Kathryn Bigelow wins DGA Feature Film Award for The Hurt Locker

// January 31st, 2010 // Awards

by Marla Lewin

Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the DGA’s highest honor in its 61 year history. James Cameron  will just have to be content with having the two highest grossing films in history and the knowledge that his good friend and former wife has finally gotten the recognition that she deserves. He basically said that on the Jay Leno show last week.

Bigelow and Cameron are still widely considered the frontrunners for the Academy Award for Best Director. Avatar and Cameron won the top awards at the Golden Globes, where it was named Best Film Drama and he won the Director award. Most other critics awards have gone to The Hurt Locker, which has also won more of the crucial Hollywood guild awards. The DGA’s Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film has traditionally served as a near-perfect barometer for the Academy Award for Best Director. Only six times since the DGA Award’s inception in 1948 has the winner not gone on to receive the Academy Award for Best Director.

The other award winners are:

Documentary Film: Louie Psihoyos, The Cove

Dramatic Series NIght: Lesli Linka Glatter, Mad Men

Comedy Series: Jason Winer, Modern Family

Movie for Television: Ross Katz, Taking Chance

Musical Variety: Don Mischer, We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial

Reality Program: Craig Borders, Build It Bigger

Children’s Program: Allison Liddi-Brown, “Princess Protection Program

Daytime Serial: Christopher Goutman, “As the World Turns

Commercial: Tom Kuntz,   Eyebrows, Tailor, Scents for Gents, Tips

Special awards:

Lifetime achievement award: Norman Jewison

Honorary Life Membership: Robert Iger

Honorary Life Membership: Barry Meyer

Life Achievement in News: Roger Goodman

Frank Capra Award: Cleve Landsberg

Franklin Schaffner Award: Maria Jiminez Henley

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