Today may be Big Game Sunday, but the Atlanta Falcons aren’t the only ones getting trophies this weekend. Last night, the Directors Guild Of America held its annual DGA Awards event, and at the risk of diminishing the importance of this particular ceremony, the organization gave a lot of awards to things that have received a lot of awards already.
For example, La La Land and Damien Chazelle won the feature film award, Miguel Sapochnik won the dramatic series award for his work on Game Of Thrones’ “Battle Of The Bastards,” and Becky Martin won the comedy series award for her work on Veep’s “Inauguration” episode. Luckily, the DGA Awards are structured in such a way that La La Land can really only win the one trophy, so the rest of the categories were a little more interesting.
Garth Davis won the first-time feature director award for Lion, Ezra Edelman won the documentary prize for O.J.: Made In America, and Tina Mabry won the children’s program award for Amazon’s An American Girl Story—Melody 1963: Love Has To Win.
The full list of winners is below.
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film
Damien Chazelle, La La Land
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series
Miguel Sapochnik, Game of Thrones, “The Battle of the Bastards”
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television and Mini-Series
Steven Zaillian, The Night Of, “The Beach”
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Reality Programs
Rupert Thompson, American Grit, “The Final - Over the Falls”
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First-Time Feature Film
Garth Davis, Lion
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series
Becky Martin, Veep, “Inauguration”
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety/Talk/News/Sports
Glenn Weiss, The 70th Annual Tony Awards
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Regularly Scheduled Programming
Don Roy King, Saturday Night Live
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children’s Programs
Tina Mabry, An American Girl Story—Melody 1963: Love Has to Win