Directors Guild of America, USA: 1953

DGA Award

Date:	1 February
Location:	Biltmore Bowl, Los Angeles, California, USA

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures


Winner:
	The Quiet Man (1952) - John Ford (I); Wingate Smith (assistant director) (plaque)
Other Nominees:
	5 Fingers (1952) - Joseph L. Mankiewicz Hans Christian Andersen (1952) - Charles Vidor High Noon (1952) - Fred Zinnemann I'll See You in My Dreams (1951) - Michael Curtiz Ivanhoe (1952) - Richard Thorpe (I) My Six Convicts (1952) - Hugo Fregonese Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) - Albert Lewin Pat and Mike (1952) - George Cukor Rashômon (1950) - Akira Kurosawa Scaramouche (1952) - George Sidney (II) Singin' in the Rain (1952) - Stanley Donen; Gene Kelly (I) The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) - Vincente Minnelli The Big Sky (1952) - Howard Hawks The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) - Cecil B. DeMille The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) - Charles Crichton The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) - Henry King (I) Viva Zapata! (1952) - Elia Kazan