1962 DGA Awards – Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film Winner and Nominees

West Side Story

Robert Wise

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.

A Majority of One

Mervyn LeRoy

A Raisin in the Sun

Daniel Petrie

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Blake Edwards

El Cid

Anthony Mann

Fanny

Joshua Logan

Flower Drum Song

Henry Koster

Hand in Hand

Philip Leacock

Judgment at Nuremberg

Stanley Kramer

One-Eyed Jacks

Marlon Brando

Pocketful of Miracles

Frank Capra

Romanoff and Juliet

Peter Ustinov

Splendor in the Grass

Elia Kazan

Summer and Smoke

Peter Glenville

The Absent Minded Professor

Robert Stevenson

The Children’s Hour

William Wyler

The Great Impostor

Robert Mulligan

The Guns of Navarone

J. Lee Thompson

The Hustler

Robert Rossen

The Innocents

Jack Clayton

The Misfits

John Huston