{"id":70073,"date":"2025-01-22T16:28:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T00:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=70073"},"modified":"2025-01-22T16:28:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T00:28:44","slug":"77th-annual-dga-awards-judd-apatow-to-host-beth-mccarthy-miller-to-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=70073","title":{"rendered":"77th Annual DGA Awards:  Judd Apatow to Host, Beth McCarthy-Miller to Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>LOS ANGELES (<b>January 22, 2025) <\/b>\u2013<\/strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Directors Guild of America (\u201cDGA\u201d) announced today that filmmaker, comedian, screenwriter, and producer Judd Apatow will return to host the 77<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Annual DGA Awards on Saturday, February 8, 2025, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA. This will be Apatow\u2019s sixth time hosting the ceremony. He previously hosted the 70<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0DGA Awards in 2018, the 72<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0DGA Awards in 2020, the 74<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0DGA Awards in 2022, the 75<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0DGA Awards in 2023, and the 76<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0DGA Awards in 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI\u2019m shocked the DGA asked me back to host for a sixth time. I\u2019m starting to think there\u2019s no one else who will say yes,\u201d said Apatow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The DGA also announced today that Director Beth McCarthy-Miller will serve as Chair of the Awards for the fourth consecutive year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI am proud to continue to serve as DGA Awards Chair to help celebrate the incredible talent of all our nominees,\u201d remarked McCarthy-Miller. \u201cI look forward to a wonderful night paying tribute to the best of craft, and to welcoming Judd Apatow back to the podium as our amazing host.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The 77<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Annual DGA Awards Producer is Ben Roy of Ben Roy Entertainment.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (January 22, 2025) \u2013\u00a0The&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-ca-local","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70074,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70073\/revisions\/70074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}