Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film explained

Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film
Awarded For:Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
Presenter:Directors Guild of America
Country:United States
Year:1948
Holder:Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer (2023)

The Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures is one of the annual Directors Guild of America Awards presented by the Directors Guild of America. With 3 wins out of 13 nominations, Steven Spielberg is both the most awarded and most nominated director of this category in the history of DGA, and the first director to receive DGA nominations in six consecutive decades.[1] Additionally, Alejandro G. Iñárritu is the only director to win twice successively; he was awarded in 2015 and 2016 for his directorial achievements for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and The Revenant, respectively.[2] Three directing teams have shared the award: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for West Side Story (1961), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men (2007), and Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022).

Predicting the Oscar's outcome

Since its inception the award has predicted the winner of the Academy Award for Best Director on all but eight occasions:

Winners and nominees

1940s

YearWinners and nomineesFilm
1948
(1st)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz A Letter to Three Wives[11]
Red River
The Snake Pit
The Search
1949
(2nd)
Robert Rossen All the King's Men[12]
The Third Man
Champion
Lost Boundaries

1950s

YearWinners and nomineesFilm
1950
(3rd)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz All About Eve[13]
The Asphalt Jungle
Father's Little Dividend
Sunset Boulevard
1951
(4th)
George Stevens A Place in the Sun[14]
Death of a Salesman
Cyrano de Bergerac
Strangers on a Train
A Streetcar Named Desire
David and Bathsheba
Quo Vadis
Decision Before Dawn
An American in Paris
Show Boat
The Great Caruso
Detective Story
1952
(5th)
John Ford The Quiet Man[15]
The Lavender Hill Mob
Pat and Mike
I'll See You in My Dreams
The Greatest Show on Earth
My Six Convicts
The Big Sky
Viva Zapata!
Singin' in the Rain
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Rashomon
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
5 Fingers
The Bad and the Beautiful
Scaramouche
Ivanhoe
Hans Christian Andersen
High Noon
1953
(6th)
Fred Zinnemann From Here to Eternity[16]
Above and Beyond
The Robe
Call Me Madam
Julius Caesar
Come Back, Little Sheba
Titanic
Young Bess
Shane
Lili
Stalag 17
Roman Holiday
1954
(7th)
Elia Kazan On the Waterfront[17]
A Star Is Born
The Caine Mutiny
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Knock on Wood
Hell and High Water
Rear Window
King of the Khyber Rifles
The Glenn Miller Story
Three Coins in the Fountain
The Country Girl
Riot in Cell Block 11
The High and the Mighty
Executive Suite
Sabrina
1955
(8th)
Delbert Mann Marty[18]
Blackboard Jungle
The Long Gray Line
East of Eden
A Man Called Peter
Picnic
The Rose Tattoo
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Bad Day at Black Rock
Love Me or Leave Me
The Seven Year Itch
1956
(9th)
George Stevens Giant[19]
Around the World in 80 Days
Moby Dick
Bus Stop
Teahouse of the August Moon
War and Peace
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Friendly Persuasion
1957
(10th)
David Lean The Bridge on the River Kwai[20]
Les Girls
Funny Face
The Great Man
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
A Face in the Crowd
The Pride and the Passion
Men in War
An Affair to Remember
Fear Strikes Out
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
A Hatful of Rain
1958
(11th)
Vincente Minnelli Gigi[21]
Damn Yankees
The Brothers Karamazov
Cowboy
The Young Lions
The Vikings
Vertigo
The Long, Hot Summer
Teacher's Pet
The Big Country
1959
(12th)
William Wyler Ben-Hur[22]
The Shaggy Dog
A Hole in the Head
Compulsion
The Horse Soldiers
Rio Bravo
North by Northwest
Rally Round the Flag, Boys!
Anatomy of a Murder
Imitation of Life
The Diary of Anne Frank
Some Like It Hot
The Nun's Story

