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74 th 2022 Frank Capra Achievement Award Joseph P. Reidy 1st AD Joseph P. Reidy will become the 36th recipient of the Frank Capra Achievement Award, which will be presented at the DGA Awards ceremony on March 12, 2022. The Capra Award is given to an Assistant Director or Unit Production Manager in recognition of their career and service to the industry and the DGA. A DGA member for over four decades, Joe Reidy is a prolifi c First Assistant Director. His credits include work on numerous DGA Award-nominated features such as Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7, Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan and Robert Redford's Quiz Show; and he was a Second AD on Sydney Pollack's Tootsie. Reidy has also had a long working relationship with Martin Scorsese, acting as his First Assistant Director on the DGA Award-nominated fi lms, Goodfellas, The Age of Innocence, Gangs of New York, The Aviator and his 2006 DGA Award-winning feature, The Departed. He also worked with Oliver Stone on the DGA Award-nominated fi lm, JFK and the 1989 DGA Award-winning feature, Born on the Fourth of July. Reidy was a graduate of the New York Assistant Directors Training Program and has served as a Trustee of the Program since 2006. He was also a member of the 2020 DGA Negotiations Committee and COVID-19 Return to Work Committee that was tasked with formulating the protocols to bring DGA members back to work during the pandemic. Reidy was fi rst elected to the Guild's Eastern AD/UPM Council in 2016 as an Alternate member. Since then he has served seven terms on the Council including being elected as the Council's 1st Vice Chairperson from 2019 to present and as the 2nd Vice Chairperson from 2017 to 2019. As Co-Chair of the AD/UPM Council's First Assistant Committee, Reidy has participated in numerous Council-hosted F E B R U A R Y 2 0 2 2 I 1 1 photo by Mark Estes Past Recipients of the Frank Capra Achievement Award 2021 Brian E. Frankish 2020 Duncan S. Henderson 2019 Kathleen McGill 2018 Dwight Williams 2017 Marie Cantin 2016 Mary Rae Thewlis 2015 Phillip M. Goldfarb 2014 Lee Blaine 2013 Susan Zwerman 2012 Katy Garretson 2010 Cleve Landsberg 2009 Kim Kurumada 2008 Liz Ryan 2006 Jerry H. Zeismer 2005 Herb Adelman 2004 Stephen Glanzrock 2003 Yudi Bennett 2002 Burt Bluestein 2000 Cheryl R. Downey 1999 Tom Joyner 1998 Bob Jeffords 1994 Peter A. Runfolo 1993 Willard H. Sheldon 1991 Howard W. Koch 1990 Stanley Ackerman 1988 Alex Hapsas 1987 Henry E. "Bud" Brill 1985 Jane Schimel, Abby Singer 1983 William Beaudine, Jr. William C. Gerrity 1982 Wallace Worsley David Golden 1981 Francisco "Chico" Day 1980 Emmett Emerson events. In August 2021, he was also a panelist in the Special Projects Committee's virtual event, Dynamic Duos: The Collaborative Process of Directors and 1st ADs, where he and Director Jon M. Chu discussed their collaboration on the feature, In the Heights. Upon learning he was chosen as the latest recipient of this prestigious award Reidy said, "This is incredible! I am overwhelmed. It was a distinct privilege just to join the Directors Guild, and then to be able to work with Directors that I admire. Now, to be selected by my fellow members to receive the Frank Capra Award is a great honor and extremely humbling."