The 11th Directors Guild of America Awards, honoring the outstanding directorial achievements in film and television in 1958, were presented in 1959.
Winners and nominees
Film Feature FilmVincente 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 Stanley Kramer – The Defiant Ones Martin Ritt – The Long, Hot Summer Mark Robson – The Inn of the Sixth Happiness George Seaton – Teacher's Pet Robert Wise – I Want to Live! William Wyler – The Big Country
Television TelevisionRichard L. Bare – 77 Sunset Strip for "All Our Yesterdays"
D.W. Griffith Award Frank Capra
Honorary Life Member George Sidney
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