HBO’s “The Pitt,” FX’s “The Bear” and NBC’s 50th anniversary tributes to “Saturday Night Live” all earned a pair of nominations for the Directors Guild of America Awards.
Amanda Marsalis and John Wells were both nominated for outstanding directorial achievement in dramatic series for their work on separate episodes of “The Pitt.” Also nominated were Liza Johnson for Netflix’s “The Diplomat,” Janus Metz for Disney+’s “Andor” and Ben Stiller for Apple TV+’s “Severance.”
For comedy series directing, Janicza Bravo and Christopher Storer each scored nominations for episodes of “The Bear.” Also nominated were Lucia Aniello for HBO’s “Hacks,” Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg for an episode of Apple TV+’s “The Studio” and Mike White for HBO’s “The White Lotus.”
Beth McCarthy-Miller was nominated for outstanding directorial achievement in variety for helming Peacock’s “SNL50: The Homecoming Concert,” while Liz Patrick was nominated for NBC’s “SNL50: The Anniversary Special.” Yvonne De Mare was nominated in the category for “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” while Andy Fisher scored a nod for “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and Paul Pennolino for “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.”
Jason Bateman was among the nominees for directing a limited/anthology series for Netflix’s “Black Rabbit. Also nominated for Antonio Campos for Netflix’s “The Beast in Me,” Lesli Linka Glatter for Netflix’s “Zero Day,” Shannon Murphy for FX’s “Dying for Sex,” and Ally Pankiw for Netflix’s “Black Mirror.”
The DGA Awards will be presented Feb. 7 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel.
DGA nominations for feature film directing will be announced Thursday.
Since 1948, there have only been eight times that the winner of the DGA Award for feature film directing has not gone on to win the Oscar for best director. The most recent time was in 2020, when Sam Mendes won the DGA Award for “1917,” but the Oscar went to Bong Joon Ho for “Parasite.”
Last year, DGA Award and the Oscar both went to Sean Baker for “Anora.”
Here is a complete list of DGA Award nominations announced Wednesday for televison, commercials and documentaries:
Dramatic Series
— Amanda Marsalis, “The Pitt”
— John Wells, “The Pitt”
— Liza Johnson, “The Diplomat”
— Janus Metz, “Andor”
— Ben Stiller, “Severance.”
Comedy Series
— Lucia Aniello, “Hacks”
— Janicza Bravo, “The Bear”
— Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg, “The Studio”
— Christopher Storer, “The Bear”
— Mike White, “The White Lotus”
Limited/Anthology Series
— Jason Bateman, “Black Rabbit”
— Antonio Campos, “The Beast in Me”
— Lesli Linka Glatter, “Zero Day”
— Shannon Murphy, “Dying for Sex”
— Ally Pankiw, “Black Mirror”
Movies for Television
— Jesse Armstrong, “Mountainhead”
— Stephen Chbosky, “Nonnas”
— Scott Derrickson, “The Gorge”
— Michael Morris, “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy”
— Kyle Newacheck, “Happy Gilmore 2”
Variety
— Yvonne De Mare, “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”
— Andy Fisher, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
— Beth McCarthy-Miller, “SNL50: The Homecoming Concert”
— Liz Patrick, “SNL50: The Anniversary Special”
— Paul Pennolino, “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver”
Sports
— Matthew Gangl, “2025 World Series – Game 7”
— Steve Milton, “2025 Masters Tournament”
— Rich Russo, “Super Bowl LIX”
Reality/Quiz & Game
— Lucinda M. Margolis, “Jeopardy!”
— Adam Sandler, “The Price is Right”
— Mike Sweeney, “Conan O’Brien Must Go”
Commercials
— Kim Gehrig, Nike, Apple
— Miles Jay, ChatGPT, Meta
— Spike Jonze, Apple Airpods
— Andreas Nilsson, Apple iPhone, Virgin Media
— Steve Rogers, Amazon, Squarespace
Documentary
— Mstyslav Chernov, “2000 Meters to Andriivka”
— Geeta Gandbhir, “The Perfect Neighbor”
— Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni, “Cutting Through Rocks”
— Elizabeth Lo, “Mistress Dispeller”
— Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus, “Cover-Up”
Documentary Series/News
— Marshall Curry, “SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night”
— Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin, “Billy Joel: And So It Goes”
— Rebecca Miller, “Mr. Scorsese”
— Alexandria Stapleton, “Sean Combs: The Reckoning”
— Matt Wolf, “Pee-Wee as Himself”