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DGA Awards Preview
DGA President Jack Shea and director Steven Spielberg
(Photo: Joe Coomber)
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On January 22, 2001, DGA President Jack Shea and DGA Award-winning director Steven Spielberg announced the five nominees for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for the year 2000. The winner will be announced at the 53rd Annual DGA Awards Dinner on Saturday, March 10, 2001, at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.
"The five nominees have been chosen by their peers as representatives of the best in motion picture directing," Shea said. "Each nominee has a distinct style and a unique creative vision and they're all worthy representatives of the best in the art and craft of motion picture directing."
Shea then introduced Spielberg, who was won the DGA Award a record three times (The Color Purple, Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan), was nominated a record nine times and who last year was the recipient of the DGA's Lifetime Achievement Award.
"Thank you very much," Spielberg said. "It is my honor today, to announce the nominees for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature film for the year 2000. And they are..."
CAMERON CROWE
ALMOST FAMOUS
(Studio/Distributor: DreamWorks Pictures)
Mr. Crowe's Directorial Team:
Production Managers: Martin P. Ewing, Steven P. Saeta.
First Assistant Director: Jerry Ziesmer.
Second Assistant Directors: David Kelley, Jill Southern.
Second Second Assistant Director: Laurie Webb.
DGA Trainee: Stephen V. Johnson.
This is Crowe's second DGA nomination in the Feature Film category. He was previously nominated in 1996 for Jerry Maguire.
ANG LEE
CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON
(Studio/Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics)
Mr. Lee's Directorial Team:
Production Manager: Helen Li.
First Assistant Directors: Lai Kai Keung, Sylvia Liu.
Second Assistant Directors: Zhang Jin Ting, Zhou Ying Ying, Zhu Hong Bo, Xu Cheung Lin, Ta Bu Si.
This is Lee's second DGA nomination in the Feature Film category. He was previously nominated in 1995 for Sense and Sensibility.
RIDLEY SCOTT
GLADIATOR
(Studio/Distributor: DreamWorks Pictures and Universal Pictures)
Mr. Scott's Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Branko Lustig.
First Assistant Director: Terry Needham.
Second Assistant Director: Adam Somner.
Second Second Assistant Director: Hannah Quinn.
This is Scott's second DGA nomination in the Feature Film category. He was previously nominated in 1991 for Thelma & Louise.
STEVEN SODERBERGH
ERIN BROCKOVICH
(Studio/Distributor: Universal Pictures and Columbia Pictures)
Mr. Soderbergh's Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Frederic W. Brost.
First Assistant Director: Gregory Jacobs.
Second Assistant Director: Dave Hallinan.
Second Second Assistant Director: Michael Risoli.
DGA Trainee: Tony Eng.
STEVEN SODERBERGH
TRAFFIC
(Studio/Distributor: USA Films)
Mr. Soderbergh's Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Frederic W. Brost.
First Assistant Director: Gregory Jacobs.
Second Assistant Director: Trey Batchelor.
Second Second Assistant Director: Basti Van der Woude.
DGA Trainee: Beryl Cohen.
Erin Brockovich and Traffic are Soderbergh's first DGA nominations in the Feature Film category. He is only the second director to receive two DGA Feature Film nominations in the same year since the current method of selecting five nominees from which one winner is chosen began in 1970.
In 1974 Francis Ford Coppola was nominated for both The Godfather Part II and The Conversation. Coppola received that year's DGA Feature Film Award for The Godfather Part II.
The DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film has traditionally been a near perfect barometer for the Best Director Academy Award. Only four times since the DGA Award's inception in 1949 has the DGA Award winner not won the Academy Award:
1968: Anthony Harvey won the DGA Award for The Lion in Winter while Carol Reed took home the Oscar® for Oliver!
1972: Francis Ford Coppola received the DGA's nod for The Godfather while the Academy selected Bob Fosse for Cabaret.
1985: Steven Spielberg received his first DGA Award for The Color Purple while the Oscar® went to Sydney Pollack for Out of Africa.
1995: Ron Howard was chosen by the DGA for his direction of Apollo 13 while Academy voters cited Mel Gibson for Braveheart.
Nominees in other categories for work done in the year 2000 are:
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television
JEFF BLECKNER
The Beach Boys: An American Family
ABC
Unit Production Manager: John Whitman.
