Editing George Stevens (section)

== Awards and honors ==
'''Academy Awards'''
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|[[15th Academy Awards|1942]] || rowspan=2|[[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]] ||''[[The Talk of the Town (1942 film)|The Talk of the Town]]'' || {{nom}} || [[Sidney Franklin (director)|Sidney Franklin]] – ''[[Mrs. Miniver]]'' || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1943|title=15th Academy Awards|website=[[Academy Awards|Oscars.org]]|date= October 4, 2014|access-date=July 18, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250321072428/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1943|archive-date=March 21, 2025|url-status=live}}</ref>
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|rowspan=2|[[16th Academy Awards|1943]] || rowspan=2|''[[The More the Merrier]]'' || {{nom}} || [[Hal B. Wallis]] – ''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]'' || rowspan=2|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1944|title=16th Academy Awards|website=Oscars.org|date=October 5, 2014|access-date=July 18, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250428185626/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1944|archive-date=April 28, 2025|url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] || {{nom}} || [[Michael Curtiz]] – ''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]''
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|rowspan=2|[[24th Academy Awards|1951]] || [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]] || rowspan=2|''[[A Place in the Sun (1951 film)|A Place in the Sun]]'' || {{nom}} || [[Arthur Freed]] – ''[[An American in Paris (film)|An American in Paris]]'' || rowspan=2|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1952|title=24th Academy Awards|website=Oscars.org|date=October 5, 2014|access-date=July 18, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250428033913/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1952|archive-date=April 28, 2025|url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] || {{won}} || {{n/a}}
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|rowspan=3|[[26th Academy Awards|1953]] || [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]] || rowspan=2|''[[Shane (film)|Shane]]'' || {{nom}} || [[Buddy Adler]] – ''[[From Here to Eternity]]'' || rowspan=3|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1954|title=26th Academy Awards|website=Oscars.org|date=October 4, 2014|access-date=July 18, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250501034945/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1954|archive-date=May 1, 2025|url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] || {{nom}} || [[Fred Zinnemann]] – ''[[From Here to Eternity]]''
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|colspan=2|[[Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award]] || {{won|Received}} || {{n/a}}
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|rowspan=2|[[29th Academy Awards|1956]] || [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Motion Picture]] || rowspan=2|''[[Giant (1956 film)|Giant]]'' || {{nom}} || [[Mike Todd]] – ''[[Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film)|Around the World in 80 Days]]'' || rowspan=2|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1957|title=29th Academy Awards|website=Oscars.org|date= March 26, 2015|access-date=July 18, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250501034945/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1957|archive-date=May 1, 2025|url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] || {{won}} || {{n/a}}
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|rowspan=2|[[32nd Academy Awards|1959]] || [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Motion Picture]] || rowspan=2|''[[The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 film)|The Diary of Anne Frank]]'' || {{nom}} || [[Sam Zimbalist]] – ''[[Ben-Hur (1959 film)|Ben-Hur]]'' ([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|Posthumous]]) || rowspan=2|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1960|title=32nd Academy Awards|website=Oscars.org|date=October 5, 2014|access-date=July 18, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250421130405/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1960|archive-date=April 21, 2025|url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] || {{nom}} || [[William Wyler]] – ''[[Ben-Hur (1959 film)|Ben-Hur]]''
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As a [[lieutenant colonel]] in the U.S. Army, Stevens headed the Signal Corps unit that filmed D-Day and the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. For these contributions, he was awarded the [[Legion of Merit]].

Stevens has a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] at 1701 Vine Street. He won the [[Academy Award for Best Director]] twice, in 1951 for ''A Place in the Sun'' and in 1956 for ''Giant''. He was also nominated in 1943 for ''[[The More the Merrier]]'', in 1954 for ''Shane'', and in 1959 for ''The Diary of Anne Frank''.

He also received both the [[Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award]] and the [[Academy Honorary Award|Lifetime Achievement Award]] from the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] (1954). He also received the [[National Board of Review Award for Best Director]] and the [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director]].