Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film
Directors Guild of America Awards · 56 nominations across 11 ceremonies · 11 wins
78th DGA Awards · 2026
- Winner The Plague
- Nominee The President's Cake
- Nominee Lurker
- Nominee Eva Victor · Sorry, Baby
- Nominee Harry Lighton · Pillion
77th DGA Awards · 2025
- Winner RaMell Ross · Nickel Boys
- Nominee Sean Wang · Dìdi
- Nominee Megan Park · My Old Ass
- Nominee Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel · Armand
- Nominee Payal Kapadia · All We Imagine as Light
76th DGA Awards · 2024
- Winner Celine Song · Past Lives
- Nominee Noora Niasari · Shayda
- Nominee Cord Jefferson · American Fiction
- Nominee A. V. Rockwell · A Thousand and One
- Nominee Manuela Martelli · Chile '76
75th DGA Awards · 2023
- Winner Charlotte Wells · Aftersun
- Nominee Alice Diop · Saint Omer
- Nominee Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović · Murina
- Nominee Emily the Criminal
- Nominee Audrey Diwan · Happening
74th DGA Awards · 2022
- Winner Maggie Gyllenhaal · The Lost Daughter
- Nominee Tatiana Huezo · Prayers for the Stolen
- Nominee Rebecca Hall · Passing
- Nominee Lin-Manuel Miranda · Tick, Tick... Boom!
- Nominee Pig
- Nominee Emma Seligman · Shiva Baby
73rd DGA Awards · 2021
- Winner Darius Marder · Sound of Metal
- Nominee Florian Zeller · The Father
- Nominee Radha Blank · The 40-Year-Old Version
- Nominee I'm No Longer Here
- Nominee Regina King · One Night in Miami...
72nd DGA Awards · 2020
- Winner Alma Har'el · Honey Boy
- Nominee Melina Matsoukas · Queen & Slim
- Nominee Joe Talbot · The Last Black Man in San Francisco
- Nominee Mati Diop · Atlantics
- Nominee The Peanut Butter Falcon
71st DGA Awards · 2019
- Winner Bo Burnham · Eighth Grade
- Nominee Matthew Heineman · A Private War
- Nominee Boots Riley · Sorry to Bother You
- Nominee Bradley Cooper · A Star Is Born
- Nominee Carlos López Estrada · Blindspotting
70th DGA Awards · 2018
- Winner Jordan Peele · Get Out
- Nominee William Oldroyd · Lady Macbeth
- Nominee Taylor Sheridan · Wind River
- Nominee Patti Cake$
- Nominee Aaron Sorkin · Molly's Game
69th DGA Awards · 2017
- Winner Garth Davis · Lion
- Nominee Kelly Fremon Craig · The Edge of Seventeen
- Nominee Dan Trachtenberg · 10 Cloverfield Lane
- Nominee Nate Parker · The Birth of a Nation
- Nominee Tim Miller · Deadpool
68th DGA Awards · 2016
- Winner Alex Garland · Ex Machina
- Nominee László Nemes · Son of Saul
- Nominee Fernando Coimbra · A Wolf at the Door
- Nominee Joel Edgerton · The Gift
- Nominee Marielle Heller · The Diary of a Teenage Girl