1953 DGA Awards – Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film Winner

The Quiet Man
John Ford
A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love.
1953 DGA Awards – Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film Nominees

5 Fingers
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Hans Christian Andersen
Charles Vidor

High Noon
Fred Zinnemann

I’ll See You in My Dreams
Michael Curtiz

Ivanhoe
Richard Thorpe

My Six Convicts
Hugo Fregonese

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Albert Lewin

Pat and Mike
George Cukor

Rashomon
Akira Kurosawa

Scaramouche
George Sidney

Singin’ in the Rain
Stanley Donen

The Bad and the Beautiful
Vincente Minnelli

The Big Sky
Howard Hawks

The Greatest Show on Earth
Cecil B. DeMille

The Lavender Hill Mob
Charles Crichton

The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Henry King
