Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Musical Variety

The Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical Variety was an annual award given by the Directors Guild of America between 1971 and 2012. In 2013, the guild announced the creation of two new accolades to replace the award: the Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Regularly Scheduled Programming and the Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Specials.

Individuals with multiple awards

 * 7 awards
 * Don Mischer


 * 4 awards
 * Dwight Hemion
 * Glenn Weiss


 * 3 awards
 * Walter C. Miller
 * Matthew Diamond


 * 2 awards
 * Jeff Margolis
 * Beth McCarthy-Miller

Individuals with multiple nominations

 * 16 nominations
 * Louis J. Horvitz


 * 13 nominations
 * Don Mischer


 * 9 nominations
 * Hal Gurnee
 * Chuck O'Neil
 * Glenn Weiss


 * 8 nominations
 * Jerry Foley


 * 7 nominations
 * Dwight Hemion
 * Jeff Margolis


 * 6 nominations
 * Don Roy King


 * 5 nominations
 * Tony Charmoli
 * Arthur Fisher


 * 4 nominations
 * Bill Davis
 * Matthew Diamond
 * Beth McCarthy-Miller


 * 3 nominations
 * Emile Ardolino
 * Ellen Brown
 * Marty Callner
 * Bruce Gowers
 * Walter C. Miller


 * 2 nominations
 * Joel Gallen
 * Roger Goodman
 * Clark Jones
 * Rob Marshall
 * Paul Miller
 * Dave Powers
 * Don Scardino
 * George Schaefer
 * Thomas Schlamme
 * Barbra Streisand

Total awards by network

 * CBS – 12
 * NBC – 12
 * ABC – 7
 * PBS – 7
 * HBO – 3