Directors Guild of America Awards ke-5

John Ford – The Quiet Man

• Charles Crichton – The Lavender Hill Mob
• George Cukor – Pat and Mike
• Michael Curtiz – I'll See You in My Dreams
• Cecil B. DeMille – The Greatest Show on Earth
• Hugo Fregonese – My Six Convicts
• Howard Hawks – The Big Sky
• Elia Kazan – Viva Zapata!
• Gene Kelly dan Stanley Donen – Singin' in the Rain
• Henry King – The Snows of Kilimanjaro
• Akira Kurosawa – Rashomon
• Albert Lewin – Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
• Joseph L. Mankiewicz – 5 Fingers
• Vincente Minnelli – The Bad and the Beautiful
• George Sidney – Scaramouche
• Richard Thorpe – Ivanhoe
• Charles Vidor – Hans Christian Andersen
• Fred Zinnemann – High Noon