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The 5th Directors Guild of America Awards, honoring the outstanding directorial achievements in film in 1952, were presented in 1953.

Winners and nominees

Feature Film
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 and 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

D.W. Griffith Award
Cecil B. DeMille

Directors Guild of America Awards
Film awards	Feature Film Documentaries First-Time Feature Film
Television awards	Comedy Series Drama Series Miniseries or TV Film Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Regularly Scheduled Programming Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Specials Reality Programs Children’s Programs Commercials
Special awards	Lifetime Achievement in Feature Film Lifetime Achievement in Television Frank Capra Achievement Award Honorary Life Member Robert B. Aldrich Service Award Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award Preston Sturges Award Diversity Award Presidents Award
Former awards	Daytime Serials Musical Variety
Ceremonies	1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023