Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Miniseries or TV Film

Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Miniseries or TV Film
Awarded for	Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television and Limited Series
Country	United States
Presented by	Directors Guild of America
First awarded	1971
Currently held by	Sarah Adina Smith for Lessons in Chemistry (2023)
Website	https://www.dga.org

The Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television and Limited Series is one of the annual Directors Guild of America Awards given by the Directors Guild of America. It was first awarded at the 24th Directors Guild of America Awards in 1972. The award was previously named the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Miniseries or Movies for Television.

Winners and nominees

1970s

Year	Winners and nominees	Program	Network	Ref.
1971 (24th)	Buzz Kulik	Brian's Song	ABC	[1]
	Fielder Cook	The Price	NBC
	Delbert Mann	Jane Eyre
1972 (25th)	Lamont Johnson	That Certain Summer	ABC	[2]
	Paul Bogart	The House Without a Christmas Tree	CBS
	Tom Gries	The Glass House
1973 (26th)	Joseph Sargent	The Marcus-Nelson Murders	CBS	[3]
	Robert Butler	The Blue Knight	NBC
	Anthony Harvey	The Glass Menagerie	ABC
1974 (27th)	John Korty	The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman	CBS	[4]
	Tom Gries	QB VII	ABC
	Lamont Johnson	The Execution of Private Slovik	NBC
1975 (28th)	Sam O'Steen	Queen of the Stardust Ballroom	CBS	[5]
	Lamont Johnson	Fear on Trial	CBS
	Buzz Kulik	Babe

1980s

Year	Winners and nominees	Program	Network	Ref.
1982 (35th)	Marvin J. Chomsky	Inside the Third Reich	ABC	[6]
	Jack Hofsiss	The Elephant Man	ABC
	Delbert Mann	The Member of the Wedding	NBC
1983 (36th)	Edward Zwick	Special Bulletin	NBC	[7]
	Daryl Duke	The Thorn Birds	ABC
	John Erman	Who Will Love My Children?
1984 (37th)	Daniel Petrie	The Dollmaker	ABC	[8]
	Robert Greenwald	The Burning Bed	NBC
	Randa Haines	Something About Amelia	ABC
1985 (38th)	John Erman	An Early Frost	NBC	[9]
	Jeff Bleckner	Do You Remember Love	CBS
	Lamont Johnson	Wallenberg: A Hero's Story	NBC
1986 (39th)	Lee Grant	Nobody's Child	CBS	[10]
	Gregory Hoblit	L.A. Law (Episode: "Pilot")	NBC
	George Schaefer	Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry	CBS
1987 (40th)	Jud Taylor	Foxfire	CBS	[11]
	Paul Bogart	Nutcracker: Money, Madness and Murder	NBC
	Marvin J. Chomsky	Billionaire Boys Club
1988 (41st)	Lamont Johnson	Lincoln	NBC	[12]
	Dan Curtis	War and Remembrance	ABC
	Rod Holcomb	China Beach (Episode: "Pilot")
1989 (42nd)	Dan Curtis	War and Remembrance	ABC	[13]
	Daniel Petrie	My Name Is Bill W.	CBS
	Simon Wincer	Lonesome Dove

