72nd Directors Guild of America Awards

The 72nd Directors Guild of America Awards, honoring the outstanding directorial achievement in feature films, documentary, television and commercials of 2019, were presented on January 25, 2020, at the Ritz-Carlton in Downtown Los Angeles, California.^[1][2][3] The ceremony was hosted by Judd Apatow, who also hosted the ceremony in 2018.^[4] The nominations for most of the television and documentary categories were announced on January 6, 2020,^[5][6] while the nominations for the feature film categories were announced on January 7, 2020.^[7][8] The nominations announcement for three television awards (Comedy Series, Drama Series, and Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Specials) was moved to January 10, 2020, due to a re-vote delay.^[9]

72nd Directors Guild of America Awards
Date	January 25, 2020 (2020-01-25)
Location	Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Downtown Los Angeles, California
Country	United States
Presented by	Directors Guild of America
Hosted by	Judd Apatow
Highlights
Best Director Feature Film:	1917 – Sam Mendes
Best Director Documentary:	American Factory – Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
Best Director First-Time Feature Film:	Honey Boy – Alma Har'el
Website	https://www.dga.org/Awards/Annual.aspx
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Winners and nominees

Film

Feature Film
Sam Mendes – 1917 Bong Joon-ho – Parasite Martin Scorsese – The Irishman Quentin Tarantino – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Taika Waititi – Jojo Rabbit
Documentaries
Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert – American Factory Feras Fayyad – The Cave Alex Holmes – Maiden Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska – Honeyland Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang – One Child Nation
First-Time Feature Film
Alma Har'el – Honey Boy Mati Diop – Atlantics Melina Matsoukas – Queen & Slim Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz – The Peanut Butter Falcon Joe Talbot – The Last Black Man in San Francisco

Television

Drama Series
Nicole Kassell – Watchmen for "It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice" Mark Mylod – Succession for "This Is Not for Tears" David Nutter – Game of Thrones for "The Last of the Starks" Miguel Sapochnik – Game of Thrones for "The Long Night" Stephen Williams – Watchmen for "This Extraordinary Being"
Comedy Series
Bill Hader – Barry for "ronny/lily" Dan Attias – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel for "It's the Sixties, Man!" David Mandel – Veep for "Veep" Daniel Palladino – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel for "Marvelous Radio" Amy Sherman-Palladino – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel for "It's Comedy or Cabbage"
Movies for Television and Limited Series
Johan Renck – Chernobyl Ava DuVernay – When They See Us Vince Gilligan – El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie Thomas Kail – Fosse/Verdon for "Nowadays" Minkie Spiro – Fosse/Verdon for "All I Care About Is Love" Jessica Yu – Fosse/Verdon for "Glory"
Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Regularly Scheduled Programming
Don Roy King – Saturday Night Live for "Eddie Murphy/Lizzo" Paul G. Casey – Real Time with Bill Maher for "#1730" Nora S. Gerard – CBS Sunday Morning for "40th Anniversary" Jim Hoskinson – The Late Show with Stephen Colbert for "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez/Incubus" Paul Pennolino and Christopher Werner – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver for "SLAPP Suits"
Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Specials
James Burrows and Andy Fisher – Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's All in the Family and The Jeffersons Spike Jonze – Aziz Ansari: Right Now Stan Lathan – Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones Linda Mendoza – Wanda Sykes: Not Normal Glenn Weiss – The 91st Annual Academy Awards
Reality Programs
Jason Cohen – Encore! for "Annie" Hisham Abed – Queer Eye for "Black Girl Magic" Jon Favreau – The Chef Show for "Hog Island" Ashley S. Gorman – First Responders Live for "#103" Patrick McManus – American Ninja Warrior for "#1116: Las Vegas National Finals Night 4"
Children's Programs
Amy Schatz – Song of Parkland Dean Israelite – Are You Afraid of the Dark? for "Part One: Submitted for Your Approval" Jack Jameson – Sesame Street’s 50th Anniversary Special Luke Matheny – Ghostwriter for "Ghost in Wonderland: Part 1" Barry Sonnenfeld – A Series of Unfortunate Events for "Penultimate Peril: Part 1"

Commercials

Commercials
Spike Jonze – Squarespace's "Dream It" and MedMen's "The New Normal" Fredrik Bond – Hewlett-Packard's "Lighter Than Air,", Coca-Cola's "Take it Lightly", and Apple's "Nap" Mark Molloy – Apple's "Underdogs" Ridley Scott – Hennessy's "The Seven Worlds" Dougal Wilson – AT&T's "Train"

Frank Capra Achievement Award

• Duncan Henderson^[10]

Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award

• Arthur Lewis^[10]