DGA Awards 2026 Winners - The Complete List

The winners of the 78th annual DGA Awards have been revealed during a ceremony hosted by Kumail Nanjiani in Beverly Hills. The big winner was Paul Thomas Anderson for his work on "One Battle After Another", which puts the filmmaker on track for an Oscar win, as the DGA Awards have long been one of the most reliable predictors of the Academy Award for Best Director. In the TV categories, "The Pitt" won the Drama Series prize for Amanda Marsalis' work on the episode "6:00 PM", while "The Studio" scored a win for the episode "The Oner" directed by Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg.

The DGA also presented two special service honors recognizing exemplary contributions to the guild and the industry. Associate director and stage manager David Charles received the Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award, honoring extraordinary service to both the profession and the DGA. Commercials first assistant director Gregory G. McCollum received the Frank Capra Achievement Award, given in recognition of notable career achievement and outstanding service to the guild.

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DGA Awards 2024 Winners: The Complete List

The winners of the 76th Annual Directors Guild of America awards have been revealed. Christopher Nolan was the big winner for "Oppenheimer", and Celine Song won the prize for first-time theatrical film for "Past Lives". In the TV categories, the winners include "The Bear" and "Lessons in Chemistry".

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DGA Awards 2024: The Complete Nominations List

The nominations for the 2024 Directors Guild of America awards have been announced. After winning big at the Golden Globes, Christopher Nolan continues to cement his frontrunner status for the Oscars with a DGA nomination for his work on "Oppenheimer". Other nominees include Martin Scorsese for "Killers of the Flower Moon", Yorgos Lanthimos for "Poor Things", Alexander Payne for "The Holdovers" and Greta Gerwig for "Barbie".

In the television categories, HBO's "Succession" leads with four nods. Other major contenders include "The Last of Us", "Ted Lasso" and "Lessons in Chemistry".

The winners will be announced at the DGA Awards on Feruary 10 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.

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DGA Awards 2023 Winners - The Complete List

The winners of the 75th annual Directors Guild Awards have been revealed, and top honors went to Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, the helmers of "Everything Everywhere All at Once". In the television categories, the winners include Sam Levinson for "Euphoria", and Bill Hader for "Barry".

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DGA Awards 2023 Nominations (Feature Film)

The feature film nominations for the 2023 Directors Guild of America awards have been announced. The contenders and Oscar hopefuls this year are Todd Field for "Tar", Joseph Kosinski for "Top Gun: Maverick", Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert for "Everything Everywhere All at Once", Martin McDonagh for "The Banshees of Inisherin" and Steven Spielberg for "The Fabelmans". Winners will be announced during the guild’s awards ceremony February 18 at the Beverly Hilton.

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DGA Awards 2022 Winners Announced: The Complete List

The winners of the 74th annual DGA Awards have been announced. Top honors went to Jane Campion for her work on the Western drama "The Power of the Dog". The First Time Feature Film award went to Maggie Gyllenhaal for Netflix's "The Lost Daughter". In the television categories, Mark Mylod won Dramatic Series for the "All the Bells Say" episode of HBO's "Succession". Barry Jenkins took home the award for TV Movie or Limited Series for "The Underground Railroad". The Comedy Series Award went to Lucia Aniello for "Hacks".

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DGA Awards 2022 Nominations - The Complete List (Film & Television)

The Directors Guild of America has announced the nominations for this year's awards. In the film categories, Kenneth Branagh scored his first ever nomination for "Belfast", while Steven Spielberg is nominated for the twelfth time for "West Side Story". Spike Lee will received a a Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Achievement in Motion Picture Directing

In television, HBO's "Succession" scored all five nomination spots in the Dramatic TV Series category. A similar feat was achieved in 1983, when "Hill Street Blues") nabbed all three spots that were available at the time. Since the introduction of the five-nomination categories, no drama or comedy shows have ever nabbed all of them. Other nominated shows this year include "Ted Lasso", "The White Lotus" and "Hacks".

The winners of the 74th Annual DGA Awards will be revealed on March 12, 2022.

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DGA Awards 2021 Winners: The Complete List

The winners of the 2021 Directors Guild Awards were revealed on Saturday. The evening's top honor was awarded to Chloe Zhao for "Nomadland". Zhao became the first woman of color to win the DGA's feature directing prize, and it further consolidates the film's chances at the upcoming Oscars. Darisu Marder won the first-time directing award for Amazon Studios' "Sound of Metal". In the television categories, the winners include "Homeland, "The Flight Attendant" and "The Queen's Gambit".

