Directors Guild of America Awards, Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First-Time Feature Film - TheTVDB.com

2026

Harry Lighton / Pillion

Eva Victor / Sorry, Baby

Alex Russell / Lurker

Charlie Polinger / The Plague

The President’s Cake

2025

RaMell Ross / Nickel Boys

Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel / Armand

Sean Wang / Dìdi

Megan Park / My Old Ass

Payal Kapadia / പ്രഭയായ് നിനച്ചതെല്ലാം

2024

Noora Niasari / Shayda

A.V. Rockwell / A Thousand and One

Cord Jefferson / American Fiction

Celine Song / Past Lives

Manuela Martelli / Chile '76

2023

John Patton Ford / Emily the Criminal

Charlotte Wells / Aftersun

Alice Diop / Saint Omer

Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic / Murina

2022

Michael Sarnoski / Pig

Lin-Manuel Miranda / tick, tick...BOOM!

Maggie Gyllenhaal / The Lost Daughter

Audrey Diwan / L'Événement

Emma Seligman / Shiva Baby

Tatiana Huezo / Noche De Fuego

Rebecca Hall / Passing

2021

Radha Blank / The Forty-Year-Old Version

Fernando Frias / Ya no estoy aquí

Florian Zeller / The Father

Regina King / One Night in Miami...

Darius Marder / Sound of Metal

2020

Alma Har'el / Honey Boy

The Peanut Butter Falcon

2019

Bo Burnham / Eighth Grade

Bradley Cooper / A Star is Born

2018

Aaron Sorkin / Molly's Game

Jordan Peele / Get Out

2017

Garth Davis / Lion

2016

Alex Garland / Ex Machina

Joel Edgerton / The Gift

2004

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

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