34th Directors Guild of America Awards

The 34th Directors Guild of America Awards, honoring the outstanding directorial achievements in film and television in 1981, were presented on March 13, 1982, at the Beverly Hilton and the Plaza Hotel. The television nominees were announced on February 9, 1982.

Winners and nominees

Film

Feature Film
Warren Beatty – Reds Hugh Hudson – Chariots of Fire Louis Malle – Atlantic City Mark Rydell – On Golden Pond Steven Spielberg – Raiders of the Lost Ark

Feature Film

Warren Beatty – Reds

Hugh Hudson – Chariots of Fire
Louis Malle – Atlantic City
Mark Rydell – On Golden Pond
Steven Spielberg – Raiders of the Lost Ark

Television

Drama Series
*Robert Butler – Hill Street Blues* for "Hill Street Station"** David Anspaugh – Hill Street Blues for "The Last White Man on East Ferry" Georg Stanford Brown – Hill Street Blues for "Up in Arms"
Comedy Series
*Alan Alda – MASH for "The Life You Save"** James Burrows – Taxi for "Jim the Psychic" Harry Morgan – MASH* for "Blood Brothers"
Musical Variety
*Emile Ardolino – Great Performances: Dance in America* for "The Spellbound Child"** Bill Davis and Tony Charmoli – Lily: Sold Out Clark Jones – Sinatra: The Man and His Music
Documentary
Robert Guenette – Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark David Heeley – Starring Katharine Hepburn Harry Moses – The Mike Wallace Profiles for Jean Seberg
Actuality
Stan Harris – Command Performance at Ford's Theatre: The Stars Meet The President Clark Jones – 35th Tony Awards Doug Wilson – 1981 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
Specials/Movies for TV/Actuality
Herbert Wise – Skokie Emile Ardolino – Great Performances for "Nureyev and the Joffrey Ballet/In Tribute to Nijinsky" Anthony Harvey and Anthony Page – The Patricia Neal Story

Commercials

Commercials
Richard Levine – Pepsi's "First Love" and "Papa", and Kodak's "Summer Colt" R. Hagmann – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' "Julie Through the Looking Glass", and Coca-Cola's "Railway Crossing" Tibor Hirsch – SOS's "Anniversary", Partager's "Camargue", United Airlines' "Clem's Story", and GTE's "Santa's Workshop" Joe Pytka – Henry Weinhard's' "Alaska", Bud Light's "Football", and Coca-Cola's "Thirsty Workers" Melvin Sokolsky – Fisher's "Beam" and Dr Pepper's "Roundy Room" and "Whistling"

Richard Levine – Pepsi's "First Love" and "Papa", and Kodak's "Summer Colt"

R. Hagmann – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' "Julie Through the Looking Glass", and Coca-Cola's "Railway Crossing"
Tibor Hirsch – SOS's "Anniversary", Partager's "Camargue", United Airlines' "Clem's Story", and GTE's "Santa's Workshop"
Joe Pytka – Henry Weinhard's' "Alaska", Bud Light's "Football", and Coca-Cola's "Thirsty Workers"
Melvin Sokolsky – Fisher's "Beam" and Dr Pepper's "Roundy Room" and "Whistling"

D.W. Griffith Award

Rouben Mamoulian

Frank Capra Achievement Award

David Golden
Wallace Worsley Jr.

References

Fraser, Gerald (March 15, 1982). "Beatty Wins Directors Guild Award For His Work On 'Reds'". The New York Times. Retrieved April 28, 2018.
Hanauer, Joan (March 19, 1982). "Embattled Beatty". UPI. Retrieved April 28, 2018.
"'Hill Street Blues' leads Directors Guild nominations". UPI. February 9, 1982. Retrieved April 28, 2018.
Harmetz, Aljean (February 2, 1982). "Directors Win Antitrust Suit Brought By HBO". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 April 2018.

External links

34th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards

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