DGA President Michael Apted welcomed the audience of more than 1,500 guests, before turning things over to Actor/Director/Comedian Carl Reiner, who was hosting the DGA Awards ceremony for the twenty-first time. Presenters included: Josh Brolin (
No Country for Old Men), DGA Secretary-Treasurer Gil Cates, Kristin Chenoweth and Chi McBride (
Pushing Daisies), Marion Cotillard (
La Vie En Rose), Daniel Day-Lewis (
There Will Be Blood), Adrian Grenier (
Entourage), Emile Hirsch and Hal Holbrook (
Into the Wild), Helen Hunt (
Then She Found Me), Jon Kilik (
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), John Larroquette (
Boston Legal), Debra Messing (
The Starter Wife), Ellen Page (
Juno), Anna Paquin (
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee), Amy Ryan (
Gone Baby Gone), Tilda Swinton and Tom Wilkinson (
Michael Clayton), Vanessa Williams (
Ugly Betty), and 2006 DGA Feature Film Winner/DGA Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Martin Scorsese.