LOS ANGELES, CA - The Directors Guild of America has set the date and location for the 60th Annual DGA Awards, DGA President Michael Apted and Awards Committee Chairperson Howard Storm announced today. The 60th Annual DGA Awards Dinner will take place on Saturday, January 26, 2008 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel.
“I’m thrilled to announce that next year we will be celebrating the 60th Annual DGA Awards,” Apted said. “The DGA Awards has always been the Guild’s biggest night, and this allows us to showcase the very best in directorial achievement and this important milestone. For six decades, the Awards have honored the finest work of directors and their teams in feature films, television, documentaries and commercials. We look forward to continuing that tradition, and taking this chance to remember the history, lore and revelry that has made the DGA Awards so memorable.”
The Awards were established in 1948 by the Screen Directors Guild, the Los Angeles-based Guild that merged with the New York-based Radio & Television Directors Guild in 1960 to form the Directors Guild of America. For the first few years, the Best Director Award was bestowed on a quarterly basis, with the recipient of the most votes receiving an annual award at a ceremony. The quarterly awards soon gave way to an annual Awards Dinner, which has added categories over time to include the following honors for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in: Feature Film, Movies for Television, Documentary, Dramatic Television, Comedy Television, Musical Variety, Reality Television, Daytime Television, Children’s Television, and Commercials.
The DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film has traditionally been one of the industry’s most accurate barometers for who will win the Best Director Academy Award.
The DGA Award winner has won the corresponding Best Director Academy Award fifty-three of fifty-nine times since the DGA Award’s inception The correlation between the awards occurred most recently this year as Martin Scorsese won both the DGA Award and the Best Director Oscar for The Departed.
