Sam Mendes Wins DGA Award for ‘1917’: Full Winners List
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The 2020 Directors Guild of America Awards wrapped Saturday night in downtown Los Angeles, with winners spanning television and film. IndieWire has rounded up all the night’s big winners, below. Films “1917,” “Honey Boy,” and “American Factory” all took home the night’s film prizes, while “Chernobyl,” “Watchmen,” and “Barry” claimed the television honors.
The DGA prize is often considered a bellwether for the Best Director Oscar and the last six DGA winners all went on to repeat at the Academy Awards: Alfonso Cuarón for “Roma,” Guillermo del Toro for “The Shape of Water,” Damien Chazelle for “La La Land,” and Alejandro G. I?árritu for both “The Revenant” and “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance).”
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Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2019
Bong Joon Ho
“Parasite”
(Neon)
Sam Mendes
“1917”
(Universal Pictures) *WINNER
Martin Scorsese
“The Irishman”
(Netflix)
Quentin Tarantino
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”
(Sony)
Taika Waititi
“Jojo Rabbit”
(Fox Searchlight)
Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director for 2019
Mati Diop, “Atlantics”
Alma Har’el, “Honey Boy” *WINNER
Melina Matsoukas, “Queen & Slim”
Joe Talbot, “The Last Black Man in San Francisco”
Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz, “The Peanut Butter Falcon”
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series
Nicole Kassell
“Watchmen,” “It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice”
(HBO) *WINNER
Mark Mylod
“Succession,” “This Is Not For Tears”
(HBO)
David Nutter
“Game of Thrones,” “The Last of the Starks”
(HBO)
Miguel Sapochnik
“Game of Thrones,” “The Long Night”
(HBO)
Stephen Williams
“Watchmen,” “This Extraordinary Being”
(HBO)
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series
Dan Attias
“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “It’s the Sixties, Man!”
(Prime Video)
Bill Hader
“Barry,” “ronny/lily”
(HBO) *WINNER
David Mandel
“Veep,” “Veep”
(HBO)
Amy Sherman-Palladino
“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “It’s Comedy or Cabbage”
(Prime Video)
Daniel Palladino
“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Marvelous Radio”
(Prime Video)
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television & Miniseries
Ava DuVernary
“When They See Us”
(Netflix)
Vince Gilligan
“El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie”
(Netflix)
Thomas Kail
“Fosse/Verdon”
(FX Networks)
Johan Renck
“Chernobyl”
(HBO) *WINNER
Minkie Spiro
“Fosse/Verdon”
(FX Networks)
Jessica Yu
“Fosse/Verdon”
(FX Networks)
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Specials
James Burrows (“All in the Family” and “The Jeffersons” – Directed by)
Andy Fisher (“Live in Front of a Studio Audience’ – Directed by)
(ABC) *WINNER
Spike Jonze
“Aziz Ansari: Right Now”
(Netflix)
Stan Lathan
“Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones”
(Netflix)
Linda Mendoza
“Wanda Sykes: Not Normal”
(Netflix)
Glenn Weiss
“The 91st Annual Academy Awards”
(ABC)
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary
Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
“American Factory” (Netflix) *WINNER
Feras Fayyad
“The Cave” (National Geographic Documentary Films)
Alex Holmes
“Maiden” (Sony Pictures Classics)
Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska
“Honeyland” (Neon)
Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang
“One Child Nation” (Amazon Studios)
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