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Premi del Sindicat de Directors dels Estats Units a la carrera com a director
Cecil B. DeMille (1952) John Ford (1953) Henry King (1955) King Vidor (1956) Frank Capra (1958) George Stevens (1959) Frank Borzage (1960) William Wyler (1965) Alfred Hitchcock (1967) Fred Zinnemann (1969) David Lean i William A. Wellman (1972) George Cukor (1980) Rouben Mamoulian (1981) John Huston (1982) Orson Welles (1983) Billy Wilder (1984) Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1985) Elia Kazan (1986) Robert Wise (1987) Ingmar Bergman (1989) Akira Kurosawa (1991) Sidney Lumet (1992) Robert Altman (1993) James Ivory (1994) Woody Allen (1995) Stanley Kubrick (1996) Francis Ford Coppola (1997) Steven Spielberg (1999) Martin Scorsese (2002) Mike Nichols (2003) Clint Eastwood (2005) Norman Jewison (2009) Miloš Forman (2012) Ridley Scott (2016) Spike Lee (2021)