Directors Guild Award Nominees 2015

The winner based on voting by the 15,000 DGA members, will be announced Feb. 7 at the 67th DGA Awards ceremony at the Hyatt
Regency Century Plaza. View the full list of nominees and their teams:
WES ANDERSON
The Grand Budapest Hotel
(Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Mr. Anderson’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Miki Emmrich
First Assistant Director: Josh Robertson
Second Assistant Director: Ben Howard
This is Mr. Anderson’s first DGA Award nomination.
CLINT EASTWOOD
American Sniper
(Warner Bros. Pictures)
Mr. Eastwood’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Tim Moore
First Assistant Director: David M. Bernstein
Second Assistant Director: Paula Case
Second Second Assistant Director: Clark Credle
First Assistant Director (Morocco Unit):
Ahmed Hatimi
Second Assistant Director (Morocco Unit):
Yann Mari Faget
Second Second Assistant Directors (Morocco Unit): Andrew Madden, Khalil Zghayou
This is Mr. Eastwood’s fourth DGA Award nomination, all in this category. He won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial
Achievement in Feature Film for Million Dollar Baby in 2004 and for Unforgiven in 1992. He was also nominated in this same category for Mystic River in 2003. Mr. Eastwood was honored with the DGA
Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding
Directorial Achievement in Feature Film in 2006.
ALEJANDRO G. IÑÁRRITU
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
(Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Mr. Iñárritu’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Managers: James W.
Skotchdopole, Robert Graf
First Assistant Director: Peter Kohn
Second Assistant Director: Amy Lauritsen
Second Second Assistant Director: Catherine Feeny
Location Manager: Joaquin Prange
This is Mr. Iñárritu’s third DGA Award
nomination. He was previously nominated in
this category for Babel in 2006. He won the
DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial
Achievement in Commercials for “Best
Job” (Proctor and Gamble) in 2012.
RICHARD LINKLATER
Boyhood
(IFC Films)
Mr. Linklater’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Cathleen
Sutherland
First Assistant Director: Vince Palmo Jr.
Second Assistant Directors: Susana Jasso,
Kathleen Tull
Second Second Assistant Directors: Mary
Beth Chambers, Brian Franklin
This is Mr. Linklater’s first DGA Award
nomination.
MORTEN TYLDUM
The Imitation Game
(The Weinstein Company)
Mr. Tyldum’s Directorial Team:
Production Manager: Suzie Shearer
First Assistant Director: Phil Booth
Second Assistant Director: James Manning
This is Mr. Tyldum’s first DGA Award
nomination.