laureldb Entertainment awards

Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film

Directors Guild of America Awards · 524 nominations across 78 ceremonies · 78 wins

78th DGA Awards · 2026

Winner Paul Thomas Anderson · One Battle After Another
Nominee Chloé Zhao · Hamnet
Nominee Guillermo del Toro · Frankenstein
Nominee Josh Safdie · Marty Supreme
Nominee Ryan Coogler · Sinners

77th DGA Awards · 2025

Winner Sean Baker · Anora
Nominee Brady Corbet · The Brutalist
Nominee Edward Berger · Conclave
Nominee Jacques Audiard · Emilia Pérez
Nominee James Mangold · A Complete Unknown

76th DGA Awards · 2024

Winner Christopher Nolan · Oppenheimer
Nominee Yorgos Lanthimos · Poor Things
Nominee Greta Gerwig · Barbie
Nominee Martin Scorsese · Killers of the Flower Moon
Nominee Alexander Payne · The Holdovers

75th DGA Awards · 2023

Winner Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert · Everything Everywhere All at Once
Nominee Todd Field · Tár
Nominee Martin McDonagh · The Banshees of Inisherin
Nominee Steven Spielberg · The Fabelmans
Nominee Joseph Kosinski · Top Gun: Maverick

74th DGA Awards · 2022

Winner Jane Campion · The Power of the Dog
Nominee Steven Spielberg · West Side Story
Nominee Denis Villeneuve · Dune
Nominee Kenneth Branagh · Belfast
Nominee Paul Thomas Anderson · Licorice Pizza

73rd DGA Awards · 2021

Winner Chloé Zhao · Nomadland
Nominee Aaron Sorkin · The Trial of the Chicago 7
Nominee Emerald Fennell · Promising Young Woman
Nominee David Fincher · Mank
Nominee Lee Isaac Chung · Minari

72nd DGA Awards · 2020

Winner Sam Mendes · 1917
Nominee Bong Joon-ho · Parasite
Nominee Martin Scorsese · The Irishman
Nominee Taika Waititi · Jojo Rabbit
Nominee Quentin Tarantino · Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

71st DGA Awards · 2019

70th DGA Awards · 2018

Winner Guillermo del Toro · The Shape of Water
Nominee Christopher Nolan · Dunkirk
Nominee Martin McDonagh · Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Nominee Greta Gerwig · Lady Bird
Nominee Jordan Peele · Get Out

69th DGA Awards · 2017

Winner Damien Chazelle · La La Land
Nominee Barry Jenkins · Moonlight
Nominee Denis Villeneuve · Arrival
Nominee Garth Davis · Lion
Nominee Kenneth Lonergan · Manchester by the Sea

68th DGA Awards · 2016

Winner Alejandro González Iñárritu · The Revenant
Nominee Ridley Scott · The Martian
Nominee Tom McCarthy · Spotlight
Nominee George Miller · Mad Max: Fury Road
Nominee Adam McKay · The Big Short

67th DGA Awards · 2015

Winner Alejandro González Iñárritu · Birdman
Nominee Morten Tyldum · The Imitation Game
Nominee Wes Anderson · The Grand Budapest Hotel
Nominee Clint Eastwood · American Sniper
Nominee Richard Linklater · Boyhood

66th DGA Awards · 2014

Winner Alfonso Cuarón · Gravity
Nominee Paul Greengrass · Captain Phillips
Nominee David O. Russell · American Hustle
Nominee Steve McQueen · 12 Years a Slave
Nominee Martin Scorsese · The Wolf of Wall Street

65th DGA Awards · 2013

Winner Ben Affleck · Argo
Nominee Kathryn Bigelow · Zero Dark Thirty
Nominee Steven Spielberg · Lincoln
Nominee Tom Hooper · Les Misérables
Nominee Ang Lee · Life of Pi

64th DGA Awards · 2012

Winner Michel Hazanavicius · The Artist
Nominee Woody Allen · Midnight in Paris
Nominee Alexander Payne · The Descendants
Nominee David Fincher · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Nominee Martin Scorsese · Hugo