First Assistant Director: Yudi Bennett.
Second Assistant Director: Jules Kovisars.
Second Second Assistant Director: Franklyn. Gottbetter. DGA Trainee: Tim Price.
This is Bleckner's third DGA nomination and second in the Movies for Television category. In 1983 he won the DGA Award in the Dramatic Series Night category for his direction of the "Life in the Minors" episode of Hill Street Blues. Bleckner was nominated in 1985 for the Movie for Television Do You Remember Love?
KIRK BROWNING
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
SHOWTIME
Associate Director: Alan Skog.
This is Browning's first DGA nomination.
MARTHA COOLIDGE
If These Walls Could Talk II: "1972"
HBO
Unit Production Manager: Mary Kane.
First Assistant Director: Noga Isackson.
Second Assistant Director: Brian O'Kelley.
Second Second Assistant Director: Philip Robinson.
This is Coolidge's second DGA Award nomination. She was nominated last year in this category for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge.
STEPHEN A. FREARS (DIRECTED BY)
MARTIN PASETTA, JR. (LIVE BROADCAST DIRECTION BY)
Fail Safe
CBS
Associate Director: Wendy Charles Acey.
Stage Managers: Debbie Williams, Steve Burgess, Chris Kiley, Harve Levine, Dency Nelson, Vince Poxon, Jason Roberts,
Ken Stein.
This is the first DGA Award nomination for both Frears and Pasetta, Jr.
JOSEPH SARGENT
For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story
HBO
Unit Production Manager: Jan Foster.
First Assistant Director: Craig Huston.
Second Assistant Director: Chitra F. Mojtabai.
Second Second Assistant Director: Sunday Stevens.
This is Sargent's sixth DGA Award nomination. He won the Movies for Television Award in 1973 for The Marcus-Nelson Murders, and was nominated in 1992 for Miss Rose White, in 1994 for World War II: When Lions Roared, in 1997 for Miss Evers' Boys and last year for A Lesson Before Dying.
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series Night
PARIS BARCLAY
"The Portland Trip" The West Wing
NBC
Unit Production Manager: Neal Ahern, Jr.
First Assistant Director: Douglas S. Ornstein.
Second Assistant Director: Dylan Massin.
This is Barclay's third DGA Award nomination. He won the award in this category in 1998 for "Hearts and Souls" NYPD Blue and he was nominated in 1996 for "Ask Me No Questions, I'll Tell You No Lies" episode of ER.
HENRY J. BRONCHTEIN
"From Where to Eternity" The Sopranos
HBO
Unit Production Manager: Ilene S. Landress.
First Assistant Director: Mark McGann.
Second Assistant Director: Lisa M. Rowe.
This is Bronchtein's second DGA Award nomination. He was nominated last year in this category for "Nobody Knows Anything" The Sopranos.
ALLEN COULTER
"The Knight in White Satin Armor" The Sopranos
HBO
Unit Production Manager: Henry J. Bronchtein.
First Assistant Director: Mark McGann.
Second Assistant Director: Jeffrey T. Bernstein.
This is Coulter's second and third DGA Award nominations. (He is also nominated this year in the Comedy Series category for directing the "Cockadoodle-do" episode of Sex and the City.) He was nominated last year for the "College" episode of The Sopranos.
JOHN PATTERSON
"Funhouse" The Sopranos
HBO
Unit Production Manager: Henry J. Bronchtein.
First Assistant Director: Michael DeCasper.
Second Assistant Director: Kristin Cameron-Bernstein.
This is Patterson's first DGA Award nomination.
THOMAS SCHLAMME
"Noel" The West Wing
NBC
Unit Production Manager: Neal Ahern, Jr.
First Assistant Director: Andrew Bernstein.
Second Assistant Director: Dylan Massin.
This is Schlamme's sixth DGA Award nomination. He won the DGA Award in Comedy Series last year for the "Small Town" episode of Sports Night and was also nominated last year in the Dramatic Series Night category for the pilot of The West Wing. In 1998 he won the DGA Award in Comedy Series for the pilot of Sports Night. He was also nominated in 1997 for the Tracey Takes On... episode "1976" and in 1996 for the Tracey Takes On... episode "Romance."
