6th Directors Guild of America Awards

Award ceremony for film and television directing in 1953

Date

1954 (1954)

Country

United States

Presented by

Directors Guild of America

Highlights

Best Director Feature Film:

From Here to Eternity – Fred Zinnemann

Best Director Television:

Four Star Playhouse for "The Last Voyage" – Robert Florey

Website

https://www.dga.org/Awards/History/1950s/1953.aspx?value=1953

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The 6th Directors Guild of America Awards, honoring the outstanding directorial achievements in film and television in 1953, were presented in 1954.

Winners and nominees

Film

Feature Film
Fred Zinnemann – From Here to Eternity Melvin Frank and Norman Panama – Above and Beyond Henry Koster – The Robe Walter Lang – Call Me Madam Joseph L. Mankiewicz – Julius Caesar Daniel Mann – Come Back, Little Sheba Jean Negulesco – Titanic George Sidney – Young Bess George Stevens – Shane Charles Walters – Lili Billy Wilder – Stalag 17 William Wyler – Roman Holiday

Feature Film

Fred Zinnemann – From Here to Eternity

Melvin Frank and Norman Panama – Above and Beyond
Henry Koster – The Robe
Walter Lang – Call Me Madam
Joseph L. Mankiewicz – Julius Caesar
Daniel Mann – Come Back, Little Sheba
Jean Negulesco – Titanic
George Sidney – Young Bess
George Stevens – Shane
Charles Walters – Lili
Billy Wilder – Stalag 17
William Wyler – Roman Holiday

Television

Television
*Robert Florey – Four Star Playhouse* for "The Last Voyage"** Richard Irving – Chevron Theatre for "Too Gloomy for Private Pushkin" Roy Kellino – Schlitz Playhouse of Stars for "Desert Tragedy" Lew Landers – The Masquerade Jack Webb – Dragnet for "The Big Little Jesus"

Robert Florey – Four Star Playhouse for "The Last Voyage"