The 75th Directors Guild of America Awards, DGA, was hosted at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles on 18 February, 2023. President of DGA Lesli Linka GLatter kick-started the event extending a warm welcome to the guests and before calling Judd Apatow, who’s been hosting the show for the past 3 years, on the stage.

Apatow started the show with some funny monologues and pointed to the fact that there were no female filmmakers nominated in the top director category this year. “Some people are complaining this year that all five of the best director nominees are men, but that’s not true,” Apatow said.

“One of the nominees is two men (also called The Daniels). It must be tough for James Cameron to have made yet another one of the most technically innovative films of all time and then lose out on a DGA nomination to two guys who made a movie with a dildo fight,” he added.

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s Everything Everywhere All at Once stole the spotlight by receiving Outstanding Directorial Achievement In Theatrical Feature Film.  “This has been an incredible year for our little film that somehow keeps going,” Kwan said, noting we wouldn’t be anywhere without Michelle Yeoh.

He gave a shout out to A24 for saying “yes when many did not, thank you so much. Films like this oftentimes do not get a launch pad and you’re just the craziest studio and always do somehow take risks on movies like ours” to which Scheinert thanked Kwan for “putting up with me when I asked to make our movie weirder and thank you for making our movie so much braver and more vulnerable,” adding to which, “holy shit, this is crazy!”

Here is a list of all the winners:

Outstanding Directorial Achievement In Theatrical Feature Film

Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All at Once

Comedy SeriesSam Levinson, “Euphoria” – “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird” (HBO)

Bill Hader – Barry, 710N

Drama Series

Sam Levinson, “Euphoria” – “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird” (HBO)

Commercials

Kim Gehrig – Somesuch, Inc.

Outstanding Directorial Achievement Of A First-Time Theatrical Feature Film Director

Charlotte Wells – Aftersun

Movies For Television And Limited Series

Helen Shaver – Station Eleven, Who’s There?

Reality Programs

Ben Simms – Running Wild with Bear Grylls, Florence Pugh in the Volcanic Rainforests of Costa Rica

Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Specials

Glenn Weiss – The 75th Annual Tony Awards (CBS)

Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Regularly Scheduled Programming

Liz Patrick – Saturday Night Live, Host and Musical Guest Jack Harlow

Children’s Programs

Anne Renton – Best Foot Forward, “Halloween” (Apple TV+)

Documentary

Sara Dosa – Fire o Love

Image taken from Daniel Kwan Instagram/@dunkwun