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series
JAMES BURROWS
"Lows in the Mid-Eighties" Will & Grace
NBC
Unit Production Manager: Tim Kaiser.
First Assistant Director: Dale White.
Second Assistant Director: Caryn Rae Shick.
Technical Coordinator: Russell D. Sherman.
Jim Burrows is now the most nominated director in the history of the DGA Awards - this will be the three-time DGA Award winner's 17th nomination, all of which are in the Comedy Series category. He was most recently nominated last year for the "Yours, Mine, Ours" episode of Will & Grace and in 1998 for the pilot of Will & Grace. Burrows' first nomination came in 1981 for the Taxi episode "Jim the Psychic." In all, he was a ten-time nominee and two-time DGA Award winner for Cheers; in 1982, 1983 (winner), 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990 (winner), 1991 and 1992. He also won the DGA Award in 1993 for directing the pilot of Frasier, and was nominated in 1995 for the Friends episode "The One With the Birth," and in 1997 for the pilot of Dharma and Greg.
ALLEN COULTER
"Cockadoodle-do" Sex and the City
HBO
Unit Production Manager: Debra S. Kent.
First Assistant Director: Bettiann Fishman.
Second Assistant Director: Lyda Blank.
This year marks Coulter's second and third DGA Award nominations. (He is also nominated this year in the Dramatic Series Night category for directing the "The Knight in White Satin Armor" episode of The Sopranos.) He was nominated last year for the "College" episode of The Sopranos.
BILL D'ELIA
"The Last Virgin" Ally McBeal
FOX
Unit Production Manager: Jack Philbrick.
First Assistant Director: Allen G. Di Gioia.
Second Assistant Director: Nancy P. Townsend.
Second Second Assistant Directors: Jodie Thomas, Alicia Lewis.
This is D'Elia's first DGA Award nomination.
PAMELA FRYMAN
"And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon" (Parts I & II) Frasier
NBC
Unit Production Manager: Bill Carroll.
First Assistant Director: Katy Garretson.
Second Assistant Director: Marc Stirdivant.
Technical Coordinator: Jim Rose.
This is Fryman's fourth DGA Award nomination. She was nominated last year for "The Fight Before Christmas" episode of Frasier. Fryman was also nominated in 1997 for the Frasier episode "Halloween (Part I)," and in 1998 for the Just Shoot Me episode "Two Girls for Every Boy."
TODD HOLLAND
Pilot Malcolm in the Middle
FOX
Unit Production Manager: Gordon E. Wolf.
First Assistant Director: Robert Williams, Jr.
Second Assistant Director: Richard Coad.
This is Holland's fifth DGA Award nomination. His four prior nominations were for episodes of The Larry Sanders Show. In 1994 he was nominated for the episode "The Mr. Sharon Stone Show," in 1995 for "Arthur After Shows," in 1996 for "Everybody Loves Larry" and in 1998 for the episode "Flip."
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical Variety
ELLEN BROWN
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno #1938
NBC
Associate Directors: Amy Kimelman, Rick Stern. Stage Managers: Michael J. Schiff, Roberta Ann Kantola.
This is Brown's third nomination, all in this category. She was nominated in 1995 for The Tonight Show With Jay Leno From Las Vegas and in 1996 for The Tonight Show From Chicago.
JERRY FOLEY
Late Show With David Letterman #1527
CBS
Associate Directors: Randi Grossack, Jessica V. Santini.
Stage Managers: James J. "Biff" Henderson, Jr., Arthur "Corky" Ramirez.
This is Foley's third DGA Award nomination. He was previously nominated in this category for episodes of Late Show With David Letterman in 1998 and 1999.
ROGER GOODMAN
ABC 2000
ABC
Associate Directors: Manny A. Cabral, Chelly Campbell, Jeffrey I. Cohan, Tracy Gamble, Thomas Gatewood, Joan Griffin, A.J. Gundell, Dieter Hahn, Ronald Halper, Maria Kontos Barrett, Timothy R. Langtry, Robert Lazarczyk, Carol A. Lehti, Gary Mace, Kathleen M. Matey, Dennis Mazzocco, Suzanne Felice Mendelsohn, Sandor Panfel, Neil J. Philipson, Marie Puggelli, Orlando Ramirez, Beareather Reddy, Luis D. Ruiz, Gary Russo, Elisabeth S. Salomon, Calvin Sanchez, Virginia G. Seipt, Gretchen Sherman-Godfrey, Jacqueline Taffe-Myers, Robert Vint, Neil Weiss.