63rd DGA Awards · 2011

Winner Tom Hooper · The King's Speech
Nominee Christopher Nolan · Inception
Nominee David Fincher · The Social Network
Nominee David O. Russell · The Fighter
Nominee Darren Aronofsky · Black Swan

62nd DGA Awards · 2010

Winner Kathryn Bigelow · The Hurt Locker
Nominee Lee Daniels · Precious
Nominee Quentin Tarantino · Inglourious Basterds
Nominee James Cameron · Avatar
Nominee Jason Reitman · Up in the Air

61st DGA Awards · 2009

Winner Danny Boyle · Slumdog Millionaire
Nominee Gus Van Sant · Milk
Nominee Ron Howard · Frost/Nixon
Nominee David Fincher · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Nominee Christopher Nolan · The Dark Knight

60th DGA Awards · 2008

Winner Ethan Coen, Joel Coen · No Country for Old Men
Nominee Paul Thomas Anderson · There Will Be Blood
Nominee Sean Penn · Into the Wild
Nominee Julian Schnabel · The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Nominee Tony Gilroy · Michael Clayton

59th DGA Awards · 2007

Winner Martin Scorsese · The Departed
Nominee Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris · Little Miss Sunshine
Nominee Stephen Frears · The Queen
Nominee Alejandro González Iñárritu · Babel
Nominee Bill Condon · Dreamgirls

58th DGA Awards · 2006

Winner Ang Lee · Brokeback Mountain
Nominee Bennett Miller · Capote
Nominee George Clooney · Good Night, and Good Luck.
Nominee Valerie Faris · Little Miss Sunshine
Nominee Steven Spielberg · Munich
Nominee Paul Haggis · Crash

57th DGA Awards · 2005

Winner Clint Eastwood · Million Dollar Baby
Nominee Alexander Payne · Sideways
Nominee Martin Scorsese · The Aviator
Nominee Marc Forster · Finding Neverland
Nominee Taylor Hackford · Ray

56th DGA Awards · 2004

Winner Peter Jackson · The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Nominee Sofia Coppola · Lost in Translation
Nominee Clint Eastwood · Mystic River
Nominee Gary Ross · Seabiscuit
Nominee Peter Weir · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

55th DGA Awards · 2003

Winner Rob Marshall · Chicago
Nominee Stephen Daldry · The Hours
Nominee Peter Jackson · The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Nominee Martin Scorsese · Gangs of New York
Nominee Roman Polanski · The Pianist

54th DGA Awards · 2002

Winner Ron Howard · A Beautiful Mind
Nominee Baz Luhrmann · Moulin Rouge!
Nominee Christopher Nolan · Memento
Nominee Peter Jackson · The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Nominee Ridley Scott · Black Hawk Down

53rd DGA Awards · 2001

Winner Ang Lee · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Nominee Steven Soderbergh · Traffic
Nominee Cameron Crowe · Almost Famous
Nominee Ridley Scott · Gladiator
Nominee Steven Soderbergh · Erin Brockovich

52nd DGA Awards · 2000

Winner Sam Mendes · American Beauty
Nominee M. Night Shyamalan · The Sixth Sense
Nominee Spike Jonze · Being John Malkovich
Nominee Frank Darabont · The Green Mile
Nominee Michael Mann · The Insider

51st DGA Awards · 1999

Winner Steven Spielberg · Saving Private Ryan
Nominee Terrence Malick · The Thin Red Line
Nominee Peter Weir · The Truman Show
Nominee John Madden · Shakespeare in Love
Nominee Roberto Benigni · Life Is Beautiful

50th DGA Awards · 1998

Winner James Cameron · Titanic
Nominee Gus Van Sant · Good Will Hunting
Nominee Steven Spielberg · Amistad
Nominee James L. Brooks · As Good as It Gets
Nominee Curtis Hanson · L.A. Confidential