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DGA 2020 Awards Winners: The Complete List

The World War I epic "1917" has scored another major victory on its road to the Oscars on Saturday, when director Sam Mendes won Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Theatrical Feature Film at the 72nd annual DGA Awards. In the television categories, Bill Hader won his second Comedy Series award for HBO's "Barry", and Jonah Renck won TV Movie/Limited Series for "Chernobyl". Nicole Kassell won in the Dramatic Series category for her episode of "Watchmen".

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DGA Awards 2019 Winners : The Complete Winners List

The winners of the 71st annual Directors Guild of America Awards have been announced. Alfonso Cuaron took home the feature directing award for "Roma", while Bo Burnham won for his directorial debut "Eighth Grade". In the television categories, the winners include Adam Mckay for the dramatic series "Succession" and Bill Hader for the comedy series "Barry".

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Directors Guild Awards 2019 Nominees

The nominations for the 2019 Directors Guild awards have been announced. "A Star is Born" and "BlacKkKlansman" have strengthened their positions in the Oscar race with top nods from all guilds: DGA, WGA, PGA and SAG. The former scored two DGA nominations for Bradley Cooper, who also received a first-time director nod, while the latter scored filmmaker Spike Lee his first-ever DGA nomination.

"Bohemian Rhapsody" was left out, most likely due to the behind-the-scenes troubles that led to Bryan Singer being replaced by Dexter Fletcher before production wrapped. Other nominees include "Roma", "Green Book" and "Vice".

The small-screen nominees include "The Americans", "Atlanta", "Ozark", "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel", "Barry", "Who is America?", "Escape at Dannemora" and "The Handmaid's Tale".

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DGA Awards 2018 Winners: The Complete List

The Directors Guild of America announced the winners of their 70th Annual Awards on Saturday night. The ceremony was hosted by "Knocked Up" director Judd Apatow. Guillermo del Toro strengthened his chances for an Oscar win after winning the DGA's top honor for his work on "The Shape of Water". Jordan Peele received the award for Directorial Achievement in First-Time Feature Film, and Matthew Heineman was honored for his documentary "City of Ghosts". In the television categories the winners include "Veep", "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Big Little Lies".

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2018 Directors Guild Awards Nominations

The Director's Guild of America has announced its line-up of nominees for their 2018 awards. The best feature film directors of 2017 include Guillermo del Toro, Greta Gerwig, Martin McDonagh, Christopher Nolan and Jordan Peele. Peele also received a second nomination for First-Time Director.

Meanwhile in the television categories, HBO dominates with three nominations for "Game of Thrones", while last year's new arrivals "The Handmaid's Tale" and "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" also received recognition from the guild.

The DGA's 70th annual awards ceremony will take place on February 3rd, at the Beverly Hilton.

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2017 Directors Guild Winners Announced (Complete List)

I suppose it's no longer a surprise that "La La Land" won top honors at the Directors Guild Awards, as the film has already won most of the major awards this season and the path to a landslide Oscar win is now pretty clear. Other DGA winners include Garth Davis for "Lion" in the Best First Feature category, and Miguel Sapochnik, who won Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Dramatic Series for his work on the "Game of Thrones" episode "Battle of the Bastards".

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2017 Directors Guild Awards Nominations Announced

The last of the major guilds, the Directors Guild of America, has announced its nominations for the 69th Annual DGA Awards. While many of the nominees will surprise no one, here's one that actually was kind of surprising. Tim Miller's work on "Deadpool" has been rewarded with a nod for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Feature Film. This makes the comic book adaptation an unexpected contender in the Oscars race, especially since it also has a PGA nomination under its belt.

Nate Parker was nominated for his directorial debut "The Birth of a Nation", which comes to sweeten the blow that the film received after controversy involving Parker's rape charge from his college days. However, this is the only nomination that Parker has received in this entire awards season, so the DGA nod comes as little consolation for a film that was once seen as a major contender and ended up a box-office failure.

