# Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Miniseries or TV Film

The Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television and Limited Series is one of the annual Directors Guild of America Awards given by the Directors Guild of America. It was first awarded at the 24th Directors Guild of America Awards in 1972. The award was previously named the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Miniseries or Movies for Television.

## Winners and nominees
### 1970s

| Year | Winners and nominees | Program | Network |
| 1971 (24th) | Buzz Kulik | Brian's Song | ABC |
| 1971 (24th) | Fielder Cook | The Price | NBC |
| 1971 (24th) | Delbert Mann | Jane Eyre | |
| 1972 (25th) | Lamont Johnson | That Certain Summer | ABC |
| 1972 (25th) | Paul Bogart | The House Without a Christmas Tree | CBS |
| 1972 (25th) | Tom Gries | The Glass House | CBS |
| 1973 (26th) | Joseph Sargent | The Marcus-Nelson Murders | CBS |
| 1973 (26th) | Robert Butler | The Blue Knight | NBC |
| 1973 (26th) | Anthony Harvey | The Glass Menagerie | ABC |
| 1974 (27th) | John Korty | The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman | CBS |
| 1974 (27th) | Tom Gries | QB VII | ABC |
| 1974 (27th) | Lamont Johnson | The Execution of Private Slovik | NBC |
| 1975 (28th) | Sam O'Steen | Queen of the Stardust Ballroom | CBS |
| 1975 (28th) | Lamont Johnson | Fear on Trial | CBS |
| 1975 (28th) | Buzz Kulik | Babe | |

### 1980s

| Year | Winners and nominees | Program | Network |
| 1982 (35th) | Marvin J. Chomsky | Inside the Third Reich | ABC |
| 1982 (35th) | Jack Hofsiss | The Elephant Man | ABC |
| 1982 (35th) | Delbert Mann | The Member of the Wedding | NBC |
| 1983 (36th) | Edward Zwick | Special Bulletin | NBC |
| 1983 (36th) | Daryl Duke | The Thorn Birds | ABC |
| 1983 (36th) | John Erman | Who Will Love My Children? | ABC |
| 1984 (37th) | Daniel Petrie | The Dollmaker | ABC |
| 1984 (37th) | Robert Greenwald | The Burning Bed | NBC |
| 1984 (37th) | Randa Haines | Something About Amelia | ABC |
| 1985 (38th) | John Erman | An Early Frost | NBC |
| 1985 (38th) | Jeff Bleckner | Do You Remember Love | CBS |
| 1985 (38th) | Lamont Johnson | Wallenberg: A Hero's Story | NBC |
| 1986 (39th) | Lee Grant | Nobody's Child | CBS |
| 1986 (39th) | Gregory Hoblit | L.A. Law (Episode: "Pilot") | NBC |
| 1986 (39th) | George Schaefer | Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry | CBS |
| 1987 (40th) | Jud Taylor | Foxfire | CBS |
| 1987 (40th) | Paul Bogart | Nutcracker: Money, Madness and Murder | NBC |
| 1987 (40th) | Marvin J. Chomsky | Billionaire Boys Club | NBC |
| 1988 (41st) | Lamont Johnson | Lincoln | NBC |
| 1988 (41st) | Dan Curtis | War and Remembrance | ABC |
| 1988 (41st) | Rod Holcomb | China Beach (Episode: "Pilot") | ABC |
| 1989 (42nd) | Dan Curtis | War and Remembrance | ABC |
| 1989 (42nd) | Daniel Petrie | My Name Is Bill W. | CBS |
| 1989 (42nd) | Simon Wincer | Lonesome Dove | CBS |

