Three Columbia Filmmakers Nominated for 2022 Directors Guild Awards

The Directors Guild of America recently revealed this year’s TV nominees for the DGA Awards, and three Columbia filmmakers have received nominations. Alumna Shari Springer Berman '95 and alumnus Robert Pulcini '94 received a nomination for Best Drama Series for co-directing the third episode of Succession’s third season, called Lion in the Meadow. Alumna and Academy-Award winner Kathryn Bigelow '81 received a nomination in the Commercials category for her work on the Hollywood In Your Pocket, iPhone 13 – Media Arts Lab commercial. 
The DGA Awards bestow recognitions for achievements in drama, comedy, limited/TV movie, variety, reality, children’s TV, and commercials. This year’s award ceremony is set to take place on March 12, 2022. 

Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman are an award-winning documentarian and feature-filmmaking team. Together they wrote and directed American Splendor which won over 30 awards including: Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival; FIPRESCI Award, Cannes Film Festival; The Writers’ Guild Award for Best Adapted Screenplay; Best Picture and Best Screenplay, Los Angeles Film Critics Association and National Society of Film Critics and Best Adapted Screenplay Nomination, Academy Awards. Cinema Verite received nine Emmy nominations including Best Movie, Outstanding Directing and a win for Best Editing. In addition, the movie received three Golden Globe nominations, a SAG nomination as well as Humanitas and Writer’s Guild Award wins. Other films include The Nanny Diaries, The Extra Man and Ten Thousand Saints. The team’s Netflix horror hit Things Heard & Seen opened at number one, and remained in the Netflix Top 10 worldwide for weeks. The directing team’s TV credits include their work on season two and three of HBO’S Award Winning Succession. Season two episode Safe Room was included on Buzzfeed’s list of the greatest TV episodes of the last decade. Variety included their episode of Shameless titled You’ll Know the Bottom When You Hit It as one of the eleven best episodes of the show’s eleven season run. Up next is the finale of Apple TV’s limited series WeCrashed.

Kathryn Bigelow is the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director, the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing, the BAFTA Award for Best Direction, and the Critics' Choice Award for Best Director, for her film The Hurt Locker, which also won the Oscar for Best Picture. Bigelow was also the first woman to win the Saturn Award for Best Director for Strange Days (1995). Her other films include Near Dark (1987), Point Break (1991), and K-19: The Widowmaker (2002). Bigelow won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director for Zero Dark Thirty (2012), making her the first woman to win the award twice. She also won the National Board of Review Award for Best Director for the film, making her the first woman to win that award. Her latest film, Detroit, set during the 1967 Detroit riots and starring John Boyega, was released in 2017 in time for the 50th anniversary of the riots. The Protectors also premiered in 2017, co-directed by Bigelow and VR creator Imraan Ismail (The Displaced, Valen's Reef). A virtual reality short documentary, The Protectors exposes the dangerous and grueling reality faced by rangers protecting African elephants from ivory poachers. In April 2010, Bigelow was named to the Time 100 list of most influential people of the year.