Another surprise is that Garth Davis pulled off a double-nomination for his work on the true story drama "Lion". He was nominated both for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Feature Film and First-Time Feature Film. Now, "Lion" is a perfectly okay film, but the attention it's been getting this awards season is crazy. Plus, nominating Davis means that some huge players were left off the list: Martin Scorsese for "Silence", Denzel Washington for "Fences", Clint Eastwood for "Sully" and Mel Gibson for "Hacksaw Ridge". Well, at least I'm happy to see Villeneuve made the list after being snubbed last year for "Sicario".

The winners of the 2017 Directors Guild Awards will be revealed on February 4th.

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2016 DGA Awards Winners Announced

The Directors Guild of America, one of the most important Oscars indicators, announced its winners last night. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu won top honors for his work on "The Revenant", a second consecutive win for the director following last years's "Birdman".

It's been a pretty crazy awards season, so far, and quite difficult to predict. The confusing aspect of the Guild awards is that the PGA chose Adam McKay's "The Big Short" as the best film of the year, so that means the Oscar race could split up the Director and Picture awards. "The Big Short", however, never really felt like a huge contender for the Best Picture Oscar, until the PGA awards actually turned it into one. George Miller did seem to have a shot at the Director award, but it now looks like Inarritu jumped ahead of him in the race. I guess time will tell.

The Documentary direction award went to Matthew Heineman for "Cartel Land", and Alex Garland scored a First-Time Feature Film Director win for "Ex Machina". In the TV categories, the DGA winners include "Veep" and "Game of Thrones".

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2016 Directors Guild Awards Nominations

The Directors Guild of America has announced the feature film, documentary and television nominees for the 2016 awards. It's certainly a very competitive year and historically speaking, the DGA has a pretty good record in predicting the Oscars, so, we'll be looking forward to finding out who will take home the award when the Guild announces its winners on February 6th.

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Alejandro G. Iñárritu Wins DGA Award for BIRDMAN

The Directors Guild of America announced their winners last night. Pretty much as expected, Alejandro G. Iñárritu won the award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for his work on "Birdman". The film has now performed the rare feat of winning the PGA, SAG and DGA awards, a performance equalled by only 8 other films in history: "Argo", "The King's Speech", "Slumdog Millionaire", "No Country for Old Men", "The Lord of The Rings: Return of the Kings", "Chicago", "American Beauty" and "Apollo 13". Of these 8, only "Apollo 13" failed to secure Best Picture and Best Director wins at the Oscars. So, the Academy Awards race is pretty much closed at this point, unless the Academy decides to surprise us and give Richard Linklater the Best Director Oscar.

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2015 Directors Guild Nominees Announced

The Directors Guild of America has announced its nominations for the 67th Annual DGA Awards. The five directors nominated are:

• Wes Anderson - "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
  
  
• Clint Eastwood - "American Sniper"
  
  
• Alejandro González Iñárritu - "Birdman"
  
  
• Richard Linklater - "Boyhood"
  
  
• Morton Tyldum - "The Imitation Game"
  
  

As with the other Guild Awards, the DGAs too are solid indicators for the Oscars. Some noticeable snubs here include David Fincher for "Gone Girl" and Ava DuVernay for "Selma". The latter film has been pretty much ignored by the Guilds and was recently snubbed by the BAFTAs, so its Oscar prospects are not looking good. The winners will be announced on February 7, 2015.

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2014 Directors Guild of America Awards Winners

The winners of the 66th Annual Directors Guild Awards have been announced yesterday in a ceremony hosted by Jane Lynch. The award for Best Director went to Alfonso Cuarón for "Gravity". This win solidifies "Gravity"s chances at the Oscars after the film was tied with "12 Years a Slave" at the PGA awards last week. There is also a possibility that the Academy Awards will be split between the two films, with Best Picture going to "12 Years a Slave" and Best Director to "Gravity". Other winners of the 2014 DGA awards include Jehane Noujaim for the documentary "The Square" and in television, Steven Soderbergh for "Behind the Candelabra".

Here is the full list of winners:

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film
Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary
Jehane Noujaim - The Square

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television and Mini-Series
Steven Soderbergh - Behind the Candelabra

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series
Vince Gilligan - Breaking Bad, "Felina"

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series
Beth McCarthy-Miller - 30 Rock, "Hogcock!/Last Lunch"

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety/Talk/News/Sports - Regularly Scheduled Programming
Don Roy King - Saturday Night Live, "Saturday Night Live with Host Justin Timberlake"

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Reality Shows
Neil P. DeGroot - 72 Hours, "The Lost Coast"

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