Directors Guild of America Awards 2007

60th DGA Awards

January 26, 2008

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Best Director - Film:
No Country For Old Men

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Best Director - Documentary Feature:
Ghosts of Cite Soleil

The 60th Directors Guild of America Awards, were presented on January 26, 2008, honoring the best film and television directors in 2007. The awards were presented at the Hyatt Regency hotel in the Century City complex in Los Angeles.

The awards were noted in the media for an incident in which actress Sean Young was ejected from the ceremony by security guards for heckling the stage and other behavior.[1]

Nominees

Film

Feature Film

Ethan and Joel Coen - No Country For Old Men

• Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood
• Tony Gilroy - Michael Clayton
• Sean Penn - Into the Wild
• Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)

Documentary Feature

Asger Leth - Ghosts of Cité Soleil

• Ken Burns and Lynn Novick - The War
• Alex Gibney - Taxi to the Dark Side
• Richard Robbins - Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
• Barbet Schroeder - Terror's Advocate (L'avocat de la terreur)

Television

Drama Series (Night)

Alan Taylor - Mad Men ("Smoke Gets in Your Eyes")

• Jack Bender - Lost ("Through the Looking Glass")
• David Chase - The Sopranos ("Made in America")
• Eric Laneuville - Lost ("The Brig")
• Tim Van Patten - The Sopranos ("Sopranos Home Movies")

Comedy Series

Barry Sonnenfield - Pushing Daisies ("Pie-lette")

• Michael Engler - 30 Rock ("Rosemary's Baby")
• David Grossman - Desperate Housewives ("Something's Coming")
• Beth McCarthy-Miller - 30 Rock ("Somebody to Love")
• David Nutter - Entourage ("The Resurrection")

Miniseries or TV Film

Yves Simoneau - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

• Jon Avnet - The Starter Wife
• Jeremiah Chechik - The Bronx Is Burning
• Lloyd Kramer - Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom's For One More Day
• Mikael Salomon - The Company