interest in the craft of directing), who hail from the United Kingdom, as well as directors from a few other countries who support the goals of the Guild, many of whom are influenced or inspired by the British directing aesthetic or style. Lifetime Achievement Awards Over its 25 years, the Guild had staged ten Lifetime Achievement Awards honouring individual directors, as well as two large-scale Guild Award ceremonies to honour outstanding directors in a variety of categories. Those awards were presented to the following: 1993 Fred Zinnemann 1994 Roy Boulting 1995 Joan Littlewood 1996 Christopher Morahan 1997 Sir Richard Eyre 1998 Alan Parker 1999 Stanley Kubrick 2001 Peter Brook 2002 John Schlesinger 2003 Sir Trevor Nunn 2005 Sam Mendes Blue plaques The Directors Guild Trust was the charity arm of the Guild supporting both Guild activities and the wider remit of promoting British directors' art and craft to a national and international public, through education, events, commemorations, and memorials. The Trust has erected blue plaque memorials to: 2005 Michael Powell 2006 Alexander Mackendrick 2008 David Lean 2011 Brian Desmond Hurst 2013 John Schlesinger 2013 Joan Littlewood References External links Directors Guild of Great Britain website 1983 establishments in the United Kingdom Entertainment industry unions Film organisations in the United Kingdom Guilds in the United Kingdom Organisations based in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames Television organisations in the United Kingdom Trade unions established in 1983 Twickenham