The Directors Guild of America has announced its nominations in its television categories, with several new series including “Wednesday,” “Severance” and “The Bear” receiving nominations along with returning series like “Ozark,” “Better Call Saul” and “The White Lotus”
At last year’s DGA Television Awards, “Succession” dominated the drama series category with all five nominees. This year, with that HBO series on hiatus, the nominees went to Jason Bateman (“Ozark”), Vince Gilligan (“Better Call Saul”), Sam Levinson (“Euphoria”), and Aoiff McArdle and Ben Stiller for two separate episodes. . of “Unemployment”.
In the comedy series category, Tim Burton earned his first career DGA nomination for “Wednesday.” Burton was joined by Bill Hader (“Barry”), Amy Sherman-Palladino (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”), Christopher Storer (“The Bear”) and Mike White (“The White Lotus”).
The Guild also announced the five nominees in the category of Best Direction of a Documentary Feature. They included several of this season’s top award contenders, and the five nominees are also on the shortlist of 15 shortlisted films for Oscar consideration: Sara Dosa (“Fire of Love”), Matthew Heineman (“Retrograde”) , Laura Poitras (“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed”), Daniel Roher (“Navalny”) and Shaunak Sen (“All That Breathes”).
Winners will be announced at the 75th Annual DGA Awards on Saturday, February 18, 2023 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Here is the list of nominated shows and directors. The full list, including director teams, is available at dga.org.
DRAMA SERIES
JASON BATEMAN
Ozark, “A Hard Road Ahead”
VINCE GILLIGAN
Better Call Saul, “Waterworks”
SAM LEVINSON
Euphoria, “Stay still like the hummingbird”
AOIFE MCARDLE
Separation, “Hide and Seek”
Ben Stiller
Severance, “The Ones That We Are”
COMEDY SERIES
TIM BURTON
Wednesday, “Wednesday’s child is full of sorrow”
BILL HADER
Barry, “710N”
AMY SHERMAN-PALADINO
The wonderful Mrs. Maisel, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?”
CHRISTOPHER’S STORE
The Bear, “Review”
MIKE WHITE
The White Lotus, “BYG”
MOVIES FOR TELEVISION AND LIMITED SERIES
ERIC APPEAL
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
DEBORAH CHOW
Obi Wan Kenobi
JEREMY PODESWA
Station Eleven, “Uninterrupted Circle”
HELEN SHAVING
Station Eleven, “Who’s there?”
TOM VERICA
Inventing Anna, “The devil dressed as Anna”
VARIETY/TALK/NEWS/SPORTS – REGULAR SCHEDULE
PAUL G. CASEY
Real Time with Bill Maher, “Episode #2010”
JIM HOSKINSON
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, “Episode #1333”
DAVID-PAUL MEYER
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, “Brandi Carlile talks about her deluxe new album and performs “You
and I on the rock””
LIZ PATRICK
Saturday Night Live, “Host and musical guest Jack Harlow”
PAUL PENNOLINO
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, “Afghanistan”
VARIETY/TALK/NEWS/SPORTS – SPECIALS
Nominees for the Directors Guild of America Award for Best Directing
Variety/Talk/News/Sports Achievements: 2022 Specials are (in alphabetical order):
Ian Berger
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Presents: Jordan Klepper Touches the World Hungary for Democracy
HAMISH HAMILTON
Super Bowl LVI 2022 Halftime Show
JAMES MERRYMAN
Norman Lear: 100 years of music and laughter
marcus raboy
Mark Twain Prize 2022: Tribute to Jon Stewart
Glenn Weiss
The 75th Annual Tony Awards
REALITY SHOWS
JOSEPH H. GUIDRY
The Big Brunch, “Carb Loaded Brunch”
CARRIE HAVEL
The GoBig Show, “Only One Can Win”
rich kim
Lego Masters, “Jurassbrick World”
MICHAEL SHEA
FBoy Island, “Do you like cats?”
ben sims
Running Wild with Bear Grylls, “Florence Pugh in the volcanic jungles of Costa Rica”
CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS
Tim Federle
better nate than ever
BONNIE HUNTING
Amber Brown, “I, Amber Brown”
ISRAELITE DEAN
Are you afraid of the dark?, “The tale of room 13”
MICHAEL LEMBECK
snow day the musical
Anne Renton
Better walk forward, “Halloween”
COMMERCIAL
Nominees for the Directors Guild of America Award for Best Directing
Commercial achievements for 2022 are (in alphabetical order):
John Cabral
(MJZ)
For all of life’s moments, John Lewis adam&eveDDB
KIM GEHRIG
(Something Like That, Inc.)
Accessibility, Apple Apple (Direct)
Run Baby Run, iPhone Apple (Live)
Craig Gilespie
(MJZ)
Hard knocks, Apple Watch Series 7 Apple
Problem, Jimmy John Anomaly
Exciting Driver, Nissan TBWA\Chiat\Day NY
DAVID SHANE
(Or Positive, LLC)
Detectives, iPhone 13 Pro Apple
Smile, ITVX Uncommon
Traffic stop, native M/H
IVAN ZACHARIAS
(SMUGGLER)
Data Auction, iPhone TBWA\ Media Arts Lab
This is how we work now, Upwork Alto
DOCUMENTARY FILM
SARA DOSA
fire of love
MATTHEW HEINEMAN
Retrograde
LAURA POITRAS
All the beauty and the bloodshed
DANIEL ROHER
Navalni
SHAUNAK SEN
everything that breathes