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Nominees Breakfast

The DGA Awards is kicked off each year by the Annual Nominee Breakfast. The morning offers honorees in all categories the opportunity to mingle with their fellow nominees, past winners and officers of the Guild in an informal atmosphere, preceding the Meet the Nominees: Theatrical Feature Film symposium.

Pictures

photos by Howard Wise

DGA Award nominees, past winners, Officers and Board members gather for the annual nominees breakfast.
Past Presidents Thomas Schlamme and Paris Barclay join DGA President Lesli Linka Glatter at the breakfast.
Children’s Programs nominee Phill Lewis poses for a photo with 1st VP Betty Thomas.
Dramatic Series nominee Kevin Bray and Associate Board Member Shawn Pipkin-West.
Theatrical Feature Film Nominee Kenneth Branagh enjoys a conversation with President Glatter.
1990 Dramatic Series winner Michael Zinberg with 2009 Reality Programs winner Craig Borders.
Schaffner Award recipients Scott A. Rindenow (2000), Donald E. Jacob (2006), Terence Benson (2007), Dennis W. Mazzocco (2012), Joyce A. Thomas (2021), Dency Nelson (2013), Barbara Roche (2008) and Tom McDermott (2016).
Capra Award recipients Stephen Glanzrock (2004), Marie Cantin (2017), Mary Rae Thewlis (2016), Kathleen McGill (2019), Katy E. Garretson (2012), Joseph P. Reidy (2022) and Cheryl R. Downey (2000).
Theatrical Feature Film Nominee Denis Villeneuve chats with Variety/Talk/News/Sports Nominee Paul G. Casey.
Theatrical Feature Film nominee Paul Thomas Anderson chats with 1979 Movies for Television winner Michael Mann.
Theatrical Feature Film nominee Jane Campion breakfasts with DGA Past President and five-time DGA Award winner Thomas Schlamme.
Reality Programs nominees Adam Vetri, Ramy Romany and Ben Simms.
2000 Schaffner Award recipient Scott A. Rindenow and 2005 Daytime Serials winner Owen Renfroe.
Variety/Talk/News/Sports nominee Don Roy King and Reality Programs nominee Patrick McManus.
Associate Board Member Shawn Pipkin-West, Capra Award recipient Joe Reidy and Movies for Television & Limited Series Nominee Danny Strong.
Variety/Talk/News/Sports nominee Ian Berger and three-time DGA Award winner Roger Young.
Theatrical Feature Film nominees Kenneth Branagh and Steven Spielberg amuse DGA President Lesli Linka Glatter as they swap stories.
DGA National Executive Director and DGA Secretary-Treasurer/Past President and three-time DGA Award-winner Paris Barclay.
DGA Sixth Vice President Lily Olszewski, Board Member Nicole Kassell and Alternate Board Member Maggie Greenwald.
Children’s Programs nominee Smriti Mundhra and First-Time Feature Director nominee Emma Seligman.
Documentary nominee Stanley Nelson and Variety/Talk/News/Sports nominee Christopher Werner.
Meet the Nominees: Theatrical Feature Film symposium moderator Jeremy Kagan, Nominee Denis Villeneuve, DGA President Lesli Linka Glatter, Nominees Jane Campion, Kenneth Branagh, Paul Thomas Anderson and Steven Spielberg and DGA National Executive Director Russell Hollander.
Meet the Nominees: Theatrical Feature Film symposium moderator Jeremy Kagan preps the nominees for the event to come.

Calendar

6/2/2025 - 6/8/2025

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