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SAG-AFTRA’s Duncan Crabtree-Ireland was the highest paid among the Hollywood union leaders and the ninth highest-paid labor official in the country last year. The National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator, who helped lead the actors union through a historic 118-day strike last year, earned a…

Francis Ford Coppola is among those being honored by the Directors Guild of America at its upcoming DGA Honors ceremony. See It Now Studios President and former CBS News Executive Susan Zirinsky, Broadway Stages Founder Tony Argento along with its CEO & President Gina Argento, and film distribution…

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of Deadline reports looking at how the current upheaval in the media & entertainment industry is impacting mental health. One year ago, Hollywood found itself in the midst a historic work stoppage, with two unions — the Writers Guild of America and…

EXCLUSIVE: The Directors Guild of America has tapped a new class of filmmakers to participate in the 2024 Television Mentorship Program. The eight-month program is a professional development tool for members who are interested in directing episodic television. It is designed to help current members…

The Directors Guild of America is standing in solidarity with Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof who had fled authoritarian Iran, and is currently at the Cannes Film Festival with his competition title The Seed of the Sacred Fig. "The Directors Guild of America strongly supports Director Mohammad…

The Directors Guild of America said Thursday that it will hold its 77th annual DGA Awards on February 8, 2025 at the Beverly Hilton. The awards’ timeline, which includes voting schedules, key deadlines and a nominations date, are still in the works. Related…

SAG-AFTRA, IATSE the WGA, and the DGA have united behind a legislative move to put up some new and slightly punitive guardrails around Artificial Intelligence. "Everything generated by AI ultimately originates from a human creative source, says Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, SAG-AFTRA National Executive…

On Saturday night, when Martin Scorsese collected a gold medallion—the honor given by the DGA to all five of its Feature Film nominees—he thanked his cast and crew and Apple for their support in making Killers of the Flower Moon, but he emphasized his thanks to the Osage Nation for their intrinsic role in…

Mark Ruffalo is calling for an Israel-Hamas ceasefire. At the DGA awards in Beverly Hills on Saturday night he told Deadline the pins on his lapel represented “peace lillies and Artists for Ceasefire”. Ruffalo said that Artists for Ceasefire is “calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. There are…

No one has said the word "strike" yet, but some of Hollywood's strongest unions just flexed some serious muscle with the studios. With their current contracts set to end on July 21, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Teamsters Local 399 will stand in together in solidarity…

The Hollywood labor community is up in arms again after the Directors Guild of America (DGA) made a number of retroactive additions to its film & TV contract with the studios. The deal, which was revealed yesterday and gives directors a streaming performance bonus that matches that of the writers…

Rod Holcomb, an Emmy-winning ER director who also helmed Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man, China Beach and dozens of other shows and was a longtime Directors Guild negotiating committee menber, has died. He was 80. The DGA said Holcomb died Wednesday in Los Angeles after a long…