| Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series | |
| Awarded For: | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series |
| Presenter: | Directors Guild of America |
| Country: | United States |
| Year: | 1971 |
| Holder: | Peter Hoar for The Last of Us (2023) |
The Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series is one of the annual Directors Guild of America Awards given by the Directors Guild of America. It was first presented at the 24th Directors Guild of America Awards in 1972. The current eligibility period is the calendar year.
| Year | Program | Episode | Winners and nominees | Network | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 (24th) | The Man and the City | "Hands of Love" | Daniel Petrie | ABC | [1] |
| Birdbath | – | Lamont Johnson | PBS | ||
| Samuel Beckett's Beginning to End | Lewis Freedman | ||||
| 1972 (25th) | The Waltons | "Dust Bowl Cousins" | Robert Butler | CBS | [2] |
| Hawaii Five-O | "V for Fashion" | Charles S. Dubin | CBS | ||
| Marcus Welby, M.D. | "Love is When They Say They Need You" | Marc Daniels | ABC | ||
| 1973 (26th) | Kojak | "Knockover" | Charles S. Dubin | CBS | [3] |
| Kung Fu | "Eye for an Eye" | Jerry Thorpe | ABC | ||
| The Waltons | "The Journey" | Harry Harris | CBS | ||
| 1974 (27th) | Kojak | "Cross Your Heart, Hope to Die" | David Friedkin | CBS | [4] |
| The Streets of San Francisco | "Cry Help" | Corey Allen | ABC | ||
| "Mask of Death" | Harry Falk | ||||
| 1975 (28th) | James Cellan Jones | PBS | [5] | ||
| Carl Sandburg's Lincoln | George Schaefer | NBC | |||
| Kojak | "How Cruel The Frost, How Bright The Stars" | David Friedkin | CBS | ||
| 1976 (29th) | Family | "Rites of Friendship" | Glenn Jordan | ABC | [6] |
| The Adams Chronicles | "Chapter III: John Adams, Diplomat" | James Cellan Jones | PBS | ||
| Rich Man, Poor Man Book II | "Chapter III" | Bill Bixby | ABC | ||
| 1977 (30th) | Roots | "Part II" | John Erman | ABC | [7] |
| Family | "Acts of Love: Part 1" & "Acts of Love: Part 2" | E. W. Swackhamer | ABC | ||
| James at 15 | "Friends" | Joseph Hardy | NBC | ||
| 1978 (31st) | Lou Grant | "Prisoner" | Gene Reynolds | CBS | [8] |
| Laurence Olivier Presents | "The Collection" | Michael Apted | PBS | ||
| The Paper Chase | "Pilot" | Joseph Hardy | CBS | ||
| 1979 (32nd) | Lou Grant | "Cop" | Roger Young | CBS | [9] |
| Lou Grant | "Bomb" | Gene Reynolds | CBS | ||
| The White Shadow | "Pregnant Pause" | Jackie Cooper |
| Year | Program | Episode | Winners and nominees | Network | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 (33rd) | Lou Grant | "Lou" | Roger Young | CBS | [10] |
| Dallas | "House Divided" | Irving Moore | CBS | ||
| Lou Grant | "Nightside" | Gene Reynolds | |||
| 1981 (34th) | Hill Street Blues | "Hill Street Station" | Robert Butler | NBC | [11] |
| Hill Street Blues | "The Last White Man on East Ferry" | David Anspaugh | NBC | ||
| "Up in Arms" | Georg Stanford Brown | ||||
| 1982 (35th) | Hill Street Blues | "Personal Foul" | David Anspaugh | NBC | [12] |
| American Playhouse | "Weekend" | Paul Bogart | PBS | ||
| Fame | "And the Winner Is" | Marc Daniels | NBC | ||
| 1983 (36th) | Hill Street Blues | "Life in the Minors" | Jeff Bleckner | NBC | [13] |
| Hill Street Blues | "Goodbye, Mr. Scripps" | Corey Allen | NBC | ||
| "Here's Adventure, Here's Romance" | Christian Nyby | ||||
| 1984 (37th) | Hill Street Blues | "The Rise and Fall of Paul the Wall" | Thomas Carter | NBC | [14] |
| St. Elsewhere | "Fade to White" | David Anspaugh | NBC | ||
| "Sweet Dreams" | Mark Tinker | ||||
| 1985 (38th) | Moonlighting | "My Fair David" | Will Mackenzie | ABC | [15] |
| Cagney & Lacey | "Who Said it's Fair? (Part 2)" | Ray Danton | CBS | ||
| Miami Vice | "Smuggler's Blues" | Paul Michael Glaser | NBC | ||
| 1986 (39th) | Moonlighting | "Atomic Shakespeare" | Will Mackenzie | ABC | [16] |
| L.A. Law | "The Venus Butterfly" | Donald Petrie | NBC | ||
| St. Elsewhere | "Afterlife" | Mark Tinker | |||
| 1987 (40th) | thirtysomething | "Pilot" | Marshall Herskovitz | ABC | [17] |
| Cagney & Lacey | "Turn, Turn, Turn (Part 1)" | Sharron Miller | CBS | ||
| St. Elsewhere | "Weigh In, Weigh Out" | Mark Tinker | NBC | ||
| 1988 (41st) | thirtysomething | "Therapy" | Marshall Herskovitz | ABC | [18] |
| St. Elsewhere | "The Last One" | Mark Tinker | NBC | ||
| thirtysomething | "Accounts Receivable, Michael's Brother" | Edward Zwick | ABC | ||
| 1989 (42nd) | L.A. Law | "I'm in the Nude for Love" | Eric Laneuville | NBC | [19] |
| L.A. Law | "Lie Down and Deliver" | Gabrielle Beaumont | NBC | ||
| "To Live and Diet in L.A." | John Pasquin | ||||
| thirtysomething | "Love & Sex" | Marshall Herskovitz | ABC |
| Year | Program | Episode | Winners and nominees | Network | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 (73rd) | Homeland | "Prisoners of War" | Lesli Linka Glatter | Showtime | [52] [53] |
| Better Call Saul | "Bagman" | Vince Gilligan | AMC | ||
| Bridgerton | "Diamond of the First Water" | Julie Anne Robinson | Netflix | ||
| The Mandalorian | "" | Jon Favreau | Disney+ | ||
| Ozark | "Wartime" | Jason Bateman | Netflix | ||
| 2021 (74th) | Succession | "All the Bells Say" | Mark Mylod | HBO | [54] [55] |
| Succession | "Retired Janitors of Idaho" | Kevin Bray | HBO | ||
| "What It Takes" | Andrij Parekh | ||||
| "Lion in the Meadow" | Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman | ||||
| "Too Much Birthday" | Lorene Scafaria | ||||
| 2022 (75th) | Euphoria | "Stand Still Like the Hummingbird" | Sam Levinson | HBO | [56] [57] |
| Better Call Saul | "Waterworks" | Vince Gilligan | AMC | ||
| Ozark | "A Hard Way To Go" | Jason Bateman | Netflix | ||
| Severance | "Hide and Seek" | Aoife McArdle | Apple TV+ | ||
| "The We We Are" | Ben Stiller | ||||
| 2023 (76th) | The Last of Us | "Long, Long Time" | Peter Hoar | HBO | [58] [59] |
| Succession | "Rehearsal" | Becky Martin | HBO | ||
| "Connor's Wedding" | Mark Mylod | ||||
| "America Decides" | Andrij Parekh | ||||
| "Tailgate Party" | Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman |