Directors Guild of America Award untuk Penyutradaraan Film Fitur Terbaik
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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 ‡