The 61st Annual DGA Awards Dinner took place on Saturday, January 31, 2009. Nominees, celebrity presenters, DGA Members, industry VIPs and guests gathered at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles to celebrate the outstanding directorial achievements of 2008. Well-wishers got in their final congratulations before the envelopes were opened and the winners announced.
Arrivals, Reception and Dinner
61st Annual DGA Awards
Pictures
DGA President Michael Apted and AMPAS President Sid Ganis
Movies for Television Nominee Bob Balaban
First AD Richard Peter Schroer and Dramatic Series Night Nominee Jack Bender show off a bit of Hawaiian style from Lost
2008 Feature Award Nominee Danny Boyle is interviewed on the red carpet
2009 Aldrich recipient William M. Brady, Schaffner recipient Scott Berger and Eastern AD/SM/PA Chair Dennis W. Mazzocco represent New York
DGA Secretary-Treasurer Gil Cates and wife Dr. Judith Reichman
Presenter/actor Richard Jenkins chats with 2007 Feature Film Award co-winner Joel Coen
DGA Fourth Vice President Gary Donatelli and his sister Claudia Cano
Producer Frank Marshall congratulates Feature Film/Commercials Nominee David Fincher
Commercials Nominee Fredrik Bond turns the tables on the photographers
Slumdog Millionaire's Freida Pinto
Movies for Television Nominee Tom Hooper and Drama/Comedy dual Nominee Paris Barclay
Western AD/UPM/TC Chair Cleve Landsberg and Entourage's UPM Wayne Carmona
Producer Emma Thomas, Feature Film Nominee Christopher Nolan and National Vice President Steven Soderbergh
2007 Movies for Television nominee Edward James Olmos hangs out with presenters Amy Adams and Viola Davis
Children's Programs Nominee Paul Hoen
Producer Melissa Rosenberg and Children’s Programs Nominee Lev L. Spiro
DGA National Executive Director Jay D. Roth catches up with Director Norman Jewison
Children's Programs Award presenter Taraji P. Henson
Feature Film Nominee Gus Van Sant with his Milk star Sean Penn