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Directors Guild of America, USA: 1957

DGA Award

Date:	3 February
Location:	Biltmore Bowl, Los Angeles, California, USA

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures


Winner:
	Giant (1956) - George Stevens (I); Joseph E. Rickards (assistant director) (plaque)
Other Nominees:
	Alexander the Great (1956) - Robert Rossen Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) - Michael Anderson (I) Bus Stop (1956) - Joshua Logan Carousel (1956) - Henry King (I) Friendly Persuasion (1956) - William Wyler Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956) - Roy Rowland (I) Moby Dick (1956) - John Huston (I) Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) - Robert Wise (I) The Eddy Duchin Story (1956) - George Sidney (II) The King and I (1956) - Walter Lang (I) The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956) - Nunnally Johnson The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) - Alfred Hitchcock (I) The Searchers (1956) - John Ford (I) The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) - Daniel Mann (I) The Trouble with Harry (1955) - Alfred Hitchcock (I) Trapeze (1956) - Carol Reed (I) War and Peace (1956) - King Vidor

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television


Winner:
	"General Electric Theater" (1953) - Herschel Daugherty; Richard Birnie (assistant director) (plaque) - For episode "The Road That Led Afar".
Other Nominees:
	"Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1955) - Robert Stevens (I) - For episode "Never Again". "Lassie" (1954) - Lesley Selander - For episode "Friendship". "Letter to Loretta" (1953) - Norman Foster (I) - For episode "The Cardinal's Secret". "Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers" (1956) - George Archainbaud - For episode "The Traitor".

Lifetime Achievement Award


Awarded to:
	King Vidor

DGA Honorary Life Member Award


Awarded to:
	Donald Crisp (I)