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Seth Rogen and The Studio team dedicate DGA award to ‘utter genius’ Catherine O’Hara

Seth Rogen and The Studio team dedicate DGA award to ‘utter genius’ Catherine O’Hara

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Seth Rogen has paid tribute to his The Studio co-star and “idol” Catherine O’Hara at the Directors Guild Awards. O’Hara died on 20 January in Los Angeles at the age of 71 following a brief illness, her manager told Variety. A cause of death has not yet been reported. One of the comedy icon’s last television roles was as Hollywood executive Patty Leigh in Apple TV’s The Studio, for which she earned best supporting actress nominations at the Emmys and the Golden Globes last year. Rogen and The Studio co-director and co-writer Goldberg took home the award for best comedy series on 7 February at the DGA awards, where they dedicated the honour to O’Hara, and looked back at their experiences of working with the “utter genius”. “Honestly, there’s no one we wish we could thank in person at this moment …

DGA Awards 2026: See The Full Winners List

DGA Awards 2026: See The Full Winners List

Published by Sam Flores

Read on for the full list of DGA Awards 2026 winners below: Theatrical Feature Film WINNER: Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another Ryan Coogler – SinnersGuillermo Del Toro – FrankensteinJosh Safdie – Marty SupremeChloé Zhao – Hamnet Michael Apted First Time Directorial Feature WINNER: Charlie Polinger – The Plague Hasan Hadi – The President’s CakeHarry Lighton – PillionAlex Russell – LurkerEva Victor – Sorry, Baby Documentary Film WINNER: Mstyslav Chernov – 2000 Meters to Andriivka Geeta Gandbhir – The Perfect NeighborSara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni – Cutting Through RocksElizabeth Lo – Mistress DispellerLaura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus – Cover-Up Dramatic Series WINNER: Amanda Marsallis – The Pitt, “6:00 PM” Liza Johnson – The Diplomat, “Amagansett”Janus Metz – Andor, “Who Are You?”Ben Stiller – Severance, “Cold Harbor”John Wells – The Pitt, “7:00 A.M.” Comedy Series WINNER: Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg – The Studio, “The Oner” Lucia Aniello – Hacks, “A Slippery Slope”Janicza Bravo – The Bear, “Worms”Christopher Storer – The Bear, “Bears”Mike White – The White Lotus, “Denials” Limited & Anthology Series WINNER: …

Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg Thank Catherine O’Hara While Accepting DGA Award

Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg Thank Catherine O’Hara While Accepting DGA Award

Published by Daniella Wilson

The Studio directors Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg honored Catherine O’Hara during their acceptance speech for outstanding directorial achievement for a comedy series at the 2026 DGA Awards. “Honestly, there’s no one we wish we could thank in person at this moment more than we would love to thank Catherine O’Hara,” Rogen said, which led the audience to erupt in applause, as Goldberg added, “We grew up in Canada, and she is and was quite literally our idol since we were children.” O’Hara portrayed movie executive Patty Leigh in Rogen and Goldberg’s Apple TV comedy. She appeared in all 10 episodes of The Studio‘s hit first season, and notably earned herself a 2025 Emmy nomination for best supporting actress in a comedy series. The Beetlejuice actress died Jan. 30 at her home in Los Angeles after a brief illness. She was 71. Rogen cited the two-time Emmy winner’s iconic role in the Home Alone franchise as a moment that made him want to make his own films. “Home Alone honestly is the movie that made me …

Our Members Are Having Hard Times

Our Members Are Having Hard Times

Published by Daniella Wilson

Christopher Nolan, the newly elected president of the Directors Guild of America, presided over his first DGA Awards on Saturday night, as he kicked off the ceremony with a passionate speech. Nolan was elected in September to serve as president of the Hollywood directors union, and returned to its annual awards show in very different fashion than two years ago, when he won the top prize for Oppenheimer. This time around, he began by showing appreciation to the guild’s board members and telling those in the room, “If you like the way the organization is running and you see things you like, or more importantly if you don’t like the way we’re doing things, please come and get involved… we need as many voices as possible.” Nolan noted how being a director can be “a lonely profession, and having us all come together on occasions like this is what helps us have strengths together in our conversations and our dealings with the studios. A lot of heavy hitters here tonight.” He joked he wasn’t “supposed …

New DGA President Talks AI and Jobs

New DGA President Talks AI and Jobs

Published by Daniella Wilson

Christopher Nolan is no stranger to tough jobs. This is the film director who crashed a real Boeing 747 into a set for Tenet and flipped an 18-wheeler in the middle of Chicago for The Dark Knight. But even by his standards, the leadership role he recently assumed in Hollywood is daunting. In September Nolan was elected to serve as president of the Hollywood directors’ union. He took the helm of the 19,500-member Directors Guild of America at an increasingly fraught time for Hollywood and its workers. Production in the U.S. has slowed considerably. Generative AI, and/or the hype around it, is threatening jobs. One Hollywood giant (Netflix) is attempting to swallow another (Warner Bros.). Nolan, one of Hollywood’s most powerful directors after churning out mind-bending hits like Oppenheimer and Inception, could have left the headaches of worker advocacy during a period of painful transformation to others. But instead he felt it was time to step up. “All of these changes over the last 10-15 years particularly, and the last five years in particular, they …