5th Directors Guild of America Awards

5th Directors Guild of America Awards
Date	1953 (1953)
Country	United States
Presented by	Directors Guild of America
Highlights
Best Director Feature Film:	The Quiet Man – John Ford
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The 5th Directors Guild of America Awards, honoring the outstanding directorial achievements in film in 1952, were presented in 1953.

Winners and nominees

Film

Feature Film

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 and 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

Special awards

D.W. Griffith Award
Cecil B. DeMille

External links

• 5th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards