Directors Guild of America Award
The Directors Guild of America Award (short: DGA Award) is an award that is awarded to the best film and television productions of the previous year since 1949 by the American Association Directors Guild of America ( DGA). The award will be present in two film ( fiction and documentary ) and eight television categories ( drama, comedy series, miniseries or TV movies, musical varieties, Reality TV, daily running television series, children's programs and commercials ).
In addition to the regular Director prices in the different lines, a number of special prizes will be awarded. The most famous is the award with an award for lifetime achievement of a director who was first awarded in 1953. Originally, the award was named after the American film director DW Griffith, but was in December 1999 for its valued today as racist film The Birth of a Nation (1915 ) renamed. Since 2000 the prize has been awarded as " DGA Lifetime Achievement Award".
Prize winners (selection)
Best Feature Film Director
The category ( original title: Outstanding Achievement in Feature Film Award and Directors Guild of America for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures ) honors unlike other film awards including the Academy Award or Golden Globe Award, the performance of the entire team director. Apart from the actual film director and employees of film production line are used (English Unit Production Manager) considered and the assistant director.
In 58 of 65 cases of the winners with the later Oscar winner agreed, last happen in 2012 with the award at the Frenchman Michel Hazanavicius ( The Artist ). ( The Hurt Locker - The Hurt Locker) 2010, the US-American Kathryn Bigelow was honored as the first feature film director with the price. In four cases (1969, 1973, 2001, 2003 ) did not win the DGA Award winner and Academy Award-, during 1986, 1996 and 2013, the winner was not nominated for an Oscar.
¹ = prize winner was not awarded the Oscar. ² = price support was not nominated for an Oscar.