Winners Of The Directors Guild Awards
February 1, 2010 - 11:33 am
Katheryn Bigelow, director of The Hurt Locker, brought home the top prize for Best Director at the recently concluded Directors Guild Awards. She beats former husband, James Cameron, who was also nominated for what is now the highest grossing movie to date, Avatar.
Katheryn’s win indicates that she may also win the Best Director award at the Oscars. Awards insiders note that for the past several years, whoever has won at the DGA, also gets to win the same honor at the Oscars.
Her win also signals another milestone as she is the first female director to ever take home the trophy.
For Television, comedy series, Modern Family, has finally won it over the perennial favorite, Glee.
The complete list of winners follow after the cut…
- FEATURE FILM – Kathryn Bigelow’s film “The Hurt Locker”
- DOCUMENTARY FILM – Louie Psihoyos’ film “The Cove”
- MOVIES FOR TELEVISION/MINISERIES – Ross Katz’ HBO TV series “Taking Chance”
- COMEDY SERIES – Jason Winer’s ABC pilot series “Modern Family”
- MUSICAL VARIETY – Don Mischer’s HBO musical variety show “We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial”
- REALITY PROGRAMS – Craig Borders’Discovery Science reality show “Build It Bigger Season 3? – “Hong Kong Bridge,”
- DAYTIME SERIALS – Christopher Goutman’s “As The World Turns”
- CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS – Allison Liddi-Brown’s Disney Channel show “Princess Protection Program”
