49th Directors Guild of America Awards (1997)

Film
Feature Film
Anthony Minghella - The English Patient
Joel Coen - Fargo
Cameron Crowe - Jerry Maguire
Scott Hicks - Shine
Mike Leigh - Secrets and Lies
Documentaries
Al Pacino - Looking for Richard
Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky - Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
Leon Gast - When We Were Kings
Jeanne Jordan and Steven Ascher - Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern
Isaac Mizrahi - The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century for "Slaughter"
Television
Drama Series
Christopher Chulack - ER for "Fear of Flying"
Paris Barclay - ER for "Ask Me No Questions, I'll Tell You No Lies"
Donna Deitch - NYPD Blue for "These Old Bones"
Mimi Leder - ER for "The Healers"
Mark Tinker - NYPD Blue for "A Death in the Family"
Comedy Series
Andy Ackerman - Seinfeld for "The Rye"
Robert Berlinger - 3rd Rock from the Sun for "See Dick Continue to Run"
Todd Holland - The Larry Sanders Show for "Everybody Loves Larry"
Alan Myerson - The Larry Sanders Show for "Ellen, or Isn't She"
David Steinberg - Mad About You for "The Finale"
Miniseries or TV Film
Betty Thomas - The Late Shift
Uli Edel - Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny
John Frankenheimer - Andersonville
Robert Harmon - Gotti
Anjelica Huston - Bastard out of Carolina
Special Awards
D.W. Griffith Award
Stanley Kubrick
Lifetime Achievement in Sports Direction
Larry Kamm
Lifetime Achievement in News Direction
Max A. Schindler
Robert B. Aldrich Service Award
Delbert Mann
Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award
Joseph Dicso
Diversity Award
Christopher Chulack
Bruce Paltrow
John Wells