1960s

YearWinners and nomineesFilm
1960
(13th)
Billy Wilder The Apartment[23]
Elmer Gantry
Sunrise at Campobello
Sink the Bismarck!
Can-Can
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Our Man in Havana
Hiroshima mon amour
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Psycho
1961
(14th)
Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins West Side Story[24]
One-Eyed Jacks
Pocketful of Miracles
The Innocents
Summer and Smoke
The Misfits
Splendor in the Grass
Flower Drum Song
Judgment at Nuremberg
Hand in Hand
A Majority of One
Fanny
El Cid
The Great Impostor
A Raisin in the Sun
The Absent-Minded Professor
Romanoff and Juliet
The Children's Hour
1962
(15th)
David Lean Lawrence of Arabia[25]
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
The Music Man
Lolita
Mutiny on the Bounty
To Kill a Mockingbird
Requiem for a Heavyweight
The Miracle Worker
A Taste of Honey
1963
(16th)
Tony Richardson Tom Jones[26]
America America
Lilies of the Field
Hud
1964
(17th)
George Cukor My Fair Lady[27]
Becket
The Night of the Iguana
Dr. Strangelove
Mary Poppins
1965
(18th)
Robert Wise The Sound of Music[28]
The Ipcress File
The Pawnbroker
Darling
Cat Ballou
1966
(19th)
Fred Zinnemann A Man for All Seasons[29]
The Professionals
Grand Prix
Alfie
Born Free
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
A Man and a Woman
Georgy Girl
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Sand Pebbles
1967
(20th)
Mike Nichols The Graduate[30]
The Dirty Dozen
In Cold Blood
To Sir, with Love
Two for the Road
In the Heat of the Night
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Bonnie and Clyde
Cool Hand Luke
Ulysses
1968
(21st)
Anthony Harvey The Lion in Winter[31]
Isabel
2001: A Space Odyssey
Closely Watched Trains
Rachel, Rachel
Rosemary's Baby
Oliver!
The Odd Couple
Funny Girl
Romeo and Juliet
1969
(22nd)
John Schlesinger Midnight Cowboy[32]
Oh! What a Lovely War
Z
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Easy Rider
Hello, Dolly!
The Wild Bunch
Goodbye, Columbus
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Medium Cool

1970s

YearWinners and nomineesFilm
1970
(23rd)
Franklin J. Schaffner Patton[33]
M*A*S*H
Love Story
Ryan's Daughter
Five Easy Pieces
1971
(24th)
William Friedkin The French Connection[34]
The Last Picture Show
A Clockwork Orange
Summer of '42
Sunday Bloody Sunday
1972
(25th)
Francis Ford Coppola The Godfather[35]
Deliverance
Cabaret
Slaughterhouse-Five
Sounder
1973
(26th)
George Roy Hill The Sting[36]
Last Tango in Paris
The Exorcist
American Graffiti
Serpico
1974
(27th)
Francis Ford Coppola The Godfather Part II[37]
The Conversation
Lenny
Murder on the Orient Express
Chinatown
1975
(28th)
Miloš Forman One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest[38]
Nashville
Barry Lyndon
Dog Day Afternoon
Jaws
1976
(29th)
John G. Avildsen Rocky[39]
Network
All the President's Men
Taxi Driver
Seven Beauties
1977
(30th)
Woody Allen Annie Hall[40]
Star Wars
The Turning Point
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Julia
1978
(31st)
Michael Cimino The Deer Hunter[41]
Coming Home
Heaven Can Wait
An Unmarried Woman
Midnight Express
1979
(32nd)
Robert Benton Kramer vs. Kramer[42]
Manhattan
The China Syndrome
Apocalypse Now
Breaking Away

1980s

YearWinners and nomineesFilm
1980
(33rd)
Robert Redford Ordinary People[43]
Coal Miner's Daughter
The Elephant Man
The Stunt Man
Raging Bull
1981
(34th)
Warren Beatty Reds[44]
Chariots of Fire
Atlantic City
On Golden Pond
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982
(35th)
Richard Attenborough Gandhi[45]
An Officer and a Gentleman
Das Boot
Tootsie
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1983
(36th)
James L. Brooks Terms of Endearment[46]
Tender Mercies
Fanny and Alexander
The Big Chill
The Right Stuff
1984
(37th)
Miloš Forman Amadeus[47]
Places in the Heart
A Soldier's Story
The Killing Fields
A Passage to India
1985
(38th)
Steven Spielberg The Color Purple[48]
Cocoon
Prizzi's Honor
Out of Africa
Witness
1986
(39th)
Oliver Stone Platoon[49]
Hannah and Her Sisters
Children of a Lesser God
A Room with a View
Stand by Me
1987
(40th)
Bernardo Bertolucci The Last Emperor[50]
Broadcast News
My Life as a Dog
Fatal Attraction
Empire of the Sun
1988
(41st)
Barry Levinson Rain Man[51]
A Fish Called Wanda
Working Girl
Mississippi Burning
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989
(42nd)
Oliver Stone Born on the Fourth of July[52]
Crimes and Misdemeanors
When Harry Met Sally...
Field of Dreams
Dead Poets Society

