Directors Guild of America Award untuk Penyutradaraan Film Fitur Terbaik

Directors Guild of America Award untuk Penyutradaraan Film Fitur Terbaik adalah salah satu penghargaan tahunan yang diberikan oleh Directors Guild of America. Dengan 3 kemenangan dari 11 nominasi, Steven Spielberg merupakan sutradara paling banyak dinominasikan sekaligus paling banyak meraih penghargaan untuk kategori tersebut sepanjang sejarah DGA.

Pemenang dan nominee 
 † – menandakan pemenang Academy Award untuk Sutradara Terbaik.
 ‡ – menandakan nominasi Academy Award untuk Sutradara Terbaik.

1940an 
 1948: Joseph L. Mankiewicz – A Letter to Three Wives †
 Howard Hawks – Red River
 Anatole Litvak – The Snake Pit ‡
 Fred Zinnemann – The Search ‡
 1949: Robert Rossen – All the King's Men ‡
 Carol Reed – The Third Man ‡
 Mark Robson – Champion
 Alfred L. Werker – Lost Boundaries

1950an 
 1950: Joseph L. Mankiewicz – All About Eve †
 John Huston – The Asphalt Jungle ‡
 Vincente Minnelli – Father's Little Dividend
 Billy Wilder – Sunset Boulevard ‡
 1951: George Stevens – A Place in the Sun †
 László Benedek – Death of a Salesman
 Michael Gordon – Cyrano de Bergerac
 Alfred Hitchcock – Strangers on a Train
 Elia Kazan – A Streetcar Named Desire ‡
 Henry King – David and Bathsheba
 Mervyn LeRoy – Quo Vadis
 Anatole Litvak – Decision Before Dawn
 Vincente Minnelli – An American in Paris ‡
 George Sidney – Show Boat
 Richard Thorpe – The Great Caruso
 William Wyler – Detective Story ‡
 1952: John Ford – The Quiet Man †
 Charles Crichton – The Lavender Hill Mob
 George Cukor – Pat and Mike
 Michael Curtiz – I'll See You in My Dreams
 Cecil B. DeMille – The Greatest Show on Earth ‡
 Hugo Fregonese – My Six Convicts
 Howard Hawks – The Big Sky
 Elia Kazan – Viva Zapata!
 Gene Kelly dan Stanley Donen – Singin' in the Rain
 Henry King – The Snows of Kilimanjaro
 Akira Kurosawa – Rashomon
 Albert Lewin – Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
 Joseph L. Mankiewicz – 5 Fingers ‡
 Vincente Minnelli – The Bad and the Beautiful
 George Sidney – Scaramouche
 Richard Thorpe – Ivanhoe
 Charles Vidor – Hans Christian Andersen
 Fred Zinnemann – High Noon ‡
 1953: Fred Zinnemann – From Here to Eternity †
 Melvin Frank dan Norman Panama – Above and Beyond
 Henry Koster – The Robe
 Walter Lang – Call Me Madam
 Joseph L. Mankiewicz – Julius Caesar
 Daniel Mann – Come Back, Little Sheba
 Jean Negulesco – Titanic
 George Sidney – Young Bess
 George Stevens – Shane ‡
 Charles Walters – Lili ‡
 Billy Wilder – Stalag 17 ‡
 William Wyler – Roman Holiday ‡
 1954: Elia Kazan – On the Waterfront †
 George Cukor – A Star Is Born
 Edward Dmytryk – The Caine Mutiny
 Stanley Donen – Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
 Melvin Frank dan Norman Panama – Knock on Wood
 Samuel Fuller – Hell and High Water
 Alfred Hitchcock – Rear Window ‡
 Henry King – King of the Khyber Rifles
 Anthony Mann – The Glenn Miller Story
 Jean Negulesco – Three Coins in the Fountain
 George Seaton – The Country Girl ‡
 Don Siegel – Riot in Cell Block 11
 William A. Wellman – The High and the Mighty ‡
 Robert Wise – Executive Suite
 Billy Wilder – Sabrina ‡
 1955: Delbert Mann – Marty †
 Richard Brooks – Blackboard Jungle
 John Ford – The Long Gray Line
 Elia Kazan – East of Eden ‡
 Henry Koster – A Man Called Peter
 Joshua Logan – Picnic ‡
 Daniel Mann – The Rose Tattoo
 Mark Robson – The Bridges at Toko-Ri
 John Sturges – Bad Day at Black Rock ‡
 Charles Vidor – Love Me or Leave Me
 Billy Wilder – The Seven Year Itch
 1956: George Stevens – Giant †
 Michael Anderson – Around the World in 80 Days ‡
 John Huston – Moby Dick
 Joshua Logan – Bus Stop
 Daniel Mann – Teahouse of the August Moon
 King Vidor – War and Peace ‡
 Robert Wise – Somebody Up There Likes Me
 William Wyler – Friendly Persuasion ‡
 1957: David Lean – The Bridge on the River Kwai †
 George Cukor – Les Girls
 Stanley Donen – Funny Face
 José Ferrer – The Great Man
 John Huston – Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
 Elia Kazan – A Face in the Crowd
 Stanley Kramer – The Pride and the Passion
 Anthony Mann – Men in War
 Leo McCarey – An Affair to Remember
 Robert Mulligan – Fear Strikes Out
 John Sturges – Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
 Fred Zinnemann – A Hatful of Rain
 1958: Vincente Minnelli – Gigi †
 George Abbott and Stanley Donen – Damn Yankees
 Richard Brooks – The Brothers Karamazov
 Delmer Daves – Cowboy
 Edward Dmytryk – The Young Lions
 Richard Fleischer – The Vikings
 Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo
 Martin Ritt – The Long, Hot Summer
 George Seaton – Teacher's Pet
 William Wyler – The Big Country
 1959: William Wyler – Ben-Hur †
 Charles Barton – The Shaggy Dog
 Frank Capra – A Hole in the Head
 Richard Fleischer – Compulsion
 John Ford – The Horse Soldiers
 Howard Hawks – Rio Bravo
 Alfred Hitchcock – North by Northwest
 Leo McCarey – Rally Round the Flag, Boys!
 Otto Preminger – Anatomy of a Murder
 Douglas Sirk – Imitation of Life
 George Stevens – The Diary of Anne Frank ‡
 Billy Wilder – Some Like It Hot ‡
 Fred Zinnemann – The Nun's Story ‡

