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Directors Guild of America (DGA) 2007

2008

 
     
 
 
 
 

The Directors Guild of America (DGA) was first founded as the Screen Directors Guild in 1938. In 1960 the merger of the Screen Directors Guild and the Radio and Television Directors Guild (RTDG) formed the Directors Guild of America, Inc. In 2000 the guild represented more than 10,000 members working both in the US and abroad, who's work is represented in theatrical, industrial, educational and documentary films, as well as television both filmed and taped, radio, videos and commercials. The DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film has nearly always been a perfect forecast of the winner of the Oscar for Best Director. Since the start of the DGA awards in 1949 the winners of both awards has only differed six times. Which are listed below.

 

The unlucky few who won a DGA award but failed to pick up Best Director Oscar

 

DGA Award

Oscar

         

Year

Director

Film

Director

Film

1969

Anthony Harvey

The Lion in Winter

Carol Reed

 Oliver!

         

1972

Francis Ford Coppola

The Godfather

Bob Fosse

Cabaret

         

1986

Steven Spielberg

 The Color Purple

Sydney Pollack

 Out of Africa

         

1995

Ron Howard

Apollo 13

Mel Gibson

Braveheart

         

2000

Ang Lee

Wo hu cang long

 Steven Soderbergh

Traffic

         

2002

Rob Marshall

Chicago

Roman Polanski

The  Pianist

 

The 59th annual awards were held on February the 2nd 2007 Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel and was hosted by Carl Reiner for the 20th time.

 

 

 

The Nominees and winners are:

 
 
 

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures

 
 

 

The Departed (2006): Martin Scorsese (Winner)
Babel (2006): Alejandro González Iñárritu
Dreamgirls (2006): Bill Condon
Little Miss Sunshine (2006): Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
The Queen (2006): Stephen Frears

 

 
 

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television

 
 

 

Broken Trail (2006) (mini): Walter Hill (Winner)
Flight 93 (2006) (TV): Peter Markle
The Ron Clark Story (2006) (TV): Randa Haines
Sleeper Cell (2005): Charles S. Dutton
Walkout (2006) (TV): Edward James Olmos

 

 
 

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series - Night

 
 

 

24" (2001): Jon Cassar("7:00am – 8:00am") (Winner)
Grey's Anatomy (2005): Peter Horton("It’s the End of the World (As We Know It)")
The Sopranos (1999): David Nutter("Join the Club")
The Sopranos (1999): Timothy Van Patten("Members Only")
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006): Thomas Schlamme("Pilot")
 

 
 

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series

 
 

 

Ugly Betty (2006): Richard Shepard("Pilot") (Winner)
30 Rock (2006): Adam Bernstein("Pilot")
Boston Legal (2004): Arlene Sanford("Breast in Show")
Entourage (2004): Julian Farino("One Day in the Valley")
Grey's Anatomy (2005): Seith Mann("The Name of the Game")

 
 
 

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical Variety

 
 

 

Tony Bennett: An American Classic (2006) (TV): Rob Marshall (Winner)
American Idol: The Search for a Superstar (2002): Bruce Gowers
Saturday Night Live (1975): Don Roy King
The Daily Show (1996): Chuck O'Neil
The 60th Annual Tony Awards (2006) (TV): Glenn Weiss

 

 
 

Directorial Achievement in Documentary for 2006

 
 

 

Arunas Matelis - Before Flying Back to the Earth (Winner)
Amy Berg - Deliver Us from Evil
Michael Glawogger - Workingman’s Death
James Longley - Iraq in Fragments
Jean-Hean Meunier - Ici Najac, A Vous La Terre

 

 
 

2007 DGA Honorary Life Member Award

 
 

 

CARL REINER

 

 
 

2007 Robert B. Aldrich Service Award

 
 

 

PARIS BARCLAY and TAYLOR HACKFORD

 

 
 

2007 Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award

 
 

 

TERRY BENSON

 

 
 

2007 Lifetime Achievement in News Direction Award

 
 

 

GEORGE PAUL

 

 
     
 
 
 

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