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'Birdman' wins top honour at DGA Awards
Los Angeles, Feb 8
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
bagged the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award for Outstanding
Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for "Birdman".
The 67th annual DGA Awards ceremony, hosted by Jane Lynch, took place here Saturday, reports variety.com.
Inarritu
defeated Richard Linklater (“Boyhood”), Clint Eastwood (“American
Sniper”), Morten Tydlum (“The Imitation Game”) and Wes Anderson (“The
Grand Budapest Hotel”).
All three major TV awards were won by
female directors. “Homeland” director Lesli Linka Glatter won for
television drama series; Jill Soloway bagged the comedy series award for
“Transparent” and Lisa Cholodenko took home the TV movie-miniseries
award for “Olive Kitteredge”.
For the Outstanding Directorial
Achievement in Variety/Talk/News/Sports - Regularly Scheduled
Programming, Dave Diomedi won the award for "The Tonight Show Starring
Jimmy Fallon" - Episode #1.
Glenn Weiss took home the trophy for
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety/Talk/News/Sports -
Specials for directing the 68th Annual Tony Awards.
Anthony Sacco won the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Reality Programs for "The Test" episode of “The Chair”.
The
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children's Programs was taken by
Jonathan Judge for directing the “Pilot” episode of “100 Things To Do
Before High School”.
Laura Poitras won the award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary for directing “Citizenfour”.
James
Burrows and Robert Butler were honoured with the Lifetime Achievement
Award for Distinguished Achievement in Television Direction.