49th DGA Awards · 1997

Winner Anthony Minghella · The English Patient
Nominee Cameron Crowe · Jerry Maguire
Nominee Joel Coen · Fargo
Nominee Scott Hicks · Shine
Nominee Mike Leigh · Secrets & Lies

48th DGA Awards · 1996

Winner Ron Howard · Apollo 13
Nominee Mike Figgis · Leaving Las Vegas
Nominee Ang Lee · Sense and Sensibility
Nominee Mel Gibson · Braveheart
Nominee Michael Radford · Il Postino: The Postman

47th DGA Awards · 1995

Winner Robert Zemeckis · Forrest Gump
Nominee Quentin Tarantino · Pulp Fiction
Nominee Frank Darabont · The Shawshank Redemption
Nominee Robert Redford · Quiz Show
Nominee Mike Newell · Four Weddings and a Funeral

46th DGA Awards · 1994

Winner Steven Spielberg · Schindler's List
Nominee Jane Campion · The Piano
Nominee Martin Scorsese · The Age of Innocence
Nominee Andrew Davis · The Fugitive
Nominee James Ivory · The Remains of the Day

45th DGA Awards · 1993

44th DGA Awards · 1992

Winner Jonathan Demme · The Silence of the Lambs
Nominee Oliver Stone · JFK
Nominee Barry Levinson · Bugsy
Nominee Ridley Scott · Thelma & Louise
Nominee Barbra Streisand · The Prince of Tides

43rd DGA Awards · 1991

Winner Kevin Costner · Dances with Wolves
Nominee Barry Levinson · Avalon
Nominee Francis Ford Coppola · The Godfather Part III
Nominee Martin Scorsese · Goodfellas
Nominee Giuseppe Tornatore · Cinema Paradiso

42nd DGA Awards · 1990

Winner Oliver Stone · Born on the Fourth of July
Nominee Rob Reiner · When Harry Met Sally
Nominee Woody Allen · Crimes and Misdemeanors
Nominee Peter Weir · Dead Poets Society
Nominee Phil Alden Robinson · Field of Dreams

41st DGA Awards · 1989

Winner Barry Levinson · Rain Man
Nominee Mike Nichols · Working Girl
Nominee Alan Parker · Mississippi Burning
Nominee Charles Crichton · A Fish Called Wanda
Nominee Robert Zemeckis · Who Framed Roger Rabbit

40th DGA Awards · 1988

Winner Bernardo Bertolucci · The Last Emperor
Nominee Adrian Lyne · Fatal Attraction
Nominee Lasse Hallström · My Life as a Dog
Nominee James L. Brooks · Broadcast News
Nominee Steven Spielberg · Empire of the Sun

39th DGA Awards · 1987

Winner Oliver Stone · Platoon
Nominee Randa Haines · Children of a Lesser God
Nominee Rob Reiner · Stand by Me
Nominee James Ivory · A Room with a View
Nominee Woody Allen · Hannah and Her Sisters

38th DGA Awards · 1986

Winner Steven Spielberg · The Color Purple
Nominee Peter Weir · Witness
Nominee John Huston · Prizzi's Honor
Nominee Sydney Pollack · Out of Africa
Nominee Ron Howard · Cocoon

37th DGA Awards · 1985

Winner Miloš Forman · Amadeus
Nominee Norman Jewison · A Soldier's Story
Nominee David Lean · A Passage to India
Nominee Roland Joffé · The Killing Fields
Nominee Robert Benton · Places in the Heart

36th DGA Awards · 1984

Winner James L. Brooks · Terms of Endearment
Nominee Lawrence Kasdan · The Big Chill
Nominee Bruce Beresford · Tender Mercies
Nominee Philip Kaufman · The Right Stuff
Nominee Ingmar Bergman · Fanny and Alexander

35th DGA Awards · 1983

Winner Richard Attenborough · Gandhi
Nominee Taylor Hackford · An Officer and a Gentleman
Nominee Steven Spielberg · E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Nominee Sydney Pollack · Tootsie
Nominee Wolfgang Petersen · Das Boot