### 1990s

| Year | Winners and nominees | Program | Network |
| 1990 (43rd) | Roger Young | Murder in Mississippi | NBC |
| 1990 (43rd) | Gilbert Cates | Call Me Anna | ABC |
| 1990 (43rd) | Peter Werner | Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes | NBC |
| 1991 (44th) | Stephen Gyllenhaal | Paris Trout | Showtime |
| 1991 (44th) | Joshua Brand | I'll Fly Away (Episode: "Pilot") | NBC |
| 1991 (44th) | Brian Gibson | The Josephine Baker Story | HBO |
| 1992 (45th) | Ron Lagomarsino | Picket Fences (Episode: "Pilot") | CBS |
| 1992 (45th) | Frank Pierson | Citizen Cohn | HBO |
| 1992 (45th) | Joseph Sargent | Miss Rose White | NBC |
| 1993 (46th) | Michael Ritchie | The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom | HBO |
| 1993 (46th) | Emile Ardolino | Gypsy | CBS |
| 1993 (46th) | Robert Butler | Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (Episode: "Pilot") | ABC |
| 1993 (46th) | Ian Sander | I'll Fly Away: Then and Now | PBS |
| 1993 (46th) | Roger Spottiswoode | And the Band Played On | HBO |
| 1994 (47th) | Rod Holcomb | ER (Episode: "24 Hours") | NBC |
| 1994 (47th) | John Dahl | The Last Seduction | HBO |
| 1994 (47th) | John Frankenheimer | Against the Wall | HBO |
| 1994 (47th) | Joseph Sargent | World War II: When Lions Roared | NBC |
| 1994 (47th) | Betty Thomas | My Breast | CBS |
| 1995 (48th) | Mick Jackson | Indictment: The McMartin Trial | HBO |
| 1995 (48th) | Robert Markowitz | The Tuskegee Airmen | HBO |
| 1995 (48th) | Daniel Petrie | Kissinger and Nixon | TNT |
| 1995 (48th) | Frank Pierson | Truman | HBO |
| 1995 (48th) | Peter Werner | Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story | Lifetime |
| 1996 (49th) | Betty Thomas | The Late Shift | HBO |
| 1996 (49th) | Uli Edel | Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny | HBO |
| 1996 (49th) | John Frankenheimer | Andersonville | TNT |
| 1996 (49th) | Robert Harmon | Gotti | HBO |
| 1996 (49th) | Anjelica Huston | Bastard out of Carolina | Showtime |
| 1997 (50th) | John Herzfeld | Don King: Only in America | HBO |
| 1997 (50th) | John Frankenheimer | George Wallace | TNT |
| 1997 (50th) | William Friedkin | 12 Angry Men | Showtime |
| 1997 (50th) | Charles Haid | Buffalo Soldiers | TNT |
| 1997 (50th) | Joseph Sargent | Miss Evers' Boys | HBO |
| 1998 (51st) | Michael Cristofer | Gia | HBO |
| 1998 (51st) | Allan Arkush | The Temptations | NBC |
| 1998 (51st) | Steve Barron | Merlin | NBC |
| 1998 (51st) | Rob Cohen | The Rat Pack | HBO |
| 1998 (51st) | Jon Turteltaub | From the Earth to the Moon (Episode: "That's All There Is") | HBO |
| 1999 (52nd) | Mick Jackson | Tuesdays with Morrie | ABC |
| 1999 (52nd) | Martyn Burke | Pirates of Silicon Valley | TNT |
| 1999 (52nd) | Martha Coolidge | Introducing Dorothy Dandridge | HBO |
| 1999 (52nd) | Daniel Petrie | Inherit the Wind | Showtime |
| 1999 (52nd) | Joseph Sargent | A Lesson Before Dying | HBO |

