1955 DGA Awards – Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film Winner and Nominees

On the Waterfront

Elia Kazan

An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.

A Star Is Born

George Cukor

Dial M for Murder

Alfred Hitchcock

Executive Suite

Robert Wise

Hell and High Water

Samuel Fuller

King of the Khyber Rifles

Henry King

Knock on Wood

Melvin Frank

Rear Window

Alfred Hitchcock

Riot in Cell Block 11

Don Siegel

Sabrina

Billy Wilder

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Stanley Donen

The Caine Mutiny

Edward Dmytryk

The Country Girl

George Seaton

The Glenn Miller Story

Anthony Mann

The High and the Mighty

William A. Wellman

Three Coins in the Fountain

Jean Negulesco