The 71st Directors Guild of America Awards, honoring the outstanding directorial achievement in feature

films A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of Visual arts, visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are gen ...

documentary A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...

television Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set rather than the medium of transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, ...

and

commercials A television advertisement (also called a commercial, spot, break, advert, or ad) is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization. It conveys a message promoting, and aiming to market, a product, service or idea. ...

of 2018, were presented on February 2, 2019, at the

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, Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was hosted by

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. The nominations for the television and documentary categories were announced on January 7, 2019, while the nominations for the feature film categories were announced on January 8, 2019.

Winners and nominees

Film

Television

Commercials

Lifetime Achievement in Television

Don Mischer Donald Leo Mischer (March 5, 1940 – April 11, 2025) was an American producer and director of television and live events and president of Don Mischer Productions. Career Mischer was honored with fifteen Emmy Awards, a record ten Directors Guil ...

Frank Capra Achievement Award

* Kathleen McGill

Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award

* Mimi Deaton

Diversity Award

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Directors Guild Of America Awards, 71 Directors Guild of America Awards 2018 film awards 2018 television awards 2018 in American cinema 2018 in American television 2019 awards in the United States 2018 guild awards