DGA Awards
The Directors Guild of America has announced the five nominees for a new category recognizing the achievement of first-time feature film directors. Up for the inaugural honor are: Fernando Coimbra for A Wolf at the Door (Outsider Pictures), Joel Edgerton...
The Directors Guild of America unveiled the five nominees for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2015: Alejandro G. Iñárritu for The Revenant (Twentieth Century Fox); Tom McCarthy for Spotlight (Open Road...
Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu last night won the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). He immediately becomes the front runner for the Best...
January 29, 2010
A month into Hollywood’s awards season and the competition is still wide open. The Hurt Locker appears to be a front-runner, but Avatar, Precious, ‘Inglourious Basterds and Up in the Air have won their share of awards, too. The...
While the lack of diversity in Oscar nominations has become a hot button topic—particularly the omission of Selma lead actor David Oyelowo and director Ava DuVernay (the latter also didn’t make the final cut for the Directors Guild of America Awards)—there has quietly been a measure of...
Directors Guild of America President Paris Barclay has announced the DGA’s nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television and Documentary for 2014.
“As fellow filmmakers, we’re inspired by the quality, imagination and creativity...
The Directors Guild of America (DGA) has named its nominees for Best Commercial Director of 2014: Nicolai Fuglsig of MJZ; Lauren Greenfield of Chelsea Pictures; Emmett and Brendan Malloy (a.k.a. The Malloys) of HSI, Daniel Mercadante and Katina Hubbard (now known...
Directors Guild of America President Paris Barclay today announced the five nominees for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2014. The field consists of three first-time nominees--Wes Anderson for The Grand Budapest Hotel...
The Directors Guild of America added significant awards season weight to Gravity, bestowing upon Alfonso Cuarón the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film. This bodes well for the pull of Gravity at the Academy Awards...
For only seven times since the DGA Awards began in 1948, the Guild honoree for feature film achievement has not gone on to win the corresponding Oscar. However, that rare occurrence is fresh in the industry’s consciousness in that it happened just last year when Ben Affleck took the DGA honor on...