40th Directors Guild of America Awards

The 40th Directors Guild of America Awards, honoring the outstanding directorial achievements in film and television in 1987, were presented on March 12, 1988 at the Beverly Hilton and the Plaza Hotel.^[1][2][3] The feature film nominees were announced on February 1, 1988^[4][5][6] and nominees in eight television categories were announced on February 8, 1988.^[7]

40th Directors Guild of America Awards
Date	March 12, 1988 (1988-03-12)
Location	The Beverly Hilton, Los Angeles, California Plaza Hotel, New York City
Country	United States
Presented by	Directors Guild of America
Highlights
Best Director Feature Film:	The Last Emperor – Bernardo Bertolucci
Website	https://www.dga.org/Awards/History/1980s/1987.aspx?value=1987
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Winners and nominees

Film

Feature Film
Bernardo Bertolucci – The Last Emperor James L. Brooks – Broadcast News Lasse Hallström – My Life as a Dog Adrian Lyne – Fatal Attraction Steven Spielberg – Empire of the Sun

Television

Drama Series
Marshall Herskovitz – thirtysomething for "Pilot" Sharron Miller – Cagney & Lacey for "Turn, Turn, Turn (Part 1)" Mark Tinker – St. Elsewhere for "Weigh In, Weigh Out"
Comedy Series
Will Mackenzie – Family Ties for "A, My Name is Alex" James Burrows – Cheers for "Home Is the Sailor" Terry Hughes – The Golden Girls for "Old Friends"
Miniseries or TV Film
Jud Taylor – Foxfire Paul Bogart – Nutcracker: Money, Madness and Murder Marvin J. Chomsky – Billionaire Boys Club
Musical Variety
Dwight Hemion – Julie Andrews... The Sound Of Christmas Hal Gurnee – Late Night with David Letterman for "5th Anniversary Special" Don Mischer – Great Performances for "Made in USA with Mikhail Baryshnikov"
Daytime Drama
Victoria Hochberg – ABC Afterschool Special for "Just a Regular Kid: An AIDS Story" Nell Cox – ABC Afterschool Special for "Read Between the Lines" Joanna Lee – ABC Afterschool Special for "The Kid Who Wouldn't Quit: The Brad Silverman Story"
Documentary/Actuality
Elena Mannes – God and Politics for "The Kingdom Divided" John Peaslee and Judd Pillot – How To Raise a Street Smart Child Terry Sanders – Slow Fires: On the Preservation of the Human Record
Sports
Robert Fishman – 1987 NCAA Basketball Championship for "Syracuse vs. Indiana" Sandy Grossman – Super Bowl XXI Edward Nathanson – AFC Championship

Commercials

Commercials

Richard Levine – Pepsi's "Apartment 10-G", DuPont's "Bill Demby", and Arnott's Biscuits' "Trouble" Leslie Dektor – Drug Free America Foundation's "Girl & Dealer" and "Tricks of the Trade", and United Airlines' "Pep Talk" Robert Lieberman – Hallmark Cards' "40th Birthday" and McDonald's' "New Kid" Jeffrey Lovinger – American Express' "Recital", Little Caesars' "The Wisdom", and Aetna's "World Series" Joe Pytka – Perrier's "Continents", John Hancock Financial's "40th Birthday", and Apple's "I'm Different"

D.W. Griffith Award

• Robert Wise

Frank Capra Achievement Award

• Alex Hapsas

Robert B. Aldrich Service Award

• Sheldon Leonard

Honorary Life Member

• Michael H. Franklin