Director Guild of America building on Sunset Boulevard.

Directors Guild of America (DGA) is the labor union which represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry. Founded as the Screen Directors Guild in 1936, the group became the DGA in 1960. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Michael Apted (born February 10, 1941 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom) is a British director, producer, writer and actor. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1080x1624, 297 KB) Headquarters of the Directors Guild of America, 7920 W. Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, CA Photograph by Mike Dillon, May 10, 2006. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1080x1624, 297 KB) Headquarters of the Directors Guild of America, 7920 W. Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, CA Photograph by Mike Dillon, May 10, 2006. ... A trade union or labor union is a continuous association of wage-earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as...

As a union that seeks to organize an individual profession, rather than multiple professions across an industry, the DGA is a craft union. It represents directors, associate directors, stage managers, and production associates in television, and directors, assistant directors, unit production managers, and technical coordinators in film as well as similar positions in television commercials production. by Leon CunninghamCraft unionism refers to an approach to union organizing in the United States and elsewhere that seeks to unify workers in a particular industry along the lines of the particular craft or trade that they work in. ...

The Guild has various training programs whereby successful applicants are placed in various productions and can gain experience working in the film or television industry.

As of 2005, the guild had about 13,000 members. The DGA headquarters are located on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, with satellite offices in New York and Chicago. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sunset Boulevard (officially known as West Sunset Boulevard, except in Beverly Hills) is a street in the western part of Los Angeles County, California, that stretches from Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Coast Highway at the Pacific Ocean in the Pacific Palisades. ... ...

The agreements signed between the Guild and film production companies make various stipulations covering pay and working conditions for Guild members, and require that all those employed in the relevant fields on a film made by that company are Guild members. Guild members are generally prevented from working for companies that have not signed an agreement with the DGA. This sometimes leads production companies which have no such agreement to form new companies, purely for the purpose of making a particular film, which do then sign an agreement with the DGA.

Not all Hollywood directors are DGA members. Notable directors such as George Lucas, Quentin Tarantino, and Robert Rodriguez have refused membership or resigned from the guild over specific differences. Those who aren't members of the guild are unable to direct for the larger movie studios, which are signatories to the guild's agreements that all directors must be guild members. George Walton Lucas, Jr. ... Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, actor, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. ... Robert Anthony Rodriguez (born June 20, 1968) is an American writer and film director who is known for making profitable, crowd-pleasing independent and studio films with fairly low budgets and fast schedules by Hollywood standards. ...

Other than wages and basic working condition the DGA has a particular role in protecting the creative rights of the film director. Such protections that the guild provides include defining the director's role, guarding the key concept of "one director to a picture" and the right to prepare a director's cut or edit. Generally each of these protections is to help offset the power that producers can have over a director during the filmmaking process.

The rule that a film can only have one single director, adopted to avoid producers and actors lobbying for a director's credit, is strongly defended by the DGA and is only waived for recognized directorial teams (as determined by the DGA) such as the Wachowski Brothers and the Coen Brothers, who for years divided credit, with Ethan taking writing credit, Joel taking directing credit, and both of them sharing the producing credit (even though the two of them shared all three duties between themselves) until The Ladykillers. For instance, the DGA would not recognize Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller as a directorial "team" for Sin City, which resulted in Rodriguez quitting the DGA so that Miller would receive director's credit. Laurence Larry Wachowski (born June 21, 1965) and Andrew Andy Wachowski (born December 29, 1967) are American film directors and writers most famous for creating The Matrix series. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Joel and Ethan Coen, commonly called The Coen Brothers in the film business, are United States directors best known for their quirky comedies like Fargo and Raising Arizona; the brothers write their own scripts and alternate top billing for the screenplay. ... Joel and Ethan Coen, commonly called The Coen Brothers in the film business, are United States directors best known for their quirky comedies like Fargo and Raising Arizona; the brothers write their own scripts and alternate top billing for the screenplay. ... The Ladykillers is a 2004 remake of the 1955 Ealing comedy of the same name. ... Robert Anthony Rodriguez (born June 20, 1968) is an American writer and film director who is known for making profitable, crowd-pleasing independent and studio films with fairly low budgets and fast schedules by Hollywood standards. ... Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is an American writer, artist and film director best known for his film noir-style comic book stories. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Sin City (film) Sin City is a gritty 2005 neo-noir anthology film based on the graphic novel series of the same name, directed by Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, and Special Guest Director Quentin Tarantino. ...

