1958 DGA Awards – Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film Winner and Nominees

The Bridge on the River Kwai

David Lean

British POWs build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors, oblivious of the Allies’ plans to destroy it.

12 Angry Men

Sidney Lumet

A Face in the Crowd

Elia Kazan

A Hatful of Rain

Fred Zinnemann

An Affair to Remember

Leo McCarey

Fear Strikes Out

Robert Mulligan

Funny Face

Stanley Donen

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

John Sturges

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

John Huston

Les Girls

George Cukor

Love in the Afternoon

Billy Wilder

Men in War

Anthony Mann

Peyton Place

Mark Robson

Sayonara

Joshua Logan

The Great Man

José Ferrer

The Pride and the Passion

Stanley Kramer

Witness for the Prosecution

Billy Wilder