The Directors Guild Of America (DGA) have announced their winners representing the best in directing for 2022. Here are this year’s winners…
NARRATIVE FEATURE FILM
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Todd Field – Tár
Joseph Kosinski – Top Gun: Maverick
Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin
Steven Spielberg – The Fabelmans
FIRST-TIME FEATURE FILM
Alice Diop – Saint Omer
Audrey Diwan – Happening
John Patton Ford – Emily The Criminal
Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic – Murina
Charlotte Wells – Aftersun
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN DOCUMENTARY
Sara Dosa – Fire of Love
Matthew Heineman – Retrograde
Laura Poitras – All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
David Rohde – Navalny
Shaunak Sen – All That Breathes
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN DRAMATIC SERIES
Jason Bateman – Ozark, “A Hard Way to Go”
Vince Gilligan – Better Call Saul, “Waterworks”
Sam Levinson – Euphoria, “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”
Aoife McCardle – Severance, “Hide and Seek”
Ben Stiller – Severance, “The We We Are”
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN COMEDY SERIES
Tim Burton – Wednesday, “Wednesday’s Child is Full of Woe”
Bill Hader – Barry, “710N”
Amy Sherman-Palladino – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, “How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?”
Christopher Storer – The Bear, “Review”
Mike White – The White Lotus, “BYG”
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN MOVIES FOR TELEVISION AND LIMITED SERIES
Eric Appel – Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Deborah Chow – Obi-Wan Kenobi
Jeremy Podeswa – Station Eleven, “Unbroken Circle”
Helen Shaver – Station Eleven, “Who’s There?”
Tom Verica – Inventing Anna, “The Devil Wore Anna”
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN VARIETY/TALK/NEWS/SPORTS – SPECIALS
Ian Berger – The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Presents: Jordan Klepper Fingers the Globe Hungary for Democracy
Hamish Hamilton – Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show 2022
James Merryman – Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
Marcus Raboy – Mark Twain Prize 2022: Celebrating Jon Stewart
Glenn Weiss – The 75th Annual Tony Awards
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN VARIETY/TALK/NEWS/SPORTS – REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING
Paul G. Casey – Real Time With Bill Maher, “Episode #2010”
Jim Hoskinson – The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, “Episode #1333”
David Paul Meyer – The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, “Brandi Carlile Discusses Her New Deluxe Album and Performs “You and Me on the Rock”
Liz Patrick – Saturday Night Live, “Host and Musical Guest Jack Harlow”
Paul Pennolino – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, “Afghanistan”
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN REALITY PROGRAMS
Joseph H. Guidry – The Big Brunch, “Carb Loading Brunch”
Carrie Havel – The Go Big Show, “Only One Can Win”
Rich Kim – Lego Masters, “Jurassbrick World”
Michael Shea – FBoy Island, “Do You Like Cats?”
Ben Simms – Running Wild with Bear Grylls, “Florence Pugh in the Volcanic Rainforests of Costa Rica”
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS
Tim Federle – Better Nate Than Ever
Bonnie Hunt – Amber Brown, “I, Amber Brown”
Dean Israelite – Are You Afraid of the Dark?, “The Tale of Room 13”
Michael Lembeck – Snow Day The Musical
Anne Renton – Best Foot Forward, “Halloween”
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