DGA Monthly - Volume 5 - Issue 2 - February 2008 - click here to return to table of contents
click images for larger view and/or details
The nominees are (in alphabetical order):
 - click image for IMDB filmography

JACK BENDER

Lost - "Through the Looking Glass"
(ABC)

Mr. Bender's Directorial Team:

  • Unit Production Manager: Pat Churchill
  • First Assistant Director: Richard Peter Schroer
  • Second Assistant Director: Meta Valentic
  • Second Second Assistant Director: Wainani Young Tomich

This is Mr. Bender's first DGA Award nomination.


 - click image for IMDB filmography

DAVID CHASE

The Sopranos - "Made in America"
(HBO)

Mr. Chase's Directorial Team:

  • Unit Production Managers: Henry J. Bronchtein, Ilene S. Landress
  • First Assistant Director: Jeff Bernstein
  • Second Assistant Director: Nancy Herrmann
  • Second Second Assistant Director: Charlie Foster
  • Additional Second Second Assistant Director: Selena Beal
  • Second Assistant Director/Location Manager: Regina Heymann
  • DGA Trainee: Marcos Gonzalez Palma

This is Mr. Chase's second DGA Award nomination. He won the Dramatic Series Night award for The Sopranos pilot episode in 1999. Additionally, he was a recipient of the DGA Honor in 2006 in New York.


 - click image for IMDB filmography

ERIC LANEUVILLE

Lost - "The Brig"
(ABC)

Mr. Laneuville's Directorial Team:

  • Unit Production Manager: Pat Churchill
  • First Assistant Director: Richard Peter Schroer
  • Second Assistant Director: Meta Valentic
  • Second Second Assistant Director: Michael J. Musteric
  • Additional Second Second Assistant Director: Steven E. Simon

This is Mr. Laneuville's fourth DGA Award nomination in this category. He was previously nominated for the NYPD Blue episode "From Hare to Eternity" in 1993. He won the Dramatic Series Night Award for the I'll Fly Away episode "All God's Children" in 1991 and also won for his L.A. Law episode "I'm in the Nude" in 1989.


 - click image for IMDB filmography

ALAN TAYLOR

Mad Men - "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (Pilot)"
(AMC)

Mr. Taylor's Directorial Team:

  • Unit Production Manager: Scott Hornbacher
  • First Assistant Director: Mark McGann
  • Second Assistant Director: Maggie Murphy
  • Second Second Assistant Director: John Silvestri
  • Second Assistant Director/Location Manager: April Taylor

This is Mr. Taylor's first DGA Award nomination.


TIM VAN PATTEN - click image for IMDB filmography

TIM VAN PATTEN

The Sopranos - "Sopranos Home Movies"
(HBO)

Mr. Van Patten's Directorial Team:

  • Unit Production Managers: Henry J. Bronchtein, Ilene S. Landress
  • First Assistant Director: John E. Gallagher
  • Second Assistant Director: Peter Soldo
  • Second Second Assistant Director: Charlie Foster
  • Additional Second Second Assistant Director: Henri Sann
  • Second Assistant Director/Location Manager: April Taylor
  • DGA Trainee: Kathleen Mulligan

This is Mr. Van Patten's sixth DGA Award nomination. He won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series in 2004 for the Sex and the City episode "An American Girl in Paris: Part Deux," and in 2003 for the Sex and The City episode "Boy Interrupted." He was nominated for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series Night in 2006 for The Sopranos episode "Members Only," in 2004 for The Sopranos episode "Long Term Parking," and in 2002 for The Sopranos episode "Whoever Did This."


Related Items:


click here to return to the table of contents
click here to return to the top of this page