First director to win back-to-back DGA Award.
By Sreekanth A Nair
Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu has created history by winning the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for ‘The Revenant’.
This is for the first time in the 80-year history of DGA that a director is winning the award back-to-back in feature film category. Iñárritu won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film in 2014 for ‘Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)’.
This is Iñárritu’s third DGA Award win and fourth nomination.
As the Academy Awards are declared later this month, the entire film world is impatiently waiting to know whether he could also bag the Academy Award. Only 14 films have failed to win the Oscar for best feature film after winning the DGA, in the 66-year history of the Oscar Awards.
Iñárritu is one of the few directors like Clint Eastwood, Ang Lee, and Frances Ford Coppola who have won the DGA awards twice.
The awards were announced during the 68th Annual DGA Awards at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles, on Saturday.
The complete list of winners:
Feature Film: Alejandro G. Inarritu, The Revenant
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series: David Nutter, Game of Thrones, “Mother’s Mercy”
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series: Chris Addison, Veep, “Election Night”
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television and Miniseries: Dee Rees, Bessie
Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director: Alex Garland, Ex Machina
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary: Matthew Heineman, Cartel Land
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Reality Programs: Adam Vetri, Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Challenge, “Gods of War”
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children’s Programs: Kenny Ortega, Descendants
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Specials: Don Roy King, Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Regularly Scheduled Programming: Dave Diomedi, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, “Episode #325”
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials: Andreas Nilsson, Emily’s Oz for Comcast, Time Upon A Once for General Electric, Dad Song for Old Spice.