Directors Guild of America Award

In addition to Misty Green, Rock's other directorial credits include the feature films Top Five, I Think I Love My Wife, and Head of State, and an episode of Everybody Hates Chris.

He was nominated for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety Talk News Sports Specials for Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo.

Following a screening of the film at the DGA Theater in New York, Rock spoke with director Spike Lee about filming Misty Green.

Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation.

In addition to the Brittany Griner story, Stapleton's other directorial credits include the feature documentary, Horman's World, Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel, the television documentaries Raising an Olympian and Shut Up and Dribble, and episodes of the series The Playbook and Artbound.

She was nominated for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary Series and News for her 2025 feature, Sean Combs' The Reckoning.

Following the documentary series screening of the film at the DGA Theater in New York, Stapleton spoke with director Laura Belsey about filming the Brittany Griner story.

Listen on for their conversation.

He is much celebrated and much awarded.

He was the first Mexican director to be nominated for an Academy Award and a DGA Award.

He's also the first Mexican director to win an Oscar, and then the first to get consecutive directing Oscars from year to year.

So those two films were 2014's Birdman or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance.

So I, I ran the shooting company and, and we split post, and he ran the writer's room, and it was, it was really, it was really a wonderful...

And let me just say this: some of the best scripts I ever got to direct, including the one I won the Directors Guild Award for-

Mm-hmm

... were Don Bellisario scripts.

The only person ever to win Emmys as a performer, writer, and director.

He took home a total of five, as well as 28 nominations, seven People's Choice Awards, two Writers Guild of America Awards, three Directors Guild Awards, and six Golden Globes.

And have we mentioned the Super Emmy? But the image of him, gangly in greens and bathrobe and that cackling laugh, the groucho delivery of one-liners that punctuated the pretense while deadening the pain of war, is his real legacy.

Aldo once told a medical school graduating class, quote, The head bone is connected to the heart bone, and don't let them come apart, as the head and the heart of the 4077, he never did.

In addition to Teenage Wasteland, McBain and Moss's other directorial credits include the documentary feature Girls' State.

They were nominated for the 2021 DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary for their film Boys' State.

Moss was also nominated for the 2015 Documentary Award for his film The Overnighters.

Following the documentary series screening of the film at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, McBain and Moss spoke with director Alice Gu about filming Teenage Wasteland.

So obviously the professionals that are in the industry, they get to participate in kind of nominating as well as voting for their peers.

So things that you don't really hear about that are a little bit more obscure, but people in the industry and people who are invested in that world very much so knows, which, you know, things like the, the directors, producers, the writers, they'll have awards like the Directors Guild of America Awards.

So that's the DGA.

And then there's the Writers Guild Awards, the WGA.

But, you know, I think I think for us that tide turned when we won the BAFTA because we went into that where somebody was like somebody very close to us was just like, so I might have placed some bets.

and you know you guys are like tracking this is pre-Kaushi too yeah you guys are tracking forth um so you know like you know it doesn't look good right it was like Bowie was like Brett's film was nominated that year it's like the UK you know you're just like So we all kind of went to the BAFTAs and Daniel was in LA at the DGA Awards because that was the year they were like basically almost on the same night and it was impossible.

Yeah, like Saturday, Sunday.

And Sarah won the DGA for Fire of Love.

Yeah, I mean, they certainly didn't have any major effects or anything, but yeah.

Uh, we'll get into why they went so far over, but, um, uh, John Houston did, uh, get nominated for Outstanding Directorual Achievement in Motion Pictures at the DGA Awards.

That's about it for awards, though.

Um, music by Alex North, who is great.