34th DGA Awards · 1982

Winner Warren Beatty · Reds
Nominee Steven Spielberg · Raiders of the Lost Ark
Nominee Louis Malle · Atlantic City
Nominee Mark Rydell · On Golden Pond
Nominee Hugh Hudson · Chariots of Fire

33rd DGA Awards · 1981

Winner Robert Redford · Ordinary People
Nominee Michael Apted · Coal Miner's Daughter
Nominee David Lynch · The Elephant Man
Nominee Richard Rush · The Stunt Man
Nominee Martin Scorsese · Raging Bull

32nd DGA Awards · 1980

Winner Robert Benton · Kramer vs. Kramer
Nominee Peter Yates · Breaking Away
Nominee James Bridges · The China Syndrome
Nominee Woody Allen · Manhattan
Nominee Francis Ford Coppola · Apocalypse Now

31st DGA Awards · 1979

Winner Michael Cimino · The Deer Hunter
Nominee Alan Parker · Midnight Express
Nominee Warren Beatty · Heaven Can Wait
Nominee Paul Mazursky · An Unmarried Woman
Nominee Hal Ashby · Coming Home

30th DGA Awards · 1978

Winner Woody Allen · Annie Hall
Nominee Fred Zinnemann · Julia
Nominee George Lucas · Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
Nominee Herbert Ross · The Turning Point
Nominee Steven Spielberg · Close Encounters of the Third Kind

29th DGA Awards · 1977

Winner John G. Avildsen · Rocky
Nominee Martin Scorsese · Taxi Driver
Nominee Lina Wertmüller · Seven Beauties
Nominee Sidney Lumet · Network
Nominee Alan J. Pakula · All the President's Men

28th DGA Awards · 1976

Winner Miloš Forman · One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Nominee Steven Spielberg · Jaws
Nominee Stanley Kubrick · Barry Lyndon
Nominee Robert Altman · Nashville
Nominee Sidney Lumet · Dog Day Afternoon

27th DGA Awards · 1975

Winner Francis Ford Coppola · The Godfather Part II
Nominee The Conversation
Nominee Bob Fosse · Lenny
Nominee Sidney Lumet · Murder on the Orient Express
Nominee Roman Polanski · Chinatown

26th DGA Awards · 1974

Winner George Roy Hill · The Sting
Nominee Bernardo Bertolucci · Last Tango in Paris
Nominee William Friedkin · The Exorcist
Nominee Sidney Lumet · Serpico
Nominee George Lucas · American Graffiti

25th DGA Awards · 1973

Winner Francis Ford Coppola · The Godfather
Nominee Bob Fosse · Cabaret
Nominee George Roy Hill · Slaughterhouse-Five
Nominee John Boorman · Deliverance
Nominee Martin Ritt · Sounder

24th DGA Awards · 1972

Winner William Friedkin · The French Connection
Nominee John Schlesinger · Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Nominee Peter Bogdanovich · The Last Picture Show
Nominee Robert Mulligan · Summer of '42
Nominee Stanley Kubrick · A Clockwork Orange

23rd DGA Awards · 1971

22nd DGA Awards · 1970

Winner John Schlesinger · Midnight Cowboy
Nominee Sydney Pollack · They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Nominee Costa-Gavras · Z
Nominee Haskell Wexler · Medium Cool
Nominee George Roy Hill · Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Nominee Richard Attenborough · Oh! What a Lovely War
Nominee Larry Peerce · Goodbye, Columbus
Nominee Sam Peckinpah · The Wild Bunch
Nominee Gene Kelly · Hello, Dolly!
Nominee Dennis Hopper · Easy Rider

21st DGA Awards · 1969

Winner Anthony Harvey · The Lion in Winter
Nominee Gene Saks · The Odd Couple
Nominee Stanley Kubrick · 2001: A Space Odyssey
Nominee William Wyler · Funny Girl
Nominee Roman Polanski · Rosemary's Baby
Nominee Paul Almond · Isabel
Nominee Jiří Menzel · Closely Watched Trains
Nominee Franco Zeffirelli · Romeo and Juliet
Nominee Carol Reed · Oliver!
Nominee Paul Newman · Rachel, Rachel

