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UPDATED with timeline: The 73rd annual DGA Awards, which will take place on April 10, 2021 much later than usual because of the coronavirus pandemic that has pushed back the annual awards season, has unveiled its key dates and timelines for its 2021 edition. It comes after the Directors Guild settled on the ceremony’s…

Oscar did it. So did the Golden Globes, SAG and earlier today the Producers Guild. Now it is the Directors Guild that has just announced it will alter eligibility rules — temporarily — to allow films with proven intent to have been released theatrically, but which due to the coronavirus pandemic instead debuted on…

The Directors Guild of America is opposing a Justice Department effort to end the 70-year-old Paramount consent decrees, which placed restrictions on studio control over theatrical exhibition. The DOJ asked a court last month to terminate the decrees, put in place in 1948 after years of antitrust litigation. It led…

In a blow to the streaming world, the Directors Guild of America’s national board has voted unanimously to ban day-and-date film releases from eligibility for its top DGA Award, which has now been renamed Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film. "The DGA proudly affirms that a first-run…

Saying that discrimination is "still rampant" in the film industry, the DGA today released its second report on Feature Film Diversity, which found that only 9.7% of live-action American films with box office takes of at least $250,000 were directed by minorities last year — a five-year low and a precipitous drop of…

William M. “Bill” Brady, a CBS News Director for over 30 years and Directors Guild of America Network Negotiating Committee chairman, has died at age 65. No cause of death was given in the announcement by DGA president Thomas Schlamme and national executive director Russell Hollander. After graduating from Queens…

The Directors Guild of America honored outstanding achievement in directing for film and television tonight at the DGA Awards. Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water won the award for Best Feature while Reed Morano walked away with the award for Dramatic Series for The Handmaid's Tale. Jordan Peele also won big with…

UPDATED with DGA statement and details: Harvey Weinstein, who was facing expulsion from the Directors Guild of America, has resigned his membership — as he did with the Producers Guild last month. On Friday, the disgraced producer was listed as a DGA member on the guild’s website. Checking today, Deadline found he is…

The employment of women and minority directors set an all-time record in the 2016-17 television season, according to the latest hiring data compiled by the Directors Guild of America – more evidence that the industry is moving toward more diversity in the directing chair. The percentage of women directing episodic TV…

The Directors Guild of America calls the death of “iconic director” Jonathan Demme “devastating for us” and his enthusiasm “a memory we will always treasure.” Demme was a member of the DGA since 1976 and winner of the its award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement for 1991’s The Silence of the Lambs. The…

Just in time for the holidays, the DGA and management's AMPTP have reached an agreement on terms for a new three-year film and TV contract. Details of the deal aren't being released until after it's been seen by the guild's national board. The two sides began talks on Dec. 5 and wrapped on the eve of Christmas…

UPDATED with Showtime claim and DGA response at bottom: Women and minority TV directors made modest gains during the 2015-16 season, according to the latest report from the Directors Guild, even though 10% of all episodic TV shows employed no women or minority directors at all. Women directed 17% of all episodes…