Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Television Film

The Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Miniseries or Movies for Television is one of the annual awards given by the Directors Guild of America.

Winners and nominees

• † Won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie, or Dramatic Special

2000s

• 2000: Jeff Bleckner – The Beach Boys: An American Family
  • Kirk Browning – Death of a Salesman
  • Martha Coolidge – If These Walls Could Talk 2
  • Stephen Frears and Martin Pasetta – Fail Safe
  • Joseph Sargent – For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story
• 2001: Frank Pierson – Conspiracy
  • Robert Allan Ackerman – Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows
  • Jon Avnet – Uprising
  • Billy Crystal – 61*
  • Mark Rydell – James Dean
• 2002: Mick Jackson – Live from Baghdad
  • Julie Dash – The Rosa Parks Story
  • Howard Deutch – Gleason
  • John Frankenheimer – Path to War
  • Richard Loncraine – The Gathering Storm
• 2003: Mike Nichols – Angels in America †
  • Jane Anderson – Normal
  • Jeff Bleckner – The Music Man
  • Rod Holcomb – The Pentagon Papers
  • Richard Loncraine – My House in Umbria
• 2004: Joseph Sargent – Something the Lord Made
  • Robert Altman – Tanner on Tanner
  • Stephen Hopkins – The Life and Death of Peter Sellers †
  • Lloyd Kramer – The Five People You Meet in Heaven
  • Christopher Reeve – The Brooke Ellison Story
• 2005: George C. Wolfe – Lackawanna Blues
  • Darnell Martin – Oprah Winfrey Presents: Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • James Steven Sadwith – Elvis
  • Fred Schepisi – Empire Falls
• 2006: Walter Hill – Broken Trail
  • Charles S. Dutton – Sleeper Cell
  • Randa Haines – The Ron Clark Story
  • Peter Markle – Flight 93
  • Edward James Olmos – Walkout
• 2007: Yves Simoneau – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
  • Jon Avnet – The Starter Wife
  • Jeremiah Chechik – The Bronx Is Burning
  • Lloyd Kramer – Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom’s For One More Day
  • Mikael Salomon – The Company
• 2008: Jay Roach – Recount †
  • Bob Balaban – Bernard and Doris
  • Tom Hooper – John Adams
  • Kenny Leon – A Raisin in the Sun
  • Mikael Salomon – The Andromeda Strain
• 2009: Ross Katz – Taking Chance
  • Bob Balaban – Georgia O’Keeffe
  • Thomas Carter – Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
  • John Kent Harrison – The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
  • Michael Sucsy – Grey Gardens

2010s

• 2010: Mick Jackson – Temple Grandin †
  • Barry Levinson – You Don’t Know Jack
  • David Nutter and Jeremy Podeswa – The Pacific (Episode: “Iwo Jima”)
  • Jeremy Podeswa – The Pacific (Episode: “Home”)
  • Tim Van Patten – The Pacific (Episode: “Okinawa”)
• 2011: Jon Cassar – The Kennedys
  • Jennifer Aniston, Patty Jenkins, Alicia Keys, Demi Moore, and Penelope Spheeris – Five
  • Jeff Bleckner – Beyond the Blackboard
  • Stephen Gyllenhaal – Girl Fight
  • Michael Stevens – Thurgood
• 2012: Jay Roach – Game Change †
  • Greg Berlanti – Political Animals (Episode: “Pilot”)
  • Philip Kaufman – Hemingway & Gellhorn
  • Kevin Reynolds – Hatfields & McCoys
  • Michael Rymer – American Horror Story: Asylum (Episode: “Dark Cousin”)
• 2013: Steven Soderbergh – Behind the Candelabra †
  • Stephen Frears – Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight
  • David Mamet – Phil Spector
  • Beth McCarthy-Miller and Rob Ashford – The Sound of Music Live!
  • Nelson McCormick – Killing Kennedy
• 2014: Lisa Cholodenko – Olive Kitteridge †
  • Rob Ashford and Glenn Weiss – Peter Pan Live!
  • Uli Edel – Houdini
  • Ryan Murphy – The Normal Heart
  • Michael Wilson – The Trip to Bountiful
• 2015: Dee Rees – Bessie
  • Angela Bassett – Whitney
  • Laurie Collyer – The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
  • Paul Haggis – Show Me a Hero
  • Kenny Leon and Matthew Diamond – The Wiz Live!