Stage Managers: Brendan Higgins, Cecile Just, Anne Marie Kuehling, Uwe Lehmann.
Field Directors: Robert McKinnon, George Paul, Robert Hersh, Larry Kamm, Jack Gallivan, Tony Barrett, Sue Pomerantz, John D'Incecco, Annie Benjamin Ruff.
This is Goodman's second DGA Award nomination. He was nominated in 1988 for co-direction of the Indianapolis 500.
LOUIS J. HORVITZ
The 72nd Annual Academy Awards
ABC
Associate Directors: James Tanker, Kathleen Fortine, Allan Kartun, Michael Polito, Richard Preuss, Sharon Taylor, Alan Carter.
Stage Managers: Garry W. Hood, Denny Barry, Steve Burgess, Rita Cossette, Alissa Levisohn, Peter M. Margolis, Gary Natoli, Dency Nelson, Jason Seligman, Douglas Smith, Kenneth Stein, David Wader, Debbie Williams.
This is Horvitz's eighth DGA Award nomination, all in the Musical Variety category. He was nominated last year for The 71st Annual Academy Awards. He won the award in this category in 1997 for The Kennedy Center Honors and was also nominated in 1985 for Live Aid Concert, 1993 for The Kennedy Center Honors, 1995 for Sinatra: 80 Years My Way and 1998 for The 70th Annual Academy Awards.
BETH McCARTHY MILLER
Saturday Night Live With Val Kilmer and U2
NBC
Associate Directors: Stefani Cohen, Robert Caminiti, Mark Jankeloff.
Stage Managers: Gena Rositano Wilson, Christopher Kelly.
This is McCarthy Miller's second DGA nomination. She was nominated last year for Saturday Night Live 25th Anniversary.
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials
Dante Ariola, Propaganda Films
Elephant, Nike
Wieden & Kennedy
Tickets, Hewlett Packard
Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
Taxi, Hewlett Packard
Goodby Silverstein & Partners
First Assistant Director: Peter Repplier.
Second Assistant Director: Peter Leto.
This is Ariola's first DGA Award nomination.
Bryan Buckley, hungry man
Action Figures, FedEx
BBDO/New York
Monkey, E*TRADE
Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
Wazoo, E*TRADE
Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
Basketball, E*TRADE
Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
First Assistant Director: Pierre Cailliarec.
Second Assistant Director: Alan Berger.
This is Buckley's second DGA nomination. He won the award last year.
David Cornell, Headquarters
Synchronized Commercialism, Visa
BBDO/New York
First Assistant Director: John Wildermuth.
Second Assistant Director: Jennifer Ann Giancola.
Tattoo, Visa
BBDO/New York
First Assistant Director: Benita Allen-Honess.
Second Assistant Director: Fred Roth.
Ringo, Charles Schwab
BBDO/New York
First Assistant Director: John Wildermuth.
Second Assistant Director: Jennifer Ann Giancola.
Retirement, Charles Schwab
BBDO/New York
First Assistant Director: David Backus.
Second Assistant Director: Kevin Burke.
I Enjoy Being a Girl, Visa
BBDO New York
First Assistant Director: Bob Brown.
Second Assistant Director: Christophe Le Chanu.
This is Cornell's second DGA nomination. He won the award in 1989.
Leslie Dektor, Dektor Films
New Eyes, Idea Exchange
Dangell/Publicis & Hal Riney
The Check, Pocketcard
FCB/Chicago
The Run Home, Idea Exchange
Dangell/Publicis & Hal Riney
Unit Production Manager: Marc Siegel.
First Assistant Director: Frank Glenn.
Second Assistant Director: Christopher Berger.
This is Dektor's 12th DGA nomination. This ties him with Joe Pytka for the most DGA nominations in this category. Dektor was nominated every year from 1984 through 1991, 1994 and 1999 and he won the award in 1992.
Lenard Dorfman, @radical.media
Harlem Fencer, IBM
Ogilvy & Mather
Senegal Women's Basketball, IBM
Ogilvy & Mather
DJ, Contentville
Ogilvy & Mather
First Assistant Director: John Lowe.
