Directors Guild of America Awards 1986
The 38th Directors Guild of America Awards · Held March 8, 1986 · 4 categories · everything in 1986
Outstanding Directing – Feature Film
- Winner Steven Spielberg · The Color Purple
- Nominee Ron Howard · Cocoon
- Nominee Sydney Pollack · Out of Africa
- Nominee John Huston · Prizzi's Honor
- Nominee Peter Weir · Witness
Outstanding Directing – Drama Series
- Winner Will Mackenzie · My Fair David from Moonlighting
- Nominee Paul Michael Glaser · Smuggler's Blues from Miami Vice
- Nominee Ray Danton · Who Said it's Fair? (Part 2) from Cagney & Lacey
Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series
- Winner Jay Sandrich · Pilot from The Golden Girls
- Nominee James Burrows · Birth, Death, Love and Rice from Cheers
- Nominee Peter Werner · The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice from Moonlighting
Outstanding Directing – Movies for Television and Limited Series
- Winner John Erman · An Early Frost
- Nominee Lamont Johnson · A Hero's Story from Wallenberg
- Nominee Jeff Bleckner · Do You Remember Love