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The Studio’s Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg thanked the late Catherine O’Hara while accepting their Best Comedy Series Director award at the 2026 Directors Guild Awards. “Honestly, there’s no one we wish we could thank in person at this moment more than we would love to thank Catherine O’Hara,” Rogen said. “And the best part of her is she showed that you can be an utter genius and also the nicest person in the entire world. It was an honor to get to direct her every day and we worked very hard to make the show good enough to warrant her time and her presence So, ultimately, we would like to thank the DGA for this, but we would mostly like to thank Catherine O’Hara for being such a wonderful person and for blessing us with your presence.” Goldberg added that O’Hara was “quite literally our idol since we were children,” since the two Canadian boys grew up watching her on SCTV.
Not every award winner tributed Catherine O’Hara at the 2026 DGAs, but there was a lot of love in the room for friends who have left. In his acceptance speech for One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson thanked his first AD Adam Somner. Somner died of thyroid cancer in 2024. “A lot of people in this room know our hero, our man, Adam Somner. Steven [Spielberg] knows him. His wife Carmen [Ruiz de Huidobro] is here,” he said (per Deadline). “He took this work so seriously, and did not take himself seriously at all. And that was a great gift… He made us feel safe. Think about this work that we do, how dangerous it can be, really dangerous. And to be to get through a film and no one get hurt, be safe, have an amazing experience is because of a great AD, and he was the best.” A complete list of nominees, with the winners bolded, is below.
Theatrical Feature Film
Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Ryan Coogler, Sinners
Guillermo del Toro, Frankenstein
Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
Chloé Zhao, Hamnet
Michael Apted First-Time Theatrical Feature Film
Hasan Hadi, The President’s Cake
Harry Lighton, Pillion
Charlie Polinger, The Plague
Alex Russell, Lurker
Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby
Documentary Film
Mstyslav Chernov, 2000 Meters to Andriivka
Geeta Gandbhir, The Perfect Neighbor
Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni, Cutting Through Rocks
Elizabeth Lo, Mistress Dispeller
Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus, Cover-Up
Dramatic Series
Liza Johnson, The Diplomat, “Amagansett”
Amanda Marsalis, The Pitt, “6:00 P.M.”
Janus Metz, Andor, “Who Are You?”
Ben Stiller, Severance, “Cold Harbor”
John Wells, The Pitt, “7:00 A.M.”
Comedy Series
Lucia Aniello, Hacks, “A Slippery Slope”
Janicza Bravo, The Bear, “Worms”
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, The Studio, “The Oner”
Christopher Storer, The Bear, “Bears”
Mike White, The White Lotus, “Denials”
Limited & Anthology Series
Jason Bateman, Black Rabbit, “The Black Rabbits”
Antonio Campos, The Beast in Me, “Sick Puppy”
Lesli Linka Glatter, Zero Day, “Episode 6”
Shannon Murphy, Dying for Sex, “It’s Not That Serious”
Ally Pankiw, Black Mirror, “Common People”
Movies for Television
Jesse Armstrong, Mountainhead
Stephen Chbosky, Nonnas
Scott Derrickson, The Gorge
Michael Morris, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Kyle Newacheck, Happy Gilmore 2
Variety
Yvonne De Mare, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, “Julia Roberts, Sam Smith”
Andy Fisher, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, “Stephen Colbert, Kumail Nanjiani, Reneé Rapp”
Beth McCarthy-Miller, “SNL50: The Homecoming Concert”
Liz Patrick, “SNL50: The Anniversary Special”
Paul Pennolino, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, “Public Media”
Sports
Matthew Gangl, 2025 World Series, Game 7 – Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Toronto Blue Jays
Steve Milton, 2025 Masters Tournament, Augusta National Golf Club
Rich Russo, Super Bowl LIX, Philadelphia Eagles vs. Kansas City Chiefs
Reality / Quiz and Game
Lucinda M. Margolis, Jeopardy!, “Ep. 9341”
Adam Sandler, The Price Is Right, “10,000th Episode”
Mike Sweeney, Conan O’Brien Must Go, “Austria”
Documentary Series/News
Marshall Curry, SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night, “Written By: A Week Inside the SNL Writers Room”
Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin, Billy Joel: And So It Goes, “Part 2”
Rebecca Miller, Mr. Scorsese, “All This Filming Isn’t Healthy”
Alexandra Stapleton, Sean Combs: The Reckoning, “Official Girl”
Matt Wolf, Pee-wee As Himself, “Part 1”
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