Ben Stiller, Sacha Baron Cohen and Amy-Sherman Palladino are among the Jewish directors who have been nominated for the 71st Annual Directors Guild Awards, which will take place on Feb. 2 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland.
Stiller received a nomination for directing the Showtime limited series “Escape at Dannemora,” Cohen was singled out for co-directing his series “Who Is America?” also on Showtime, and Sherman-Palladino got her second consecutive nomination for directing Amazon’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” She’ll compete in the comedy series category opposite her husband, Daniel Palladino, who is nominated for a different episode of the show.
Barry Levinson, who won a DGA Award for “Rain Man,” was nominated for HBO’s “Paterno,” his seventh nomination, and three-time DGA winner Lesli Linka Glatter is once again nominated for the Showtime series “Homeland.
In children’s TV, Barry Sonnenfeld scored a nomination for “A Series of Unfortunate Events”; and in reality programming, Eytan Keller got a nod for “Iron Chef Gauntlet.” Louis J. Horvitz received his 19th nomination for directing the Grammy Awards, and Glenn Weiss, who famously proposed to his girlfriend Jan Svendsen at the Emmy Awards last year, was nominated for his direction of the Tony Awards, his 15th nomination (he has won eight times).
On the feature side, Matthew Heineman will vie in the first-time feature film director category for “A Private War,” his third DGA nomination. He won twice before, for the documentaries “City of Ghosts” and “Cartel Land.”
Julie Cohen is nominated for the documentary “RBG” (with co-director Betsy West); and Spike Jones, né Adam Spiegel, got a nod for his Apple Homepod commercial, his third nomination.
