13th Directors Guild of America Awards

The 13th Directors Guild of America Awards, honoring the outstanding directorial achievements in film and television in 1960, were presented in 1961.

Winners and nominees

Film

Feature Film
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

Television

Television
George Schaefer – Hallmark Hall of Fame for "Macbeth" Vincent J. Donehue – Peter Pan Norman Jewison – Belafonte, New York 19 Howard W. Koch – The Untouchables for "The Unhired Assassin" Franklin J. Schaffner – Playhouse 90 for "The Cruel Day"

D.W. Griffith Award

• Frank Borzage

Honorary Life Member

• Y. Frank Freeman