1990s

Year	Winners and nominees	Program	Network	Ref.
1990 (43rd)	Roger Young	Murder in Mississippi	NBC	[14]
	Gilbert Cates	Call Me Anna	ABC
	Peter Werner	Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes	NBC
1991 (44th)	Stephen Gyllenhaal	Paris Trout	Showtime	[15]
	Joshua Brand	I'll Fly Away (Episode: "Pilot")	NBC
	Brian Gibson	The Josephine Baker Story	HBO
1992 (45th)	Ron Lagomarsino	Picket Fences (Episode: "Pilot")	CBS	[16]
	Frank Pierson	Citizen Cohn	HBO
	Joseph Sargent	Miss Rose White	NBC
1993 (46th)	Michael Ritchie	The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom	HBO	[17]
	Emile Ardolino	Gypsy	CBS
	Robert Butler	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (Episode: "Pilot")	ABC
	Ian Sander	I'll Fly Away: Then and Now	PBS
	Roger Spottiswoode	And the Band Played On	HBO
1994 (47th)	Rod Holcomb	ER (Episode: "24 Hours")	NBC	[18]
	John Dahl	The Last Seduction	HBO
	John Frankenheimer	Against the Wall
	Joseph Sargent	World War II: When Lions Roared	NBC
	Betty Thomas	My Breast	CBS
1995 (48th)	Mick Jackson	Indictment: The McMartin Trial	HBO	[19]
	Robert Markowitz	The Tuskegee Airmen	HBO
	Daniel Petrie	Kissinger and Nixon	TNT
	Frank Pierson	Truman	HBO
	Peter Werner	Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story	Lifetime
1996 (49th)	Betty Thomas	The Late Shift	HBO	[20]
	Uli Edel	Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny	HBO
	John Frankenheimer	Andersonville	TNT
	Robert Harmon	Gotti	HBO
	Anjelica Huston	Bastard out of Carolina	Showtime
1997 (50th)	John Herzfeld	Don King: Only in America	HBO	[21]
	John Frankenheimer	George Wallace	TNT
	William Friedkin	12 Angry Men	Showtime
	Charles Haid	Buffalo Soldiers	TNT
	Joseph Sargent	Miss Evers' Boys	HBO
1998 (51st)	Michael Cristofer	Gia	HBO	[22]
	Allan Arkush	The Temptations	NBC
	Steve Barron	Merlin
	Rob Cohen	The Rat Pack	HBO
	Jon Turteltaub	From the Earth to the Moon (Episode: "That's All There Is")
1999 (52nd)	Mick Jackson	Tuesdays with Morrie	ABC	[23]
	Martyn Burke	Pirates of Silicon Valley	TNT
	Martha Coolidge	Introducing Dorothy Dandridge	HBO
	Daniel Petrie	Inherit the Wind	Showtime
	Joseph Sargent	A Lesson Before Dying	HBO

2000s

Year	Winners and nominees	Program	Network	Ref.
2000 (53rd)	Jeff Bleckner	The Beach Boys: An American Family	ABC	[24]
	Kirk Browning	Death of a Salesman	Showtime
	Martha Coolidge	If These Walls Could Talk 2 (Segment: "1972")	HBO
	Stephen Frears and Martin Pasetta	Fail Safe	CBS
	Joseph Sargent	For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story	HBO
2001 (54th)	Frank Pierson	Conspiracy	HBO	[25]
	Robert Allan Ackerman	Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows	ABC
	Jon Avnet	Uprising	NBC
	Billy Crystal	61*	HBO
	Mark Rydell	James Dean	TNT
2002 (55th)	Mick Jackson	Live from Baghdad	HBO	[26]
	Julie Dash	The Rosa Parks Story	CBS
	Howard Deutch	Gleason
	John Frankenheimer	Path to War	HBO
	Richard Loncraine	The Gathering Storm
2003 (56th)	Mike Nichols	Angels in America	HBO	[27]
	Jane Anderson	Normal	HBO
	Jeff Bleckner	The Music Man	ABC
	Rod Holcomb	The Pentagon Papers	FX
	Richard Loncraine	My House in Umbria	HBO
2004 (57th)	Joseph Sargent	Something the Lord Made	HBO	[28]
	Robert Altman	Tanner on Tanner	Sundance Channel
	Stephen Hopkins	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers	HBO
	Lloyd Kramer	The Five People You Meet in Heaven	ABC
	Christopher Reeve	The Brooke Ellison Story	A&E
2005 (58th)	Joseph Sargent	Warm Springs	HBO	[29]
	George C. Wolfe	Lackawanna Blues
	Darnell Martin	Oprah Winfrey Presents: Their Eyes Were Watching God	ABC
	James Steven Sadwith	Elvis	CBS
	Fred Schepisi	Empire Falls	HBO
2006 (59th)	Walter Hill	Broken Trail	AMC	[30]
	Charles S. Dutton	Sleeper Cell: American Terror	Showtime
	Randa Haines	The Ron Clark Story	TNT
	Peter Markle	Flight 93	A&E
	Edward James Olmos	Walkout	HBO
2007 (60th)	Yves Simoneau	Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee	HBO	[31]
	Jon Avnet	The Starter Wife	USA
	Jeremiah Chechik	The Bronx Is Burning	ESPN
	Lloyd Kramer	Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom's For One More Day	ABC
	Mikael Salomon	The Company	TNT
2008 (61st)	Jay Roach	Recount	HBO	[32]
	Bob Balaban	Bernard and Doris	HBO
	Tom Hooper	John Adams
	Kenny Leon	A Raisin in the Sun	ABC
	Mikael Salomon	The Andromeda Strain	A&E
2009 (62nd)	Ross Katz	Taking Chance	HBO	[33]
	Bob Balaban	Georgia O'Keeffe	Lifetime
	Thomas Carter	Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story	TNT
	John Kent Harrison	The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler	CBS
	Michael Sucsy	Grey Gardens	HBO

