January 22, 2025
Los Angeles – The Directors Guild of America announced today that filmmaker, comedian, screenwriter, and producer Judd Apatow will return to host the 77th Annual DGA Awards on Saturday, February 8, 2025, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA. This will be Apatow’s sixth time hosting the ceremony. He previously hosted the 70th DGA Awards in 2018, the 72nd DGA Awards in 2020, the 74th DGA Awards in 2022, the 75th DGA Awards in 2023, and the 76th DGA Awards in 2024.
“I’m shocked the DGA asked me back to host for a sixth time. I’m starting to think there’s no one else who will say yes,” said Apatow.
The DGA also announced today that Director Beth McCarthy-Miller will serve as Chair of the Awards for the fourth consecutive year.
“I am proud to continue to serve as DGA Awards Chair to help celebrate the incredible talent of all our nominees,” remarked McCarthy-Miller. “I look forward to a wonderful night paying tribute to the best of craft, and to welcoming Judd Apatow back to the podium as our amazing host.”
Judd Apatow
Judd Apatow is one of the most prolific comedic minds in the industry. He is currently in production on a two-part documentary on the life and career of Mel Brooks for HBO Documentary Films that he is producing and co-directing with Michael Bonfiglio. Recently, Apatow produced Peacock’s Stormy Daniels documentary, Stormy, Peacock’s buddy comedy Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain and Universal’s romcom, Bros, starring and co-written by Billy Eichner. Apatow also directed, produced, and co-wrote with Pam Brady, the Netflix comedy The Bubble and produced and co-directed HBO Films’ Emmy®-winning documentary George Carlin’s American Dream with Bonfiglio.
Previous Director credits include the Emmy®-award-winning documentary, The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up and The King of Staten Island. He produced Academy Award®-nominated The Big Sick and Bridesmaids, as well as, Superbad, Pineapple Express and Anchorman. For television, he executive produced Crashing, Girls, and Freaks and Geeks.
Off screen, Apatow authored Sicker in the Head, a follow-up to his New York Times best-seller Sick in the Head.
Beth McCarthy-Miller
Like any talented Director, Beth McCarthy-Miller has impeccable timing. One of the hottest Directors working in television today, she began her career at MTV at the most opportune time— just as the channel was diving into an ambitious original-programming initiative—directing such shows as MTV Unplugged, Half Hour Comedy Hour, The Ben Stiller Show, MTV Video Music Awards, and numerous high-profile concerts, including The Eagles: Hell Freezes Over. “I was the luckiest girl in the world,” she said of those early days. While still at MTV, she launched Jon Stewart’s first late night talk show, which, after three seasons, got picked up for syndication. When that show was canceled, she thankfully received a call from Saturday Night Live, and her background in live television events, music videos, comedy, talk and news shows helped her follow in the footsteps of the show’s longtime director, Dave Wilson, and guide the program into a new era. As a young woman and only the third Director coming onto the scene of a twenty-year- old show in 1995, she earned the respect of SNL veterans through her extremely high standards and attention to detail as well as her overall drive to “create action.”
McCarthy-Miller went on to direct SNL for 11 seasons, working with some of the most popular comedic talent in film and TV today and countless actors and high-profile celebrities. During her tenure, she found time to land such plum directing jobs as two Superbowl half-time shows, America: A Tribute to Heroes, the post-9/11 telethon for which she received one of her four Directors Guild of America Awards, and various shows including the original pilot for RENO:911 and MAN-UP. Since her departure from SNL in 2007, Beth has primarily directed multiple episodes of numerous sitcoms from Modern Family, and The Good Place to Parks and Rec, Brooklyn 99 and 30 Rock, the NBC sitcom created by her onetime SNL colleague Tina Fey, and the show which won her several nominations and a Directors Guild Award in 2014. McCarthy-Miller has been fortunate enough to be the “go-to” Director on several long standing and new sitcoms and has also spent some time working on more dramedy projects like House of Lies and Californication for Showtime, Veep for HBO, for which she earned a DGA Award in 2018, and the critically acclaimed, award-winning Netflix series The Kominsky Method. She has also helmed multiple TV pilots including Great News and Bob Hearts Abishola, a series she directed and executive produced for all five seasons.
She has also executive produced and launched various specials and series including The Comedy Awards, and Important Things with Demetri Martin for Comedy Central and Lip Sync Battle for Spike/ Paramount TV. Always enjoying the challenges of live television, McCarthy-Miller directed the hugely successful live, 3-hour broadcast of The Sound of Music starring Carrie Underwood, Stephen Moyer, and an A-list group of Broadway’s elite. She also earned a Clio for directing the live commercial for The Greatest Showman. McCarthy-Miller continues to tackle the live event arena with directing performances like Adele: Live in NY for NBC and Bill Maher: Live in Oklahoma for HBO, both of which earned her multiple award nominations.
This past year she directed three specials including: The Roast of Tom Brady, Carrie Underwood Reflections and Jimmy Fallon's Holiday Seasoning Spectacular. Upcoming in February 2025, she is looking forward to directing the SNL 50th Anniversary special.
The 77th Annual DGA Awards Producer is Ben Roy of Ben Roy Entertainment.
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Deadline to submit is Monday, January 27, 2025.