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DGA Movies For Television Exhibit
The Directors Guild of America gave out only one award for television directing from 1953, when it began honoring TV directors, through 1970. The Guild expanded and catagorized its TV honors for the 1971 awards, by recognizing achievements in the fields of movies or movie-length productions, documentary/news specials, dramatic series, comedy series and musical/variety shows. But in the 1950s and '60s, the single annual DGA directing award was given to a half-hour show one year, a variety special the next, a feature-length show another time. The first movie-length show to win the DGA's TV award for direction was Phil Karlson's The Untouchables, a two-part, two-hour installment of Desilu Playhouse in 1959.
The new DGA lobby display features framed photographs of Movies for Television Award winners from 1953 to 2000. These photographs, including several from private collections, honor the directors of some of the greatest television movies of the past 47 years.
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