### 2000s

| Year | Winners and nominees | Program | Network |
| 2000 (53rd) | Jeff Bleckner | The Beach Boys: An American Family | ABC |
| 2000 (53rd) | Kirk Browning | Death of a Salesman | Showtime |
| 2000 (53rd) | Martha Coolidge | If These Walls Could Talk 2 (Segment: "1972") | HBO |
| 2000 (53rd) | Stephen Frears and Martin Pasetta | Fail Safe | CBS |
| 2000 (53rd) | Joseph Sargent | For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story | HBO |
| 2001 (54th) | Frank Pierson | Conspiracy | HBO |
| 2001 (54th) | Robert Allan Ackerman | Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows | ABC |
| 2001 (54th) | Jon Avnet | Uprising | NBC |
| 2001 (54th) | Billy Crystal | 61* | HBO |
| 2001 (54th) | Mark Rydell | James Dean | TNT |
| 2002 (55th) | Mick Jackson | Live from Baghdad | HBO |
| 2002 (55th) | Julie Dash | The Rosa Parks Story | CBS |
| 2002 (55th) | Howard Deutch | Gleason | CBS |
| 2002 (55th) | John Frankenheimer | Path to War | HBO |
| 2002 (55th) | Richard Loncraine | The Gathering Storm | HBO |
| 2003 (56th) | Mike Nichols | Angels in America | HBO |
| 2003 (56th) | Jane Anderson | Normal | HBO |
| 2003 (56th) | Jeff Bleckner | The Music Man | ABC |
| 2003 (56th) | Rod Holcomb | The Pentagon Papers | FX |
| 2003 (56th) | Richard Loncraine | My House in Umbria | HBO |
| 2004 (57th) | Joseph Sargent | Something the Lord Made | HBO |
| 2004 (57th) | Robert Altman | Tanner on Tanner | Sundance Channel |
| 2004 (57th) | Stephen Hopkins | The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | HBO |
| 2004 (57th) | Lloyd Kramer | The Five People You Meet in Heaven | ABC |
| 2004 (57th) | Christopher Reeve | The Brooke Ellison Story | A&E |
| 2005 (58th) | Joseph Sargent | Warm Springs | HBO |
| 2005 (58th) | George C. Wolfe | Lackawanna Blues | HBO |
| 2005 (58th) | Darnell Martin | Oprah Winfrey Presents: Their Eyes Were Watching God | ABC |
| 2005 (58th) | James Steven Sadwith | Elvis | CBS |
| 2005 (58th) | Fred Schepisi | Empire Falls | HBO |
| 2006 (59th) | Walter Hill | Broken Trail | AMC |
| 2006 (59th) | Charles S. Dutton | Sleeper Cell: American Terror | Showtime |
| 2006 (59th) | Randa Haines | The Ron Clark Story | TNT |
| 2006 (59th) | Peter Markle | Flight 93 | A&E |
| 2006 (59th) | Edward James Olmos | Walkout | HBO |
| 2007 (60th) | Yves Simoneau | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | HBO |
| 2007 (60th) | Jon Avnet | The Starter Wife | USA |
| 2007 (60th) | Jeremiah Chechik | The Bronx Is Burning | ESPN |
| 2007 (60th) | Lloyd Kramer | Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom's For One More Day | ABC |
| 2007 (60th) | Mikael Salomon | The Company | TNT |
| 2008 (61st) | Jay Roach | Recount | HBO |
| 2008 (61st) | Bob Balaban | Bernard and Doris | HBO |
| 2008 (61st) | Tom Hooper | John Adams | HBO |
| 2008 (61st) | Kenny Leon | A Raisin in the Sun | ABC |
| 2008 (61st) | Mikael Salomon | The Andromeda Strain | A&E |
| 2009 (62nd) | Ross Katz | Taking Chance | HBO |
| 2009 (62nd) | Bob Balaban | Georgia O'Keeffe | Lifetime |
| 2009 (62nd) | Thomas Carter | Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story | TNT |
| 2009 (62nd) | John Kent Harrison | The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler | CBS |
| 2009 (62nd) | Michael Sucsy | Grey Gardens | HBO |

