Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film

The Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures is one of the annual Directors Guild of America Awards presented by the Directors Guild of America. With 3 wins out of 13 nominations, Steven Spielberg is both the most awarded and most nominated director of this category in the history of DGA, and the first director to receive DGA nominations in six consecutive decades. Additionally, Alejandro G. Iñárritu is the only director to win twice successively; he was awarded in 2015 and 2016 for his directorial achievements for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and The Revenant, respectively. Three directing teams have shared the award: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for West Side Story (1961), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men (2007), and Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022).

Predicting the Oscar's outcome
Since its inception the award has predicted the winner of the Academy Award for Best Director on all but eight occasions:


 * 1968 – Anthony Harvey (The Lion in Winter); lost to Carol Reed (Oliver!)
 * 1972 – Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather); lost to Bob Fosse (Cabaret)
 * 1985 – Steven Spielberg (The Color Purple); despite the film's 11 total Oscar nominations, Spielberg was not nominated for Best Director.
 * 1995 – Ron Howard (Apollo 13); Howard was not nominated for the Oscar.
 * 2000 – Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon); lost to Steven Soderbergh (Traffic)
 * 2002 – Rob Marshall (Chicago); lost to Roman Polanski (The Pianist)
 * 2012 – Ben Affleck (Argo); Affleck was not nominated for the Oscar, although the film won Best Picture.
 * 2019 – Sam Mendes (1917); lost to Bong Joon-ho (Parasite)

Directors with multiple wins

 * 3 wins
 * Steven Spielberg


 * 2 wins
 * Francis Ford Coppola
 * Alfonso Cuarón
 * Clint Eastwood
 * Miloš Forman
 * Ron Howard
 * Alejandro González Iñárritu (consecutive)
 * David Lean
 * Ang Lee
 * Joseph L. Mankiewicz
 * Sam Mendes
 * George Stevens
 * Oliver Stone
 * Robert Wise
 * Fred Zinnemann

Directors with multiple nominations
The following directors have received four or more nominations:


 * 13 nominations
 * Steven Spielberg


 * 11 nominations
 * Martin Scorsese


 * 7 nominations
 * Elia Kazan
 * William Wyler
 * Fred Zinnemann


 * 6 nominations
 * John Huston
 * Billy Wilder


 * 5 nominations
 * Woody Allen
 * Richard Brooks
 * Francis Ford Coppola
 * Stanley Donen
 * Alfred Hitchcock
 * Stanley Kubrick
 * Sidney Lumet
 * Christopher Nolan
 * Robert Wise


 * 4 nominations
 * George Cukor
 * Clint Eastwood
 * David Fincher
 * Ron Howard
 * David Lean
 * Ang Lee
 * Joseph L. Mankiewicz
 * Vincente Minnelli
 * Robert Mulligan
 * Ridley Scott
 * George Stevens
 * Peter Weir