Directors Guild of America Awards
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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.
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); 2001 (Steven Soderbergh won the Oscar for directing Traffic); and 2002 (Roman Polanski won the Oscar for directing The Pianist).
[edit] Winners - Outstanding Achievement in Feature Film
- 1948 - Joseph Mankiewicz, A Letter to Three Wives**
- 1949 - Robert Rossen, All the King's Men*
- 1950 - Joseph Mankiewicz, All About Eve
- 1951 - George Stevens, A Place in the Sun
- 1952 - John Ford, The Quiet Man
- 1953 - Fred Zinnemann, From Here to Eternity
- 1954 - Elia Kazan, On the Waterfront
- 1955 - Delbert Mann, Marty
- 1956 - George Stevens, Giant
- 1957 - David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai
- 1958 - Vincente Minnelli, Gigi
- 1959 - William Wyler, Ben-Hur
- 1960 - Billy Wilder, The Apartment
- 1961 - Robert Wise, West Side Story
- 1962 - David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia
- 1963 - Tony Richardson, Tom Jones
- 1964 - George Cukor, My Fair Lady
- 1965 - Robert Wise, The Sound of Music
- 1966 - Fred Zinnemann, A Man for All Seasons
- 1967 - Mike Nichols, The Graduate
- 1968 - Anthony Harvey, The Lion in Winter*
- 1969 - John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy
- 1970 - Franklin Schaffner, Patton
- 1971 - William Friedkin, The French Connection
- 1972 - Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather*
- 1973 - George Roy Hill, The Sting
- 1974 - Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II
- 1975 - Miloš Forman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- 1976 - John G. Avildsen, Rocky
- 1977 - Woody Allen, Annie Hall
- 1978 - Michael Cimino, The Deer Hunter
- 1979 - Robert Benton, Kramer vs. Kramer
- 1980 - Robert Redford, Ordinary People
- 1981 - Warren Beatty, Reds
- 1982 - Richard Attenborough, Gandhi
- 1983 - James L. Brooks, Terms of Endearment
- 1984 - Miloš Forman, Amadeus
- 1985 - Steven Spielberg, The Color Purple***
- 1986 - Oliver Stone, Platoon
- 1987 - Bernardo Bertolucci, The Last Emperor
- 1988 - Barry Levinson, Rain Man
- 1989 - Oliver Stone, Born on the Fourth of July
- 1990 - Kevin Costner, Dances with Wolves
- 1991 - Jonathan Demme, The Silence of the Lambs
- 1992 - Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven
- 1993 - Steven Spielberg, Schindler's List
- 1994 - Robert Zemeckis, Forrest Gump
- 1995 - Ron Howard, Apollo 13***
- 1996 - Anthony Minghella, The English Patient
- 1997 - James Cameron, Titanic
- 1998 - Steven Spielberg, Saving Private Ryan
- 1999 - Sam Mendes, American Beauty
- 2000 - Ang Lee, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon*
- 2001 - Ron Howard, A Beautiful Mind
- 2002 - Rob Marshall, Chicago*
- 2003 - Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- 2004 - Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
- 2005 - Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
- * - Director did not win the Academy Award
- ** - won Academy Award the following year
- *** - Wasn't even nominated for Academy Award that year
