Directors Guild of America Awards, Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First-Time Feature Film - TheTVDB.com

2027

Sean Penn / Untitled Jamal Khashoggi Project

2026

Eva Victor / Sorry, Baby

Alex Russell / Lurker

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Charlie Polinger / The Plague

Harry Lighton / Pillion

2025

Payal Kapadia / പ്രഭയായ് നിനച്ചതെല്ലാം

RaMell Ross / Nickel Boys

Sean Wang / Dìdi

Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel / Armand

Megan Park / My Old Ass

2024

Noora Niasari / Shayda

A.V. Rockwell / A Thousand and One

Cord Jefferson / American Fiction

Celine Song / Past Lives

Manuela Martelli / Chile '76

2023

Charlotte Wells / Aftersun

Alice Diop / Saint Omer

Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic / Murina

John Patton Ford / Emily the Criminal

2022

Rebecca Hall / Passing

Lin-Manuel Miranda / tick, tick...BOOM!

Michael Sarnoski / Pig

Maggie Gyllenhaal / The Lost Daughter

Audrey Diwan / L'Événement

Emma Seligman / Shiva Baby

Tatiana Huezo / Noche De Fuego

2021

Florian Zeller / The Father

Darius Marder / Sound of Metal

Radha Blank / The Forty-Year-Old Version

Regina King / One Night in Miami...

Fernando Frias / Ya no estoy aquí

2020

Alma Har'el / Honey Boy

The Peanut Butter Falcon

2019

Bo Burnham / Eighth Grade

2018

Jordan Peele / Get Out

Aaron Sorkin / Molly's Game

2017

Garth Davis / Lion

2016

Joel Edgerton / The Gift

Alex Garland / Ex Machina

2004

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

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