Presidents of the Screen Directors Guild and the DGA

• King Vidor (1936–1938)
• Frank Capra (1939–1941)
• George Stevens (1941–1943)
• Mark Sandrich (1943–1944)
• John Cromwell (1944–1946)
• George Marshall (1948–1950)
• Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950–1951)
• George Sidney (1951–1959)
• Frank Capra (1960–1961)
• George Sidney (1961–1967)
• Delbert Mann (1967–1971)
• Robert Wise (1971–1975)
• Robert Aldrich (1975–1979)
• George Schaefer (1979–1981)
• Jud Taylor (1981–1983)
• Gilbert Cates (1983–1987)
• Franklin J. Schaffner (1987–1989)
• Gene Reynolds (1993–1997)
• Jack Shea (1997–2002)
• Martha Coolidge (2002–2003)
• Michael Apted (2003–present)

King Vidor King Wallis Vidor (February 8, 1894 – November 1, 1982) was an American film director. ... This article is about the film director. ... George Stevens examining film from A Place in the Sun. ... Mark Sandrich (born August 26, 1900 in New York City, New York – died March 4, 1945 in Hollywood, California) was an American movie director, writer and producer. ... John Cromwell (December 23, 1887 – September 26, 1979) was an American actor, producer and director. ... George E. Marshall (December 29, 1891 - February 17, 1975) was an extremely prolific American film actor, writer and director active through the first six decades of movie history. ... Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (February 11, 1909–February 6, 1993) was an American Hollywood screenwriter, director and producer. ... Geoge Sidney ( October 4, 1916 - May 5, 2002) was a prolific American film director, who directed many notable films, mostly for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio. ... This article is about the film director. ... Geoge Sidney ( October 4, 1916 - May 5, 2002) was a prolific American film director, who directed many notable films, mostly for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio. ... Delbert Martin Mann, Jr. ... Robert Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was a sound effects editor, film editor, and Academy Award-winning American film producer and director. ... Robert Aldrich (August 9, 1918 – December 5, 1983) was a United States film director, writer and producer notable for a number of films including What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte, and The Dirty Dozen. ... George Schaefer can refer to: George Schaefer (television), a television director and president of the Directors Guild of America George Schaefer (finance) Category: ... Jud Taylor (born February 25, 1940) is an American actor and television director. ... Gilbert Gil Cates (born: 6 June 1934 in New York, New York) is an American television producer and director. ... Franklin James Schaffner (May 30, 1920 - July 2, 1989) was an American film director. ... Eugene Gene Reynolds Blumenthal (April 4, 1924, Cleveland, Ohio) is a former actor turned writer and producer/director. ... Martha Coolidge (born August 17, 1946) is a U.S. film director. ... Michael Apted (born February 10, 1941 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom) is a British director, producer, writer and actor. ...

See also

• Directors Guild of America Awards
• Alan Smithee
• Runaway production

The Directors Guild of America Awards are issued annually by the Directors Guild of America. ... Alan Smithee, Allen Smithee, Alan Smythee, and Adam Smithee are pseudonyms used between 1968 and 1999 by Hollywood film directors who wanted to be dissociated from a film for which they no longer wanted credit. ... The current version of this article or section advances a limited or personal interpretation of the subject matter. ...

External links

• Official DGA website
• "Why Not Quit the Directors Guild? What Robert Rodriguez can and can't do" (Slate, April 8, 2005)