1979 DGA Awards – Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film Winner and Nominees

The Deer Hunter

Michael Cimino

An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.

An Unmarried Woman

Paul Mazursky

Coming Home

Hal Ashby

Heaven Can Wait

Warren Beatty

Midnight Express

Alan Parker