Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Movies for Television and Limited Series
Directors Guild of America Awards · 162 nominations across 37 ceremonies · 37 wins
71st DGA Awards · 2019
- Winner Ben Stiller · Escape at Dannemora
- Nominee David Leveaux · Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert
- Nominee Cary Joji Fukunaga · Maniac
- Nominee Barry Levinson · Paterno
- Nominee Jean-Marc Vallée · Sharp Objects
70th DGA Awards · 2018
- Winner Jean-Marc Vallée · Big Little Lies
- Nominee George C. Wolfe · The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Nominee Scott Frank · Godless
- Nominee Kyra Sedgwick · Story of a Girl
- Nominee Barry Levinson · The Wizard of Lies
69th DGA Awards · 2017
- Winner Steven Zaillian · The Beach from The Night Of
- Nominee Kenny Leon · Hairspray Live!
- Nominee Thomas Kail · Live from Grease
- Nominee Raymond De Felitta · Madoff
- Nominee Jay Roach · All the Way
68th DGA Awards · 2016
- Winner Dee Rees · Bessie
- Nominee Kenny Leon, Matthew Diamond · The Wiz Live!
- Nominee Paul Haggis · Show Me a Hero
- Nominee Angela Bassett · Whitney
- Nominee Laurie Collyer · The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
67th DGA Awards · 2015
- Winner Lisa Cholodenko · Olive Kitteridge
- Nominee Ryan Murphy · The Normal Heart
- Nominee Uli Edel · Houdini
- Nominee Rob Ashford, Glenn Weiss · Peter Pan Live!
- Nominee Michael Wilson · The Trip to Bountiful
66th DGA Awards · 2014
- Winner Steven Soderbergh · Behind the Candelabra
- Nominee Nelson McCormick · Killing Kennedy
- Nominee David Mamet · Phil Spector
- Nominee Stephen Frears · Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
- Nominee Beth McCarthy-Miller, Rob Ashford · The Sound of Music Live!
65th DGA Awards · 2013
- Winner Jay Roach · Game Change
- Nominee Philip Kaufman · Hemingway & Gellhorn
- Nominee Greg Berlanti · Pilot from Political Animals
- Nominee Michael Rymer · Dark Cousin from American Horror Story: Asylum
- Nominee Kevin Reynolds · Hatfields & McCoys
64th DGA Awards · 2012
- Winner Jon Cassar · The Kennedys
- Nominee Jennifer Aniston, Patty Jenkins, Alicia Keys, Demi Moore, Penelope Spheeris · Five
- Nominee Michael Stevens · Thurgood
- Nominee Stephen Gyllenhaal · Girl Fight
- Nominee Jeff Bleckner · Beyond the Blackboard
63rd DGA Awards · 2011
- Winner Mick Jackson · Temple Grandin
- Nominee David Nutter, Jeremy Podeswa · Basilone from The Pacific
- Nominee Tim Van Patten · Okinawa from The Pacific
- Nominee The Pacific for · Home from The Pacific
- Nominee Barry Levinson · You Don't Know Jack
62nd DGA Awards · 2010
- Winner Ross Katz · Taking Chance
- Nominee John Kent Harrison · The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
- Nominee Michael Sucsy · Grey Gardens
- Nominee Thomas Carter · The Ben Carson Story from Gifted Hands
- Nominee Bob Balaban · Georgia O'Keeffe
61st DGA Awards · 2009
- Winner Jay Roach · Recount
- Nominee Mikael Salomon · The Andromeda Strain
- Nominee Kenny Leon · A Raisin in the Sun
- Nominee Bob Balaban · Bernard and Doris
- Nominee Tom Hooper · John Adams
60th DGA Awards · 2008
- Winner Yves Simoneau · Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
- Nominee Lloyd Kramer · Mitch Albom's For One More Day from Oprah Winfrey Presents
- Nominee Mikael Salomon · The Company
- Nominee Jon Avnet · The Starter Wife
- Nominee Jeremiah Chechik · The Bronx Is Burning
59th DGA Awards · 2007
- Winner Walter Hill · Broken Trail
- Nominee Peter Markle · Flight 93
- Nominee Charles S. Dutton · American Terror from Sleeper Cell
- Nominee Randa Haines · The Ron Clark Story
- Nominee Edward James Olmos · Walkout
58th DGA Awards · 2006
- Winner Joseph Sargent, George C. Wolfe · Warm Springs
- Nominee Fred Schepisi · Empire Falls
- Nominee James Steven Sadwith · Elvis
- Nominee Darnell Martin · Their Eyes Were Watching God from Oprah Winfrey Presents
57th DGA Awards · 2005
- Winner Joseph Sargent · Something the Lord Made
- Nominee Lloyd Kramer · The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- Nominee Robert Altman · Tanner on Tanner
- Nominee Stephen Hopkins · The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
- Nominee Christopher Reeve · The Brooke Ellison Story
56th DGA Awards · 2004
- Winner Mike Nichols · Angels in America
- Nominee Jane Anderson · Normal
- Nominee Jeff Bleckner · The Music Man
- Nominee Richard Loncraine · My House in Umbria
- Nominee Rod Holcomb · The Pentagon Papers
55th DGA Awards · 2003
