{"id":2272130,"date":"2026-02-08T03:57:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T03:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2272130"},"modified":"2026-02-08T03:57:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T03:57:30","slug":"dga-awards-host-kumail-nanjiani-jabs-guild-over-its-former-d-w-griffith-award-says-sinners-captured-true-horror-of-white-people-dancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/dga-awards-host-kumail-nanjiani-jabs-guild-over-its-former-d-w-griffith-award-says-sinners-captured-true-horror-of-white-people-dancing\/","title":{"rendered":"DGA Awards Host Kumail Nanjiani Jabs Guild Over Its Former D.W. Griffith Award; Says \u2018Sinners\u2019 \u201cCaptured True Horror Of White People Dancing\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kumail Nanjiani<\/a> had the Beverly Hilton Ballroom in stiches tonight at the 78th DGA Awards on how backwards they\u2019ve been for quite some time, specifically in regards to their lifetime achievement award.<\/p>\n

No, the jab wasn\u2019t over the fact that it\u2019s not being bestowed this year to a notable filmmaker (last year\u2019s recipient being Ang Lee<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\u201cIn researching the awards, the lifetime achievement award used to be known as the D.W. Griffith Award named after the director who in 1915 made the movie Birth of a Nation, which glorifies the Ku Klux Klan<\/a>, the most reprehensible racist film.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, of course, we had to change the name of the award as soon as we could,\u201d before punchlining, \u201cWhich was 1999!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause until 1999, we said, KKK \u2014 let\u2019s see how things play out,\u201d said the Oscar nominated The Big Sick scribe and star, \u201c1999! That\u2019s when The Matrix<\/a> came out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kumail Nanjiani had the Beverly Hilton Ballroom in stiches tonight at the 78th DGA Awards on how backwards they\u2019ve been for quite some time, specifically in regards to their lifetime achievement award. No, the jab wasn\u2019t over the fact that it\u2019s not being bestowed this year to a notable filmmaker (last year\u2019s recipient being Ang […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2272131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2272130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/DGA-Awards-Host-Kumail-Nanjiani-Jabs-Guild-Over-Its-Former.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2272130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2272132,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272130\/revisions\/2272132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2272131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}