44th Directors Guild of America Awards

Award ceremony for film and television directing in 1991

Date

March 14, 1992 (1992-03-14)

Location

The Beverly Hilton, Los Angeles, California
United Nations, New York City

Country

United States

Presented by

Directors Guild of America

Hosted by

Carl Reiner (Los Angeles)
Mario Van Peebles (New York)

Highlights

Best Director Feature Film:

The Silence of the Lambs – Jonathan Demme

Best Director Documentary:

American Dream – Barbara Kopple

Website

https://www.dga.org/Awards/History/1990s/1991.aspx?value=1991

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The 44th Directors Guild of America Awards, honoring the outstanding directorial achievements in films, documentary and television in 1991, were presented on March 14, 1992 at the Beverly Hilton and the United Nations. The ceremony in Beverly Hills was hosted by Carl Reiner and the ceremony in New York was hosted by Mario Van Peebles. The feature film nominees were announced on January 28, 1992, commercial nominees were announced in February, and nominees in six television categories were announced on March 1, 1992.

Winners and nominees

Film

Feature Film
Jonathan Demme – The Silence of the Lambs Barry Levinson – Bugsy Ridley Scott – Thelma and Louise Oliver Stone – JFK Barbra Streisand – The Prince of Tides
Documentaries
Barbara Kopple – American Dream Eleanor Coppola, Fax Bahr, and George Hickenlooper – Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse Albert Maysles, Bob Eisenhardt, Susan Froemke, and Peter Gelb – Soldiers of Music: Rostropovich Returns to Russia Alan Raymond – Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House

Feature Film

Jonathan Demme – The Silence of the Lambs

Barry Levinson – Bugsy
Ridley Scott – Thelma and Louise
Oliver Stone – JFK
Barbra Streisand – The Prince of Tides

Documentaries

Barbara Kopple – American Dream

Eleanor Coppola, Fax Bahr, and George Hickenlooper – Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Albert Maysles, Bob Eisenhardt, Susan Froemke, and Peter Gelb – Soldiers of Music: Rostropovich Returns to Russia
Alan Raymond – Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House

Television

Drama Series
*Eric Laneuville – I'll Fly Away* for "All God's Children"** James Hayman – Northern Exposure for "Jules & Joel" Stuart Margolin – Northern Exposure for "Goodbye To All That"
Comedy Series
*Peter Bonerz – Murphy Brown* for "Uh-Oh: Part 2"** James Burrows – Cheers for "Days of Wine & Neurosis" David Steinberg – Seinfeld for "The Tape"
Miniseries or TV Film
Stephen Gyllenhaal – Paris Trout Joshua Brand – I'll Fly Away for "Pilot" Brian Gibson – The Josephine Baker Story
Musical Variety
Walter C. Miller – The 45th Annual Tony Awards Hal Gurnee – Late Night with David Letterman Jeff Margolis – The 63rd Annual Academy Awards
Daytime Serials
*Michael Stich – The Bold and the Beautiful* for "Episode #1103"** Mike Denney – The Young and the Restless for "Episode #4708" Heather Hill – The Young and the Restless for "Episode #4730"
Daytime Drama
*Roy Campanella II – WonderWorks* for "Brother Future"** Consuelo Gonzalez – ABC Afterschool Special for "In the Shadow of Love" Barra Grant – CBS Schoolbreak Special for "Lies of the Heart"

Commercials

Commercials
Joe Pytka – Hallmark Cards' "Dance Card" and Nike's "The Bo Show" Leslie Dektor – Bell Atlantic's "Joanne", Saturn's "Petersburg", and Tele-Communications Inc.'s "Taxi Driver" James Gartner – FedEx' "Adoption" and HBO's "Party" Stephen Kessler – MasterCard's "Directions", Tony's Pizza's "House", MCI Communications' "Joe College", Giant Eagle's "Romeo & Julie" and "Tea Time", and Jack in the Box' "Trapeze Act" Domenic Mastrippolito – AIDS Project Los Angeles' "Talk About It"

Joe Pytka – Hallmark Cards' "Dance Card" and Nike's "The Bo Show"

Leslie Dektor – Bell Atlantic's "Joanne", Saturn's "Petersburg", and Tele-Communications Inc.'s "Taxi Driver"
James Gartner – FedEx' "Adoption" and HBO's "Party"
Stephen Kessler – MasterCard's "Directions", Tony's Pizza's "House", MCI Communications' "Joe College", Giant Eagle's "Romeo & Julie" and "Tea Time", and Jack in the Box' "Trapeze Act"
Domenic Mastrippolito – AIDS Project Los Angeles' "Talk About It"

D.W. Griffith Award

Akira Kurosawa

Lifetime Achievement in Sports Direction

Edward T. Nathanson

Robert B. Aldrich Service Award

Jack Shea

Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award

Marilyn Jacobs-Furey

Honorary Life Member

Charles Champlin

References

Fox, David (March 16, 1992). "Directors Scramble the Bets". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 6, 2018.
"Demme Wins Top Directors Guild Award". Los Angeles Times. March 15, 1992. Retrieved April 6, 2018.
"44th Annual DGA Awards: Los Angeles Awards Ceremony Pictures". Director Guild of America. Retrieved April 6, 2018.
"44th Annual DGA Awards: New York Awards Ceremony Pictures". Director Guild of America. Retrieved April 6, 2018.
Fox, David (January 29, 1992). "Streisand's Tide Comes In at Directors Guild". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 6, 2018.
"DGA Picks Nominees for Top Commercials". Los Angeles Times. February 13, 1992. Retrieved September 15, 2018.
"Directors Guild of America TV nominees announced". UPI. March 1, 1992. Retrieved April 7, 2018.

External links

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