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Sam Mendes receives the 2020 DGA Award for 1917

January 26, 2020 by Gary Collinson

Sam Mendes looks to have put himself in pole position for the Oscar for Best Director, with the filmmaker taking home the top prize at the 2020 Directors Guild of America Awards for his World War One epic 1917.

The DGA Awards are seen as a strong indicator for the Academy Awards, with the DGA Award matching up with the Best Director winner on all but seven occasions since 1950. It also bodes well for 1917’s Best Picture chances, as the DGA winner has seen their film collect the Oscar on 55 occasions since 1950.

Other DGA winners last night inlcude Alma Har’el for Honey Boy (First-Time Feature Film), Nicole Kassell for Watchmen (Drama Series), Bill Hader for Barry (Comedy Series) and Johan Renck for Chernobyl (Movies for Television and Limited Series). Check out the full list of winners here via EW…

FILM

Feature Film
Bong Joon Ho – Parasite
WINNER: Sam Mendes – 1917
Martin Scorsese – The Irishman
Quentin Tarantino – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Taika Waititi – Jojo Rabbit

Documentaries
WINNER: Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert – American Factory
Feras Fayyad – The Cave
Alex Holmes – Maiden
Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska – Honeyland
Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang – One Child Nation

First-Time Feature Film
Mati Diop – Atlantics
WINNER: Alma Har’el – Honey Boy
Melina Matsoukas – Queen & Slim
Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz – The Peanut Butter Falcon
Joe Talbot – The Last Black Man in San Francisco

TELEVISION

Drama Series
WINNER: Nicole Kassell – Watchmen for “It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice”
Mark Mylod – Succession for “This Is Not for Tears”
David Nutter – Game of Thrones for “The Last of the Starks”
Miguel Sapochnik – Game of Thrones for “The Long Night”
Stephen Williams – Watchmen for “This Extraordinary Being”

Comedy Series
Dan Attias – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel for “It’s the Sixties, Man!”
WINNER: Bill Hader – Barry for “ronny/lily”
David Mandel – Veep for “Veep”
Daniel Palladino – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel for “Marvelous Radio”
Amy Sherman-Palladino – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel for “It’s Comedy or Cabbage”

Movies for Television and Limited Series
Ava DuVernay – When They See Us
Vince Gilligan – El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Thomas Kail – Fosse/Verdon for “Nowadays”
WINNER: Johan Renck – Chernobyl
Minkie Spiro – Fosse/Verdon for “All I Care About Is Love”
Jessica Yu – Fosse/Verdon for “Glory”

Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Regularly Scheduled Programming
Paul G. Casey – Real Time with Bill Maher for “#1730”
Nora S. Gerard – CBS Sunday Morning for “40th Anniversary”
Jim Hoskinson – The Late Show with Stephen Colbert for “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez/Incubus”
WINNER: Don Roy King – Saturday Night Live for “Eddie Murphy/Lizzo”
Paul Pennolino and Christopher Werner – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver for “SLAPP Suits”

Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Specials
WINNER: James Burrows and Andy Fisher – Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s All in the Family and The Jeffersons
Spike Jonze – Aziz Ansari: Right Now
Stan Lathan – Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones
Linda Mendoza – Wanda Sykes: Not Normal
Glenn Weiss – The 91st Annual Academy Awards

Reality Programs
Hisham Abed – Queer Eye for “Black Girl Magic”
WINNER: Jason Cohen – Encore! for “Annie”
Jon Favreau – The Chef Show for “Hog Island”
Ashley S. Gorman – First Responders Live for “#103”
Patrick McManus – American Ninja Warrior for “#1116: Las Vegas National Finals Night 4”

Children’s Programs
Dean Israelite – Are You Afraid of the Dark? for “Part One: Submitted for Your Approval”
Jack Jameson – Sesame Street’s 50th Anniversary Special
Luke Matheny – Ghostwriter for “Ghost in Wonderland: Part 1”
WINNER: Amy Schatz – Song of Parkland
Barry Sonnenfeld – A Series of Unfortunate Events for “Penultimate Peril: Part 1”

Filed Under: Awards Season, Gary Collinson, Movies, News, Television Tagged With: DGA Awards, directors guild of america

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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