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Encyclopedia > Directors Guild of America Award

The Directors Guild of America Awards are issued annually by the Directors Guild of America. The first DGA Award was an "Honorary Life Member" award issued in 1938 to D.W. Griffith. DGA Headquarters in Hollywood, California 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. ... David Lewelyn Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 - July 23, 1948) was an American film director (commonly known as D. W. Griffith) probably best known for his film The Birth of a Nation. ...


The DGA award for "Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures" was first awarded in 1949 to Joseph L. Mankiewicz for A Letter to Three Wives. Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (February 11, 1909–February 6, 1993) was an American Hollywood screenwriter, director and producer. ... (Left to right) Darnell, Sothern and Crain A Letter to Three Wives is a 1949 film which tells the story of a woman who mails a letter to three women, telling them she has left town with the husband of one of them. ...


The DGA Award for Feature Film has traditionally been a near perfect barometer for the Best Director Academy Award. Only six times since the DGA Award's inception has the DGA Award winner not won the Academy Award; in 1968 (Carol Reed won the Oscar for directing Oliver!); 1972 (Bob Fosse won the Oscar for directing Cabaret); 1985 (Sydney Pollack won the Oscar for directing Out of Africa); 1995 (Mel Gibson won for directing Braveheart); 2000 (Steven Soderbergh won the Oscar for directing Traffic); and 2002 (Roman Polanski won the Oscar for directing The Pianist). 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Sir Carol Reed (30 December 1906 – 25 April 1976) was an English film director, winner of an Academy Award for his film version of the musical, Oliver! (1968). ... Oliver! is a 1968 musical film directed by Carol Reed and based on the stage musical Oliver!. Both the film and play are based on the famous Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Bob Fosse, early promotional image. ... Cabaret is a 1972 film. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sydney Pollack (born July 1, 1934 in Lafayette, Indiana) is an American actor, producer, and director. ... Out of Africa is a memoir by Isak Dinesen (the pseudonym of Danish Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke), first published in 1937. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson AO (born January 3, 1956) is an Academy Award-winning American actor, director, and producer. ... Brave Heart redirects here, which may also refer to Brave Heart Lion of the Care Bear cousins. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Steven Soderbergh on the set of Solaris. ... Nighttime traffic captured by a camera over several seconds. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Roman Raymond Polanski (born August 18, 1933 in Paris) is an Academy Award-winning Polish film director and actor. ... The Pianist may be: The Pianist (1991 film), a 1991 film The Pianist (1998 film) (El Pianista), a 1998 Catalan film The Pianist (memoir), a biographical memoir by Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman The Pianist (film), a 2002 Roman Polanski film based on the memoir Die Klavierspielerin, a novel...


Winners - Outstanding Achievement in Feature Film

  • * - Director did not win the Academy Award.
  • ** - Originally, the DGA used a non-calendar year for its award. Both films competed in the 22nd Academy Awards for 1949, and both directors were nominated for Best Director; Mankiewicz won. All the King's Men won Best Picture; Rossen's DGA wasn't awarded until after the Oscars. (Beginning with the 1951 award in 1952, the DGA has been always awarded before the Oscars.)
  • *** - Wasn't even nominated for Academy Award that year.

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Directors Guild of America Awards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (126 words)
The Directors Guild of America Awards are issued annually by the Directors Guild of America.
The first DGA Award was an "Honorary Life Member" award issued in 1938 to D.W. Griffith.
The DGA award for "Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures" was first awarded in 1949 to Joseph L. Mankiewicz for A Letter to Three Wives.
Columbia News ::: Columbia Filmmakers Win Student Academy Awards, Three Directors Guild of America Awards (1118 words)
On the heels of winning these awards, Riggen and Lee, along with Randall Dottin, SOA'03, went on to win three of the four Director's Guild of America (DGA) East Coast Student Filmmakers Awards.
Riggen won the Student Academy Award gold medal in the narrative category for her Spanish-language film, "La Milpa" (The Cornfield), and was named Best Latino Student Filmmaker by the DGA.
With the 2003 awards, Columbia filmmakers have won six gold medals at the Student Academy Awards in the last seven years, and the University has become the first to win both the gold and silver medals in the narrative category.
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