7th Directors Guild of America Awards

Award ceremony for film and television directing in 1954

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Date

1955 (1955)

Country

United States

Presented by

Directors Guild of America

Highlights

Best Director Feature Film:

On the Waterfront – Elia Kazan

Best Director Television:

Four Star Playhouse for "The Answer" – Roy Kellino

Website

https://www.dga.org/Awards/History/1950s/1954.aspx?value=1954

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The 7th Directors Guild of America Awards, honoring the outstanding directorial achievements in film and television in 1954, were presented in 1955.

Winners and nominees

Film

Feature Film
Elia Kazan – On the Waterfront George Cukor – A Star Is Born Edward Dmytryk – The Caine Mutiny Stanley Donen – Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Melvin Frank and Norman Panama – Knock on Wood Samuel Fuller – Hell and High Water Alfred Hitchcock – Rear Window Henry King – King of the Khyber Rifles Anthony Mann – The Glenn Miller Story Jean Negulesco – Three Coins in the Fountain George Seaton – The Country Girl Don Siegel – Riot in Cell Block 11 William A. Wellman – The High and the Mighty Robert Wise – Executive Suite Billy Wilder – Sabrina

Feature Film

Elia Kazan – On the Waterfront

George Cukor – A Star Is Born
Edward Dmytryk – The Caine Mutiny
Stanley Donen – Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Melvin Frank and Norman Panama – Knock on Wood
Samuel Fuller – Hell and High Water
Alfred Hitchcock – Rear Window
Henry King – King of the Khyber Rifles
Anthony Mann – The Glenn Miller Story
Jean Negulesco – Three Coins in the Fountain
George Seaton – The Country Girl
Don Siegel – Riot in Cell Block 11
William A. Wellman – The High and the Mighty
Robert Wise – Executive Suite
Billy Wilder – Sabrina

Television

Television
*Roy Kellino – Four Star Playhouse* for "The Answer"** William Asher – I Love Lucy for "Lucy's Mother-In-Law" Robert Florey – The Loretta Young Show for "The Clara Schumann Story" Ted Post – Waterfront for "High Water" Jack Webb – Dragnet for "The Big Producer"

Roy Kellino – Four Star Playhouse for "The Answer"

William Asher – I Love Lucy for "Lucy's Mother-In-Law"
Robert Florey – The Loretta Young Show for "The Clara Schumann Story"
Ted Post – Waterfront for "High Water"
Jack Webb – Dragnet for "The Big Producer"

Honorary Life Member

Walt Disney

External links

7th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards

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