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DGA Emmy Winners and Nominees Honored
DGA Emmy Nominee Reception
photos by Joe Coomber
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DGA President Jack Shea, with nominees Robert Dornhelm, Frank Pierson, Robert Allan Ackerman, James Burrows and ATAS Chairperson and CEO Meryl Marshall-Daniels.
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DGA members who received Emmy nominations for the 2000–2001 TV season were honored on September 24 in the DGA's Boardroom at an intimate reception.
"In my book, all of you Emmy nominees are winners," said DGA President Jack Shea in his welcoming remarks. "We all admire you tremendously and are glad to honor you here tonight. I want to express to each of the nominees and to all the television director members of the DGA, that your Guild is very proud of the outstanding jobs that you're doing."
Meryl Marshall-Daniels, the outgoing chairperson and CEO of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS), told the gathering, "Your intimate stories as well as your stories on such a grand scale are part of what help us all to figure out the world, the universe we live in. And those stories will be more important now than ever before," she added.
Shea and Marshall-Daniels presented attending directors with nomination citations. The Emmys, which were also postponed, were awarded November 4.
Billy Crystal, nominated for his HBO film 61*, began, saying, "Members of the congregation, I've been fortunate to have been nominated as a performer a few times — and won decisively. This nomination has meant more to me than anything I've ever been proud to be nominated for."
"And tonight, I'm looking out at Lou Antonio," Crystal added. "Lou directed me in the first television role I ever acted in. And you were great. You said, 'When you're done with me, you'll be 5'10". Well, it wasn't to be. But it's great to be in the same room all these years later."
Antonio directed Crystal in the 1979 movie for television Breaking Up Is Hard to Do.
Also nominated for directing a miniseries, movie or special, were Robert Allan Ackerman for Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, Robert Dornhelm for Anne Frank, Frank Pierson for Conspiracy and Mike Nichols for Wit. Nichols was unable to attend.
"I've been nominated in many categories in both motion pictures and television," said Pierson, "but this nomination means more than I can really tell at this point, because it has to do with directing.
"If my fellow directors choose to honor me, then that's special. I've directed a lot of pictures, but it's glorious when everything comes together from the most talented people giving their all. There's nothing quite like it, and this recognition is like the dream we all have," Pierson said.
"To receive this recognition means a lot," Dornhelm said. "It could lead to more jobs of this calibre. I come from a democratic and egalitarian viewpoint and don't seek to massage my ego. But an Emmy nomination is fine recognition."
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| Mel Damski, Bruce Bilson, nominee Billy Crystal and Janice Crystal. |
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The nominees for directing a drama series were Laura Innes for her episode of The West Wing, "Shibboleth"; Jonathan Kaplan, ER, "The Visit"; Thomas Schlamme, The West Wing, "In the Shadow of Two Gunman: Parts 1 and 2"; and three directors of The Sopranos episodes: Allen Coulter, "University"; Steve Buscemi, "Pine Barrens"; and Tim Van Patten, "Amour Fou."
The nominees for directing comedy series were James Burrows for the Will & Grace episode "Lows in the Mid-Eighties"; Todd Holland, Malcolm in the Middle, "Bowling"; Jeff Melman, Malcolm in the Middle, "Flashback"; James Frawley, Ed, pilot episode; and Charles McDougall, Sex and the City, "Easy Come, Easy Go."
Among the nominees for directing a variety or music program were Louis J. Horvitz, The 73rd Annual Academy Awards; Paul Miller, The Tony Awards; and Jerry Foley, Late Night With David Letterman (Show #1527).
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