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60th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards [ DGA Awards prize ]
Following the welcome from DGA President Michael Apted to an audience of more than 1,500 guests, Carl Reiner hosted the Awards ceremony for the twenty-first time. Presenters included: Josh Brolin (“No Country for Old Men”), DGA Secretary-Treasurer Gil Cates, Kristin Chenoweth and Chi McBride (“Pushing Daisies”), Marion Cotillard (“La Vie En Rose”), Daniel Day-Lewis (“There Will Be Blood”), Adrian Grenier (“Entourage”), Emile Hirsch and Hal Holbrook (“Into the Wild”), Helen Hunt (“Then She Found Me”), Katheleen Kennedy and Jon Kilik (“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”), John Larroquette (“Boston Legal”), Debra Messing (“The Starter Wife”), Ellen Page (“Juno”), Anna Paquin (“Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee”), Amy Ryan (“Gone Baby Gone”),Tilda Swinton and Tom Wilkinson (“Michael Clayton”), Vanessa Williams (“Ugly Betty”), and 2006 DGA Feature Film Award-winner/DGA Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Martin Scorsese. DGA Award Winners OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN FEATURE FILM FOR 2007 Winner: JOEL COEN & ETHAN COEN / No Country For Old Men / Miramax Films, Paramount Vantage [ Ethan Coen's 1st DGA Award nomination. Joel Coen's 2nd DGA Feature Film Award nomination, he was previously nominated for “Fargo” (1996) ] Nominees: PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON / There Will Be Blood / Paramount Vantage, Miramax Films TONY GILROY / Michael Clayton / Warner Bros. SEAN PENN / Into the Wild / Paramount Vantage JULIAN SCHNABEL / The Diving Bell and the Butterfly / Miramax Films OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN MOVIES FOR TELEVISION / MINISERIES Winner: YVES SIMONEAU / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee / HBO [ Simoneau's 1st DGA Award nomination ] Nominees: JON AVNET / The Starter Wife / USA Channel JEREMIAH CHECHIK / The Bronx Is Burning / ESPN LLOYD KRAMER / Oprah Winfrey Presents Mitch Albom's For One More Day / ABC MIKAEL SALOMON / The Company / TNT OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN DRAMATIC SERIES NIGHT Winner: ALAN TAYLOR / Mad Men - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (Pilot) / AMC [ Taylor's 1st DGA Award nomination ] Nominees: JACK BENDER / Lost - Through the Looking Glass / ABC DAVID CHASE / The Sopranos - Made in America / HBO ERIC LANEUVILLE / Lost - The Brig / ABC TIM VAN PATTEN / The Sopranos - Sopranos Home Movies / HBO OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN COMEDY SERIES Winner: BARRY SONNENFELD / Pushing Daisies - Pie-lette / ABC [ Sonnenfeld's 1st DGA Award nomination ] Nominees: MICHAEL ENGLER / 30 Rock - Rosemary's Baby / NBC DAVID GROSSMAN / Desperate Housewives - Something's Coming / ABC BETH McCARTHY-MILLER / 30 Rock - Somebody to Love / NBC DAVID NUTTER / Entourage - The Resurrection / HBO OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSICAL VARIETY Winner: GLENN WEISS / The 61st Annual Tony Awards / CBS [ Weiss' 5th DGA Award nomination ] Nominees: JERRY FOLEY / Late Show with David Letterman (#2773) / CBS LOUIS J. HORVITZ / The 79th Annual Academy Awards / ABC JIM HOSKINSON / The Colbert Report (#3052) / Comedy Central CHUCK O'NEIL / The Daily Show with Jon Stewart / Comedy Central OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN REALITY PROGRAMS Winner: BERTRAM VAN MUNSTER / The Amazing Race (#1110) / CBS [Van Munster's 3rd DGA Award nomination ] Nominees: CRAIG BORDERS / Who Wants to be a Superhero (#208) / Sci-Fi TONY CROLL / Shooting Sizemore (#101) / VH-1 SCOTT MESSICK / Pros vs. Joes (#201) / Spike TONY SACCO / Project Runway - Fashion Giant (#403) / Bravo OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN DAYTIME SERIALS Winner: LARRY CARPENTER / One Life to Live (#9947) / ABC [ Carpenter's 5th DGA Award nomination ] Nominees: CASEY CHILDS / All My Children (#9669) / ABC CHRISTOPHER GOUTMAN / As the World Turns (#12971) / CBS SCOTT McKINSEY / General Hospital (#11228) / ABC ELLEN WHEELER / Guiding Light (#15221) / CBS OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN DOCUMENTARY Winner: ASGER LETH / Ghosts of Cite Soleil / Sony BMG Feature Films [ Leth's 1st DGA Award nomination ] Nominees: KEN BURNS & LYNN NOVICK / The War / Florentine Films ALEX GIBNEY / Taxi to the Dark Side / Jigsaw Productions RICHARD E. ROBBINS / Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience / The Documentary Group BARBET SCHROEDER / Terror's Advocate / Magnolia Pictures OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN COMMERCIALS Winner: NICOLAI FULSIG (MJZ UK) / Tipping Point, Guinness - BBDO / It's Magic, JC Penney - Saachi & Saachi NY / Journey, Motorola - AMV BBDO [ Fuglsig's 1st DGA Award nomination ] Nominees: DANTE ARIOLA (MJZ) / Grenade, Playstation 3 - TBWA, Chiat Day / Wrigley's - Energy BBDO FREDRIK BOND (MJZ) / Straw, Milk - Goodby / Aviator, JC Penney - Saachi & Saachi NY FRANK BUDGEN (Gorgeous Enterprises) / Playdoh, Sony Bravia - Fallon / S.O.S., Save Our Selves, Live Earth - Young & Rubicam NOAM MURRO (Biscuit Filmworks) / Night Drive, VW Golf - DDB London / Affair, Orbit Gum - BBDO Chicago / Remember, NBA - Goodby - Silverstein & Partners OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN CHILDREN'S PROGRAMS Winner: PAUL HOEN / Jump In / Disney Channel [ Hoen's 3rd DGA Award nomination ] Nominees: KENNY ORTEGA / High School Musical 2 / Disney Channel FRED SAVAGE / Wizards of Waverly Place - The Crazy 10 Minute Sale / Disney Channel JUDITH VOGELSANG / GoingGreen - Every Home An Eco-Home / PBS ANDY WOLK / Lincoln Heights - That Feeling That We Have / ABC Family SERVICE AND ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS RECIPIENTS DGA National Executive Director, Jay D. Roth / DGA Honorary Life Member Award in recognition of outstanding creative achievement, contribution to the DGA or the profession of directing Liz Ryan / 2008 Frank Capra Achievement Award, which is given to an Assistant Director or Unit Production Manager in recognition of career achievement in the industry and service to the DGA Barbara J. Roche / 2008 Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award for an Associate Director or Stage Manager in recognition of career achievement in the industry and service to the DGA © Preems |
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. . . . 60th Annual DGA Awards nominees was announced on January 10, 2008 by DGA's president Michael Apted The DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film has traditionally been one of the industry’s most accurate barometers for who will win the Best Director Academy Award. Only six times since the DGA Awards began in 1949 has the Feature Film winner not gone on to win the corresponding Academy Award. The six exceptions are as follows: 1968: Anthony Harvey won the DGA Award for “The Lion in Winter” while Carol Reed received the Oscar® for “Oliver!” 1972: Francis Ford Coppola received the DGA's nod for “The Godfather” while the Academy selected Bob Fosse for “Cabaret.” 1985: Steven Spielberg received his first DGA Award for “The Color Purple” while the Oscar® went to Sydney Pollack for “Out of Africa.” 1995: Ron Howard was chosen by the DGA for his direction of “Apollo 13” while Academy voters selected Mel Gibson for “Braveheart.” 2000: Ang Lee won the DGA Award for his direction of “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” while Steven Soderbergh won the Academy Award for “Traffic.” 2002: Rob Marshall won the DGA Award for “Chicago” at the 55th Annual DGA Awards while Roman Polanski received the Academy Award for “The Pianist.” The 61st Annual DGA Awards was held on Saturday, January 31, 2009. |
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LOS
ANGELES – The winners of the 2007 DGA Awards and the recipients of the Guild's
2008 Career Achievement Awards were announced on January 26 during
the 60th Annual DGA Awards Dinner at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza
in Los Angeles.