1960an 
 1960: Billy Wilder – The Apartment †
 Richard Brooks – Elmer Gantry
 Vincent J. Donehue – Sunrise at Campobello
 Lewis Gilbert – Sink the Bismarck!
 Walter Lang – Can-Can
 Delbert Mann – The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
 Carol Reed – Our Man in Havana
 Alain Resnais – Hiroshima mon amour
 Charles Walters – Please Don't Eat the Daisies
 1961: Robert Wise dan Jerome Robbins – West Side Story †
 Marlon Brando – One-Eyed Jacks
 Frank Capra – Pocketful of Miracles
 Jack Clayton – The Innocents
 Peter Glenville – Summer and Smoke
 John Huston – The Misfits
 Elia Kazan – Splendor in the Grass
 Henry Koster – Flower Drum Song
 Stanley Kramer – Judgment at Nuremberg ‡
 Philip Leacock – Hand in Hand
 Mervyn LeRoy – A Majority of One
 Joshua Logan – Fanny
 Anthony Mann – El Cid
 Robert Mulligan – The Great Impostor
 Daniel Petrie – A Raisin in the Sun
 Robert Stevenson – The Absent-Minded Professor
 Peter Ustinov – Romanoff and Juliet
 William Wyler – The Children's Hour
 1962: David Lean – Lawrence of Arabia †
 Robert Aldrich – What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
 Morton DaCosta – The Music Man
 Stanley Kubrick – Lolita
 Lewis Milestone – Mutiny on the Bounty
 Robert Mulligan – To Kill a Mockingbird ‡
 Ralph Nelson – Requiem for a Heavyweight
 Arthur Penn – The Miracle Worker ‡
 Tony Richardson – A Taste of Honey
 1963: Tony Richardson – Tom Jones †
 Federico Fellini – 8½ ‡
 Elia Kazan – America America ‡
 Ralph Nelson – Lilies of the Field
 Martin Ritt – Hud ‡
 1964: George Cukor – My Fair Lady †
 Peter Glenville – Becket ‡
 John Huston – The Night of the Iguana
 Stanley Kubrick – Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ‡
 Robert Stevenson – Mary Poppins ‡
 1965: Robert Wise – The Sound of Music †
 Sidney J. Furie – The Ipcress File
 Sidney Lumet – The Pawnbroker
 John Schlesinger – Darling ‡
 Elliot Silverstein – Cat Ballou
 1966: Fred Zinnemann – A Man for All Seasons †
 Richard Brooks – The Professionals ‡
 John Frankenheimer – Grand Prix
 Lewis Gilbert – Alfie
 James Hill – Born Free
 Norman Jewison – The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
 Claude Lelouch – A Man and a Woman ‡
 Silvio Narizzano – Georgy Girl
 Mike Nichols – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ‡
 Robert Wise – The Sand Pebbles
 1967: Mike Nichols – The Graduate †
 Robert Aldrich – The Dirty Dozen
 Richard Brooks – In Cold Blood ‡
 James Clavell – To Sir, with Love
 Stanley Donen – Two for the Road
 Norman Jewison – In the Heat of the Night ‡
 Stanley Kramer – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner ‡
 Arthur Penn – Bonnie and Clyde ‡
 Stuart Rosenberg – Cool Hand Luke
 Joseph Strick – Ulysses
 1968: Anthony Harvey – The Lion in Winter ‡
 Paul Almond – Isabel
 Stanley Kubrick – 2001: A Space Odyssey ‡
 Jiří Menzel – Closely Watched Trains
 Paul Newman – Rachel, Rachel
 Roman Polanski – Rosemary's Baby
 Carol Reed – Oliver! †
 Gene Saks – The Odd Couple
 William Wyler – Funny Girl
 Franco Zeffirelli – Romeo and Juliet ‡
 1969: John Schlesinger – Midnight Cowboy †
 Richard Attenborough – Oh! What a Lovely War
 Costa-Gavras – Z ‡
 George Roy Hill – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ‡
 Dennis Hopper – Easy Rider
 Gene Kelly – Hello, Dolly!
 Sam Peckinpah – The Wild Bunch
 Larry Peerce – Goodbye, Columbus
 Sydney Pollack – They Shoot Horses, Don't They? ‡
 Haskell Wexler – Medium Cool

