Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film 1953
5th Directors Guild of America Awards · 18 nominees
- Winner John Ford · The Quiet Man
- Nominee Joseph L. Mankiewicz · 5 Fingers
- Nominee Charles Vidor · Hans Christian Andersen
- Nominee Fred Zinnemann · High Noon
- Nominee Michael Curtiz · I'll See You in My Dreams
- Nominee Richard Thorpe · Ivanhoe
- Nominee Hugo Fregonese · My Six Convicts
- Nominee Albert Lewin · Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
- Nominee George Cukor · Pat and Mike
- Nominee Akira Kurosawa · Rashomon
- Nominee George Sidney · Scaramouche
- Nominee Gene Kelly · Singin' in the Rain
- Nominee Vincente Minnelli · The Bad and the Beautiful
- Nominee Howard Hawks · The Big Sky
- Nominee Cecil B. DeMille · The Greatest Show on Earth
- Nominee Charles Crichton · The Lavender Hill Mob
- Nominee Henry King · The Snows of Kilimanjaro
- Nominee Elia Kazan · Viva Zapata!
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