Directors Guild of America Awards Winners (Updating Live)
variety.comClayton Davis Senior Awards Editor The prestigious DGA Awards, one of the most crucial precursors to the Oscars, are announcing their winners.
A wide-open year has unfolded with plenty of twists and turns, coming from campaign controversies and surprising Oscar snubs like DGA nominee Edward Berger and recent Critics Choice shocking victor Jon M.
Chu for “Wicked.” Legendary filmmaker Ang Lee, a two-time Oscar-winning director of “Brokeback Mountain” and “Life of Pi,” is receiving the Guild’s highest honor, the DGA Lifetime Achievement Award.
In the Guild’s 88-year history, just 36 directors have been recognized with this honor, including Frank Capra (1959), Alfred Hitchcock (1968), Orson Welles (1984), Billy Wilder (1985), Steven Spielberg (2000), Martin Scorsese (2003), Miloš Forman (2013), Ridley Scott (2017), and most recently Spike Lee (2022).
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