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Directors Guild of America, USA: 1955

DGA Award

Date:	13 February
Location:	Biltmore Bowl, Los Angeles, California, USA

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures


Winner:
	On the Waterfront (1954) - Elia Kazan; Charles H. Maguire (assistant director) (plaque)
Other Nominees:
	A Star Is Born (1954) - George Cukor Dial M for Murder (1954) - Alfred Hitchcock (I) Executive Suite (1954) - Robert Wise (I) Hell and High Water (1954) - Samuel Fuller King of the Khyber Rifles (1953) - Henry King (I) Knock on Wood (1954) - Melvin Frank; Norman Panama Rear Window (1954) - Alfred Hitchcock (I) Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954) - Don Siegel Sabrina (1954) - Billy Wilder Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) - Stanley Donen The Caine Mutiny (1954) - Edward Dmytryk The Country Girl (1954) - George Seaton (I) The Glenn Miller Story (1954) - Anthony Mann (I) The High and the Mighty (1954) - William A. Wellman Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) - Jean Negulesco

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television


Winner:
	"Four Star Playhouse" (1952) - Roy Kellino; Jack Sonntag (assistant director) (plaque) - For episode "The Answer".
Other Nominees:
	"Dragnet" (1951) - Jack Webb (I) - For episode "The Big Producer". "I Love Lucy" (1951) - William Asher - For episode "Lucy's Mother-in-Law". "Letter to Loretta" (1953) - Robert Florey - For episode "The Clara Schumann Story". "Waterfront" (1954) - Ted Post - For episode "High Water".

DGA Honorary Life Member Award


Awarded to:
	Walt Disney