Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series

Winners and nominees

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

Programs with multiple awards

• Hill Street Blues

• ER
• Lou Grant

• Breaking Bad
• Game of Thrones
• Kojak
• Mad Men
• Moonlighting
• NYPD Blue
• The Sopranos
• thirtysomething
• The West Wing

  Programs with multiple nominations

• The Sopranos

• ER

• Game of Thrones

• Mad Men

• Hill Street Blues
• Homeland
• NYPD Blue
• The West Wing

• Lost
• Six Feet Under

• Lou Grant
• St. Elsewhere
• thirtysomething

• Breaking Bad
• L.A. Law
• Northern Exposure

• 24
• Grey's Anatomy
• Homicide: Life on the Street
• Kojak
• The X-Files

• American Crime Story
• Boardwalk Empire
• Cagney & Lacey
• Family
• The Handmaid's Tale
• House of Cards
• I'll Fly Away
• In Treatment
• Moonlighting
• The Streets of San Francisco
• Stranger Things
• Succession
• The Waltons
• Watchmen

  Individuals with multiple awards

• Robert Butler
• Christopher Chulack
• Lesli Linka Glatter
• Marshall Herskovitz
• Eric Laneuville
• Will Mackenzie
• Roger Young

  Individuals with multiple nominations

• Paris Barclay

• Mark Tinker
• Lesli Linka Glatter

• Tim Van Patten

• Dan Attias
• Jack Bender
• Christopher Chulack
• Eric Laneuville
• David Nutter
• Thomas Schlamme

• David Anspaugh
• Alan Ball
• Chris Carter
• Allen Coulter
• Jennifer Getzinger
• Charles Haid
• Marshall Herskovitz
• Mimi Leder
• John Patterson
• Gene Reynolds
• Alan Taylor
• Matthew Weiner

• Félix Enríquez Alcalá
• Corey Allen
• Michael Apted
• Henry J. Bronchtein
• Steve Buscemi
• Robert Butler
• Jon Cassar
• James Cellan Jones
• David Chase
• Michael Cuesta
• Marc Daniels
• Charles S. Dubin
• The Duffer Brothers
• David Friedkin
• Vince Gilligan
• Alex Graves
• Joseph Hardy
• Gregory Hoblit
• Peter Horton
• Will Mackenzie
• Miguel Sapochnik
• Roger Young

  Total awards by network

• NBC – 13
• HBO – 11
• ABC – 9
• CBS – 7
• AMC – 5
• Fox – 1
• Hulu – 1
• PBS – 1
• Showtime – 1