- Winner Mick Jackson · Live from Baghdad
- Nominee Richard Loncraine · The Gathering Storm
- Nominee Howard Deutch · Gleason
- Nominee John Frankenheimer · Path to War
- Nominee Julie Dash · The Rosa Parks Story
54th DGA Awards · 2002
- Winner Frank Pierson · Conspiracy
- Nominee Mark Rydell · James Dean
- Nominee Robert Allan Ackerman · Me and My Shadows from Life with Judy Garland
- Nominee Billy Crystal · 61*
- Nominee Jon Avnet · Uprising
53rd DGA Awards · 2001
- Winner Jeff Bleckner · An American Family from The Beach Boys
- Nominee Martha Coolidge · 1972 from If These Walls Could Talk 2
- Nominee Stephen Frears, Marty Pasetta · Fail Safe
- Nominee Joseph Sargent · The Arturo Sandoval Story from For Love or Country
- Nominee Kirk Browning · Death of a Salesman
52nd DGA Awards · 2000
- Winner Mick Jackson · Tuesdays with Morrie
- Nominee Martha Coolidge · Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
- Nominee Joseph Sargent · A Lesson Before Dying
- Nominee Martyn Burke · Pirates of Silicon Valley
- Nominee Daniel Petrie · Inherit the Wind
51st DGA Awards · 1999
- Winner Michael Cristofer · Gia
- Nominee Allan Arkush · The Temptations
- Nominee Jon Turteltaub · That's All There Is from From the Earth to the Moon
- Nominee Rob Cohen · The Rat Pack
- Nominee Steve Barron · Merlin
50th DGA Awards · 1998
- Winner John Herzfeld · Only in America from Don King
- Nominee Charles Haid · Buffalo Soldiers
- Nominee Joseph Sargent · Miss Evers' Boys
- Nominee William Friedkin · 12 Angry Men
- Nominee John Frankenheimer · George Wallace
49th DGA Awards · 1997
- Winner Betty Thomas · The Late Shift
- Nominee John Frankenheimer · Andersonville
- Nominee Uli Edel · Dark Servant of Destiny from Rasputin
- Nominee Robert Harmon · Gotti
- Nominee Anjelica Huston · Bastard Out of Carolina
48th DGA Awards · 1996
- Winner Mick Jackson · The McMartin Trial from Indictment
- Nominee Peter Werner · The Jessica Savitch Story from Almost Golden
- Nominee Robert Markowitz · The Tuskegee Airmen
- Nominee Frank Pierson · Truman
- Nominee Daniel Petrie · Kissinger and Nixon
47th DGA Awards · 1995
- Winner Rod Holcomb · Pilot from ER
- Nominee John Frankenheimer · Against the Wall
- Nominee John Dahl · The Last Seduction
- Nominee Joseph Sargent · When Lions Roared from World War II
- Nominee Betty Thomas · My Breast
46th DGA Awards · 1994
- Winner Michael Ritchie · The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
- Nominee Robert Butler · Pilot from Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
- Nominee Roger Spottiswoode · And the Band Played On
- Nominee Emile Ardolino · Gypsy
- Nominee Ian Sander · Then and Now from I'll Fly Away
45th DGA Awards · 1993
- Winner Ron Lagomarsino · Pilot from Picket Fences
- Nominee Joseph Sargent · Miss Rose White
- Nominee Frank Pierson · Citizen Cohn
44th DGA Awards · 1992
- Winner Stephen Gyllenhaal · Paris Trout
- Nominee Brian Gibson · The Josephine Baker Story
- Nominee Joshua Brand · Pilot from I'll Fly Away
43rd DGA Awards · 1991
- Winner Roger Young · Murder in Mississippi
- Nominee Gilbert Cates · Call Me Anna
- Nominee Peter Werner · Out of the Ashes from Hiroshima
42nd DGA Awards · 1990
- Winner Dan Curtis · War and Remembrance
- Nominee Simon Wincer · Lonesome Dove
- Nominee Daniel Petrie · My Name Is Bill W.
41st DGA Awards · 1989
- Winner Lamont Johnson · Lincoln
- Nominee Rod Holcomb · Pilot from China Beach
- Nominee Dan Curtis · War and Remembrance
40th DGA Awards · 1988
- Winner Jud Taylor · Foxfire
- Nominee Paul Bogart · Money, Madness and Murder from Nutcracker
- Nominee Marvin J. Chomsky · Billionaire Boys Club
39th DGA Awards · 1987
- Winner Lee Grant · Nobody's Child
- Nominee Gregory Hoblit · Pilot from L.A. Law
- Nominee George Schaefer · Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry
38th DGA Awards · 1986
- Winner John Erman · An Early Frost
- Nominee Jeff Bleckner · Do You Remember Love
- Nominee Lamont Johnson · A Hero's Story from Wallenberg
37th DGA Awards · 1985
- Winner Daniel Petrie · The Dollmaker
- Nominee Randa Haines · Something About Amelia
- Nominee Robert Greenwald · The Burning Bed
36th DGA Awards · 1984
- Winner Edward Zwick · Special Bulletin
- Nominee Daryl Duke · The Thorn Birds
- Nominee John Erman · Who Will Love My Children?
35th DGA Awards · 1983
- Winner Marvin J. Chomsky · Inside the Third Reich
- Nominee Delbert Mann · The Member of the Wedding
- Nominee Jack Hofsiss · The Elephant Man