1990s

YearWinners and nomineesFilm
1990
(43rd)
Kevin Costner Dances with Wolves[53]
The Godfather Part III
Avalon
Goodfellas
Cinema Paradiso
1991
(44th)
Jonathan Demme The Silence of the Lambs[54]
Bugsy
Thelma and Louise
JFK
The Prince of Tides
1992
(45th)
Clint Eastwood Unforgiven[55]
The Player
Howards End
The Crying Game
A Few Good Men
1993
(46th)
Steven Spielberg Schindler's List[56]
The Piano
The Fugitive
The Remains of the Day
The Age of Innocence
1994
(47th)
Robert Zemeckis Forrest Gump[57]
The Shawshank Redemption
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Quiz Show
Pulp Fiction
1995
(48th)
Ron Howard Apollo 13[58]
Leaving Las Vegas
Braveheart
Sense and Sensibility
1996
(49th)
Anthony Minghella The English Patient[59]
Fargo
Jerry Maguire
Shine
Secrets and Lies
1997
(50th)
James Cameron Titanic[60]
As Good as It Gets
L.A. Confidential
Amistad
Good Will Hunting
1998
(51st)
Steven Spielberg Saving Private Ryan[61]
Life Is Beautiful
Shakespeare in Love
The Thin Red Line
The Truman Show
1999
(52nd)
Sam Mendes American Beauty[62]
The Green Mile
Being John Malkovich
The Insider
The Sixth Sense

2000s

YearWinners and nomineesFilm
2000
(53rd)
Ang Lee Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon[63]
Almost Famous
Gladiator
Erin Brockovich
Traffic
2001
(54th)
Ron Howard A Beautiful Mind[64]
Moulin Rouge!
Memento
Black Hawk Down
2002
(55th)
Rob Marshall Chicago[65]
The Hours
The Pianist
Gangs of New York
2003
(56th)
Peter Jackson [66]
Lost in Translation
Mystic River
Seabiscuit
2004
(57th)
Clint Eastwood Million Dollar Baby[67]
Finding Neverland
Ray
Sideways
The Aviator
2005
(58th)
Ang Lee Brokeback Mountain[68]
Good Night, and Good Luck
Crash
Capote
Munich
2006
(59th)
Martin Scorsese The Departed[69]
Dreamgirls
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen
Babel
2007
(60th)
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen No Country for Old Men[70]
There Will Be Blood
Michael Clayton
Into the Wild
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2008
(61st)
Danny Boyle Slumdog Millionaire[71]
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
The Dark Knight
Milk
2009
(62nd)
Kathryn Bigelow The Hurt Locker[72]
Avatar
Precious
Up in the Air
Inglourious Basterds

2010s

YearWinners and nomineesFilm
2010
(63rd)
Tom Hooper The King's Speech[73] [74]
Black Swan
The Social Network
Inception
The Fighter
2011
(64th)
Michel Hazanavicius The Artist[75] [76]
Midnight in Paris
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Descendants
Hugo
2012
(65th)
Ben Affleck Argo[77] [78]
Zero Dark Thirty
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
2013
(66th)
Alfonso Cuarón Gravity[79] [80]
Captain Phillips
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
The Wolf of Wall Street
2014
(67th)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)[81] [82]
The Grand Budapest Hotel
American Sniper
Boyhood
The Imitation Game
2015
(68th)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu The Revenant[83] [84]
Spotlight
The Big Short
The Martian
2016
(69th)
Damien Chazelle La La Land[85] [86]
Lion
Moonlight
Manchester by the Sea
Arrival
2017
(70th)
Guillermo del Toro The Shape of Water[87] [88]
Lady Bird
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Dunkirk
Get Out
2018
(71st)
Alfonso Cuarón Roma[89] [90]
Bradley CooperA Star Is Born
Green Book
BlacKkKlansman
Vice
2019
(72nd)
Sam Mendes 1917[91] [92]
Parasite
The Irishman
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Jojo Rabbit

2020s

YearWinners and nomineesFilm
2020
(73rd)
Chloé Zhao Nomadland[93] [94]
Minari
Promising Young Woman
Mank
The Trial of the Chicago 7
2021
(74th)
Jane Campion The Power of the Dog[95] [96]
Licorice Pizza
Belfast
West Side Story
Dune
2022
(75th)
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert Everything Everywhere All at Once[97] [98]
Tár
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Fabelmans
2023
(76th)
Christopher Nolan Oppenheimer[99] [100]
Barbie
Poor Things
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon

