8th Directors Guild of America Awards

Award ceremony for film and television directing in 1955

Date

1956 (1956)

Country

United States

Presented by

Directors Guild of America

Highlights

Best Director Feature Film:

Marty – Delbert Mann

Best Director Television:

The Jane Wyman Show for "The Little Guy" – Don Weis

Website

https://www.dga.org/Awards/History/1950s/1955.aspx?value=1955

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The 8th Directors Guild of America Awards, honoring the outstanding directorial achievements in film and television in 1955, were presented in 1956.

Winners and nominees

Film

Feature Film
Delbert Mann – Marty Richard Brooks – Blackboard Jungle John Ford – The Long Gray Line Elia Kazan – East of Eden Henry Koster – A Man Called Peter Joshua Logan – Picnic Daniel Mann – The Rose Tattoo Mark Robson – The Bridges at Toko-Ri John Sturges – Bad Day at Black Rock Charles Vidor – Love Me or Leave Me Billy Wilder – The Seven Year Itch

Feature Film

Delbert Mann – Marty

Richard Brooks – Blackboard Jungle
John Ford – The Long Gray Line
Elia Kazan – East of Eden
Henry Koster – A Man Called Peter
Joshua Logan – Picnic
Daniel Mann – The Rose Tattoo
Mark Robson – The Bridges at Toko-Ri
John Sturges – Bad Day at Black Rock
Charles Vidor – Love Me or Leave Me
Billy Wilder – The Seven Year Itch

Television

Television
*Don Weis – The Jane Wyman Show* for "The Little Guy"** Robert Florey – Four Star Playhouse for "The Executioner" Roy Kellino – Four Star Playhouse for "The Collar" James Nielsen – General Electric Theater for "The Windmill" Ted Post – Medic for "Mercy Wears an Apron" William A. Seiter – Schlitz Playhouse of Stars for "Night of the Big Swamp"

Don Weis – The Jane Wyman Show for "The Little Guy"