Fifty years ago, Melvin Van Peebles shook up the establishment with his subversive comedy Watermelon Man, turning the tables on a racist society with an ingenious scenario of role reversal.

Gene Reynolds, who passed away Feb. 3, served as DGA president from 1993 to 1997 and was instrumental in bringing more youthful, diverse members into the Guild’s ranks.

A live-event maestro bar none, Don Mischer was equally adept at directing fine arts.

We pay homage to the director of Seven Beauties, which earned her the first nomination by a woman for the DGA’s Feature Film award.

The impact of John Singleton, who passed April 28, continues to reverberate throughout the industry.

In the spring of 1969, John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy was released to widespread acclaim, becoming the first and only X-rated film to win the Academy's best picture award, and earning the British filmmaker a DGA Award and an Oscar for directing.

Bernardo Bertolucci, who passed away in November, came to prominence in the '70s with such films as The Conformist and Last Tango in Paris, and won the DGA Award for his towering 1987 epic The Last Emperor.

Commercial directors have a tough job these days. They used to have a full 30 seconds to tell their stories, but that's changing.

There can be no more interwoven relationship in filmmaking than that between a director and editor. Many have maintained career-long collaborations with those they feel to be their creative soul mates.

The origin of the one director to a film policy.

This year will mark the 40th birthday of the Movie of the Week (MOW) and, not surprisingly, the event will prompt something of a midlife crisis.

Few television shows enter the public awareness as brazenly as HBO's The Sopranos. Directors Timothy M. Van Patten, Henry Bronchtein and John Patterson discuss their experiences on the show.

Lamont Johnson talking with the stars of That Certain Summer; Martin Sheen and Hal Holbrook.

Moderated by producer and AAC committee co-chair, Wenda Fong.