January 31, 2005

DGA Winners Announced HBO Carries Major TV Categories

HBO dominated the television categories at the 57th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards Dinner, which was held Saturday, January 29, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Walter Hill received the drama series award for the pilot of the Western drama Deadwood, Tim Van Patten won the comedy series award for the “An American Girl in Paris: Part Deux” episode of Sex and the City, and in the TV movie category, Joseph Sargent prevailed for the film Something the Lord Made. Hill’s victory marked his first DGA award; Van Patten, who was also nominated this year in the drama series category, won the comedy award in 2003 for Sex and the City; Sargent won the TV movie prize in 1973 for The Marcus Nelson Murders.

Additional television winners, all of whom won for the first time, included Bruce Gowers for the CBS special Genius: A Night for Ray Charles in the musical variety category; Bruce Barry for the CBS soap Guiding Light in the daytime serials category; and Stuart Gillard for the Disney Channel movie Going to the Mat in the children’s category. In the commercials category the winner was Noam Murro, who directed spots for Adidas, eBay and Starbucks.

In the feature film category, Clint Eastwood won for Warner Brothers’ Million Dollar Baby, besting Marc Forster for Miramax’s Finding Neverland, Taylor Hackford for Universal’s Ray, Alexander Payne for Fox Searchlight’s Sideways and Martin Scorsese for the Warner Brothers/Miramax co-production The Aviator.

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