20th DGA Awards · 1968

Winner Mike Nichols · The Graduate
Nominee Robert Aldrich · The Dirty Dozen
Nominee Norman Jewison · In the Heat of the Night
Nominee Stanley Donen · Two for the Road
Nominee Stanley Kramer · Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Nominee James Clavell · To Sir, with Love
Nominee Richard Brooks · In Cold Blood
Nominee Stuart Rosenberg · Cool Hand Luke
Nominee Arthur Penn · Bonnie and Clyde
Nominee Joseph Strick · Ulysses

19th DGA Awards · 1967

Winner Fred Zinnemann · A Man for All Seasons
Nominee Richard Brooks · The Professionals
Nominee John Frankenheimer · Grand Prix
Nominee Claude Lelouch · A Man and a Woman
Nominee James Hill · Born Free
Nominee Robert Wise · The Sand Pebbles
Nominee Lewis Gilbert · Alfie
Nominee Mike Nichols · Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Nominee Norman Jewison · The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
Nominee Silvio Narizzano · Georgy Girl

18th DGA Awards · 1966

Winner Robert Wise · The Sound of Music
Nominee John Schlesinger · Darling
Nominee Sidney J. Furie · The Ipcress File
Nominee Sidney Lumet · The Pawnbroker
Nominee Elliot Silverstein · Cat Ballou

17th DGA Awards · 1965

Winner George Cukor · My Fair Lady
Nominee John Huston · The Night of the Iguana
Nominee Robert Stevenson · Mary Poppins
Nominee Peter Glenville · Becket
Nominee Stanley Kubrick · Dr. Strangelove

16th DGA Awards · 1964

Winner Tony Richardson · Tom Jones
Nominee Elia Kazan · America America
Nominee Federico Fellini · 8½
Nominee Ralph Nelson · Lilies of the Field
Nominee Martin Ritt · Hud

15th DGA Awards · 1963

Winner David Lean · Lawrence of Arabia
Nominee Stanley Kubrick · Lolita
Nominee Arthur Penn · The Miracle Worker
Nominee Pietro Germi · Divorce, Italian Style
Nominee Robert Mulligan · To Kill a Mockingbird
Nominee Ralph Nelson · Requiem for a Heavyweight
Nominee Tony Richardson · A Taste of Honey
Nominee Peter Ustinov · Billy Budd
Nominee Andrew Marton · The Longest Day
Nominee Robert Aldrich · What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Nominee John Frankenheimer · The Manchurian Candidate
Nominee John Huston · Freud: The Secret Passion
Nominee Sidney Lumet · Long Day's Journey into Night
Nominee Lewis Milestone · Mutiny on the Bounty
Nominee Morton DaCosta · The Music Man

14th DGA Awards · 1962

Winner Jerome Robbins · West Side Story
Nominee Marlon Brando · One-Eyed Jacks
Nominee Peter Ustinov · Romanoff and Juliet
Nominee J. Lee Thompson · The Guns of Navarone
Nominee Frank Capra · Pocketful of Miracles
Nominee Robert Stevenson · The Absent-Minded Professor
Nominee Daniel Petrie · A Raisin in the Sun
Nominee Elia Kazan · Splendor in the Grass
Nominee Blake Edwards · Breakfast at Tiffany's
Nominee John Huston · The Misfits
Nominee Robert Mulligan · The Great Impostor
Nominee William Wyler · The Children's Hour
Nominee Joshua Logan · Fanny
Nominee Philip Leacock · Hand in Hand
Nominee Robert Rossen · The Hustler
Nominee Anthony Mann · El Cid
Nominee Mervyn LeRoy · A Majority of One
Nominee Henry Koster · Flower Drum Song
Nominee Peter Glenville · Summer and Smoke
Nominee Stanley Kramer · Judgment at Nuremberg
Nominee Jack Clayton · The Innocents

