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74 dga quarterly PHOTOS: (TOP) AMPAS; (BOTTOM) MPTVIMAGES.COM; (OPPOSITE) EVERETT TEA TIME: 1966 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient William Wyler works with Bette Davis (right) and Teresa Wright on the turn-of-the-century melodrama The Little Foxes (1941). Wyler found the original stage play captivating. He equated the plight of the main character to that of being a film director. PIONEER: The world's first female director, Alice Guy-Blaché (left) sets a scene from The Great Adventure (1918). She received a special posthumous award for lifetime achievement from the Guild in 2011 to "raise awareness of an exceptional director and bring greater recognition to the role of women in film history."