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 FilmJohn 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 AwardCecil B. DeMille
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