2023 DGA Awards live blog: Sara Dosa (‘Fire of Love’) wins first award [UPDATING LIVE]

Gold Derby is backstage at the 75th Directors Guild of America Awards on Saturday, February 18 in order to bring you all the up-to-date details on the presenters, nominees and winners. (See the complete winners list.) Managing editor Chris Beachum and social media manager Jaclyn Ben-Porat are in the press room and will let us all know every time something newsworthy happens. Read on for our 2023 DGA Awards live blog.

As a reminder, these kudos are non-televised. However, for the first time ever, Gold Derby is airing a live streaming show announcing winners as they happen with several of our editors and freelancers — watch it right here.

The DGA Awards honor the best helmers of the year in movies and television, as voted on by more than 18,000 members of the directing guild. The most talked-about category is always saved for last: Best Film Director. This year’s nominees are Todd Field (“Tár”), Joseph Kosinski (“Top Gun: Maverick”), Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”), Martin McDonagh (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) and Steven Spielberg (“The Fabelmans”).

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7:30 p.m. — Here. We. Go! The 75th annual ceremony officially begins at The Beverly Hilton Hotel. A clip package is being shown to the crowd. DGA President Lesli Linka Glatter will then come out to introduce the host of the evening, director Judd Apatow. It’s estimated that the first award will be handed out at 8:00 p.m.

7:55 p.m. — Jason Bateman is presenting Best Film Documentary Director. The five nominees are Sara Dosa (“Fire of Love”), Matthew Heineman (“Retrograde”), Laura Poitras (“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed”), Daniel Roher (“Navalny”) and Shaunak Sen (“All That Breathes”). Congrats to Sara Dosa on winning the first trophy of the evening!

8:00 p.m. — Throughout the evening each of the five directing nominees will receive special medallions. Up first is a special presentation to The Daniels by Stephanie Hsu.

Complete list of DGA nominations:

Best TV Variety Special Directing
Ian Berger (“The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Presents Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse – Hungary for Democracy”)
Hamish Hamilton (“Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show”)
James Merriman (“Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter”)
Marcus Raboy (“Mark Twain Prize 2022: Celebrating Jon Stewart”)
Glenn Weiss (“The 75th Annual Tony Awards”)

Best TV Variety Series Directing
Paul G. Casey (“Real Time with Bill Maher” for “#2010”)
Jim Hoskinson (“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” for “#1333”)
David Paul Meyer (“The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” for “Brandi Carlile”)
Liz Patrick (“Saturday Night Live” for “Jack Harlow”)
Paul Pennolino (“Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” for “Afghanistan”)

Best Children’s Program Directing
Tim Federle (“Better Nate Than Ever”)
Bonnie Hunt (“Amber Brown” for “I, Amber Brown”)
Dean Israelite (“Are You Afraid of the Dark?” for “The Tale of Room 13”)
Michael Lembeck (“Snow Day”)
Anne Renton (“Best Foot Forward” for “Halloween”)

Best TV Reality Program Directing
Joseph Guidry (“The Big Brunch” for “Carb Loading Brunch”)
Carrie Havel (“The Go-Big Show” for “Only One Can Win”)
Rich Kim (“Lego Masters” for “Jurass-brick World”)
Michael Shea (“FBOY Island” for “Do You Like Cats?”)
Ben Simms (“Running Wild with Bear Grylls” for “Florence Pugh in the Volcanic Rainforests of Costa Rica”)

Best TV Movie/Miniseries Directing
Eric Appel (“Weird: The Al Yankovic Story”)
Deborah Chow (“Obi-Wan Kenobi”)
Jeremy Podeswa (“Station Eleven” for “Unbroken Circle”)
Helen Shaver (“Station Eleven” for “Who’s There?”)
Tom Verica (“Inventing Anna” for “The Devil Wore Anna”)

Best Film First-Time Directing
Alice Diop (“Saint Omer”)
Audrey Diwan (“Happening”)
John Patton Ford (“Emily the Criminal”)
Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović (“Murina”)
Charlotte Wells (“Aftersun”)

Best Commercial Directing
Juan Cabral (John Lewis & Partners’ “For All Life’s Moments” and Apple’s “Share the Joy”)
Kim Gehrig (Apple’s “Accessibility” and “Run Baby Run”)
Craig Gillespie (Apple’s “Hard Knocks,” Jimmy John’s’ “Problem” and Nissan’s “Thrill Driver”)
David Shane (Apple’s “Detectives,” ITVX’s “Smile” and Procter & Gamble’s “Traffic Stop”)
Ivan Zachariáš (Apple’s “Data Auction” and Upwork’s “This Is How We Work Now”)

Best TV Comedy Directing
Tim Burton (“Wednesday” for “Wednesday’s Child is Full of Woe”)
Bill Hader (“Barry” for “710N”)
Amy Sherman-Palladino (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” for “How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?”)
Christopher Storer (“The Bear” for “Review”)
Mike White (“The White Lotus: Sicily” for “BYG”)

Best TV Drama Directing
Jason Bateman (“Ozark” for “A Hard Way To Go”)
Vince Gilligan (“Better Call Saul” for “Waterworks”)
Sam Levinson (“Euphoria” for “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”)
Aoife McArdle (“Severance” for “Hide and Seek”)
Ben Stiller (“Severance” for “The We We Are”)

Best Film Director
Todd Field (“TÁR”)
Joseph Kosinski (“Top Gun: Maverick”)
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)
Martin McDonagh (“The Banshees of Inisherin”)
Steven Spielberg (“The Fabelmans”)

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