Director's Guild Awards
Nominations: January 5, 2006
Awards: January 28, 2006
Outstanding Directorial Achievement
in Feature Film
ANG LEE
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
Focus Features
Ang Lee's Directorial Team:
Unit Production Managers: Scott Ferguson, Tom Benz First Assistant Directors: Michael Hausman, Pierre Tremblay Second Assistant Director: Donald Murphy Second Second Assistant Director: Brad Moerke
Outstanding Directorial Achievement
in Documentary
WERNER HERZOG
GRIZZLY MAN
Lions Gate Films/Discovery Documentaries
Nominations
GEORGE CLOONEY
GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK.
Warner Independent Pictures
George Clooney's Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Barbara A. Hall First Assistant Director: David Webb Second Assistant Director: Melissa V. Barnes Second Second Assistant Director: Richard Gonzales
This is Clooney's first nomination
PAUL HAGGIS
CRASH
Lions Gate Films
Paul Haggis' Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Betsy Danbury First Assistant Director: Scott Cameron Second Assistant Director: Simone Farber
This is Haggis' first nomination
ANG LEE
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
Focus Features
Ang Lee's Directorial Team:
Unit Production Managers: Scott Ferguson, Tom Benz First Assistant Directors: Michael Hausman, Pierre Tremblay Second Assistant Director: Donald Murphy Second Second Assistant Director: Brad Moerke
This is Lee's third nomination. He received a previous nomination for Sense and Sensibility (1995) and won the DGA Award for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).
BENNETT MILLER
CAPOTE
United Artists/Sony Pictures Classics
Bennett Miller's Directorial Team:
Unit Production Managers: Ellen Rutter, Caroline Baron First Assistant Directors: Ronaldo Nacionales, Richard O'Brien Moran Second Assistant Director: Charles Crossin
This is Miller's first nomination.
STEVEN SPIELBERG
MUNICH
Universal Pictures
Steven Spielberg's Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Ian Hickinbotham First Assistant Director: Adam Somner Second Second Assistant Director: Pierre Ellul
This is Spielberg's tenth nomination.
He was previously nominated for Amistad (1997), Empire of the Sun (1987), E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial (1982), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), and Jaws (1975). He has won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film three times: in 1998 for Saving Private Ryan, in 1993 for Schindler's List, and in 1985 for The Color Purple.
Spielberg won the DGA's highest artistic honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award, in 2000.
The DGA Lifetime Achievement Award
Clint Eastwood
Jerry H. Ziesmer will receive the 2006 Frank Capra Achievement Award which is given to an Assistant Director or Unit Production Manager in recognition of career achievement in the industry and service to the Directors Guild of America
Joseph R. Aceti will receive the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award in Sports Direction
Donald Jacob will receive the 2006 Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award for an Associate Director or Stage Manager in recognition of career achievement in the industry and service to the Directors Guild of America.
