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Fellow directors tapped Alfonso Cuaron as the year's best filmmaker at the Directors Guild of America Awards last night.
Cuaron has also won Golden Globe and Critics' Choice awards for direction of his 2013 movie Gravity. We at LAist weren't huge fans of the flick, but the director who wins at the DGA Awards almost always wins an Academy Award, so what do we know?
Here is a list of all the winning directors.
FEATURE FILM
-- Alfonso Cuaron, "Gravity"
DOCUMENTARY FILM
-- Jehane Noujaim, "The Square"
MOVIES FOR TELEVISION AND MINI-SERIES
-- Steven Soderbergh, "Behind the Candelabra"
DRAMATIC SERIES
-- Vince Gilligan, "Breaking Bad"; Felina
COMEDY SERIES
-- Beth McCarthy-Miller, "30 Rock,": Hogcock!/Last Lunch
VARIETY/TALK/NEWS/SPORTS - REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING
-- Don Roy King, "Saturday Night Live"
VARIETY/TALK/NEWS/SPORTS - SPECIALS
-- Glenn Weiss, "The 67th Annual Tony Awards"
REALITY PROGRAMS
-- Neil P. DeGroot, "72 Hours"
CHILDREN'S PROGRAMS
-- Amy Schatz, "An Apology to Elephants"
COMMERCIALS
-- Martin de Thurah, "The Man Who Couldn't Slow Down," Hennessy VS;
"Human Race," Acura
MDX 2014
-- Matthijs van Heijningen, "Perfect Day," Sony Playstation; "#Forty
Eight," Verizon