SAG-AFTRA Exec to Receive DGA Honor

The 2018 DGA Honors recipients include Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee; Fox Searchlight Chairman Nancy Utley; U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota; and costume designer Ann Roth. 
 
McGuire, a Fordham Law School graduate, began his career with the Screen Actors Guild in 1969. In the intervening five decades, he has negotiated major contracts on behalf of SAG and SAG-AFTRA, represented the union at meetings with performer organizations around the world, served as associate national executive director and New York executive director for SAG, and presently holds positions in the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan, the Museum of the Moving Image, the Council of Motion Picture & Television Unions, the Motion Picture Players Welfare Fund, the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, the Industry Advancement & Cooperative Fund and the Department for Professional Employees, among others.
The DGA Honors recognizes individuals and institutions that have made distinguished contributions to American culture through the world of film and television, and recognizes the diversity of achievement — in business, government and labor — required to produce the best entertainment in the world. 
 
McGuire joins a distinguished group of Honors recipients that includes Ron Howard, Nora Ephron, Robert Altman, Jonathan Demme, Milos Forman, Spike Lee, Mike Nichols, Arthur Penn, Sydney Pollack and Martin Scorsese, as well as labor leaders IATSE International President Matthew Loeb and former AFL-CIO President John Sweeney.