9th Directors Guild of America Awards

Award ceremony for film and television directing in 1956

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Date

1957 (1957)

Country

United States

Presented by

Directors Guild of America

Highlights

Best Director Feature Film:

Giant – George Stevens

Best Director Television:

General Electric Theater for "The Road That Led Afar" – Herschel Daugherty

Website

https://www.dga.org/Awards/History/1950s/1956.aspx?value=1956

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The 9th Directors Guild of America Awards, honoring the outstanding directorial achievements in film and television in 1956, were presented in 1957.

Winners and nominees

Film

Feature Film
George Stevens – Giant Michael Anderson – Around the World in 80 Days John Ford – The Searchers Alfred Hitchcock – The Trouble with Harry John Huston – Moby Dick Nunnally Johnson – The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Henry King – Carousel Walter Lang – The King and I Joshua Logan – Bus Stop Daniel Mann – Teahouse of the August Moon Carol Reed – Trapeze Robert Rossen – Alexander the Great Roy Rowland – Meet Me in Las Vegas George Sidney – The Eddy Duchin Story King Vidor – War and Peace Robert Wise – Somebody Up There Likes Me William Wyler – Friendly Persuasion

Feature Film

George Stevens – Giant

Michael Anderson – Around the World in 80 Days
John Ford – The Searchers
Alfred Hitchcock – The Trouble with Harry
John Huston – Moby Dick
Nunnally Johnson – The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Henry King – Carousel
Walter Lang – The King and I
Joshua Logan – Bus Stop
Daniel Mann – Teahouse of the August Moon
Carol Reed – Trapeze
Robert Rossen – Alexander the Great
Roy Rowland – Meet Me in Las Vegas
George Sidney – The Eddy Duchin Story
King Vidor – War and Peace
Robert Wise – Somebody Up There Likes Me
William Wyler – Friendly Persuasion

Television

Television
*Herschel Daugherty – General Electric Theater* for "The Road That Led Afar"** George Archainbaud – Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers for "The Traitor" Robert Florey – On Trial for The De Santre Affair Norman Foster – The Loretta Young Show for "The Cardinal's Secret" Lesley Selander – Lassie for "Friendship" Robert Stevens – Alfred Hitchcock Presents for "Never Again"

Herschel Daugherty – General Electric Theater for "The Road That Led Afar"

George Archainbaud – Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers for "The Traitor"
Robert Florey – On Trial for The De Santre Affair
Norman Foster – The Loretta Young Show for "The Cardinal's Secret"
Lesley Selander – Lassie for "Friendship"
Robert Stevens – Alfred Hitchcock Presents for "Never Again"

D.W. Griffith Award

King Vidor

Honorary Life Member

Donald Crisp

External links

9th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards

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