The DGA vs. the Academy: 1950s
DGA vs. Academy nominees
Ann Sothern, Linda Darnell, Jeanne Crain in A Letter to Three Wives (top); Jane Wyman in Johnny Belinda (bottom)
The DGA vs. the Academy: Introduction
Since pre-1970 DGA finalists often consisted of more than five directors, it’s obvious that the DGA’s and the Academy’s lists couldn’t fully match. In the list below, the years before 1970 include DGA finalists who didn’t receive an Academy Award nod and, if applicable, those Academy Award-nominated directors not found in the (usually lengthier) DGA list.
The number in parentheses next to "DGA" indicates that year’s number of DGA finalists if other than five. Source: IMDb.
1948
DGA (04): Joseph L. Mankiewicz for A Letter to Three Wives* and Howard Hawks for Red River
AMPAS: John Huston for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Jean Negulesco for Johnny Belinda, and Laurence Olivier for Hamlet
* The award period extended into early 1949
1949
DGA (04): Mark Robson for Champion, Alfred L. Werker for Lost Boundaries, and Carol Reed for The Third Man*
AMPAS: William A. Wellman for Battleground, Carol Reed for The Fallen Idol, William Wyler for The Heiress, and Joseph L. Mankiewicz for A Letter to Three Wives (see 1948 DGA nominees)
* The award period extended into early 1950
1950
DGA (04): Vincente Minnelli for Father’s Little Dividend
AMPAS: Carol Reed for The Third Man (see 1949 DGA nominees) and George Cukor for Born Yesterday
1951
DGA (12): Michael Gordon for Cyrano de Bergerac, Henry King for David and Bathsheba, Laszlo Benedek for Death of a Salesman, Anatole Litvak for Decision Before Dawn, Richard Thorpe for The Great Caruso, Mervyn LeRoy for Quo Vadis?, George Sidney for Show Boat, and Alfred Hitchcock for Strangers on a Train
AMPAS: John Huston for The African Queen
1952
DGA (18): Vincente Minnelli for The Bad and the Beautiful, Howard Hawks for The Big Sky, Charles Vidor for Hans Christian Andersen, Michael Curtiz for I’ll See You in My Dreams, Richard Thorpe for Ivanhoe, Charles Crichton for The Lavender Hill Mob, Hugo Fregonese for My Six Convicts, Albert Lewin for Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, George Cukor for Pat and Mike, Akira Kurosawa for Rashomon, George Sidney for Scaramouche, Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly for Singin’ in the Rain, Henry King for The Snows of Kilimanjaro, and Elia Kazan for Viva Zapata!
AMPAS: John Huston for Moulin Rouge
1953
DGA (12): Melvin Frank and Norman Panama for Above and Beyond, Walter Lang for Call Me Madam, Daniel Mann for Come Back, Little Sheba, Joseph L. Mankiewicz for Julius Caesar, Henry Koster for The Robe, Jean Negulesco for Titanic, and George Sidney for Young Bess
1954
DGA (16): Edward Dmytryk for The Caine Mutiny, Alfred Hitchcock for Dial M for Murder, Robert Wise for Executive Suite, Anthony Mann for The Glenn Miller Story, Samuel Fuller for Hell and High Water, Henry King for King of Khyber Rifles, Melvin Frank and Norman Panama for Knock on Wood, Don Siegel for Riot in Cell Block 11, Stanley Donen for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, George Cukor for A Star Is Born, and Jean Negulesco for Three Coins in the Fountain
1955
DGA (12): Richard Brooks for Blackboard Jungle, Mark Robson for The Bridges of Toko-Ri, John Ford for The Long Gray Line, Charles Vidor for Love Me or Leave Me, Henry Koster for A Man Called Peter, John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy for Mister Roberts, Daniel Mann for The Rose Tattoo, and Billy Wilder for The Seven Year Itch
AMPAS: David Lean for Summertime
1956
DGA (18): Robert Rossen for Alexander the Great, Joshua Logan for Bus Stop, Henry King for Carousel, George Sidney for The Eddy Duchin Story, Nunnally Johnson for The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Alfred Hitchcock for The Man Who Knew Too Much, Roy Rowland for Meet Me in Las Vegas, John Huston for Moby Dick, John Ford for The Searchers, Robert Wise for Somebody Up There Likes Me, Daniel Mann for The Teahouse of the August Moon, Carol Reed for Trapeze, and Alfred Hitchcock for The Trouble with Harry
1957
DGA (17): Leo McCarey for An Affair to Remember, Elia Kazan for A Face in the Crowd, Robert Mulligan for Fear Strikes Out, Stanley Donen for Funny Face, Jose Ferrer for The Great Man, John Sturges for Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Fred Zinnemann for A Hatful of Rain, John Huston for Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, George Cukor for Les Girls, Billy Wilder for Love in the Afternoon, Anthony Mann for Men in War, and Stanley Kramer for The Pride and the Passion
1958
DGA (14): William Wyler for The Big Country, Richard Brooks for The Brothers Karamazov, Delmer Daves for Cowboy, George Abbott and Stanley Donen for Damn Yankees!, Martin Ritt for The Long, Hot Summer, George Seaton for Teacher’s Pet, Alfred Hitchcock for Vertigo, Richard Fleischer for The Vikings, and Edward Dmytryk for The Young Lions
1959
DGA (13): Otto Preminger for Anatomy of a Murder, Richard Fleischer for Compulsion, Frank Capra for A Hole in the Head, John Ford for The Horse Soldiers, Douglas Sirk for Imitation of Life, Alfred Hitchcock for North by Northwest, Leo McCarey for Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys!, Howard Hawks for Rio Bravo, and Charles Barton for The Shaggy Dog
AMPAS: Jack Clayton for Room at the Top
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