1961 DGA Awards – Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film Winner and Nominees

The Apartment

Billy Wilder

A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.

Bells Are Ringing

Vincente Minnelli

Can-Can

Walter Lang

Elmer Gantry

Richard Brooks

Hiroshima mon amour

Alain Resnais

Home from the Hill

Vincente Minnelli

Our Man in Havana

Carol Reed

Please Don’t Eat the Daisies

Charles Walters

Psycho

Alfred Hitchcock

Sink the Bismarck!

Lewis Gilbert

Sons and Lovers

Jack Cardiff

Sunrise at Campobello

Vincent J. Donehue

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

Delbert Mann

The Sundowners

Fred Zinnemann