### 2010s

| Year | Winners and nominees | Program | Network |
| 2010 (63rd) | Mick Jackson | Temple Grandin | HBO |
| 2010 (63rd) | Barry Levinson | You Don't Know Jack | HBO |
| 2010 (63rd) | David Nutter and Jeremy Podeswa | The Pacific (Episode: "Basilone") | HBO |
| 2010 (63rd) | Jeremy Podeswa | The Pacific (Episode: "Home") | HBO |
| 2010 (63rd) | Tim Van Patten | The Pacific (Episode: "Okinawa") | HBO |
| 2011 (64th) | Jon Cassar | The Kennedys | Reelz |
| 2011 (64th) | Jennifer Aniston, Patty Jenkins, Alicia Keys, Demi Moore, and Penelope Spheeris | Five | Lifetime |
| 2011 (64th) | Jeff Bleckner | Beyond the Blackboard | CBS |
| 2011 (64th) | Stephen Gyllenhaal | Girl Fight | Lifetime |
| 2011 (64th) | Michael Stevens | Thurgood | HBO |
| 2012 (65th) | Jay Roach | Game Change | HBO |
| 2012 (65th) | Greg Berlanti | Political Animals (Episode: "Pilot") | USA |
| 2012 (65th) | Philip Kaufman | Hemingway & Gellhorn | HBO |
| 2012 (65th) | Kevin Reynolds | Hatfields & McCoys | History |
| 2012 (65th) | Michael Rymer | American Horror Story: Asylum (Episode: "Dark Cousin") | FX |
| 2013 (66th) | Steven Soderbergh | Behind the Candelabra | HBO |
| 2013 (66th) | Stephen Frears | Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight | HBO |
| 2013 (66th) | David Mamet | Phil Spector | HBO |
| 2013 (66th) | Beth McCarthy-Miller and Rob Ashford | The Sound of Music Live! | NBC |
| 2013 (66th) | Nelson McCormick | Killing Kennedy | Nat Geo |
| 2014 (67th) | Lisa Cholodenko | Olive Kitteridge | HBO |
| 2014 (67th) | Rob Ashford and Glenn Weiss | Peter Pan Live! | NBC |
| 2014 (67th) | Uli Edel | Houdini | History |
| 2014 (67th) | Ryan Murphy | The Normal Heart | HBO |
| 2014 (67th) | Michael Wilson | The Trip to Bountiful | Lifetime |
| 2015 (68th) | Dee Rees | Bessie | HBO |
| 2015 (68th) | Angela Bassett | Whitney | Lifetime |
| 2015 (68th) | Laurie Collyer | The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe | Lifetime |
| 2015 (68th) | Paul Haggis | Show Me a Hero | HBO |
| 2015 (68th) | Kenny Leon and Matthew Diamond | The Wiz Live! | NBC |
| 2016 (69th) | Steven Zaillian | The Night Of (Episode: "The Beach") | HBO |
| 2016 (69th) | Raymond De Felitta | Madoff | ABC |
| 2016 (69th) | Thomas Kail and Alex Rudzinski | Grease: Live | Fox |
| 2016 (69th) | Kenny Leon and Alex Rudzinski | Hairspray Live! | NBC |
| 2016 (69th) | Jay Roach | All the Way | HBO |
| 2017 (70th) | Jean-Marc Vallée | Big Little Lies | HBO |
| 2017 (70th) | Scott Frank | Godless | Netflix |
| 2017 (70th) | Barry Levinson | The Wizard of Lies | HBO |
| 2017 (70th) | Kyra Sedgwick | Story of a Girl | Lifetime |
| 2017 (70th) | George C. Wolfe | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | HBO |
| 2018 (71st) | Ben Stiller | Escape at Dannemora | Showtime |
| 2018 (71st) | Cary Joji Fukunaga | Maniac | Netflix |
| 2018 (71st) | David Leveaux and Alex Rudzinski | Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert | NBC |
| 2018 (71st) | Barry Levinson | Paterno | HBO |
| 2018 (71st) | Jean-Marc Vallée | Sharp Objects | HBO |
| 2019 (72nd) | Johan Renck | Chernobyl | HBO |
| 2019 (72nd) | Ava DuVernay | When They See Us | Netflix |
| 2019 (72nd) | Vince Gilligan | El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie | Netflix |
| 2019 (72nd) | Thomas Kail | Fosse/Verdon (Episode: "Nowadays") | FX |
| 2019 (72nd) | Minkie Spiro | Fosse/Verdon (Episode: "All I Care About Is Love") | FX |
| 2019 (72nd) | Jessica Yu | Fosse/Verdon (Episode: "Glory") | FX |

### 2020s

| Year | Winners and nominees | Program | Network |
| 2020 (73rd) | Scott Frank | The Queen's Gambit | Netflix |
| 2020 (73rd) | Susanne Bier | The Undoing | HBO |
| 2020 (73rd) | Thomas Kail | Hamilton | Disney+ |
| 2020 (73rd) | Matt Shakman | WandaVision | Disney+ |
| 2020 (73rd) | Lynn Shelton | Little Fires Everywhere (Episode: "Find a Way") | Hulu |
| 2021 (74th) | Barry Jenkins | The Underground Railroad | Amazon |
| 2021 (74th) | Barry Levinson | Dopesick (Episode: "First Bottle") | Hulu |
| 2021 (74th) | Hiro Murai | Station Eleven (Episode: "Wheel of Fire") | HBO Max |
| 2021 (74th) | Danny Strong | Dopesick (Episode: "The People vs. Purdue Pharma") | Hulu |
| 2021 (74th) | Craig Zobel | Mare of Easttown | HBO |
| 2022 (75th) | Helen Shaver | Station Eleven (Episode: "Who's There?") | HBO Max |
| 2022 (75th) | Eric Appel | Weird: The Al Yankovic Story | The Roku Channel |
| 2022 (75th) | Deborah Chow | Obi-Wan Kenobi | Disney+ |
| 2022 (75th) | Jeremy Podeswa | Station Eleven (Episode: "Unbroken Circle") | HBO Max |
| 2022 (75th) | Tom Verica | Inventing Anna (Episode: "The Devil Wore Anna") | Netflix |
| 2023 (76th) | Sarah Adina Smith | Lessons in Chemistry (Episode: "Her and Him") | Apple TV+ |
| 2023 (76th) | Shawn Levy | All the Light We Cannot See | Netflix |
| 2023 (76th) | Tara Miele | Lessons in Chemistry (Episode: "Introduction to Chemistry") | Apple TV+ |
| 2023 (76th) | Millicent Shelton | Lessons in Chemistry (Episode: "Poirot") | Apple TV+ |
| 2023 (76th) | Nzingha Stewart | Daisy Jones & the Six (Episode: "Track 10: Rock 'n' Roll Suicide") | Amazon |
| 2024 (77th) | Steven Zaillian | Ripley | Netflix |
| 2024 (77th) | Kevin Bray | The Penguin (Episode: "Top Hat") | HBO |
| 2024 (77th) | Alfonso Cuarón | Disclaimer | Apple TV+ |
| 2024 (77th) | Jennifer Getzinger | The Penguin (Episode: "A Great or Little Thing") | HBO |
| 2024 (77th) | Helen Shaver | The Penguin (Episode: "Cent'Anni") | HBO |