13th DGA Awards · 1961

Winner Billy Wilder · The Apartment
Nominee Lewis Gilbert · Sink the Bismarck!
Nominee Richard Brooks · Elmer Gantry
Nominee Delbert Mann · The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Nominee Vincente Minnelli · Bells Are Ringing
Nominee Alain Resnais · Hiroshima mon amour
Nominee Fred Zinnemann · The Sundowners
Nominee Carol Reed · Our Man in Havana
Nominee Charles Walters · Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Nominee Walter Lang · Can-Can
Nominee Alfred Hitchcock · Psycho
Nominee Jack Cardiff · Sons and Lovers
Nominee Vincent J. Donehue · Sunrise at Campobello

12th DGA Awards · 1960

Winner William Wyler · Ben-Hur
Nominee George Stevens · The Diary of Anne Frank
Nominee Frank Capra · A Hole in the Head
Nominee Richard Fleischer · Compulsion
Nominee Billy Wilder · Some Like It Hot
Nominee Alfred Hitchcock · North by Northwest
Nominee John Ford · The Horse Soldiers
Nominee Howard Hawks · Rio Bravo
Nominee Douglas Sirk · Imitation of Life
Nominee Leo McCarey · Rally Round the Flag, Boys!
Nominee Fred Zinnemann · The Nun's Story
Nominee Charles Barton · The Shaggy Dog
Nominee Otto Preminger · Anatomy of a Murder

11th DGA Awards · 1959

Winner Vincente Minnelli · Gigi
Nominee Alfred Hitchcock · Vertigo
Nominee Mark Robson · The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Nominee George Abbott · Damn Yankees!
Nominee Edward Dmytryk · The Young Lions
Nominee Robert Wise · I Want to Live!
Nominee Richard Brooks · The Brothers Karamazov
Nominee William Wyler · The Big Country
Nominee Delmer Daves · Cowboy
Nominee Martin Ritt · The Long, Hot Summer
Nominee Stanley Kramer · The Defiant Ones
Nominee George Seaton · Teacher's Pet
Nominee Richard Fleischer · The Vikings

10th DGA Awards · 1958

Winner David Lean · The Bridge on the River Kwai
Nominee Anthony Mann · Men in War
Nominee Robert Mulligan · Fear Strikes Out
Nominee Elia Kazan · A Face in the Crowd
Nominee George Cukor · Les Girls
Nominee Stanley Kramer · The Pride and the Passion
Nominee Joshua Logan · Sayonara
Nominee Mark Robson · Peyton Place
Nominee Leo McCarey · An Affair to Remember
Nominee José Ferrer · The Great Man
Nominee John Huston · Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Nominee Sidney Lumet · 12 Angry Men
Nominee John Sturges · Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Nominee Stanley Donen · Funny Face
Nominee Billy Wilder · Witness for the Prosecution
Nominee Fred Zinnemann · A Hatful of Rain

9th DGA Awards · 1957

Winner George Stevens · Giant
Nominee Roy Rowland · Meet Me in Las Vegas
Nominee William Wyler · Friendly Persuasion
Nominee Daniel Mann · The Teahouse of the August Moon
Nominee John Huston · Moby Dick
Nominee Henry King · Carousel
Nominee Walter Lang · The King and I
Nominee King Vidor · War and Peace
Nominee George Sidney · The Eddy Duchin Story
Nominee Carol Reed · Trapeze
Nominee Robert Wise · Somebody Up There Likes Me
Nominee Joshua Logan · Bus Stop
Nominee Robert Rossen · Alexander the Great
Nominee Nunnally Johnson · The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Nominee Michael Anderson · Around the World in 80 Days
Nominee John Ford · The Searchers
Nominee Alfred Hitchcock · The Trouble with Harry

8th DGA Awards · 1956

Winner Delbert Mann · Marty
Nominee John Ford · The Long Gray Line
Nominee Richard Brooks · Blackboard Jungle
Nominee Charles Vidor · Love Me or Leave Me
Nominee Mark Robson · The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Nominee Daniel Mann · The Rose Tattoo
Nominee Billy Wilder · The Seven Year Itch
Nominee Joshua Logan · Picnic
Nominee Elia Kazan · East of Eden
Nominee Henry Koster · A Man Called Peter
Nominee John Sturges · Bad Day at Black Rock