2010s

Year	Winners and nominees	Program	Network	Ref.
2010 (63rd)	Mick Jackson	Temple Grandin	HBO	[34]
	Barry Levinson	You Don't Know Jack	HBO
	David Nutter and Jeremy Podeswa	The Pacific (Episode: "Basilone")
	Jeremy Podeswa	The Pacific (Episode: "Home")
	Tim Van Patten	The Pacific (Episode: "Okinawa")
2011 (64th)	Jon Cassar	The Kennedys	Reelz	[35]
	Jennifer Aniston, Patty Jenkins, Alicia Keys, Demi Moore, and Penelope Spheeris	Five	Lifetime
	Jeff Bleckner	Beyond the Blackboard	CBS
	Stephen Gyllenhaal	Girl Fight	Lifetime
	Michael Stevens	Thurgood	HBO
2012 (65th)	Jay Roach	Game Change	HBO	[36]
	Greg Berlanti	Political Animals (Episode: "Pilot")	USA
	Philip Kaufman	Hemingway & Gellhorn	HBO
	Kevin Reynolds	Hatfields & McCoys	History
	Michael Rymer	American Horror Story: Asylum (Episode: "Dark Cousin")	FX
2013 (66th)	Steven Soderbergh	Behind the Candelabra	HBO	[37]
	Stephen Frears	Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight	HBO
	David Mamet	Phil Spector
	Beth McCarthy-Miller and Rob Ashford	The Sound of Music Live!	NBC
	Nelson McCormick	Killing Kennedy	Nat Geo
2014 (67th)	Lisa Cholodenko	Olive Kitteridge	HBO	[38]
	Rob Ashford and Glenn Weiss	Peter Pan Live!	NBC
	Uli Edel	Houdini	History
	Ryan Murphy	The Normal Heart	HBO
	Michael Wilson	The Trip to Bountiful	Lifetime
2015 (68th)	Dee Rees	Bessie	HBO	[39]
	Angela Bassett	Whitney	Lifetime
	Laurie Collyer	The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
	Paul Haggis	Show Me a Hero	HBO
	Kenny Leon and Matthew Diamond	The Wiz Live!	NBC
2016 (69th)	Steven Zaillian	The Night Of (Episode: "The Beach")	HBO	[40]
	Raymond De Felitta	Madoff	ABC
	Thomas Kail and Alex Rudzinski	Grease: Live	Fox
	Kenny Leon and Alex Rudzinski	Hairspray Live!	NBC
	Jay Roach	All the Way	HBO
2017 (70th)	Jean-Marc Vallée	Big Little Lies	HBO	[41]
	Scott Frank	Godless	Netflix
	Barry Levinson	The Wizard of Lies	HBO
	Kyra Sedgwick	Story of a Girl	Lifetime
	George C. Wolfe	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	HBO
2018 (71st)	Ben Stiller	Escape at Dannemora	Showtime	[42] [43]
	Cary Joji Fukunaga	Maniac	Netflix
	David Leveaux and Alex Rudzinski	Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert	NBC
	Barry Levinson	Paterno	HBO
	Jean-Marc Vallée	Sharp Objects
2019 (72nd)	Johan Renck	Chernobyl	HBO	[44] [45]
	Ava DuVernay	When They See Us	Netflix
	Vince Gilligan	El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
	Thomas Kail	Fosse/Verdon (Episode: "Nowadays")	FX
	Minkie Spiro	Fosse/Verdon (Episode: "All I Care About Is Love")
	Jessica Yu	Fosse/Verdon (Episode: "Glory")

