Directors Guild of America Awards 1996
The 48th Directors Guild of America Awards · Held March 2, 1996 · 5 categories · everything in 1996
Outstanding Directing – Feature Film
- Winner Ron Howard · Apollo 13
- Nominee Mel Gibson · Braveheart
- Nominee Michael Radford · Il Postino: The Postman
- Nominee Mike Figgis · Leaving Las Vegas
- Nominee Ang Lee · Sense and Sensibility
Outstanding Directing – Documentaries
- Winner Terry Zwigoff · Crumb
- Nominee Helen Whitney · American Masters
- Nominee Deborah Hoffmann · Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter
- Nominee Indianapolis: Ship of Doom
- Nominee Freida Lee Mock · Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision
Outstanding Directing – Drama Series
- Winner Christopher Chulack · Hell and High Water from ER
- Nominee Félix Enríquez Alcalá · Do One, Teach One, Kill One from ER
- Nominee Mimi Leder · Love's Labor Lost from ER
- Nominee Charles Haid · Pilot from Murder One
- Nominee Chris Carter · The List from The X-Files
Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series
- Winner Gordon Hunt · The Alan Brady Show from Mad About You
- Nominee Todd Holland · Arthur After Hours from The Larry Sanders Show
- Nominee David Lee · Daphne's Room from Frasier
- Nominee Andy Ackerman · The Gum from Seinfeld
- Nominee James Burrows · The One with the Birth from Friends
Outstanding Directing – Movies for Television and Limited Series
- Winner Mick Jackson · The McMartin Trial from Indictment
- Nominee Daniel Petrie · Kissinger and Nixon
- Nominee Peter Werner · The Jessica Savitch Story from Almost Golden
- Nominee Robert Markowitz · The Tuskegee Airmen
- Nominee Frank Pierson · Truman