Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film

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Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures is one of the annual awards given by Directors Guild of America. With 3 wins out of 11 nominations, Steven Spielberg is both the most awarded and most nominated director in the Feature film category in the history of DGA.

The DGA Award for Feature Film has traditionally been a near perfect barometer for the Academy Award for Best Director. 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); 2000 (Steven Soderbergh won the Oscar for directing Traffic); 2002 (Roman Polanski won the Oscar for directing The Pianist); and 2012 (Ang Lee won the Oscar for directing Life of Pi).

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Winners and nominees

† Won Academy Award for Best Director

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

Year Director(s) Film
1990 Kevin Costner Dances with Wolves
Francis Ford Coppola The Godfather: Part III
Barry Levinson Avalon
Martin Scorsese Goodfellas
Giuseppe Tornatore Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo cinema Paradiso)
1991 Jonathan Demme The Silence of the Lambs
Barry Levinson Bugsy
Ridley Scott Thelma & Louise
Oliver Stone JFK
Barbra Streisand The Prince of Tides
1992 Clint Eastwood Unforgiven
Robert Altman The Player
James Ivory Howards End
Neil Jordan The Crying Game
Rob Reiner A Few Good Men

2000s

Year Director(s) Film
2000 Ang Lee Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)
Cameron Crowe Almost Famous
Ridley Scott Gladiator
Steven Soderbergh Erin Brockovich
Steven Soderbergh Traffic
2001 Ron Howard A Beautiful Mind
Peter Jackson The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Baz Luhrmann Moulin Rouge!
Christopher Nolan Memento
Ridley Scott Black Hawk Down
2002 Rob Marshall Chicago
Stephen Daldry The Hours
Peter Jackson The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Roman Polanski The Pianist
Martin Scorsese Gangs of New York
2003 Peter Jackson The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Sofia Coppola Lost in Translation
Clint Eastwood Mystic River
Gary Ross Seabiscuit
Peter Weir Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2004 Clint Eastwood Million Dollar Baby
Marc Forster Finding Neverland
Taylor Hackford Ray
Alexander Payne Sideways
Martin Scorsese The Aviator
2005 Ang Lee Brokeback Mountain
George Clooney Good Night, and Good Luck.
Paul Haggis Crash
Bennett Miller Capote
Steven Spielberg Munich
2006 Martin Scorsese The Departed
Bill Condon Dreamgirls
Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris Little Miss Sunshine
Stephen Frears The Queen
Alejandro González Iñárritu Babel
2007 Ethan and Joel Coen No Country for Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson There Will Be Blood
Tony Gilroy Michael Clayton
Sean Penn Into the Wild
Julian Schnabel The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)
2008 Danny Boyle Slumdog Millionaire
David Fincher The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard Frost/Nixon
Christopher Nolan The Dark Knight
Gus Van Sant Milk
2009 Kathryn Bigelow The Hurt Locker
James Cameron Avatar
Lee Daniels Precious
Jason Reitman Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino Inglourious Basterds

2010s

Year Director(s) Film
2010 Tom Hooper The King's Speech
Darren Aronofsky Black Swan
David Fincher The Social Network
Christopher Nolan Inception
David O. Russell The Fighter
2011 Michel Hazanavicius The Artist
Woody Allen Midnight in Paris
David Fincher The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Alexander Payne The Descendants
Martin Scorsese Hugo
2012 Ben Affleck (not an Oscar nominee) Argo
Kathryn Bigelow Zero Dark Thirty
Tom Hooper Les Misérables
Ang Lee Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg Lincoln

See also