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

2027

Sean Penn / Untitled Jamal Khashoggi Project

2026

مملكة القصب

Charlie Polinger / The Plague

Harry Lighton / Pillion

Alex Russell / Lurker

Eva Victor / Sorry, Baby

2025

Payal Kapadia / പ്രഭയായ് നിനച്ചതെല്ലാം

Sean Wang / Dìdi

RaMell Ross / Nickel Boys

Megan Park / My Old Ass

Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel / Armand

2024

Cord Jefferson / American Fiction

Manuela Martelli / Chile '76

Noora Niasari / Shayda

Celine Song / Past Lives

A.V. Rockwell / A Thousand and One

2023

Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic / Murina

John Patton Ford / Emily the Criminal

Alice Diop / Saint Omer

Charlotte Wells / Aftersun

2022

Michael Sarnoski / Pig

Tatiana Huezo / Noche De Fuego

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

Maggie Gyllenhaal / The Lost Daughter

Audrey Diwan / L'Événement

Emma Seligman / Shiva Baby

Rebecca Hall / Passing

2021

Fernando Frias / Ya no estoy aquí

Florian Zeller / The Father

Regina King / One Night in Miami...

Darius Marder / Sound of Metal

Radha Blank / The Forty-Year-Old Version

2020

The Peanut Butter Falcon

Alma Har'el / Honey Boy

2019

Bo Burnham / Eighth Grade

2018

Jordan Peele / Get Out

Aaron Sorkin / Molly's Game

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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