## Multiple wins and nominations

Directors with at least one win and at least two nominations :
| Wins | Nominations | Name (Year) |
| 4 | 4 | Mick Jackson (1995, 1999, 2002, 2010) |
| 3 | 8 | Joseph Sargent (1973, 1992, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2005) |
| 2 | 5 | Lamont Johnson (1972, 1974, 1975, 1985, 1988) |
| 2 | 3 | Jay Roach (2008, 2012, 2016) |
| 2 | 2 | Steven Zaillian (2016, 2024) |
| 1 | 4 | Daniel Petrie (1984, 1989, 1995, 1999) |
| 1 | 4 | Jeff Bleckner (1985, 2000, 2003, 2011) |
| 1 | 3 | Rod Holcomb (1988, 1994, 2003) |
| 1 | 3 | Frank Pierson (1992, 1995, 2001) |
| 1 | 2 | Buzz Kulik (1971, 1975) |
| 1 | 2 | Marvin J. Chomsky (1982, 1987) |
| 1 | 2 | John Erman (1983, 1985) |
| 1 | 2 | Dan Curtis (1988, 1989) |
| 1 | 2 | Stephen Gyllenhaal (1991, 2011) |
| 1 | 2 | Betty Thomas (1994, 1996) |
| 1 | 2 | George C. Wolfe (2005, 2017) |
| 1 | 2 | Jean-Marc Vallée (2017, 2018) |
| 1 | 2 | Scott Frank (2017, 2020) |
| 1 | 2 | Helen Shaver (2022, 2024) |
Directors with no win and at least two nominations :
| Wins | Nominations | Name (Year) |
| 0 | 4 | John Frankenheimer (1994, 1996, 1997, 2002) |
| 0 | 4 | Barry Levinson (2010, 2017, 2018, 2021) |
| 0 | 3 | Kenny Leon (2008, 2015, 2016) |
| 0 | 3 | Jeremy Podeswa (2010, 2022) |
| 0 | 3 | Alex Rudzinski (2016, 2018) |
| 0 | 3 | Thomas Kail (2016, 2019, 2020) |
| 0 | 2 | Delbert Mann (1971, 1982) |
| 0 | 2 | Tom Gries (1972, 1974) |
| 0 | 2 | Paul Bogart (1972, 1987) |
| 0 | 2 | Robert Butler (1973, 1993) |
| 0 | 2 | Randa Haines (1984, 2006) |
| 0 | 2 | Peter Werner (1990, 1995) |
| 0 | 2 | Uli Edel (1996, 2014) |
| 0 | 2 | Martha Coolidge (1999, 2000) |
| 0 | 2 | Stephen Frears (2000, 2013) |
| 0 | 2 | Jon Avnet (2001, 2007) |
| 0 | 2 | Richard Loncraine (2002, 2003) |
| 0 | 2 | Lloyd Kramer (2004, 2007) |
| 0 | 2 | Mikael Salomon (2007, 2008) |
| 0 | 2 | Bob Balaban (2008, 2009) |
| 0 | 2 | Rob Ashford (2013, 2014) |