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The 63rd Annual DGA Awards will honor the most outstanding directorial achievements in feature films, documentary and television for the year 2010 on January 29, 2011 live from the Grand Ballroom of Hollywood and Highland in Los Angeles, California.

Since the Directors Guild of America Awards' inception in 1949, the DGA Awards winner has won the corresponding Best Director Academy Award 56 times out of 62.

2011 DGA Awards Nominees

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film
Darren Aronofsky - Black Swan (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
David Fincher - The Social Network (Columbia Pictures)
Tom Hooper - The King's Speech (The Weinstein Co.)
Christopher Nolan - Inception (Warner Bros. Pictures)
David O. Russell - The Fighter (Paramount Pictures and The Weinstein Co.)

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary
Lixin Fan - Last Train Home
Charles Ferguson - Inside Job
Alex Gibney - Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
Davis Guggenheim - Waiting for "Superman"
Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger - Restrepo

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television and Mini-Series
Mick Jackson - Temple Grandin (HBO)
Barry Levinson - You Don't Know Jack (HBO)
David Nutter - The Pacific, "Basilone" (HBO)
Jeremy Podeswa - The Pacific, "Home" (HBO)
Tim Van Patten - The Pacific, "Okinawa" (HBO)

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series
Jack Bender - Lost, "The End, Part 1 & 2" (ABC)
Allen Coulter - Boardwalk Empire, "Paris Green" (HBO)
Frank Darabont -The Walking Dead, "Days Gone Bye" (Pilot, AMC)
Jennifer Getzinger - Mad Men, "The Suitcase" (AMC)
Martin Scorsese - Boardwalk Empire, "Boardwalk Empire" (HBO)

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series
Steven Levitan - Modern Family, "Hawaii" (ABC)
Beth McCarthy Miller - 30 Rock, "Live Show" (NBC)
Ryan Murphy - Glee, "The Power of Madonna" (FOX)
David Nutter - Entourage, "Lose Yourself" (HBO)
Michael Spiller - Modern Family, "Halloween" (ABC)

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical Variety
Don Roy King - Saturday Night Live with Betty White (NBC)
Linda Mendoza - Paul McCartney: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in Performance at The White House (PBS)
John C. Moffit - Bill Maher "...But I'm Not Wrong" (HBO)
Chuck O'Neil - Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear (Comedy Central)
Glenn Weiss - The 64th Annual Tony Awards (CBS)

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Reality Programs
Hisham Abed - The Hills, "Episode #601" (MTV)
Eytan Keller - The Next Iron Chef: "301" (Food Network)
Bryan O'Donnell - Private Chefs of Beverly Hills: Challah Back (Food Network)
Brian Smith - Master Chef, "Episode #103" (FOX)
Bertram Van Munster - The Amazing Race: "I Think We're Fighting the Germans, Right?" (CBS)

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Daytime Serials
Larry Carpenter - One Life to Live, "Episode #10,687" (ABC)
Sally McDonald - The Young and the Restless, "Episode #9553" (CBS)
Jill Mittwell - One Life to Live, "Starr X'd Lovers - Episode #10,688" (ABC)
Owen Renfroe - General Hospital, "Francophrenia" (ABC)
Michael Stich - The Bold and the Beautiful “A Reason to Live - Part 1” (CBS)    

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children's Programs
Douglas Barr - Secrets of the Mountain (NBC)
Eric Bross - The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (Nickelodeon)
Stuart Gillard - Avalon High (Disney)
Miohael Grossman - Starstruck (Disney)
Paul Hoen - Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam (Disney)
Mikael Salomon - Unnatural History (Pilot, Cartoon Network)

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials
Frank Budgen (Gorgeous Enterprises)
Craig Gillespie (MJZ)
Tim Godsall (Biscuit Filmworks)
Tom Kuntz (MJZ)
Stacy Wall (Imperial Woodpecker)