The 63rd Directors Guild of America Awards, which was given out on January 29, 2011, honors the outstanding directorial achievement in feature films, documentary, and television.
Tom Hooper – The King’s Speech
Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
David Fincher – The Social Network
Christopher Nolan – Inception
David O. Russell – The Fighter
Charles Ferguson – Inside Job
Lixin Fan – Last Train Home
Alex Gibney – Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
Davis Guggenheim – Waiting for “Superman”
Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger – Restrepo
Martin Scorsese – Boardwalk Empire for "Boardwalk Empire"
Jack Bender – Lost for "The End"
Allen Coulter – Boardwalk Empire for "Paris Green"
Frank Darabont – The Walking Dead for "Days Gone Bye"
Jennifer Getzinger – Mad Men for "The Suitcase"
Michael Spiller – Modern Family for "Halloween"
Steven Levitan – Modern Family for "Hawaii"
Beth McCarthy-Miller – 30 Rock for "Live Show"
Ryan Murphy – Glee for "The Power of Madonna"
David Nutter – Entourage for "Lose Yourself"
Mick Jackson – Temple Grandin
Barry Levinson – You Don't Know Jack
David Nutter and Jeremy Podeswa – The Pacific for "Basilone"
Jeremy Podeswa – The Pacific for "Home"
Tim Van Patten – The Pacific for "Okinawa"
Glenn Weiss – The 64th Annual Tony Awards
Don Roy King – Saturday Night Live for "Host: Betty White"
Linda Mendoza – Paul McCartney The Library of Congress Gershwin Award for Popular Song in Performance at the White House
John C. Moffit – Bill Maher: "But I'm Not Wrong"
Chuck O'Neil – Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
Eytan Keller – The Next Iron Chef for "#301"
Hisham Abed – The Hills for "Episode #601"
Bryan O'Donnell – Private Chefs of Beverly Hills for "Challah Back"
Brian Smith – MasterChef for "Episode #103"
Bertram van Munster – The Amazing Race for "I Think We're Fighting the Germans. Right?"
Larry Carpenter – One Life to Live for "Episode #10,687"
Sally McDonald – The Young and the Restless for "Episode #9553"
Jill Mittwell – One Life to Live for "Starr X’d Lovers (Episode #10,688)"
Owen Renfroe – General Hospital for "Francophrenia"
Michael Stich – The Bold and the Beautiful for "A Reason to Live: Part I"
Eric Bross – The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
Douglas Barr – Secrets of the Mountain
Stuart Gillard – Avalon High
Michael Grossman – StarStruck
Paul Hoen – Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam
Mikael Salomon – Unnatural History for "Pilot"
Stacy Wall
Frank Budgen
Craig Gillespie
Tim Godsall
Tom Kuntz