74th Directors Guild of America Awards Winners Announced

The Directors Guild of America has announced the winners of the 74th Directors Guild of America Awards. As expected, Jane Campion continued her remarkable awards season run with a win for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for The Power of the Dog.

Elsewhere, Maggie Gyllenhaal took home the First-Time Feature Film category for her directorial debut The Lost Daughter, while Stanley Nelson Jr. was awarded Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentaries for Attica.

Winners in bold below.

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film
Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza
Kenneth Branagh – Belfast
Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog
Steven Spielberg – West Side Story
Denis Villeneuve – Dune

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First-Time Feature Film
Maggie Gyllenhaal – The Lost Daughter
Rebecca Hall – Passing
Tatiana Huezo – Prayers for the Stolen
Lin-Manuel Miranda – tick, tick… BOOM!
Michael Sarnoski – Pig
Emma Seligman – Shiva Baby

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentaries
Jessica Kingdon – Ascension
Stanley Nelson Jr. – Attica
Raoul Peck – Exterminate All the Brutes
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson – Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin – The Rescue

Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.