1959 DGA Awards – Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film Winner and Nominees

Gigi

Vincente Minnelli

Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Richard Brooks

Cowboy

Delmer Daves

Damn Yankees

George Abbott

I Want to Live!

Robert Wise

Teacher’s Pet

George Seaton

The Big Country

William Wyler

The Brothers Karamazov

Richard Brooks

The Defiant Ones

Stanley Kramer

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

Mark Robson

The Long, Hot Summer

Martin Ritt

The Vikings

Richard Fleischer

The Young Lions

Edward Dmytryk

Vertigo

Alfred Hitchcock