Directors Guild of America Award
The Directors Guild of America Award ( DGA Award for short ) is an award that has been presented to the best film and television productions of the previous year by the American Directors Guild of America (DGA) association since 1949 . The prize is currently awarded in two film (feature film and documentary) and eight television categories (drama series, comedy series, miniseries or television films, musical varieties, reality TV, daily television series, children's programs and commercials).
In addition to the regular director's awards in the various categories, a number of special awards are given. The best known is the award for a lifetime achievement of a director, which was first given in 1953. The award was originally named after the American film director DW Griffith , but was renamed in December 1999 because of his film The Birth of a Nation (1915), which is now considered racist . Since 2000, the prize has been given as the “DGA Lifetime Achievement Award”.
Award winners (selection)
Best film director
The category (original title: Outstanding Achievement in Feature Film or Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures ), in contrast to other film awards such as the Oscar or the Golden Globe Award, honors the performance of the entire directing team. Apart from the actual film director and staff will film production line ( English Unit Production Manager ) and the assistant directors considered.
The winner agreed 61 times with the eventual Oscar winner, most recently in 2019 with the award to Alfonso Cuarón ( Roma ). In 2010, the American Kathryn Bigelow ( Tödliches Kommando - The Hurt Locker ) was the first female feature film director to be honored with the award. In five cases (1969, 1973, 2001, 2003, 2020) the DGA winner did not win the Academy Award, while in 1986, 1996 and 2013 the winner was not nominated for an Oscar.
The table below shows the winners according to the year they were awarded. Since 2003, in addition to the honored film directors, assistant directors and production managers have also been officially named
Lifetime Achievement Award
This award was until 1999 under the title DW Griffith Lifetime Achievement Award conferred
- 1953: Cecil B. DeMille
- 1954: John Ford
- 1956: Henry King
- 1957: King Vidor
- 1959: Frank Capra
- 1960: George Stevens
- 1961: Frank Borzage
- 1966: William Wyler
- 1968: Alfred Hitchcock
- 1970: Fred Zinnemann
- 1973: William A. Wellman and David Lean
- 1981: George Cukor
- 1982: Rouben Mamoulian
- 1983: John Huston
- 1984: Orson Welles
- 1985: Billy Wilder
- 1986: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- 1987: Elia Kazan
- 1988: Robert Wise
- 1990: Ingmar Bergman
- 1992: Akira Kurosawa
- 1993: Sidney Lumet
- 1994: Robert Altman
- 1995: James Ivory
- 1996: Woody Allen
- 1997: Stanley Kubrick
- 1998: Francis Ford Coppola
- 2000: Steven Spielberg
- 2002: Martin Scorsese
- 2004: Mike Nichols
- 2006: Clint Eastwood
- 2010: Norman Jewison
- 2013: Miloš Forman
- 2017: Ridley Scott
Web links
- History of the DGA Awards on the DGA website
- DGA Awards on IMDb (English)
Individual evidence
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^ Duncan Campbell: Film directors strip award of link to Klan epic . In: "The Guardian" of March 11, 2000. (Retrieved November 22, 2008.)
Mark Harris: The great debate . In: "Entertainment Weekly" of January 14, 2000. (Accessed November 22, 2008.) - ↑ cf. Award winners and nominees from 2003 ff. In the official DGA award winners database (accessed on August 15, 2014).