The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a display device which can reliably form electrodes in a thin film transistor. A method for manufacturing a display device includes the steps of: preparing a substrate having a sequentially stacked body formed of a gate signal line, an insulation film, a semiconductor layer and a conductor layer; forming a drain electrode and a source electrode of a thin film transistor at least in a region where the thin film transistor is formed in a pattern in which one of the drain electrode and the source electrode is formed in an approximately U shape having an open-ended one end side and a connecting portion on another end side such that one electrode surrounds a distal end portion of another electrode as viewed in a plan view and a projecting portion is formed on a side of the connecting portion opposite to another electrode, wherein the respective electrodes are formed by selectively etching the conductor layer using a photoresist film as a mask; and etching the semiconductor layer using a deformed photoresist film which is formed by directly reflowing the photoresist film as a mask.