The 2015 Director’s Guild Awards were held over the weekend in Los Angeles, and this time Game of Thrones did not come away empty handed. Season 5 has had a bit of a hot and cold run when it comes to awards this season, with some awards voters giving them recognition for the first time in years (the Emmys) or the first time ever (The PGAs.) Some have loudly snubbed them, such as the Golden Globes and the SAGs. This weekend, the last of the Guilds to present before the Oscars had a turn, and the Director’s Guild decided they were coming down on the side of handing them out, giving the show, and director David Nutter, their first win.
Game of Thrones has been nominated for a Director’s Guild Award four out of the five years it has been on the air. (Season 2 was roundly snubbed.) In its first season, Tim Van Patton was nominated for the pilot episode “Winter is Coming,” but lost to the very short lived series, The Killing. David Nutter was nominated for his last turn on the show with Season 3’s “The Rains of Castamere”, but lost to critical darling Breaking Bad. Season 4 saw Alex Graves nominated for the season finale, “The Children,” but Homeland took the prize instead.
This was not only Game of Thrones first win at the DGAs, but also David Nutter’s first as well. As his bio on the website notes, hew as not only previously nominated for his work on Season 3, but also “2006 for The Sopranos episode “Join the Club.” He was also nominated in the Comedy Series category for Entourage episodes “The Resurrection” (2007) and “Lose Yourself” (2010); and in the Movies for Television and Mini-Series category for The Pacific, “Basilone” in 2010.” This was his sixth nomination. Congratulations to both him and to the whole team that made the Season 5 finale possible.
Via http://winteriscoming.net/2016/02/08/david-nutter-wins-directors-guild-award-for-mothers-mercy/
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