Directors Guild of America Awards 1997
The 49th Directors Guild of America Awards · Held March 8, 1997 · 5 categories · everything in 1997
Outstanding Directing – Feature Film
- Winner Anthony Minghella · The English Patient
- Nominee Joel Coen · Fargo
- Nominee Cameron Crowe · Jerry Maguire
- Nominee Mike Leigh · Secrets & Lies
- Nominee Scott Hicks · Shine
Outstanding Directing – Documentaries
- Winner Al Pacino · Looking for Richard
- Nominee Bruce Sinofsky, Joe Berlinger · Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
- Nominee Isaac Mizrahi · The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
- Nominee Jeanne Jordan · Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern
- Nominee Leon Gast · When We Were Kings
Outstanding Directing – Drama Series
- Winner Christopher Chulack · Fear of Flying from ER
- Nominee Mark Tinker · A Death in the Family from NYPD Blue
- Nominee Paris Barclay · Ask Me No Questions, I'll Tell You No Lies from ER
- Nominee Mimi Leder · The Healers from ER
- Nominee Donna Deitch · These Old Bones from NYPD Blue
Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series
- Winner Andy Ackerman · The Rye from Seinfeld
- Nominee Alan Myerson · Ellen, or Isn't She from The Larry Sanders Show
- Nominee Todd Holland · Everybody Loves Larry from The Larry Sanders Show
- Nominee Robert Berlinger · See Dick Continue to Run from 3rd Rock from the Sun
- Nominee David Steinberg · The Finale from Mad About You
Outstanding Directing – Movies for Television and Limited Series
- Winner Betty Thomas · The Late Shift
- Nominee John Frankenheimer · Andersonville
- Nominee Anjelica Huston · Bastard Out of Carolina
- Nominee Uli Edel · Dark Servant of Destiny from Rasputin
- Nominee Robert Harmon · Gotti