Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Directors Guild of America |
First awarded | 1971 |
Currently held by | Christopher Storer for The Bear (2023) |
Website | www |
The Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series is one of the annual Directors Guild of America Awards given by the Directors Guild of America. It was first presented at the 24th Directors Guild of America Awards in 1972. The current eligibility period is the calendar year.
Year | Program | Episode | Winners and nominees | Network | Ref. |
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1980 (33rd) | Barney Miller | "Fog" | Noam Pitlik | ABC | [10] |
M*A*S*H | "Death Takes a Holiday" | Mike Farrell | CBS | ||
"A War for All Seasons" | Burt Metcalfe | ||||
1981 (34th) | M*A*S*H | "The Life You Save" | Alan Alda | CBS | [11] |
M*A*S*H | "Blood Brothers" | Harry Morgan | CBS | ||
Taxi | "Jim the Psychic" | James Burrows | ABC | ||
1982 (35th) | M*A*S*H | "Where There's a Will, There's a War" | Alan Alda | CBS | [12] |
Cheers | "Sam at Eleven" | James Burrows | NBC | ||
Taxi | "Jim's Inheritance" | Noam Pitlik | |||
1983 (36th) | Cheers | "Showdown" (Part II) | James Burrows | NBC | [13] |
Buffalo Bill | "Woody Quits" | Jim Drake | NBC | ||
Taxi | "Louie and the Blind Girl" | Noam Pitlik | |||
1984 (37th) | The Cosby Show | "Pilot" | Jay Sandrich | NBC | [14] |
Cheers | "I Call Your Name" | James Burrows | NBC | ||
Kate & Allie | "Landlady" | Bill Persky | CBS | ||
1985 (38th) | The Golden Girls | "Pilot" | Jay Sandrich | NBC | [15] |
Cheers | "Birth, Death, Love and Rice" | James Burrows | NBC | ||
Moonlighting | "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice" | Peter Werner | ABC | ||
1986 (39th) | The Golden Girls | "Isn't It Romantic?" | Terry Hughes | NBC | [16] |
Cheers | "Tan 'N' Wash" | James Burrows | NBC | ||
Moonlighting | "Symphony in Knocked Flat" | Paul Lynch | ABC | ||
1987 (40th) | Family Ties | "A, My Name is Alex" | Will Mackenzie | NBC | [17] |
Cheers | "Home Is the Sailor" | James Burrows | NBC | ||
The Golden Girls | "Old Friends" | Terry Hughes | |||
1988 (41st) | The Wonder Years | "Pilot" | Steve Miner | ABC | [18] |
Murphy Brown | "Pilot" | Barnet Kellman | CBS | ||
Roseanne | Ellen Falcon | ABC | |||
1989 (42nd) | Murphy Brown | "Brown Like Me" | Barnet Kellman | CBS | [19] |
Cheers | "Sisterly Love" | James Burrows | NBC | ||
Designing Women | "They Shoot Fat Women, Don't They?" | Harry Thomason | CBS |
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