58th Directors Guild of America Awards

The 58th Directors Guild of America Awards, honoring the outstanding directorial achievements in films, documentary and television in 2005, were presented on January 28, 2006, at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza.^[1][2][3] The ceremony was hosted by Carl Reiner.^[4] The nominees in the feature film category were announced on January 5, 2006^[5][6] and the other nominations were announced starting on January 9, 2006.^{[7][8][9][10]}

58th Directors Guild of America Awards
Date	January 28, 2006 (2006-01-28)
Location	Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, Los Angeles, California
Country	United States
Presented by	Directors Guild of America
Hosted by	Carl Reiner
Highlights
Best Director Feature Film:	Brokeback Mountain – Ang Lee
Best Director Documentary:	Grizzly Man – Werner Herzog
Website	https://www.dga.org/Awards/History/2000s/2005.aspx?value=2005
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The award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Reality Programs was first introduced at this ceremony.^[11]

Winners and nominees

Film

Feature Film
Ang Lee – Brokeback Mountain George Clooney – Good Night, and Good Luck. Paul Haggis – Crash Bennett Miller – Capote Steven Spielberg – Munich
Documentaries
Werner Herzog – Grizzly Man Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani – The Devil's Miner Sean McAllister – The Liberace of Baghdad Rupert Murray – Unknown White Male Brent Renaud and Craig Renaud – Off to War: Welcome to Baghdad

Television

Drama Series
Michael Apted – Rome for "The Stolen Eagle" Alan Ball – Six Feet Under for "Everyone's Waiting" Paris Barclay – House for "Three Stories" Peter Horton – Grey's Anatomy for "A Hard Day's Night" Jeff Melman – Grey's Anatomy for "Into You Like a Train"
Comedy Series
Marc Buckland – My Name Is Earl for "Pilot" James Burrows – Will & Grace for "Alive and Schticking" Larry Charles – Curb Your Enthusiasm for "The End" Julian Farino – Entourage for "Exodus" Bryan Gordon – Curb Your Enthusiasm for "Korean Bookie"
Miniseries or TV Film
Joseph Sargent – Warm Springs (TIE) George C. Wolfe – Lackawanna Blues (TIE) Darnell Martin – Oprah Winfrey Presents: Their Eyes Were Watching God James Steven Sadwith – Elvis Fred Schepisi – Empire Falls
Musical Variety
Matthew Diamond – Great Performances: Dance in America for "Swan Lake with American Ballet Theatre" Jerry Foley – Late Show with David Letterman for "Show #2452" Louis J. Horvitz – The 77th Annual Academy Awards Chuck O'Neil – The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Alan Skog – Live from Lincoln Center for "Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Benefit" Glenn Weiss – The 59th Annual Tony Awards
Daytime Serials
Owen Renfroe – General Hospital for "Episode #10914" Larry Carpenter – One Life to Live for "Episode #9385" Herbert Stein and Albert Alarr – Days of Our Lives for "Episode #10090" Michael Stich – The Bold and the Beautiful for "Episode #4623" Ellen Wheeler – Guiding Light for "Episode #14696"
Reality Programs
Tony Croll – Three Wishes for "Pilot" (TIE) J. Rupert Thompson – Fear Factor for "Heist Fear Factor" (TIE) Ross Breitenbach – Brat Camp for "Episode #104" Starling Price – Penn & Teller: Bullshit! for "Circumcision" Bertram van Munster – The Amazing Race for "Episode #805"
Children's Programs
Chris Eyre – Edge of America Ellen Goosenberg Kent – I Have Tourette's but Tourette's Doesn't Have Me David Jackson – Buffalo Dreams D. J. MacHale – Flight 29 Down for "The Pits" Jessica Sharzer – Speak

Commercials

Commercials

Craig Gillespie – Ameriquest's "Surprise Dinner" and "Mini-Mart", and Altoids's "People of Pain" and "Fable of the Fruit Bat" Spike Jonze – Adidas' "Hello Tomorrow", Miller Beer's "Penguin", and Gap's "Pardon Our Dust" Rocky Morton – BellSouth's "Kung Fu Clowns" and "Dance Fight Plumbers", Cheese Nips' "Office", and CSI's "Take Me Home" Noam Murro – Hummer's "Monsters", Orange's "Black Out", and Nike's "Run Barefoot" Rupert Sanders – Adidas' "Made to Perfection" and Xbox's "Joy"

Lifetime Achievement in Feature Film

• Clint Eastwood

Lifetime Achievement in Sports Direction

• Joseph R. Aceti

Frank Capra Achievement Award

• Jerry H. Ziesmer

Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award

• Donald E. Jacob