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8th Directors Guild of America Awards
Date1956 (1956)
CountryUnited States
Presented byDirectors Guild of America
Highlights
Best Director Feature Film:MartyDelbert Mann
Best Director Television:The Jane Wyman Show for "The Little Guy" – Don Weis
Websitehttps://www.dga.org/Awards/History/1950s/1955.aspx?value=1955 Edit this on Wikidata
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The 8th Directors Guild of America Awards, honoring the outstanding directorial achievements in film and television in 1955, were presented in 1956.

Winners and nominees

Film

Feature Film

Delbert MannMarty

Television

Television

Don WeisThe Jane Wyman Show for "The Little Guy"

D.W. Griffith Award