Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film

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Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film
Awarded forOutstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director
Country United States
Presented by Directors Guild of America
First awarded 2015
Currently held by Charlotte Wells for Aftersun (2022)
Website https://www.dga.org   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

The Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director is one of the annual Directors Guild of America Awards given by Directors Guild of America. It was first awarded at the 68th Directors Guild of America Awards. [1]

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Winners and nominees

2010s

YearWinners and nomineesFilmRef.
2015
(68th)
Alex Garland Ex Machina [2]
Fernando Coimbra A Wolf at the Door
Joel Edgerton The Gift
Marielle Heller The Diary of a Teenage Girl
László Nemes Son of Saul
2016
(69th)
Garth Davis Lion [3]
Kelly Fremon Craig The Edge of Seventeen
Tim Miller Deadpool
Nate Parker The Birth of a Nation
Dan Trachtenberg 10 Cloverfield Lane
2017
(70th)
Jordan Peele † ‡ Get Out [4] [5]
Geremy Jasper Patti Cake$
William Oldroyd Lady Macbeth
Taylor Sheridan Wind River
Aaron Sorkin Molly's Game
2018
(71st)
Bo Burnham Eighth Grade [6] [7] [8]
Bradley Cooper A Star Is Born
Carlos López Estrada Blindspotting
Matthew Heineman A Private War
Boots Riley Sorry to Bother You
2019
(72nd)
Alma Har'el Honey Boy [9] [10]
Mati Diop Atlantics
Melina Matsoukas Queen & Slim
Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz The Peanut Butter Falcon
Joe Talbot The Last Black Man in San Francisco

2020s

YearWinners and nomineesFilmRef.
2020
(73rd)
Darius Marder Sound of Metal [11] [12]
Radha Blank The 40-Year-Old Version
Fernando Frías de la Parra I'm No Longer Here
Regina King One Night in Miami...
Florian Zeller The Father
2021
(74th)
Maggie Gyllenhaal The Lost Daughter [13] [14]
Rebecca Hall Passing
Tatiana Huezo Prayers for the Stolen
Lin-Manuel Miranda Tick, Tick... Boom!
Michael Sarnoski Pig
Emma Seligman Shiva Baby
2022
(75th)
Charlotte Wells Aftersun [15] [16]
Alice Diop Saint Omer
Audrey Diwan Happening
John Patton Ford Emily the Criminal
Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović Murina
2023
(76th)
Cord Jefferson American Fiction [17]
Manuela Martelli Chile '76
Noora Niasari Shayda
A. V. Rockwell A Thousand and One
Celine Song Past Lives

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