1970an 
 1970: Franklin J. Schaffner – Patton †
 Robert Altman – M*A*S*H ‡
 Arthur Hiller – Love Story ‡
 David Lean – Ryan's Daughter
 Bob Rafelson – Five Easy Pieces
 1971: William Friedkin – The French Connection †
 Peter Bogdanovich – The Last Picture Show ‡
 Stanley Kubrick – A Clockwork Orange ‡
 Robert Mulligan – Summer of '42
 John Schlesinger – Sunday Bloody Sunday ‡
 1972: Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather ‡
 John Boorman – Deliverance ‡
 Bob Fosse – Cabaret †
 George Roy Hill – Slaughterhouse-Five
 Martin Ritt – Sounder
 1973: George Roy Hill – The Sting †
 Bernardo Bertolucci – Last Tango in Paris ‡
 William Friedkin – The Exorcist ‡
 George Lucas – American Graffiti ‡
 Sidney Lumet – Serpico
 1974: Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather Part II †
 Francis Ford Coppola – The Conversation
 Bob Fosse – Lenny ‡
 Sidney Lumet – Murder on the Orient Express
 Roman Polanski – Chinatown ‡
 1975: Miloš Forman – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest †
 Robert Altman – Nashville ‡
 Stanley Kubrick – Barry Lyndon ‡
 Sidney Lumet – Dog Day Afternoon ‡
 Steven Spielberg – Jaws
 1976: John G. Avildsen – Rocky †
 Sidney Lumet – Network ‡
 Alan J. Pakula – All the President's Men ‡
 Martin Scorsese – Taxi Driver
 Lina Wertmüller – Seven Beauties ‡
 1977: Woody Allen – Annie Hall †
 George Lucas – Star Wars ‡
 Herbert Ross – The Turning Point ‡
 Steven Spielberg – Close Encounters of the Third Kind ‡
 Fred Zinnemann – Julia ‡
 1978: Michael Cimino – The Deer Hunter †
 Hal Ashby – Coming Home ‡
 Warren Beatty dan Buck Henry – Heaven Can Wait ‡
 Paul Mazursky – An Unmarried Woman
 Alan Parker – Midnight Express ‡
 1979: Robert Benton – Kramer vs. Kramer †
 Woody Allen – Manhattan
 James Bridges – The China Syndrome
 Francis Ford Coppola – Apocalypse Now ‡
 Peter Yates – Breaking Away ‡

