Directors Guild of America Award untuk Penyutradaraan Film Fitur Terbaik adalah salah satu penghargaan tahunan yang diberikan oleh Directors Guild of America. Dengan 3 kemenangan dari 11 nominasi, Steven Spielberg merupakan sutradara paling banyak dinominasikan sekaligus paling banyak meraih penghargaan untuk kategori tersebut sepanjang sejarah DGA.
Pemenang dan nominee sunting
- † – menandakan pemenang Academy Award untuk Sutradara Terbaik.
- ‡ – menandakan nominasi Academy Award untuk Sutradara Terbaik.
1940an sunting
- 1948: Joseph L. Mankiewicz – A Letter to Three Wives †
- 1949: Robert Rossen – All the King's Men ‡
- Carol Reed – The Third Man ‡
- Mark Robson – Champion
- Alfred L. Werker – Lost Boundaries
1950an sunting
- 1950: Joseph L. Mankiewicz – All About Eve †
- 1951: George Stevens – A Place in the Sun †
- László Benedek – Death of a Salesman
- Michael Gordon – Cyrano de Bergerac
- Alfred Hitchcock – Strangers on a Train
- Elia Kazan – A Streetcar Named Desire ‡
- Henry King – David and Bathsheba
- Mervyn LeRoy – Quo Vadis
- Anatole Litvak – Decision Before Dawn
- Vincente Minnelli – An American in Paris ‡
- George Sidney – Show Boat
- Richard Thorpe – The Great Caruso
- William Wyler – Detective Story ‡
- 1952: 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 dan 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 ‡
- 1953: Fred Zinnemann – From Here to Eternity †
- Melvin Frank dan Norman Panama – Above and Beyond
- Henry Koster – The Robe
- Walter Lang – Call Me Madam
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz – Julius Caesar
- Daniel Mann – Come Back, Little Sheba
- Jean Negulesco – Titanic
- George Sidney – Young Bess
- George Stevens – Shane ‡
- Charles Walters – Lili ‡
- Billy Wilder – Stalag 17 ‡
- William Wyler – Roman Holiday ‡
- 1954: 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 dan 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 ‡
- 1955: 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
- 1956: George Stevens – Giant †
- Michael Anderson – Around the World in 80 Days ‡
- John Huston – Moby Dick
- Joshua Logan – Bus Stop
- Daniel Mann – Teahouse of the August Moon
- King Vidor – War and Peace ‡
- Robert Wise – Somebody Up There Likes Me
- William Wyler – Friendly Persuasion ‡
- 1957: David Lean – The Bridge on the River Kwai †
- George Cukor – Les Girls
- Stanley Donen – Funny Face
- José Ferrer – The Great Man
- John Huston – Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
- Elia Kazan – A Face in the Crowd
- Stanley Kramer – The Pride and the Passion
- Anthony Mann – Men in War
- Leo McCarey – An Affair to Remember
- Robert Mulligan – Fear Strikes Out
- John Sturges – Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
- Fred Zinnemann – A Hatful of Rain
- 1958: Vincente Minnelli – Gigi †
- George Abbott and Stanley Donen – Damn Yankees
- Richard Brooks – The Brothers Karamazov
- Delmer Daves – Cowboy
- Edward Dmytryk – The Young Lions
- Richard Fleischer – The Vikings
- Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo
- Martin Ritt – The Long, Hot Summer
- George Seaton – Teacher's Pet
- William Wyler – The Big Country
- 1959: William Wyler – Ben-Hur †
- Charles Barton – The Shaggy Dog
- Frank Capra – A Hole in the Head
- Richard Fleischer – Compulsion
- John Ford – The Horse Soldiers
- Howard Hawks – Rio Bravo
- Alfred Hitchcock – North by Northwest
- Leo McCarey – Rally Round the Flag, Boys!
- Otto Preminger – Anatomy of a Murder
- Douglas Sirk – Imitation of Life
- George Stevens – The Diary of Anne Frank ‡
- Billy Wilder – Some Like It Hot ‡
- Fred Zinnemann – The Nun's Story ‡
1960an sunting
- 1960: Billy Wilder – The Apartment †
- Richard Brooks – Elmer Gantry
- Vincent J. Donehue – Sunrise at Campobello
- Lewis Gilbert – Sink the Bismarck!
