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48th Directors Guild of America Awards (1996)
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DGA Awards 1996 Winners & Nominees

The 48th Directors Guild of America Awards (1996) took place on March 2, 1996. Apollo 13 won Outstanding Directing – Feature Film. Every winner and nominee in both categories is below.

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Outstanding Directing – Feature Film
Apollo 13
Headline winners

DGA Awards 1996: The Winners

Apollo 13 won Outstanding Directing – Feature Film against 4 other nominees.

Apollo 13 (1995) movie poster Outstanding Directing – Feature Film

Outstanding Directing – Feature Film

Apollo 13

1995 · Adventure, Drama, History · $355M worldwide

With Ron Howard

1 win from 1 nomination at the 48th Directors Guild of America Awards (1996)

During the Apollo 13 mission, an oxygen tank explodes, crippling the spacecraft and leaving astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise struggling to survive 205,000 miles from Earth. With limited resources and facing extreme conditions, the crew and the dedicated team at Mission Control must work together, using their skills and ingenuity, in a tense and heart-stopping race against time to bring them home safely.

About Apollo 13
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Both DGA Awards 1996 Categories: Winners & Nominees

2 categories and 6 nominations. The winner of each comes first, on a green row. Search for a film or a person, show only the winners, or jump straight to a category.

2 categories · 6 nominations

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DGA Awards 1996 Outstanding Directing – Documentaries

Official name: Documentaries

1 nominee
By genre

The Genres Behind the DGA Awards 1996 Winners

Drama led with 5 nominations across 5 films and won 1. A film with several genres counts for each one.

  1. Drama 1 win · 5 nominations · 20%
  2. Biography 1 win · 3 nominations · 33%
  3. Romance 0 wins · 3 nominations · 0%
  4. History 1 win · 2 nominations · 50%
  5. Adventure 1 win · 1 nomination · 100%
  6. Documentary 1 win · 1 nomination · 100%
  7. Action 0 wins · 1 nomination · 0%
  8. War 0 wins · 1 nomination · 0%
  9. Comedy 0 wins · 1 nomination · 0%
1996 season

How the Rest of the 1996 Awards Season Voted

The other 9 ceremonies of 1996, with the winner of each top prize. Apollo 13 also won the top prize at one of them. Sense and Sensibility won the most of them: 3.

All 1996 awards
Earlier years

Previous DGA Awards Ceremonies

The 6 ceremonies before this one, with the winner of each top prize. The DGA Awards page has every year back to 1948.

Every DGA Awards ceremony

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DGA Awards 1996: Questions & Answers

The top prize and the date of the 48th Directors Guild of America Awards (1996), answered from the results on this page.

Who won Outstanding Directing – Feature Film at the 48th Directors Guild of America Awards (1996)?

Apollo 13 (1995) won Outstanding Directing – Feature Film. The other nominees were Leaving Las Vegas, Braveheart, Sense and Sensibility and Il Postino: The Postman.

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When was the 48th Directors Guild of America Awards (1996)?

The 48th Directors Guild of America Awards (1996) took place on March 2, 1996. The database has 2 categories and 6 nominations for it.