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Damien Chazelle won the Directors Guild of America’s highest honor tonight for his awards-laden La La Land. He won the Golden Globe last month and the film earned 14 Oscar nominations a week and a half ago, including Best Director for Chazelle. The DGA winner has gone on to win the Oscar 14 of the last 17 times. Only once since 2004 has a director missed and that’s because he wasn’t nominated (Ben Affleck for Argo).
Double-nominated Garth Davis (Lion) won for his first-time direction of the film Lion. Miguel Sapochnik (Game of Thrones) bested a pair of heavyweights from The People v O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story (John Singleton and the show’s creator, Ryan Murphy) to win the Drama Series prize for the episode “Battle of the Bastards,” which also won him the Emmy. Becky Martin won for Veep for the episode “Inauguration Day.” Steven Zallian won in TV Movie/Miniseries for The Night Of.
Tina Mabry won in Children’s Programming for An American Girl Story and American Vice upset The Amazing Race in Reality Series.
Here is the full list of 2017 Directors Guild of America winners:
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film
DAMIEN CHAZELLE
La La Land
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First-Time Feature Film
GARTH DAVIS
Lion
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary
EZRA EDELMAN
O.J.: Made in America
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series
MIGUEL SAPOCHNIK
Game of Thrones, “The Battle of the Bastards”
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series
BECKY MARTIN
Veep, “Inauguration”
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television and Mini-Series
STEVEN ZAILLIAN
The Night Of, “The Beach”
Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Regularly Scheduled Programming
DON ROY KING
Saturday Night Live, “Host: Dave Chappelle”
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Specials
GLENN WEISS
The 70th Annual Tony Awards
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Reality Programs
J. RUPERT THOMPSON
American Grit, “The Finale ‑ Over the Falls”
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children’s Programs
TINA MABRY
An American Girl Story ‑ Melody 1963: Love Has to Win
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials
DEREK CIANFRANCE
Chase, Nike Golf – Wieden + Kennedy Portland
Doubts, Powerade – Wieden + Kennedy Portland
Expectations, Powerade – Wieden + Kennedy Portland
Manifesto, Squarespace – Anomaly
Lifetime Achievement & Service Award Recipients
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