The 35th Directors Guild of America Awards, honoring the outstanding directorial achievements in film and television in 1982, were presented on March 12, 1983 at the Beverly Hilton and the Plaza Hotel. The feature film nominees were announced on January 30, 1983.
Winners and nominees
Film Feature FilmRichard Attenborough – Gandhi Taylor Hackford – An Officer and a Gentleman Wolfgang Petersen – Das Boot Sydney Pollack – Tootsie Steven Spielberg – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Television Drama SeriesDavid Anspaugh – Hill Street Blues for "Personal Foul" Paul Bogart – American Playhouse for "Weekend" Marc Daniels – Fame for "And the Winner Is" Comedy SeriesAlan Alda – M*A*S*H for "Where There's a Will, There's a War" James Burrows – Cheers for "Sam at Eleven" Noam Pitlik – Taxi for "Jim's Inheritance" Miniseries or TV FilmMarvin J. Chomsky – Inside the Third Reich Jack Hofsiss – The Elephant Man Delbert Mann – The Member of the Wedding Musical VarietyDon Mischer – Shirley MacLaine... Illusions Jim Drake – Second City Television for "The Days Of The Week/Street Beef" Clark Jones – Night of 100 Stars Documentary/ActualityPerry Miller Adato – American Playhouse for "Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences" Don Mischer – Kennedy Center Honors Marty Pasetta – 54th Academy Awards
Commercials CommercialsJoe Pytka – Bud Light's "Baseball" and "Basketball", and Henry Weinhard's' "Future/Gallup" William Dear – Budweiser's "Here's To You", KIMN's "Patron" and "Waitresses", and ABC Sports' "Promo" R. Hagmann – Coca-Cola's "Soccer", and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' "Video Games" Richard Loew – The Travelers Companies' "Auto", IBM's "Bakery", American Express' "City Terrace", Fotomat's "Grandmothers", and 7 Up's "Of Course You Do" Norman Toback – Activision's "River Raid", Straw Hat Pizza's "Tim Conway/Horse", and GTE's "Trip"
D.W. Griffith Award John Huston
Frank Capra Achievement Award William Beaudine Jr. William C. Gerrity
Honorary Life Member Elia Kazan Robert Wise
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