- Walter Lang – Can-Can
- Delbert Mann – The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
- Carol Reed – Our Man in Havana
- Alain Resnais – Hiroshima mon amour
- Charles Walters – Please Don't Eat the Daisies
- 1961: Robert Wise dan Jerome Robbins – West Side Story †
- Marlon Brando – One-Eyed Jacks
- Frank Capra – Pocketful of Miracles
- Jack Clayton – The Innocents
- Peter Glenville – Summer and Smoke
- John Huston – The Misfits
- Elia Kazan – Splendor in the Grass
- Henry Koster – Flower Drum Song
- Stanley Kramer – Judgment at Nuremberg ‡
- Philip Leacock – Hand in Hand
- Mervyn LeRoy – A Majority of One
- Joshua Logan – Fanny
- Anthony Mann – El Cid
- Robert Mulligan – The Great Impostor
- Daniel Petrie – A Raisin in the Sun
- Robert Stevenson – The Absent-Minded Professor
- Peter Ustinov – Romanoff and Juliet
- William Wyler – The Children's Hour
- 1962: David Lean – Lawrence of Arabia †
- Robert Aldrich – What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
- Morton DaCosta – The Music Man
- Stanley Kubrick – Lolita
- Lewis Milestone – Mutiny on the Bounty
- Robert Mulligan – To Kill a Mockingbird ‡
- Ralph Nelson – Requiem for a Heavyweight
- Arthur Penn – The Miracle Worker ‡
- Tony Richardson – A Taste of Honey
- 1963: Tony Richardson – Tom Jones †
- 1964: George Cukor – My Fair Lady †
- Peter Glenville – Becket ‡
- John Huston – The Night of the Iguana
- Stanley Kubrick – Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ‡
- Robert Stevenson – Mary Poppins ‡
- 1965: Robert Wise – The Sound of Music †
- Sidney J. Furie – The Ipcress File
- Sidney Lumet – The Pawnbroker
- John Schlesinger – Darling ‡
- Elliot Silverstein – Cat Ballou
- 1966: Fred Zinnemann – A Man for All Seasons †
- Richard Brooks – The Professionals ‡
- John Frankenheimer – Grand Prix
- Lewis Gilbert – Alfie
- James Hill – Born Free
- Norman Jewison – The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
- Claude Lelouch – A Man and a Woman ‡
- Silvio Narizzano – Georgy Girl
- Mike Nichols – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ‡
- Robert Wise – The Sand Pebbles
- 1967: Mike Nichols – The Graduate †
- Robert Aldrich – The Dirty Dozen
- Richard Brooks – In Cold Blood ‡
- James Clavell – To Sir, with Love
- Stanley Donen – Two for the Road
- Norman Jewison – In the Heat of the Night ‡
- Stanley Kramer – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner ‡
- Arthur Penn – Bonnie and Clyde ‡
- Stuart Rosenberg – Cool Hand Luke
- Joseph Strick – Ulysses
- 1968: Anthony Harvey – The Lion in Winter ‡
- Paul Almond – Isabel
- Stanley Kubrick – 2001: A Space Odyssey ‡
- Jiří Menzel – Closely Watched Trains
- Paul Newman – Rachel, Rachel
- Roman Polanski – Rosemary's Baby
- Carol Reed – Oliver! †
- Gene Saks – The Odd Couple
- William Wyler – Funny Girl
- Franco Zeffirelli – Romeo and Juliet ‡
- 1969: John Schlesinger – Midnight Cowboy †
- Richard Attenborough – Oh! What a Lovely War
- Costa-Gavras – Z ‡
- George Roy Hill – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ‡
- Dennis Hopper – Easy Rider
- Gene Kelly – Hello, Dolly!
- Sam Peckinpah – The Wild Bunch
- Larry Peerce – Goodbye, Columbus
- Sydney Pollack – They Shoot Horses, Don't They? ‡
- Haskell Wexler – Medium Cool
1970an sunting
- 1970: Franklin J. Schaffner – Patton †
- Robert Altman – M*A*S*H ‡
- Arthur Hiller – Love Story ‡
- David Lean – Ryan's Daughter
- Bob Rafelson – Five Easy Pieces
- 1971: William Friedkin – The French Connection †
- Peter Bogdanovich – The Last Picture Show ‡
- Stanley Kubrick – A Clockwork Orange ‡
- Robert Mulligan – Summer of '42
- John Schlesinger – Sunday Bloody Sunday ‡
- 1972: Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather ‡
- John Boorman – Deliverance ‡
- Bob Fosse – Cabaret †
- George Roy Hill – Slaughterhouse-Five
- Martin Ritt – Sounder
- 1973: George Roy Hill – The Sting †
- 1974: Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather Part II †
- 1975: Miloš Forman – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest †
- 1976: John G. Avildsen – Rocky †
- 1977: Woody Allen – Annie Hall †
- 1978: Michael Cimino – The Deer Hunter †
- Hal Ashby – Coming Home ‡
- Warren Beatty dan Buck Henry – Heaven Can Wait ‡
- Paul Mazursky – An Unmarried Woman
- Alan Parker – Midnight Express ‡
- 1979: Robert Benton – Kramer vs. Kramer †
- Woody Allen – Manhattan
- James Bridges – The China Syndrome
- Francis Ford Coppola – Apocalypse Now ‡
- Peter Yates – Breaking Away ‡
1980an sunting
- 1980: Robert Redford – Ordinary People †
- Michael Apted – Coal Miner's Daughter
- David Lynch – The Elephant Man ‡
- Richard Rush – The Stunt Man ‡
- Martin Scorsese – Raging Bull ‡
- 1981: Warren Beatty – Reds †
- 1982: Richard Attenborough – Gandhi †
- Taylor Hackford – An Officer and a Gentleman
- Wolfgang Petersen – Das Boot ‡
- Sydney Pollack – Tootsie ‡
- Steven Spielberg – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ‡
- 1983: James L. Brooks – Terms of Endearment †
- Bruce Beresford – Tender Mercies ‡
- Ingmar Bergman – Fanny and Alexander ‡
- Lawrence Kasdan – The Big Chill
- Philip Kaufman – The Right Stuff
- 1984: Miloš Forman – Amadeus †
- Robert Benton – Places in the Heart ‡
- Norman Jewison – A Soldier's Story
- Roland Joffé – The Killing Fields ‡
- David Lean – A Passage to India ‡
- 1985: Steven Spielberg – The Color Purple
- 1986: Oliver Stone – Platoon †
- Woody Allen – Hannah and Her Sisters ‡
- Randa Haines – Children of a Lesser God
- James Ivory – A Room with a View ‡
- Rob Reiner – Stand by Me
- 1987: Bernardo Bertolucci – The Last Emperor †
- 1988: Barry Levinson – Rain Man †
- 1989: Oliver Stone – Born on the Fourth of July †
- Woody Allen – Crimes and Misdemeanors ‡
- Rob Reiner – When Harry Met Sally...
- Phil Alden Robinson – Field of Dreams
- Peter Weir – Dead Poets Society ‡