Directors Guild of America Award untuk Penyutradaraan Film Fitur Terbaik

Directors Guild of America Award untuk Penyutradaraan Luar Biasa – Film
Penerima tahun 2024: Sean Baker
Diberikan untuk	Prestasi Penyutradaraan Luar Biasa dalam Film
Negara	Amerika Serikat
Dipersembahkan oleh	Directors Guild of America
Diberikan perdana	1948
Pemegang gelar saat ini	Sean Baker atas Anora (2024)

Directors Guild of America Award untuk Prestasi Penyutradaraan Luar Biasa dalam Film adalah salah satu Directors Guild of America Awards tahunan yang dipersembahkan oleh Directors Guild of America. Dengan 3 kemenangan dari 13 nominasi, Steven Spielberg adalah sutradara yang paling banyak mendapat penghargaan dan nominasi dalam kategori ini sepanjang sejarah DGA, dan direktur pertama yang menerima nominasi DGA dalam enam dekade berturut-turut.^[1] Selain itu, Alejandro G. Iñárritu adalah satu-satunya sutradara yang menang dua kali berturut-turut; ia dianugerahi pada tahun 2015 dan 2016 atas prestasi penyutradaraannya masing-masing untuk Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) dan The Revenant.^[2] Tiga tim penyutradaraan telah berbagi penghargaan: Robert Wise dan Jerome Robbins atas West Side Story (1961), Joel Coen dan Ethan Coen atas No Country for Old Men (2007), dan Daniel Kwan dan Daniel Scheinert atas Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022).

• † – menandakan pemenang Academy Award untuk Sutradara Terbaik.
• ‡ – menandakan nominasi Academy Award untuk Sutradara Terbaik.

• 1948: Joseph L. Mankiewicz – A Letter to Three Wives †
  • Howard Hawks – Red River
  • Anatole Litvak – The Snake Pit ‡
  • Fred Zinnemann – The Search ‡
• 1949: Robert Rossen – All the King's Men ‡
  • Carol Reed – The Third Man ‡
  • Mark Robson – Champion
  • Alfred L. Werker – Lost Boundaries

• 1950: Joseph L. Mankiewicz – All About Eve †
  • John Huston – The Asphalt Jungle ‡
  • Vincente Minnelli – Father's Little Dividend
  • Billy Wilder – Sunset Boulevard ‡
• 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 ‡

• 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 †
  • Federico Fellini – 8½ ‡
  • Elia Kazan – America America ‡
  • Ralph Nelson – Lilies of the Field
  • Martin Ritt – Hud ‡
• 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

• 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 †
  • Bernardo Bertolucci – Last Tango in Paris ‡
  • William Friedkin – The Exorcist ‡
  • George Lucas – American Graffiti ‡
  • Sidney Lumet – Serpico
• 1974: Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather Part II †
  • Francis Ford Coppola – The Conversation
  • Bob Fosse – Lenny ‡
  • Sidney Lumet – Murder on the Orient Express
  • Roman Polanski – Chinatown ‡
• 1975: Miloš Forman – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest †
  • Robert Altman – Nashville ‡
  • Stanley Kubrick – Barry Lyndon ‡
  • Sidney Lumet – Dog Day Afternoon ‡
  • Steven Spielberg – Jaws
• 1976: John G. Avildsen – Rocky †
  • Sidney Lumet – Network ‡
  • Alan J. Pakula – All the President's Men ‡
  • Martin Scorsese – Taxi Driver
  • Lina Wertmüller – Seven Beauties ‡
• 1977: Woody Allen – Annie Hall †
  • George Lucas – Star Wars ‡
  • Herbert Ross – The Turning Point ‡
  • Steven Spielberg – Close Encounters of the Third Kind ‡
  • Fred Zinnemann – Julia ‡
• 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 ‡

• 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 †
  • Hugh Hudson – Chariots of Fire ‡
  • Louis Malle – Atlantic City ‡
  • Mark Rydell – On Golden Pond ‡
  • Steven Spielberg – Raiders of the Lost Ark ‡
• 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
  • Ron Howard – Cocoon
  • John Huston – Prizzi's Honor ‡
  • Sydney Pollack – Out of Africa †
  • Peter Weir – Witness ‡
• 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 †
  • James L. Brooks – Broadcast News
  • Lasse Hallström – My Life as a Dog ‡
  • Adrian Lyne – Fatal Attraction ‡
  • Steven Spielberg – Empire of the Sun
• 1988: Barry Levinson – Rain Man †
  • Charles Crichton – A Fish Called Wanda ‡
  • Mike Nichols – Working Girl ‡
  • Alan Parker – Mississippi Burning ‡
  • Robert Zemeckis – Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• 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 ‡

1. ^ Buchanan, Kyle (Januari 11, 2023). "Steven Spielberg Gets a Record 13th Directors Guild Award Nomination". The New York Times. Diakses tanggal Januari 11, 2023.
2. ^ Bastanmehr, Rod (Februari 7, 2016). "Iñárritu's DGA Award for The Revenant Is a Historic Win". Slate. Diakses tanggal Juli 11, 2022.