The Directors Guild of America (USA) has announced its nominees in its television categories. “Succession”The drama-series category was swept by five nominations for episodes.
1983 was the last year that a single series won all of the nominations for the category. “Hill Street Blues”Every slot was taken by a program that had only three nominations at the time. Drama and comedy have never won all five nominations in any DGA Awards series category.
Comedy series are: “Ted Lasso”Three of the five slots were taken by me, “Hacks” “The White Lotus”The remaining two should be taken.
Barry Jenkins and others were nominated for the category for TV movies and limited series. “The Underground Railroad,”Barry Levinson & Danny Strong, for their separate episodes of “Dopesick,” Hiro Murai for “Station Eleven”Craig Zobel “Mare of Easttown.”
Bo Burnham, for his special, is one of the other nominees “Bo Burnham: Inside”Kathryn Bigelow and Steve Jobs for an iPhone 13 commercial.
Netflix’s South Korean sensation “Squid Game”The DGA Awards were not open to him.
The guild also announced its nominees for documentary directing. These were Jessica Kingdon and John Kingdon. “Ascension,”Stanley Nelson “Attica,”Raoul Peck “Exterminate All the Brutes,”Questlove is for “Summer of Soul” and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin for “The Rescue.
In the documentary-feature category, it’s normal for two or three of the DGA nominees to go on to receive Oscar nominations in the Best Documentary Feature category. Four of this year’s DGA doc nominees are on the 15-film Oscar shortlist in that category.
On Thursday, the DGA Awards will announce its nominees for feature films. The Producers Guild and Writers Guild also will announce their film nominations.
Here’s a list of programs with nominated directors. The complete list, including the directorial teams is available at www.dga.org.
Drama Series
KEVIN BRAY
Succession, “Retired Janitors of Idaho”
MARK MYLOD
Succession, “All the Bells Say”
ANDRIJ PAREKH
Succession, “What It Takes”
ROBERT PULCINI & SHARI SPRINGER BERMAN
Succession, “Lion in the Meadow”
LORENE SCAFARIA
Succession, “Too Much Birthday”
Comedy Series
LUCIA ANIELLO
Hacks, “There Is No Line”
MJ DELANEY
Ted Lasso “No Weddings and a Funeral”
ERICA DUNTON
Ted Lasso “Rainbow”
SAM JONES
Ted Lasso “Beard After Hours”
MIKE WHITE
The White Lotus “Mysterious Monkeys”
Movies for television and limited series
BARRY JENKINS
Underground Railroad
BARRY LEVINSON
Dopesick, “First Bottle”
HIRO MURAI
Station Eleven “Wheel of Fire”
DANNY STRONG
Dopesick, “The People vs. Purdue Pharma”
CRAIG ZOBEL
Mare of Easttown
Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Regularly Scheduled Programming
PAUL G. CASEY
Bill Maher in Real Time “Episode 1935: Fareed Zakaria, Chris Christie, Eric Adams”
JIM HOSKINSON
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert “Episode 1105”
DON ROY THE KING
Saturday Night Live, ” Keegan-Michael Key; Olivia Rodrigo”
DAVID PAUL MYER
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah “Episode 26112”
PAUL PENNOLINO & CHRISTOPHER WERNER
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver “Episode 830 – Season Finale”
Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Specials
IAN BERGER
The Daily Show With Trevor Noah Presents “Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse – Into the Magaverse”
BO BURNHAM
Bo Burnham: Inside
PAUL DUGDALE
Adele: Only for One Night
STAN LATHAN
Dave Chappelle: The Closer
GLENN P. WEISS
The 43rd Annual Kennedy Center Honors
Reality Programs
JOSEPH GUIDRY
Full Bloom “Final Floral Face Off”
PATRICK MCMANIS
American Ninja Warrior, “1304: Qualifiers 4”
RAMY ROMANY
Making the Cut “Brand Statement”
BEN SIMMS
Running Wild with Bear Grylls “Gina Carano In The Dolomites”
ADAM VETRI
Getaway driver “Electric Shock”
Children’s Programs
JAMES BOBIN
The Mysterious Benedict Society “A Bunch of Smart Orphans”
MICHAEL LEMBECK
The J Team
PHILL LEWIS
Head of the class “Three More Years”
(HBO Max)
SMRITI MUNDHRA
Through Our Eyes “Shelter”
JEFF WADLOW
Are You Afraid Of The Dark? “The Tale of the Darkhouse”
Commercials
STEVE AYSON
(MJZ)
Anthem, Mattress Firm – Droga5
KATHRYN BIGELOW
(SMUGGLER)
Hollywood In Your Pocket, iPhone 13 – Media Arts Lab
IAN PONS JEWELL
(RESET)
ECG, Apple Watch – Apple
Sleep, Apple Watch – Apple
Time, Squarespace – Squarespace
Your Mom’s Short Ribs, Instacart – Goodby Silverstein
HENRY-ALEX RUBIN
(SMUGGLER)
Teenage Dream, Sandy Hook Promise – BBDO – New York
BRADFORD YOUNG
(Serial Pictures and Somesuch)
Super. Human., Channel 4 Paralympics – 4Creative
Documentary
JESSICA KINGDON
Ascension
STANLEY NULSON
Attica
RAOUL PECK
Get rid of all the brutes
AHMIR “QUESTLOVE” THOMPSON
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
ELIZABETH CHAI VASARHELYI & JIMMY CHIN
The Rescue