1980an 
 1980: Robert Redford – Ordinary People †
 Michael Apted – Coal Miner's Daughter
 David Lynch – The Elephant Man ‡
 Richard Rush – The Stunt Man ‡
 Martin Scorsese – Raging Bull ‡
 1981: Warren Beatty – Reds †
 Hugh Hudson – Chariots of Fire ‡
 Louis Malle – Atlantic City ‡
 Mark Rydell – On Golden Pond ‡
 Steven Spielberg – Raiders of the Lost Ark ‡
 1982: Richard Attenborough – Gandhi †
 Taylor Hackford – An Officer and a Gentleman
 Wolfgang Petersen – Das Boot ‡
 Sydney Pollack – Tootsie ‡
 Steven Spielberg – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ‡
 1983: James L. Brooks – Terms of Endearment †
 Bruce Beresford – Tender Mercies ‡
 Ingmar Bergman – Fanny and Alexander ‡
 Lawrence Kasdan – The Big Chill
 Philip Kaufman – The Right Stuff
 1984: Miloš Forman – Amadeus †
 Robert Benton – Places in the Heart ‡
 Norman Jewison – A Soldier's Story
 Roland Joffé – The Killing Fields ‡
 David Lean – A Passage to India ‡
 1985: Steven Spielberg – The Color Purple
 Ron Howard – Cocoon
 John Huston – Prizzi's Honor ‡
 Sydney Pollack – Out of Africa †
 Peter Weir – Witness ‡
 1986: Oliver Stone – Platoon †
 Woody Allen – Hannah and Her Sisters ‡
 Randa Haines – Children of a Lesser God
 James Ivory – A Room with a View ‡
 Rob Reiner – Stand by Me
 1987: Bernardo Bertolucci – The Last Emperor †
 James L. Brooks – Broadcast News
 Lasse Hallström – My Life as a Dog ‡
 Adrian Lyne – Fatal Attraction ‡
 Steven Spielberg – Empire of the Sun
 1988: Barry Levinson – Rain Man †
 Charles Crichton – A Fish Called Wanda ‡
 Mike Nichols – Working Girl ‡
 Alan Parker – Mississippi Burning ‡
 Robert Zemeckis – Who Framed Roger Rabbit
 1989: Oliver Stone – Born on the Fourth of July †
 Woody Allen – Crimes and Misdemeanors ‡
 Rob Reiner – When Harry Met Sally...
 Phil Alden Robinson – Field of Dreams
 Peter Weir – Dead Poets Society ‡

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