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6 unusual facts about Directors Guild of America


48th Directors Guild of America Awards

The 48th Directors Guild of America Awards, awarded on March 2, 1996, honored the best film and television directors of 1995.

City of Lights, City of Angels

COLCOA was created in 1996 by The Franco-American Cultural Fund, a unique collaborative effort of the Directors Guild of America, the Motion Picture Association of America, the Writers Guild of America, West, France’s Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Éditeurs de Musique.

Elizabeth Farnsworth

The film garnered a 2009 Directors Guild of America nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement and a 2009 Emmy award nomination for Best Historical Documentary.

Morton DaCosta

For the film version, he received Best Director nominations from the Directors Guild of America Awards and the Golden Globe Awards.

Robert Huntsman

He first entered the national spotlight for his association with the CleanFlicks video rental chain during their legal battle with the Directors Guild of America.

Uncle Tom's Fairy Tales

However, in June 2005, scenes from the film appeared in a retrospective while Pryor was being honored by the Directors Guild of America.


Barbara Kopple

She has directed episodes of the television drama series Homicide: Life on the Street and Oz, winning a Directors Guild of America award for the former.

Celluloid ceiling

She became the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director for The Hurt Locker, the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing, the BAFTA Award for Best Direction, and the Critics' Choice Award for Best Director as well as the Saturn Award for Best Director.

Gustavo Hernández Pérez

Among his many recognitions, Hernández Pérez was honored with the AFI Franklin J. Schaffner Fellowship Award for Best Director of the Year, and the Directors Guild of America (DGA) announced him as Best Latino Director at The 2003 DGA Student Film Awards.

John Korty

In 1974, Korty won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and a Directors Guild of America award for his filmed adaptation of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.

John Tintori

John holds the membership of the Directors Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America, the IATSE, member the Tisch/Kanbar faculty(since 1997), Chairperson, the Graduate Film Program, NYU (since 2005), and ex-chair, the Graduate Film Program at TischAsia in Singapore.

Loucas George

Loucas is a member of the Directors Guild of America and has been a producer on a number of shows including Commander in Chief, Ed, The O.C., Early Edition, 12 Miles of Bad Road and Life.

My Six Convicts

The film was adapted for the screen by screenwriter Michael Blankfort and directed by Hugo Fregonese who was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures.

Voices of Iraq

In 2005, Voices of Iraq screened as part of the Directors Guild of America "Filmmaking and War" series and screened in international films festivals at Locarno, Edinburgh, Melbourne, South Korea and the Philippines.


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