1958 DGA Awards – Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film Winner

The Bridge on the River Kwai
David Lean
British POWs build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors, oblivious of the Allies’ plans to destroy it.
1958 DGA Awards – Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film Nominees

12 Angry Men
Sidney Lumet

A Face in the Crowd
Elia Kazan

A Hatful of Rain
Fred Zinnemann

An Affair to Remember
Leo McCarey

Fear Strikes Out
Robert Mulligan

Funny Face
Stanley Donen

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
John Sturges

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
John Huston

Les Girls
George Cukor

Love in the Afternoon
Billy Wilder

Men in War
Anthony Mann

Peyton Place
Mark Robson

Sayonara
Joshua Logan

The Great Man
José Ferrer

The Pride and the Passion
Stanley Kramer
