24th Directors Guild of America Awards

24th Directors Guild of America Awards
Date	1972 (1972)
Country	United States
Presented by	Directors Guild of America
Highlights
Best Director Feature Film:	The French Connection – William Friedkin
Website	https://www.dga.org/Awards/History/1970s/1971.aspx?value=1971

The 24th Directors Guild of America Awards, honoring the outstanding directorial achievements in film and television in 1971, were presented in 1972.

Winners and nominees

Film

Feature Film
William Friedkin – The French Connection Peter Bogdanovich – The Last Picture Show Stanley Kubrick – A Clockwork Orange Robert Mulligan – Summer of '42 John Schlesinger – Sunday Bloody Sunday

Television

Drama Series
Daniel Petrie – The Man and the City for "Hands of Love" Lewis Freedman –Hollywood Television Theater for Beginning to End Lamont Johnson – Hollywood Television Theater for Birdbath
Comedy Series
John Rich – All in the Family for "Meet the Bunkers" Bruce Bilson – The Odd Couple for "Being Divorced is Never Having to Say I Do" Jay Sandrich – Mary Tyler Moore for "Baby Sit-Com"
Movies for Television and Mini-Series
Buzz Kulik – Brian's Song Fielder Cook – The Price Delbert Mann – Jane Eyre
Musical Variety
Timothy Kiley – The Flip Wilson Show Arthur Fisher – The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour Greg Garrison – The Dean Martin Show
Documentary/News
Phillip Beigel – Behind the Lines for Anatomy of a Decision: The FBI and the Great American Dream Machine[1] Joel Banow – Louis Armstrong (CBS News special) Anthony Messuri – Apollo: A Trip to the Moon (NBC News special)

Outstanding Television Director

• John Rich

External links

• 24th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards

1. https://www.nytimes.com/1971/10/09/archives/tv-report-on-fbi-raises-questions.html