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

2025

RaMell Ross / Nickel Boys

Megan Park / My Old Ass

Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel / Armand

Sean Wang / Dìdi

Payal Kapadia / പ്രഭയായ് നിനച്ചതെല്ലാം

2024

Celine Song / Past Lives

A.V. Rockwell / A Thousand and One

Noora Niasari / Shayda

Manuela Martelli / 1976

Cord Jefferson / American Fiction

2023

John Patton Ford / Emily the Criminal

Alice Diop / Saint Omer

Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic / Murina

Charlotte Wells / Aftersun

2022

Emma Seligman / Shiva Baby

Audrey Diwan / L'Événement

Maggie Gyllenhaal / The Lost Daughter

Tatiana Huezo / Noche De Fuego

Rebecca Hall / Passing

Michael Sarnoski / Pig

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

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

The Peanut Butter Falcon

Alma Har'el / Honey Boy

2019

Bradley Cooper / A Star is Born

Bo Burnham / Eighth Grade

2018

Jordan Peele / Get Out

Aaron Sorkin / Molly's Game

2017

Garth Davis / Lion

2016

Alex Garland / Ex Machina

Joel Edgerton / The Gift

2004

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

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