35th Directors Guild of America Awards

Award ceremony for film and television directing in 1982

Date

March 12, 1983 (1983-03-12)

Location

The Beverly Hilton, Los Angeles, California
Plaza Hotel, New York City

Country

United States

Presented by

Directors Guild of America

Highlights

Best Director Feature Film:

Gandhi – Richard Attenborough

Website

https://www.dga.org/Awards/History/1980s/1982.aspx?value=1982

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The 35th Directors Guild of America Awards, honoring the outstanding directorial achievements in film and television in 1982, were presented on March 12, 1983 at the Beverly Hilton and the Plaza Hotel.^[1] The feature film nominees were announced on January 30, 1983.^[2]^[3]

Winners and nominees

Film

Feature Film
Richard Attenborough – Gandhi Taylor Hackford – An Officer and a Gentleman Wolfgang Petersen – Das Boot Sydney Pollack – Tootsie Steven Spielberg – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Feature Film

Richard Attenborough – Gandhi

Taylor Hackford – An Officer and a Gentleman
Wolfgang Petersen – Das Boot
Sydney Pollack – Tootsie
Steven Spielberg – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Television

Drama Series
*David Anspaugh – Hill Street Blues* for "Personal Foul"** Paul Bogart – American Playhouse for "Weekend" Marc Daniels – Fame for "And the Winner Is"
Comedy Series
*Alan Alda – MASH for "Where There's a Will, There's a War"** James Burrows – Cheers for "Sam at Eleven" Noam Pitlik – Taxi for "Jim's Inheritance"
Miniseries or TV Film
Marvin J. Chomsky – Inside the Third Reich Jack Hofsiss – The Elephant Man Delbert Mann – The Member of the Wedding
Musical Variety
Don Mischer – Shirley MacLaine... Illusions Jim Drake – Second City Television for "The Days Of The Week/Street Beef" Clark Jones – Night of 100 Stars
Documentary/Actuality
*Perry Miller Adato – American Playhouse* for "Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences"** Don Mischer – Kennedy Center Honors Marty Pasetta – 54th Academy Awards

Commercials

Commercials
Joe Pytka – Bud Light's "Baseball" and "Basketball", and Henry Weinhard's' "Future/Gallup" William Dear – Budweiser's "Here's To You", KIMN's "Patron" and "Waitresses", and ABC Sports' "Promo" R. Hagmann – Coca-Cola's "Soccer", and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' "Video Games" Richard Loew – The Travelers Companies' "Auto", IBM's "Bakery", American Express' "City Terrace", Fotomat's "Grandmothers", and 7 Up's "Of Course You Do" Norman Toback – Activision's "River Raid", Straw Hat Pizza's "Tim Conway/Horse", and GTE's "Trip"

Joe Pytka – Bud Light's "Baseball" and "Basketball", and Henry Weinhard's' "Future/Gallup"

William Dear – Budweiser's "Here's To You", KIMN's "Patron" and "Waitresses", and ABC Sports' "Promo"
R. Hagmann – Coca-Cola's "Soccer", and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' "Video Games"
Richard Loew – The Travelers Companies' "Auto", IBM's "Bakery", American Express' "City Terrace", Fotomat's "Grandmothers", and 7 Up's "Of Course You Do"
Norman Toback – Activision's "River Raid", Straw Hat Pizza's "Tim Conway/Horse", and GTE's "Trip"

D.W. Griffith Award

John Huston

Frank Capra Achievement Award

William Beaudine Jr.
William C. Gerrity

Honorary Life Member

References

^ Fraser, Gerald (March 14, 1983). "Attenborough Tops Directors' Poll". The New York Times. Retrieved April 21, 2018.
^ Harmetz, Aljean (February 1, 1983). "5 Film Directors Nominated For Prize". The New York Times. Retrieved April 21, 2018.
^ "The Directors Guild of America today announced its nominations..." UPI. January 31, 1983. Retrieved April 21, 2018.