Golden Globe Award - Best Director

year

film title

name

1950

Sunset Boulevard

Billy Wilder

1951

Death of a Salesman

László Benedek

1952

The Greatest Show On Earth

Cecil B. DeMille

1953

From Here to Eternity

Fred Zinnemann

1954

On the Waterfront

Elia Kazan

1955

Picnic

Joshua Logan

1956

Baby Doll

Elia Kazan

1957

The Bridge on the River Kwai

David Lean

1958

Gigi

Vincente Minnelli

1959

Ben-Hur

William Wyler

1960

Sons and Lovers

Jack Cardiff

1961

Judgment at Nuremberg

Stanley Kramer