Directors Guild of America Awards Winners & Nominees by Award Year
11
1952
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2391
1952
George Sidney
Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh, Mel Ferrer, Henry Wilcoxon
Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English
10
1952
Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell
Musical / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English
1940
1952
Henry King
Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Hildegard Knef
Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English
992
1952
Elia Kazan
Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn, Joseph Wiseman
Drama / Biography
USA
English
371
1951 *
George Stevens
Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor
Drama / Film-Noir / Romance
USA
English
205
1951
Vincente Minnelli
Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary, Nina Foch
Musical / Romance
USA
English
1275
1951
Michael Gordon
José Ferrer, Mala Powers
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2447
1951
Henry King
Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Raymond Massey, Kieron Moore
Drama / Romance / History / Religion / Epic
USA
English
751
1951
László Benedek
Fredric March, Mildred Dunnock, Kevin McCarthy, Cameron Mitchell
Drama
USA
English
1801
1951
Anatole Litvak
Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill, Oskar Werner
Drama / War / Thriller / Spy / Action
USA
English
1090
1951
William Wyler
Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Detective
USA
English
2260
1951
Richard Thorpe
Mario Lanza, Ann Blyth, Dorothy Kirsten, Jarmila Novotna, Richard Hageman
Biography / Drama / Music
USA
English
1466
1951
Mervyn LeRoy
Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov, Patricia Laffan
Drama / Epic / History / Religion
USA
English
2447
1951
George Sidney
Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Joe E. Brown, Marge Champion
Drama / Musical / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
221
1951
Alfred Hitchcock
Farley Granger, Robert Walker
Thriller / Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
113
1951
Elia Kazan
Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond
Drama
USA
English
44
1950 *
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill
Drama
USA
English
276
1950
John Huston
Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Caper / Gangster
USA
English
2718
1950
Vincente Minnelli
Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Don Taylor, Billie Burke
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
40
1950
Billy Wilder
William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olson
Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
1407
1949
Mark Robson
Kirk Douglas, Arthur Kennedy, Marilyn Maxwell, Paul Stewart
Drama / Film-Noir / Sports
USA
English
2718
1949
Alfred L. Werker
Beatrice Pearson, Mel Ferrer, Richard Hylton, Susan Douglas Rubes
Drama
USA
English
78
1949
Carol Reed
Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee
Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Spy
UK
English
1008
1948 *
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
197
1948
Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson
John Wayne, Montgomery Clift
Western / Action / Adventure / Epic
USA
English
1086
1948
Fred Zinnemann
Montgomery Clift, Aline MacMahon, Jarmila Novotna, Wendell Corey
Drama / War
Switzerland / USA
English
