53rd Directors Guild of America Awards (2001)

Film
Feature Film
Ang Lee - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Cameron Crowe - Almost Famous
Ridley Scott - Gladiator
Steven Soderbergh - Erin Brockovich
Steven Soderbergh - Traffic
Documentaries
Charles Braverman - High School Boot Camp
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
Drama Series
Thomas Schlamme - The West Wing for "Noël"
Paris Barclay - The West Wing for "The Portland Trip"
Henry J. Bronchtein - The Sopranos for "From Where to Eternity"
Allen Coulter - The Sopranos for "The Knight in White Satin Armor"
John Patterson - The Sopranos for "Funhouse"
Comedy Series
James Burrows - Will & Grace for "Lows in the Mid-Eighties"
Allen Coulter - Sex and the City for "Cock-a-Doodle-Do"
Bill D'Elia - Ally McBeal for "The Last Virgin"
Pamela Fryman - Frasier for "And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon"
Todd Holland - Malcolm in the Middle for "Pilot"
Miniseries or TV Film
Jeff Bleckner - The Beach Boys: An American Family
Kirk Browning - Death of a Salesman
Martha Coolidge - If These Walls Could Talk 2 for "1972"
Stephen Frears and Martin Pasetta - Fail Safe
Joseph Sargent - For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story
Special Awards
Robert B. Aldrich Service Award
Robert Butler
Tom Donovan
Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award
Robert N. Van Ry
Presidents Award
Robert Wise
Honorary Life Member
Jack Valenti