Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film
Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures is one of the annual awards given by Directors Guild of America. With 3 wins out of 11 nominations, Steven Spielberg is both the most awarded and most nominated director in the Feature film category in the history of DGA.
The DGA Award for Feature Film has traditionally been a near perfect barometer for the Academy Award for Best Director. Only six times since the DGA Award's inception has the DGA Award winner not won the Academy Award; in 1968 (Carol Reed won the Oscar for directing Oliver!); 1972 (Bob Fosse won the Oscar for directing Cabaret); 1985 (Sydney Pollack won the Oscar for directing Out of Africa); 1995 (Mel Gibson won for directing Braveheart); 2000 (Steven Soderbergh won the Oscar for directing Traffic); 2002 (Roman Polanski won the Oscar for directing The Pianist); and 2012 (Ang Lee won the Oscar for directing Life of Pi).
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Winners and nominees
† Won Academy Award for Best Director
1940s
- 1949: Robert Rossen - All the King's Men
1950s
- 1950: Joseph L. Mankiewicz† - All About Eve
- 1951: George Stevens† - A Place in the Sun
- 1952: John Ford† - The Quiet Man
- George Cukor - Pat and Mike
- Michael Curtiz - I'll See You in My Dreams
- Cecil DeMille - The Greatest Show on Earth
- Hugo Fregonese - My Six Convicts
- Howard Hawks - The Big Sky
- Elia Kazan - Viva Zapata!
- Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen - Singin' in the Rain
- Henry King - The Snows of Kilimanjaro
- Akira Kurosawa - Rashomon
- Albert Lewin - Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
- Vincente Minnelli - The Bad and the Beautiful
- George Sidney - Scaramouche
- Richard Thorpe - Ivanhoe
- Charles Vidor - Hans Christian Andersen
- 1953: Fred Zinnemann† - From Here to Eternity
- 1954: Elia Kazan† - On the Waterfront
- George Cukor - A Star Is Born
- Edward Dmytryk - The Caine Mutiny
- Stanley Donen - Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
- Melvin Frank - Knock on Wood
- Samuel Fuller - Hell and High Water
- Henry King - King of the Khyber Rifles
- Anthony Mann - The Glenn Miller Story
- Jean Negulesco - Three Coins in the Fountain
- Donald Siegel - Riot in Cell Block 11
- Robert Wise - Executive Suite
- 1955: Delbert Mann† - Marty
- 1956: George Stevens† - Giant
- 1957: David Lean† - The Bridge on the River Kwai
- George Cukor - Les Girls
- Stanley Donen - Funny Face
- Jose Ferrer - The Great Man
- John Huston - Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
- Elia Kazan - A Face in the Crowd
- Stanley Kramer - The Pride and the Passion
- Anthony Mann - Men in War
- Leo McCarey - An Affair to Remember
- Robert Mulligan - Fear Strikes Out
- John Sturges - Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
- Fred Zinnemann - A Hatful of Rain
- 1958: Vincente Minnelli† - Gigi
- 1959: William Wyler† - Ben-Hur
1960s
- 1960: Billy Wilder† - The Apartment
- Richard Brooks - Elmer Gantry
- Jack Cardiff - Sons and Lovers
- Vincent J. Donehue - Sunrise at Campobello
- Lewis Gilbert - Sink the Bismarck!
