Annual Directors Guild of America Awards, 1996 - 2012

Updated September 9, 2022 | Infoplease Staff

The DGA Awards honor directorial excellence in film and television. There have been only five times since 1949 that the DGA film winner has not gone on to win the Best Director Oscar. Here are the film awards.

64th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards

Awarded Jan. 28, 2012

Outstanding Directorial Achievement	Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Documentary	James Marsh, Project Nim
Honorary Life Member Award	Ed Sherin
Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award	Dennis W. Mazzocco
Frank Capra Achievement Award	Katy E. Garretson

63rd Annual Directors Guild of America Awards

Awarded Jan. 29, 2011

Outstanding Directorial Achievement	Tom Hooper, The King's Speech
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Documentary	Charles Ferguson, Inside Job
Lifetime Achievement Award	Norman Jewison
Honorary Life Member Award	Barry Meyer Robert Iger
Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award	Maria Jimenez Henley
Lifetime Achievement in News Direction	Roger Goodman
Frank Capra Achievement Award	Cleve Landsberg

62nd Annual Directors Guild of America Awards

Awarded Jan. 30, 2010

Outstanding Directorial Achievement	Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Documentary	Louie Psihoyos, The Cove
Honorary Life Member Award	Roger Ebert
Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award	Scott Berger
Robert B. Aldrich Service Award	William Brady
Frank Capra Achievement Award	Kim Kurumada

61st Annual Directors Guild of America Awards

Awarded Jan. 31, 2009

Outstanding Directorial Achievement	Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Documentary	Ari Folman, Waltz with Bashir
Lifetime Achievement Award	Robert Rosen
Honorary Life Member Award	Roger Ebert
Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award	Scott Berger
Robert B. Aldrich Award	William M. Brady
Frank Capra Achievement Award	Kim Kurumada

60th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards

Awarded Jan. 26, 2008

Outstanding Directorial Achievement	Ethan Cohen and Joel Cohen, No Country for Old Men
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Documentary	Asger Leth, Ghosts of Cite Soleil
Lifetime Achievement Award	Martin Scorsese
Honorary Life Member Award	Jay D. Roth
Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award	Barbara J. Roche
Frank Capra Achievement Award	Liz Ryan

59th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards

Awarded Feb. 4, 2007

Outstanding Directorial Achievement	Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Documentary	Arunas Matelis, Before Flying Back to the Earth
Lifetime Achievement Award	George Paul
Honorary Life Member Award	Carl Reiner
Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award	Terry Benson
Robert B. Aldrich Award	Paris Barclay and Taylor Hackford

58th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards

Awarded Jan. 28, 2006

Outstanding Directorial Achievement	Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Documentary	Werner Herzog, Grizzly Man
Lifetime Achievement Award	Clint Eastwood
Frank Capra Achievement Award	Jerry H. Ziesmer
Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award	Donald E. Jacob
Lifetime Achievement Award in Sports Direction	Joseph R. Aceti

57th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards

Awarded Jan. 29, 2005

Outstanding Directorial Achievement	Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Documentary	Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni, The Story of the Weeping Camel
President's Award	Gilbert Cates
Frank Capra Achievement Award	Herb Adelman
Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award	Stanley Faer
DGA Diversity Award	Stephen McPherson

56th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards

Awarded Feb. 7, 2004

Outstanding Directorial Achievement	Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Documentary	Nathaniel Kahn, My Architect
Lifetime Achievement Award	Mike Nichols
Honorary Life Member Award	Larry Auerbach
Robert B. Aldrich Award	Jeremy Kagan
Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award	Peery Forbis
Frank Capra Achievement Award	Stephen Glanzrock

55th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards

Announced March 2003

Outstanding Directorial Achievement	Rob Marshall, Chicago
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Documentary	Tasha Oldham, The Smith Family
Lifetime Achievement Award	Martin Scorsese
Honorary Life Member Award	John Rich
Robert B. Aldrich Award	Jud Taylor
Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award	Esperanza "Candy" Martinez
Frank Capra Achievement Award	Yudi Bennett

54th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards

Announced March 2002

Outstanding Directorial Achievement	Ron Howard, A Beautiful Mind
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Documentary	Chris Hegedus and Jehane Noujaim, Startup.com
Honorary Life Member Award	Delbert Mann
Robert B. Aldrich Award	Edwin Sherin
Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award	Anita Cooper-Avrick
Frank Capra Achievement Award	Burt Bluestein

53rd Annual Directors Guild of America Awards

Announced March 2001

Outstanding Directorial Achievement	Ang Lee, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Documentary	Chuck Braverman, High School Boot Camp
Lifetime Achievement	Steven Spielberg

52nd Annual Directors Guild of America Awards

Announced March 12, 2000

Outstanding Directorial Achievement	Sam Mendes, American Beauty
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Documentary	Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen, On the Ropes

51st Annual Directors Guild of America Awards

Announced March 6, 1999

Outstanding Directorial Achievement	Steven Spielberg, Saving Private Ryan
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Documentary	Jerry Blumenthal Peter Gildbert and Gordon Quinn, Vietnam: Long Time Coming

50th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards

Announced March 7, 1998

Outstanding Directorial Achievement	James Cameron, Titanic
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Documentary	Michael Uys and Lexy Lovell, Riding the Rails
D.W. Griffith Award	Francis Ford Coppola

49th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards

Announced March 8, 1997

Outstanding Directorial Achievement	Anthony Minghella, The English Patient
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Documentary	Al Pacino, Looking for Richard
D.W. Griffith Award	Stanley Kubrick

48th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards

Announced March 2, 1996

Outstanding Directorial Achievement	Ron Howard, Apollo 13
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Documentary	Terry Zwigoff, Crumb
D. W. Griffith Award	Woody Allen