7th DGA Awards · 1955

Winner Elia Kazan · On the Waterfront
Nominee William A. Wellman · The High and the Mighty
Nominee Melvin Frank · Knock on Wood
Nominee George Cukor · A Star Is Born
Nominee Samuel Fuller · Hell and High Water
Nominee Anthony Mann · The Glenn Miller Story
Nominee Jean Negulesco · Three Coins in the Fountain
Nominee Edward Dmytryk · The Caine Mutiny
Nominee Henry King · King of the Khyber Rifles
Nominee George Seaton · The Country Girl
Nominee Robert Wise · Executive Suite
Nominee Alfred Hitchcock · Rear Window
Nominee Stanley Donen · Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Nominee Billy Wilder · Sabrina
Nominee Don Siegel · Riot in Cell Block 11

6th DGA Awards · 1954

Winner Fred Zinnemann · From Here to Eternity
Nominee Charles Walters · Lili
Nominee Joseph L. Mankiewicz · Julius Caesar
Nominee George Sidney · Young Bess
Nominee William Wyler · Roman Holiday
Nominee Jean Negulesco · Titanic
Nominee Melvin Frank · Above and Beyond
Nominee Walter Lang · Call Me Madam
Nominee George Stevens · Shane
Nominee Billy Wilder · Stalag 17
Nominee Daniel Mann · Come Back, Little Sheba
Nominee Henry Koster · The Robe

5th DGA Awards · 1953

Winner John Ford · The Quiet Man
Nominee Albert Lewin · Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Nominee Howard Hawks · The Big Sky
Nominee Vincente Minnelli · The Bad and the Beautiful
Nominee Hugo Fregonese · My Six Convicts
Nominee Cecil B. DeMille · The Greatest Show on Earth
Nominee Charles Vidor · Hans Christian Andersen
Nominee Richard Thorpe · Ivanhoe
Nominee Charles Crichton · The Lavender Hill Mob
Nominee George Sidney · Scaramouche
Nominee Elia Kazan · Viva Zapata!
Nominee Fred Zinnemann · High Noon
Nominee Akira Kurosawa · Rashomon
Nominee Gene Kelly · Singin' in the Rain
Nominee George Cukor · Pat and Mike
Nominee Henry King · The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Nominee Michael Curtiz · I'll See You in My Dreams
Nominee Joseph L. Mankiewicz · 5 Fingers

4th DGA Awards · 1952

Winner George Stevens · A Place in the Sun
Nominee Richard Thorpe · The Great Caruso
Nominee Alfred Hitchcock · Strangers on a Train
Nominee Elia Kazan · A Streetcar Named Desire
Nominee Mervyn LeRoy · Quo Vadis
Nominee Henry King · David and Bathsheba
Nominee George Sidney · Show Boat
Nominee Anatole Litvak · Decision Before Dawn
Nominee László Benedek · Death of a Salesman
Nominee Michael Gordon · Cyrano de Bergerac
Nominee Vincente Minnelli · An American in Paris
Nominee William Wyler · Detective Story

3rd DGA Awards · 1951

Winner Joseph L. Mankiewicz · All About Eve
Nominee Vincente Minnelli · Father's Little Dividend
Nominee Billy Wilder · Sunset Boulevard
Nominee John Huston · The Asphalt Jungle

2nd DGA Awards · 1950

Winner Robert Rossen · All the King's Men
Nominee Alfred L. Werker · Lost Boundaries
Nominee Mark Robson · Champion
Nominee Carol Reed · The Third Man

1st DGA Awards · 1949

Winner Joseph L. Mankiewicz · A Letter to Three Wives
Nominee Howard Hawks · Red River
Nominee Anatole Litvak · The Snake Pit
Nominee Fred Zinnemann · The Search