51st Directors Guild of America Awards

51st DGA Awards

March 6, 1999

Best Director - Motion Picture:
Saving Private Ryan

Best Director - Documentary:
Vietnam, Long Time Coming

The 51st Directors Guild of America Awards, given on 6 March 1999, honored the best film and television directors of 1998.

Winners

Film

Best Director - Motion Picture

Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan
- Roberto Benigni - La vita è bella (Life Is Beautiful)
- John Madden - Shakespeare in Love
- Terrence Malick - The Thin Red Line
- Peter Weir - The Truman Show

Best Director - Documentary Feature

Jerry Blumenthal, Peter Gilbert and Gordon Quinn - Vietnam, Long Time Coming
- Matthew Diamond - Dancemaker
- Susan Lacy - Leonard Bernstein, Reaching for the Note
- Nigel Noble - Porgy and Bess: An American Voice
- Kyra Thompson - Dying to Tell the Story

Directors Guild of America Awards

Awards (Film)	Feature Film Documentaries First-Time Feature Film

Awards (Television)	Comedy Series Daytime Serials Drama Series Miniseries or TV Film Children’s Programs Musical Variety Reality Programs Commercials

Ceremonies	1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 (years are of film release; ceremonies are the following year)

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