1953 DGA Awards – Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film Winner and Nominees

The Quiet Man

John Ford

A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love.

5 Fingers

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Hans Christian Andersen

Charles Vidor

High Noon

Fred Zinnemann

I’ll See You in My Dreams

Michael Curtiz

Ivanhoe

Richard Thorpe

My Six Convicts

Hugo Fregonese

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

Albert Lewin

Pat and Mike

George Cukor

Rashomon

Akira Kurosawa

Scaramouche

George Sidney

Singin’ in the Rain

Stanley Donen

The Bad and the Beautiful

Vincente Minnelli

The Big Sky

Howard Hawks

The Greatest Show on Earth

Cecil B. DeMille

The Lavender Hill Mob

Charles Crichton

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Henry King

Viva Zapata!

Elia Kazan