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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. |