DGA Monthly - Volume 6 - Issue 2 - February 2009 - click here to return to table of contents
DGA President Taylor Hackford welcomed the audience of 1,600 guests before turning things over to Actor / Director / Comedian Carl Reiner who hosted the ceremony for the 22nd time. Presenters included: Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men), Julie Bowen (Modern Family), Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker), Lea Michele and Matthew Morrison (Glee), DGA Board Member Jesús Treviño, Cheryl Hines (Curb Your Enthusiasm), Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington (Avatar), Jodie Foster (The Beaver), DGA Board Member Donald Petrie, Carey Mulligan (An Education), Gabourey Sidibe (Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire), President and CEO of Disney Robert Iger, Christina Hendricks (Mad Men), Anna Kendrick and Jason Bateman (Up In The Air), Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds), DGA Secretary/Treasurer Gil Cates, Robert Zemeckis (A Christmas Carol), Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight), Brad Pitt (Inglourious Basterds), Jane Alexander (Terminator Salvation), DGA President Taylor Hackford, and 2008 DGA Feature Film Award winner Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire).
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President Taylor Hackford welcomes the audience to the DGA Awards

2010 host Carl Reiner starts the show

Reiner shares the podium with Children’s Programs presenter Jon Cryer

Cryer presents the Children’s Programs Award to Allison Liddi-Brown

Liddi-Brown thanks her team

Liddi-Brown with presenter Jon Cryer

Daytime Serials presenter Julie Bowen
plants one on host Carl Reiner

Bowen announces the Daytime Serials winner

Daytime Serials winner Christopher Goutman gives his acceptance speech

Goutman with presenter Julie Bowen

The Hurt Locker's Jeremy Renner presents the
Feature Film Award Nomination trophy to Kathryn Bigelow

Bigelow talks about being nominated

Bigelow talks about being nominated

Bigelow with presenter Jeremy Renner

Glee's Lea Michele and Matthew Morrison announce the Commercials winner

Commercials winner Tom Kuntz
thanks his partners at MJZ

Kuntz with presenters Morrison and Michele

Director Jesus Treviño talks about 2010 Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award recipient Maria Jimenez Henley

Maria Jimenez Henley is presented
with her Schaffner Award

Jimenez Henley talks about
her road to the Schaffner Award

Jimenez Henley with presenter Jesus Treviño

Presenter Cheryl Hines announces
the Reality Programs winner

Hines presents the DGA Reality Programs award to Craig Borders

Borders talks about creating reality programs

Borders with presenter Cheryl Hines

Avatar actors Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana talk about how director James Cameron made them ten feet tall

Worthington and Saldana greet Cameron

Cameron talks about the
challenges of directing Avatar

James Cameron with
Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington

Actor/Director Jodie Foster
presents the Documentary Award

Documentary winner Louie Psihoyos
examines his DGA Award.

Psihoyos with presenter Jodie Foster

Director Donald Petrie prepares to present the 2010 Frank Capra Achievement Award to Cleve Landsberg

Cleve Landsberg accepts his Capra Award

Landsberg speaks of his
long career in the industry

Landsberg backstage with
presenter Donald Petrie

Director Don Mischer accepts the DGA Musical Variety Award from presenter Carey Mulligan

Mischer talks about winning
his 10th DGA Award

Mischer with presenter Carey Mulligan

Precious actress Gaborey Sidibe
is welcomed onstage by Carl Reiner

Lee Daniels accepts his Feature Film Award nomination trophy from Sidibe

Daniels recalls overcoming the odds to make Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire

Daniels backstage with presenter Sidibe

Director Roger Goodman is presented with the DGA Lifetime Achievement in News Direction Award by presenter Robert Iger

Goodman checks out his Award

Goodman with presenter Robert Iger

Actor Christina Hendricks announces the winner of the Comedy Series Award

Christina Hendricks congratulates
Jason Winer on his win

Winer proves he's as funny
as his show Modern Family

Modern Family's Julie Bowen sneaks backstage to congratulate Winer

Winer with presenter Christina Hendricks

Up in the Air actors Jason Bateman and Anna Kendrick speak about Jason Reitman

Feature Film Nominee
Reitman thanks his parents

Reitman with Anna Kendrick
and Jason Bateman

Host Carl Reiner cozies up to Inglourious Basterds' Christoph Waltz

Waltz announces the Dramatic Series Night Award

Dramatic Series Night Award winner Lesli Linka Glatter talks about directing Mad Men

Linka Glatter with presenter Christoph Waltz

Secretary-Treasurer Gil Cates reveals
the history of the DGA’s Honorary Life Membership Award

Robert Zemeckis talks about Honorary Life Membership Award recipient Robert Iger

Robert Iger becomes an
honorary member of the DGA

Iger with presenters
Gil Cates and Robert Zemeckis

Carl Reiner auditions for a part in
Christopher Nolan's next Batman movie

Nolan presents the DGA Honorary Life Membership Award to Barry Meyer

Meyer talks about becoming
an honorary DGA member

Meyer with presenters
Christopher Nolan and Gil Cates

Presenter Brad Pitt catches up with his Ocean's Eleven pal Carl Reiner

Pitt recalls the directing style used by Inglourious Basterds’ Quentin Tarantino

2009 DGA Feature Film Award Nominee
Tarantino talks about his love of movies

Tarantino with presenter Brad Pitt

Movies for Television/Mini-Series
presenter Jane Alexander

Winner Ross Katz honors the fallen
soldier on which his film was based

Movies for Television/Mini-Series winner
Ross Katz
with presenter Jane Alexander

Taylor Hackford speaks about DGA Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient Norman Jewison

Hackford calls for the “trophy girl”
to bring out the award

Jewison is shocked to see that the “trophy girl” is his Moonstruck star Cher

Cher greets her old friend and director

Norman Jewison talks about his legacy

Jewison receives a standing ovation in recognition of his body of work.

Jewison backstage with presenters Cher
and DGA President Taylor Hackford

2008 winner Danny Boyle prepares to announce the DGA Award winner for 2009

Kathryn Bigelow hearing her
name called by presenter Danny Boyle

Bigelow receiving congratulations from Boyle

delivering her acceptance speech

Bigelow holds up her DGA Award backstage with presenter Danny Boyle

Bigelow speaks to the press about making Hollywood history.


DGA Awards Ceremony:

  • Directed by: Jim Drake
  • Associate Director: Peery Forbis
  • Stage Managers: Barry Haworth, Ellen Deutsch, C.J. Rapp Pittman, George Boyd

DGA Awards Section Photos by:
Frazer Harrison/Getty Images, Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images, Howard Wise, Tonya Wise, and Joe Coomber


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