The 2023 Directors Guild of America Awards were presented on February 18, and the only genre film directors nominated — Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert for Everything All at Once – won. On the television side, Helen Shaver, won an award for directing the Station Eleven episode “Who’s There?”

FILM

OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN THEATRICAL FEATURE FILM FOR 2022

• Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once (A24)

OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT OF A FIRST-TIME FEATURE FILM DIRECTOR FOR 2022

• Charlotte Wells, Aftersun (A24)

TELEVISION

DRAMA SERIES

• Sam Levinson, Euphoria – “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird” (HBO)

COMEDY SERIES

• Bill Hader, Barry – “710N” (HBO)

MOVIES FOR TELEVISION AND LIMITED SERIES

• Helen Shaver, Station Eleven – “Who’s There?” (TK)

VARIETY TALK/NEWS/SPORTS (REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING)

• Liz Patrick, Saturday Night Live, “Host and Musical Guest Jack Harlow” (NBC)

VARIETY TALK/NEWS/SPORTS (SPECIALS)

• Glenn P. Weiss, The 75th Annual Tony Awards (CBS)

REALITY PROGRAMS

• Ben Simms, Running Wilds with Bear Grylls – “Florence Pugh in the Volcanic Rainforests of Costa Rica” (National Geographic Channel)

CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS

• Anne Renton, Best Foot Forward – “Halloween” (Apple TV+)

DOCUMENTARY

• Sara Dosa, Fire of Love (National Geographic)

COMMERCIALS Kim Gehrig (Somesuch, Inc.)

The Directors Guild of America have announced the nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film and Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television, Commercials and Documentary for 2022.

The only genre film directors nominated are Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert for Everything All at Once.

On the Television side genre is much better represented. In the Drama Series category, directors of two episodes of Severance are nominated. The Comedy Series nominees include the director of an episode of Wednesday. And the Movies for Television and Limited Series category features the director of Obi Wan Kenobi and the directors of two parts of Station Eleven.

The winners will be revealed at the 75th Annual DGA Awards on February 18, 2023.

The complete list follows the jump.

The Directors Guild of America announced the winners of the awards for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television, Commercials and Documentary for 2021 on March 12.

There was one genre winner – director Barry Jenkins’ The Underground Railroad took the award for Movies for Television and Limited Series.

MOVIES FOR TELEVISION AND LIMITED SERIES

BARRY JENKINS
The Underground Railroad
(Amazon)

Mr. Jenkins’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Richleigh Heagh First Assistant Director: Liz Tan
Second Assistant Director: Elaine Wood
Second Second Assistant Director: Wayne Witherspoon
Additional Second Assistant Directors: Jesse Carmona, AJ Bruno

COMEDY SERIES

LUCIA ANIELLO
Hacks, “There Is No Line”
(HBO Max)

COMMERCIALS

BRADFORD YOUNG
(Serial Pictures x Somesuch)
Super. Human., Channel 4 Paralympics – 4Creative First Assistant Director: Jez Oakley

FIRST-TIME FEATURE FILM DIRECTOR

Maggie Gyllenhaal
The Lost Daughter
(Netflix)

VARIETY/TALK/NEWS/SPORTS – REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING

DON ROY KING
Saturday Night Live, ” Keegan-Michael Key; Olivia Rodrigo”
(NBC)

VARIETY/TALK/NEWS/SPORTS – SPECIALS

PAUL DUGDALE
Adele: One Night Only
(CBS)

DOCUMENTARY

STANLEY NELSON
Attica
(Showtime)

REALITY PROGRAMS

ADAM VETRI
Getaway Driver, “Electric Shock”
(Discovery Channel)

Mr. Vetri’s Directorial Team:
First Assistant Director: John Esposito Second Assistant Director: Eric Pai

CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS

SMRITI MUNDHRA
Through Our Eyes, “Shelter”
(HBO Max)

The Directors Guild of America today announced the nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television, Commercials and Documentary for 2021.

The winners will be revealed at the 74th Annual DGA Awards on Saturday, March 12, 2022.

The nominees of genre interest follow. The complete list is here.

OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN MOVIES FOR TELEVISION AND LIMITED SERIES

BARRY JENKINS

The Underground Railroad (Amazon)

Mr. Jenkins’s Directorial Team:

• Unit Production Manager: Richleigh Heagh
• First Assistant Director: Liz Tan
• Second Assistant Director: Elaine Wood
• Second Second Assistant Director: Wayne Witherspoon
• Additional Second Assistant Directors: Jesse Carmona, AJ Bruno

HIRO MURAI

Station Eleven, “Wheel of Fire” (HBO Max)

Mr. Murai’s Directorial Team:

• Unit Production Managers: Dana Scott, David Nicksay
• First Assistant Director: Jennifer Wilkinson
• Location Manager: Stefan Nikolov

OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS

JAMES BOBIN

The Mysterious Benedict Society, “A Bunch of Smart Orphans”

(Disney+)

Mr. Bobin’s Directorial Team:

• Unit Production Manager: Grace Gilroy

JEFF WADLOW

Are You Afraid of the Dark?, “The Tale of the Darkhouse”

(Nickelodeon)

The Directors Guild of America unveiled its TV, commercials and documentary nominees on March 8 and its film nominees on March 9. The complete lists of nominees are at the links.

No genre production directors made the finalists in the film category. They did better on the TV side.

Jon Favreau is a finalist in the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series category for
The Mandalorian, “Chapter 9: The Marshal”.

Matt Shakman, WandaVision director, is up for the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television and Limited Series award.

Dean Israelite is nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children’s Programs category for Nickelodeon’s series The Astronauts episode “Countdown”

This year’s winners will be announced during an April 10 virtual event.

The winners of the 70th DGA Awards presented by the Directors Guild of America on February 3 included directors of these genre productions:

FIRST-TIME FEATURE FILM DIRECTOR

JORDAN PEELE, “Get Out”
(Universal Pictures)

Peele’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Managers: Marcei A. Brown, Rick A. Osako (Fairhope Unit)
First Assistant Director: Gerard DiNardi
Second Assistant Directors: Ram Paul Silbey, Marc Newland (Fairhope Unit), Jack McKenna (New York Unit)
Second Second Assistant Director: Maggie Ballard
Location Manager: Kurt Enger (New York Unit)

FEATURE FILM

GUILLERMO DEL TORO, “The Shape of Water”
(Fox Searchlight Pictures)

del Toro’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: J. Miles Dale
Production Manager: Dennis Chapman
First Assistant Director: Pierre Henry
Second Assistant Director: Tyler Delben

DRAMA SERIES

REED MORANO, The Handmaid’s Tale, “Offred”
(Hulu)

Ms. Morano’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Joe Boccia

[Thanks to John King Tarpinian for the story.]