5th Directors Guild of America Awards

The 5th Directors Guild of America Awards, honoring the outstanding directorial achievements in film in 1952, were presented in 1953.

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

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