1959 DGA Awards – Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film Winner

Gigi
Vincente Minnelli
Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.
1959 DGA Awards – Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film Nominees

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Richard Brooks

Cowboy
Delmer Daves

Damn Yankees
George Abbott

I Want to Live!
Robert Wise

Teacher’s Pet
George Seaton

The Big Country
William Wyler

The Brothers Karamazov
Richard Brooks

The Defiant Ones
Stanley Kramer

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Mark Robson

The Long, Hot Summer
Martin Ritt

The Vikings
Richard Fleischer

The Young Lions
Edward Dmytryk
