19th Directors Guild of America Awards

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

Alex Segal – Death of a Salesman

• Fielder Cook – Brigadoon
• Greg Garrison – The Dean Martin Show
• Alan Handley – Alice Through the Looking Glass
• Dwight Hemion – A Man and His Music – Part II
• Sam Peckinpah – ABC Stage 67 for "Noon Wine"
• Frank Perry – ABC Stage 67 for "A Christmas Memory"
• Stanley Prager – ABC Stage 67 for "The Love Song of Barney Kempinski"
• George Schaefer – Hallmark Hall of Fame for "Barefoot in Athens"
• Ted Yates – Congo: Victim of Independence