols for Silkwood and Peter Yates for The Dresser
 
1984
DGA: Norman Jewison for A Soldier’s Story
AMPAS: Woody Allen for Broadway Danny Rose
 
1985
DGA: Steven Spielberg for The Color Purple and Ron Howard for Cocoon
AMPAS: Akira Kurosawa for Ran and Hector Babenco for Kiss of the Spider Woman
 
1986
DGA: Randa Haines for Children of a Lesser God [...]

The DGA vs. the Academy: 1970s

Martin Balsam, Albert Finney in Murder on the Orient Express (top); Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under the Influence (bottom)

The DGA vs. the Academy: 1960s
1970
DGA: David Lean for Ryan’s Daughter and Bob Rafelson for Five Easy Pieces
AMPAS: Federico Fellini for Satyricon and Ken Russell for Women in Love
 
1971
DGA: Robert Mulligan for Summer of ‘42
AMPAS: Norman Jewison for Fiddler on the Roof
 
1972
DGA: George Roy Hill for Slaughterhouse-Five and Martin Ritt for Sounder
AMPAS: Joseph L. Mankiewicz for Sleuth and Jan Troell for The Emigrants
 
1973
DGA: Sidney Lumet for Serpico
AMPAS: Ingmar Bergman for Cries and Whispers
 
1974
DGA: Sidney Lumet for Murder on the Orient Express and Francis Ford Coppola for The Conversation
AMPAS: John Cassavetes for A [...]

The DGA vs. the Academy: 1960s

Eiji Okada, Emmanuelle Riva in Hiroshima, mon amour (top); Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin in Never on Sunday (bottom)

The DGA vs. the Academy: 1950s
1960
DGA (14): Vincente Minnelli for Bells Are Ringing, Walter Lang for Can-Can, Delbert Mann for The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Richard Brooks for Elmer Gantry, Alain Resnais for Hiroshima, mon amour, Vincente Minnelli for Home from the Hill, Carol Reed for Our Man in Havana, Charles Walters for Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, and Lewis Gilbert for Sink the Bismarck!, Vincent J. Donehue for Sunrise at Campobello
AMPAS: Jules Dassin for Never on Sunday
 
1961
DGA (21): Robert Stevenson for The Absent Minded Professor, Blake Edwards for Breakfast at Tiffany’s, William Wyler for The Children’s Hour, Anthony [...]

The DGA vs. the Academy: 1950s

DGA vs. Academy nominees

Ann Sothern, Linda Darnell, Jeanne Crain in A Letter to Three Wives (top); Jane Wyman in Johnny Belinda (bottom)

The DGA vs. the Academy: Introduction
Since pre-1970 DGA finalists often consisted of more than five directors, it’s obvious that the DGA’s and the Academy’s lists couldn’t fully match. In the list below, the years before 1970 include DGA finalists who didn’t receive an Academy Award nod and, if applicable, those Academy Award-nominated directors not found in the (usually lengthier) DGA list.
The number in parentheses next to "DGA" indicates that year’s number of DGA finalists if other than five. Source: IMDb.
 

1948
DGA (04): Joseph L. Mankiewicz for A Letter to Three Wives* and Howard Hawks for Red [...]

The DGA vs. the Academy

Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi in Summertime

In 1948, the 12-year-old Directors Guild of America (DGA), then known as the Screen Directors Guild (SDG), began handing out yearly achievement awards. George Sidney, Frank Capra, Delmer Daves, John Ford, H. Bruce Humberstone, Irving Pichel, Norman Taurog, and, ex-officio, Guild president George Marshall took part in the initial Awards Committee, which selected the Directors Guild Award honorees.
Before 1970, the Guild’s yearly list of finalists consisted of a variable number of directors, usually more than five. From 1970 on, when the Directors Guild began restricting its list of nominees to five directors per year, a DGA nod has usually translated into an Oscar nod. There have been, however, quite a few exceptions to [...]

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