- Alfred Hitchcock - Psycho
- Walter Lang - Can-Can
- Delbert Mann - The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
- Vincente Minnelli - Bells Are Ringing
- Vincente Minnelli - Home from the Hill
- Carol Reed - Our Man in Havana
- Alain Resnais - Hiroshima, My Love (Hiroshima mon amour)
- Charles Walters - Please Don't Eat the Daisies
- Fred Zinnemann - The Sundowners
- 1961: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins† - West Side Story
- Marlon Brando - One-Eyed Jacks
- Frank Capra - Pocketful of Miracles
- Jack Clayton - The Innocents
- Blake Edwards - Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Peter Glenville - Summer and Smoke
- John Huston - The Misfits
- Elia Kazan - Splendor in the Grass
- Henry Koster - Flower Drum Song
- Stanley Kramer - Judgment at Nuremberg
- Philip Leacock - Hand in Hand
- Mervyn LeRoy - A Majority of One
- Joshua Logan - Fanny
- Anthony Mann - El Cid
- Robert Mulligan - The Great Impostor
- Daniel Petrie - A Raisin in the Sun
- Robert Rossen - The Hustler
- Robert Stevenson - The Absent-Minded Professor
- J. Lee Thompson - The Guns of Navarone
- Peter Ustinov - Romanoff and Juliet
- William Wyler - The Children's Hour
- 1962: David Lean† - Lawrence of Arabia
- Robert Aldrich - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
- Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton and Bernhard Wicki - The Longest Day
- Morton DaCosta - The Music Man
- John Frankenheimer - The Manchurian Candidate
- Pietro Germi - Divorce, Italian Style
- John Huston - Freud
- Stanley Kubrick - Lolita
- Sidney Lumet - Long Day's Journey into Night
- Lewis Milestone - Mutiny on the Bounty
- Robert Mulligan - To Kill a Mockingbird
- Ralph Nelson - Requiem for a Heavyweight
- Arthur Penn - The Miracle Worker
- Tony Richardson - A Taste of Honey
- Peter Ustinov - Billy Budd
- 1963: Tony Richardson† - Tom Jones
- 1964: George Cukor† - My Fair Lady
- 1965: Robert Wise† - The Sound of Music
- 1966: Fred Zinnemann† - A Man for All Seasons
- Richard Brooks - The Professionals
- John Frankenheimer - Grand Prix
- Lewis Gilbert - Alfie
- James Hill - Born Free
- Norman Jewison - The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
- Claude Lelouch - A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme)
- Silvio Narizzano - Georgy Girl
- Mike Nichols - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Robert Wise - The Sand Pebbles
- 1967: Mike Nichols† - The Graduate
- Robert Aldrich - The Dirty Dozen
- Richard Brooks - In Cold Blood
- James Clavell - To Sir, with Love
- Stanley Donen - Two for the Road
- Norman Jewison - In the Heat of the Night
- Stanley Kramer - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- Arthur Penn - Bonnie and Clyde
- Stuart Rosenberg - Cool Hand Luke
- Joseph Strick - Ulysses
- 1968: Anthony Harvey - The Lion in Winter
- 1969: John Schlesinger† - Midnight Cowboy
- Richard Attenborough - Oh! What a Lovely War
- Costa-Gavras - Z
- George Roy Hill - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Dennis Hopper - Easy Rider
- Gene Kelly - Hello, Dolly!
- Larry Peerce - Goodbye, Columbus
- Sam Peckinpah - The Wild Bunch
- Sydney Pollack - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
- Haskell Wexler - Medium Cool
1970s
- 1970: Franklin J. Schaffner† - Patton
- 1971: William Friedkin† - The French Connection
- 1972: Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather
- 1973: George Roy Hill† - The Sting
- 1976: John G. Avildsen† - Rocky
- 1977: Woody Allen† - Annie Hall
- 1978: Michael Cimino† - The Deer Hunter
- 1979: Robert Benton† - Kramer vs. Kramer
1980s
- 1980: Robert Redford† - Ordinary People
- 1981: Warren Beatty† - Reds
- 1982: Richard Attenborough† - Gandhi
- 1983: James L. Brooks† - Terms of Endearment
- 1984: Miloš Forman† - Amadeus
- 1985: Steven Spielberg - The Color Purple (not an Oscar nominee)
- 1986: Oliver Stone† - Platoon
- 1987: Bernardo Bertolucci† - The Last Emperor
- 1988: Barry Levinson† - Rain Man
- 1989: Oliver Stone† - Born on the Fourth of July
1990s
- 1993: Steven Spielberg† – Schindler's List
- 1994: Robert Zemeckis† – Forrest Gump
- 1995: Ron Howard – Apollo 13 (not an Oscar nominee)
- 1996: Anthony Minghella† – The English Patient
- 1997: James Cameron† – Titanic
- 1998: Steven Spielberg† – Saving Private Ryan
- 1999: Sam Mendes† – American Beauty
2000s
2010s
See also
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