DGA Reaches Tentative Four-Year Deal With AMPTP; SAG-AFTRA Offers Solidarity

SAG-AFTRA publicly congratulated the Directors Guild of America on Wednesday after the directors union reached a tentative new contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, a show of cross-union solidarity as Hollywood’s major labor groups move toward fresh four-year agreements.

In a post on Bluesky on June 10, SAG-AFTRA wrote: “Congratulations to the DGA negotiating committee and negotiating staff on reaching a tentative agreement with the AMPTP. Collective bargaining is how workers secure gains and build a stronger future. #Solidarity”

The DGA said in a June 9 press release that it had reached a tentative agreement with the AMPTP on a new four-year collective bargaining agreement. The deal is not final. The guild said the agreement will first go to its National Board for approval, and only afterward to members for consideration and ratification.

No substantive terms have been released publicly. The DGA said: “The tentative agreement will be presented to the DGA National Board for approval. Following the Board's review, details of the agreement will be released to the Guild's membership for consideration and ratification. Consistent with the Guild’s longstanding practice, terms of the agreement will not be released publicly until the National Board has completed its review.”

That means the immediate significance of the announcement is the existence of a tentative deal, not its contents. The guild has not publicly disclosed any details of the proposed agreement.

According to the DGA, negotiations between its bargaining committee and the AMPTP began May 11. The guild said its 70-member negotiating committee was led by National Executive Director Russell Hollander, Chair Jon Avnet and Vice-Chair Karen Gaviola. The previous DGA contract had been set to expire June 30, according to The Associated Press.

The AMPTP, which bargains on behalf of major studios and streaming companies, said it was “pleased to help achieve ‘a fair deal that helps advance a stable and successful entertainment industry,’” according to AP. The DGA talks were also the first contract negotiations under DGA President Christopher Nolan, who was elected in September 2025.

The tentative agreement is the latest step in a bargaining cycle that now appears to be settling into longer terms for Hollywood’s major creative unions. The Writers Guild of America reached its own tentative deal with the AMPTP in early April 2026 and ratified it later that month. SAG-AFTRA ratified its TV and theatrical agreement in early June. Like the proposed DGA pact, those agreements are four-year deals.

That alignment matters because labor negotiations in the entertainment business have remained under close scrutiny since the dual WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes in 2023, which put streaming-era pay and artificial intelligence at the center of industry bargaining. But in the DGA’s case, the public focus for now is narrower: the union says it has a tentative agreement, SAG-AFTRA has publicly backed the outcome, and if DGA members approve it, Hollywood’s three major creative unions will all be operating under recent multiyear contracts.