53rd Directors Guild of America Awards

53rd DGA Awards

March 10, 2001

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Best Director - Motion Picture:
Crouching Tiger,
Hidden Dragon

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Best Director - Documentary:
High School Boot Camp

The 53rd Directors Guild of America Awards, given on 10 March 2001, honored the best film and television directors in 2000.

Winners

Film

• Best Director - Motion Picture:
  • Ang Lee - Wo hu cang long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
• Best Director - Documentary:
  • Charles Braverman - High School Boot Camp

Television

• Best Director - TV Movie:
  • Jeff Bleckner - The Beach Boys: An American Family

Nominees

Film

• Best Director - Motion Picture:
  • Cameron Crowe - Almost Famous
  • Ridley Scott - Gladiator
  • Steven Soderbergh - Erin Brockovich
  • Steven Soderbergh - Traffic
• Best Director - Documentary:
  • Laurie Collyer - Nuyorican Dream
  • Mark Lewis - The Natural History of the Chicken
  • Michael Mierendorf - Broken Child
  • David de Vries - The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai

Television

• Best Director - TV Movie:
  • Kirk Browning - Death of a Salesman
  • Martha Coolidge - If These Walls Could Talk 2
    • for part "1972"
  • Stephen Frears and Martin Pasetta - Fail Safe
  • Joseph Sargent - For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story