Directors with multiple wins

3 wins
2 wins

Directors with multiple nominations

The following directors have received four or more nominations:

13 nominations
11 nominations
7 nominations
6 nominations
5 nominations
4 nominations

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Steven Spielberg Gets a Record 13th Directors Guild Award Nomination . Buchanan . Kyle . . January 11, 2023 . January 11, 2023 . subscription.
  2. Web site: Iñárritu's DGA Award for The Revenant Is a Historic Win . Bastanmehr . Rod . . February 7, 2016 . July 11, 2022.
  3. Web site: 10 Most Surprising Best Director Oscar Losers . McDade . Sean . . June 25, 2022 . July 11, 2022.
  4. Web site: Why Bob Fosse's Oscar Win for Cabaret Wasn't Just an Upset . Gaughan . Liam . . March 6, 2022 . July 11, 2022.
  5. Web site: Academy Hits Racism Accusation . Friendly . David T. . David T. Friendly . . March 27, 1986 . July 11, 2022.
  6. Web site: Ron Howard Wins Top Director Award Although Snubbed by Oscars, Director Honored for Apollo 13 . Welkos . Robert W. . . March 4, 1996 . July 11, 2022.
  7. Web site: Gladiator Wins 5 Oscars with Tiger and Traffic Close Behind . Knolle . Sharon . . March 26, 2001 . July 11, 2022.
  8. Web site: Oscar Shockers: Polanski, Brody Unlikely Winners . Wolf . Buck . Buck Wolf . . March 23, 2003 . July 11, 2022.
  9. Web site: Ben Affleck Steamed About Argo Best Director Oscar Snub: 'I Did Everything They Told Me' (Video) . Fuster . Jeremy . . December 18, 2021 . July 11, 2022 . registration.
  10. Web site: Bong Joon Ho Defeats Sam Mendes to Win Best Director Oscar in Nail-Biting Race . Lattanzio . Ryan . . February 9, 2020 . July 11, 2022.
  11. Web site: 1st Annual DGA Awards . . August 18, 2018.
  12. Web site: 2nd Annual DGA Awards . . August 18, 2018.
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  74. DGA Awards Nominees for Feature Film . . January 10, 2011 . January 11, 2011.
  75. Web site: 64th Annual DGA Awards . . August 18, 2018.
  76. 64th Annual DGA Awards Feature Film Nominees Announced . . January 9, 2012 . January 11, 2012.
  77. Web site: 65th Annual DGA Awards . . August 18, 2018.
  78. 65th Annual DGA Awards Feature Film Nominees Announced . . January 8, 2013 . January 8, 2013.
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  80. DGA Announces Nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2013 . . January 7, 2014 . January 8, 2014.
  81. Web site: 67th Annual DGA Awards . . August 18, 2018.
  82. DGA Announces Nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2014 . . January 13, 2015 . January 15, 2015.
  83. Web site: 68th Annual DGA Awards . . August 18, 2018.
  84. DGA Announces Nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2015 . . January 12, 2016 . January 16, 2016.
  85. Web site: 69th Annual DGA Awards . . August 18, 2018.
  86. DGA Announces Nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2016 . . January 12, 2017 . January 17, 2017.
  87. Web site: 70th Annual DGA Awards . . August 18, 2018.
  88. DGA Announces Nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2017 . . January 11, 2018 . January 11, 2018.
  89. 71st Annual DGA Awards Winners . . February 2, 2019 . February 3, 2019.
  90. DGA Announces Nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2018 . . January 8, 2019 . January 8, 2019.
  91. 72nd Annual DGA Awards Winners . . January 25, 2020 . January 26, 2020.
  92. DGA Announces Nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for 2019 . . January 7, 2020 . January 7, 2020.
  93. 73rd Annual DGA Awards Winners . . April 10, 2021 . April 10, 2021.
  94. DGA Announces Nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for 2020 . . March 9, 2021 . March 11, 2021.
  95. 74th Annual DGA Awards Winners . . March 12, 2022 . March 13, 2022.
  96. DGA Announces Nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for 2021 . . January 27, 2022 . January 27, 2022.
  97. 75th Annual DGA Awards Winners . . February 18, 2023 . February 19, 2023.
  98. DGA Announces Nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for 2022 . . January 11, 2023 . January 11, 2023.
  99. 76th Annual Awards Winners . . February 10, 2024 . February 11, 2024.
  100. DGA Announces Nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for 2023 . . January 10, 2024 . January 10, 2024.