Which director made the 1958 Western 'The Big Country'?

The director of the 1958 Western The Big Country was William Wyler.

Wyler also co-produced the film with its star, Gregory Peck, who plays James McKay, an Eastern gentleman drawn into a violent feud in the American West. The large supporting cast includes Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, and Charles Bickford.

The film was adapted from Donald Hamilton’s serialized story Ambush at Blanco Canyon, which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1957. Its expansive landscapes and long running time give it the scale of an epic, while its central conflict questions whether courage must always be expressed through violence.

The Big Country is sometimes confused with Westerns directed by John Huston, Fred Zinnemann, or George Stevens, but Wyler’s authorship is unambiguous. Burl Ives won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and Jerome Moross received an Oscar nomination for the film’s memorable score. The picture was shot in Technicolor and Technirama.