As perhaps the most recognizable president of the Directors Guild of America since Frank Capra led the union in the late 1930s, Christopher Nolan has a lot on his plate. Nolan is poised to steer his guild through a high-profile set of negotiations with the major Hollywood studios in May…

Billy Ray and Todd Garner are back for Week 6 of the Writers Guild standoff on Deadline's Strike Talk podcast. Click below to listen. This week, our hosts look at what the seismic developments of the past week will mean. Hailing it as groundbreaking, the Directors Guild agreed tentatively to a de…

History has been made at the 73rd annual DGA Awards. Nomadland director Chloé Zhao has won the marquee prize for Nomadland, marking the second time the DGA has given the guild’s top prize to a female director after Kathryn Bigelow for 2008’s The Hurt Locker. Zhao, along with fellow DGA nominees David Fincher for M…

The percentage of women and minority directors of episodic TV shows hit record highs this year, continuing the TV industry's recent trend towards diversification, according to a new Directors Guild report. In the 2017-18 season, women directed 25% of all episodic shows – up from 21% last year and nearly double…

Mary Hatch has been hired as the DGA's assistant executive director in the guild's New York office, where she will be involved in the administration of film and television agreements and represent assistant directors and unit production managers in the eastern region. She came to the DGA from SAG-AFTRA, where she…

A new DGA study has found that the pool of first-time episodic TV directors "is more inclusive than ever," with women and minorities seeing dramatic employment gains and setting record highs for the second year in a row. The latest numbers, the guild said, "are certainly encouraging, but there's still room for…

DGA president Thomas Schlamme vowed tonight at the DGA Awards that the guild will do everything in its power to combat sexual harassment in the industry, which he said has now reached a “tipping point.” His opening remarks at the awards show come just two days after the guild issued a lengthy statement on its…