Second Assistant Director: Peter Notaro.
Camped Out, Excite.com
Amster Yard
First Assistant Director: John Lowe.
Second Assistant Director: Ronan O'Connor.
This is Dorfman's first nomination.
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentaries
CHUCK BRAVERMAN
High School Boot Camp
Braverman Productions, Inc.
(Theatrical Release)
This is Braverman's first DGA Award nomination.
LAURIE COLLYER
Nuyorican Dream
Big Mouth Productions, Inc. (Cinemax)
This is Collyer's first DGA Award nomination.
DAVID deVRIES
The True Story of the Bridge
on the River Kwai
Greystone Communications
(The History Channel)
First Assistant Director: Craig Haffner.
This is deVries' first DGA Award nomination.
MARK T. LEWIS
The Natural History of the Chicken
Radio Pictures, Inc. (PBS)
This is Lewis' first DGA Award nomination.
MICHAEL MIERENDORF
Broken Child
Mierendorf Productions (HBO)
This is Mierendorf's first DGA Award nomination.
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Daytime Serials
BRUCE S. BARRY
Guiding Light Episode #13562
CBS
Associate Directors: Natasha S. Katzive, Matthew B. Lagle, Tracey Hanley Bryggman.
Stage Managers: Adam Aston Reist,
Ann E. Vettel, Joseph Xavier Willmore.
Production Assistants: Ilene K. Frankel, Charles Grayauskie.
This is Barry's fourth DGA Award nomination for Daytime Serials.
He was nominated in 1996 for Guiding Light Episode #12452, in 1995
for Guiding Light Episode #12063, and in 1993 for Guiding Light Episode #11644.
CASEY CHILDS
All My Children Episode #7919
ABC
Associate Directors: Karen Theresa Johnson, Shirley Y. Simmons. Stage Managers: Rusty Swope, Penny Bergman, Tamara P. Grady.
Production Assistants: Martin Fritz Brekeller, Anthony L. Pascarelli.
This is Childs' first nomination for a DGA Award.
JILL MITWELL
One Life to Live Episode #8205
ABC
Associate Directors: Owen Renfroe,
Jamie Howarth. Stage Managers: Alan
P. Needleman, Richard A. Manfredi.
Production Assistant: Teresa Anne Cicala.
This is Mitwell's fifth DGA Award nomination. Her prior four nominations have all been for episodes of One Life to Live. In 1993 she received the Award for Best Director-Daytime Serials, for One Life to Live Episode #6356.
CONAL O'BRIEN
All My Children Episode #7969
ABC
Associate Directors: Karen Theresa Johnson, Shirley Y. Simmons.
Stage Managers: Rusty Swope, Penny Bergman, Tamara P. Grady.
Production Assistants: Martin Fritz Brekeller, Anthony L. Pascarelli.
This is O'Brien's first nomination for a DGA Award.
JO ANNE SEDWICK
Guiding Light Episode #13511
CBS
Associate Director: Tracey Hanley Bryggman.
Stage Managers: Adam Aston Reist, Ann E. Vettel, Joseph Xavier Willmore.
This is Sedwick's first DGA Award nomination.
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children's Programs
GREG BEEMAN
Miracle in Lane 2
The Disney Channel
Unit Production Manager: Christopher Morgan.
First Assistant Director: Lisa Satriano.
Second Assistant Director: Nicholas Satriano.
This is Beeman's first DGA Awards nomination.
WILLIAM DEAR
"Santa Who?" Wonderful World of Disney
ABC
This is Dear's first DGA Award nomination.
PAUL HOEN
"Take My Sister...Please" Even Stevens
The Disney Channel
Unit Production Manager: David Grace.
First Assistant Director: Jeffrey F. January.
Second Assistant Director: David V. Rimer.
This is Hoen's first DGA Award nomination.
KEVIN HOOKS
The Color of Friendship
The Disney Channel
This is Hooks' second DGA Award nomination. In 1988 he received a nomination for Home Sweet Homeless in the Dramatic Shows Daytime Category.
SEAN MC NAMARA
"Easy Way" Even Stevens
The Disney Channel
Unit Production Manager: David Brookwell.
First Assistant Director: Jeffrey F. January.
Second Assistant Director: David V. Rimer.
This is Mc Namara's first DGA Award nomination.
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