2020s

Year	Winners and nominees	Program	Network	Ref.
2020 (73rd)	Scott Frank	The Queen's Gambit	Netflix	[46] [47]
	Susanne Bier	The Undoing	HBO
	Thomas Kail	Hamilton	Disney+
	Matt Shakman	WandaVision
	Lynn Shelton	Little Fires Everywhere (Episode: "Find a Way")	Hulu
2021 (74th)	Barry Jenkins	The Underground Railroad	Amazon	[48] [49]
	Barry Levinson	Dopesick (Episode: "First Bottle")	Hulu
	Hiro Murai	Station Eleven (Episode: "Wheel of Fire")	HBO Max
	Danny Strong	Dopesick (Episode: "The People vs. Purdue Pharma")	Hulu
	Craig Zobel	Mare of Easttown	HBO
2022 (75th)	Helen Shaver	Station Eleven (Episode: "Who's There?")	HBO Max	[50] [51]
	Eric Appel	Weird: The Al Yankovic Story	The Roku Channel
	Deborah Chow	Obi-Wan Kenobi	Disney+
	Jeremy Podeswa	Station Eleven (Episode: "Unbroken Circle")	HBO Max
	Tom Verica	Inventing Anna (Episode: "The Devil Wore Anna")	Netflix
2023 (76th)	Sarah Adina Smith	Lessons in Chemistry (Episode: "Her and Him")	Apple TV+	[52] [53]
	Shawn Levy	All the Light We Cannot See	Netflix
	Tara Miele	Lessons in Chemistry (Episode: "Introduction to Chemistry")	Apple TV+
	Millicent Shelton	Lessons in Chemistry (Episode: "Poirot")
	Nzingha Stewart	Daisy Jones & the Six (Episode: "Track 10: Rock 'n' Roll Suicide")	Amazon

Multiple wins and nominations

Directors with at least one win and at least two nominations Wins Nominations Name (Year) 4 4 Mick Jackson (1995, 1999, 2002, 2010) 3 8 Joseph Sargent (1973, 1992, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2005) 2 5 Lamont Johnson (1972, 1974, 1975, 1985, 1988) 3 Jay Roach (2008, 2012, 2016) 1 4 Daniel Petrie (1984, 1989, 1995, 1999) 4 Jeff Bleckner (1985, 2000, 2003, 2011) 3 Rod Holcomb (1988, 1994, 2003) 3 Frank Pierson (1992, 1995, 2001) 2 Buzz Kulik (1971, 1975) 2 Marvin J. Chomsky (1982, 1987) 2 John Erman (1983, 1985) 2 Dan Curtis (1988, 1989) 2 Scott Frank (2017, 2020) 2 Stephen Gyllenhaal (1991, 2011) 2 Betty Thomas (1994, 1996) 2 George C. Wolfe (2005, 2017) 2 Jean-Marc Vallée (2017, 2018)

Directors with no win and at least two nominations Wins Nominations Name (Year) 0 4 John Frankenheimer (1994, 1996, 1997, 2002) 4 Barry Levinson (2010, 2017, 2018, 2021) 3 Kenny Leon (2008, 2015, 2016) 3 Jeremy Podeswa (2010, 2022) 3 Alex Rudzinski (2016, 2018) 3 Thomas Kail (2016, 2019, 2020) 2 Delbert Mann (1971, 1982) 2 Tom Gries (1972, 1974) 2 Paul Bogart (1972, 1987) 2 Robert Butler (1973, 1993) 2 Randa Haines (1984, 2006) 2 Peter Werner (1990, 1995) 2 Uli Edel (1996, 2014) 2 Martha Coolidge (1999, 2000) 2 Stephen Frears (2000, 2013) 2 Jon Avnet (2001, 2007) 2 Richard Loncraine (2002, 2003) 2 Lloyd Kramer (2004, 2007) 2 Mikael Salomon (2007, 2008) 2 Bob Balaban (2008, 2009) 2 Rob Ashford (2013, 2014)

References

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External links

• Directors Guild of America (official website)