Film

• Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures:
  • Steven Spielberg
    Steven Spielberg
    Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...
    
     - The Color Purple
    The Color Purple (film)
    The Color Purple is a 1985 American period drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Alice Walker. It was Spielberg's eighth film as a director , and was a change from the summer blockbusters for which he had become famous...
    
    
• Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary/Actuality:
  • Harry Rasky
    Harry Rasky
    Harry Rasky, CM, O.Ont was a Canadian documentary film producer.He was born in Toronto into a Jewish family, where he completed studies at University College. He participated in CBC Television's first four years writing and producing CBC Newsmagazine . He also produced a documentary for the 1961...
    
     - Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love
    Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love
    Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love is a 1977 Canadian documentary film directed by Harry Rasky. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature....
    
    

Television

• Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Shows - Daytime:
  • Craig Sandy Tung
    Sandy Tung
    Sandy Tung is an American independent film director, writer and producer. He was born on Staten Island, New York. He received an MFA in filmmaking from New York University...
    
     - The Day the Senior Class Got Married
• Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series - Night:
  • Will Mackenzie
    Will MacKenzie
    William Ruggles MacKenzie is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour.MacKenzie was born and raised in Greenville, North Carolina. He was a golfing prodigy growing up but burned out on golf at age 14 and completely quit the game after high school...
    
     - Moonlighting
    Moonlighting (TV series)
    Moonlighting is an American television series that aired on ABC from March 3, 1985, to May 14, 1989. The network aired a total of 66 episodes...
    
    for episode "My Fair David"
• Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series:
  • Jay Sandrich
    Jay Sandrich
    Jay Henry Sandrich is an American television director.He began his career as an Assistant Director on I Love Lucy. Sandrich has directed and/or produced episodes of The Bill Dana Show, Get Smart, 2/3 of the Mary Tyler Moore Show, Soap, first 3 seasons of The Cosby Show, and The Odd Couple...
    
     - The Golden Girls
    The Golden Girls
    The Golden Girls is an American sitcom created by Susan Harris, which originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992. Starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty, the show centers on four older women sharing a home in Miami, Florida...
    
    
• Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Specials:
  • John Erman
    John Erman
    John Erman is an American television and film director, actor and producer.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Erman spent the early years of his career, after a few small roles in films such as The Cosmic Man , directing episodes of such primetime series as Peyton Place, The Fugitive, The Outer Limits,...
    
     - An Early Frost
    An Early Frost
    An Early Frost was a 1985 TV movie, and the first major film to deal with the topic of HIV/AIDS. It was first broadcast on the NBC television network on November 11, 1985...
    
    
• Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical/Variety:
  • Don Mischer
    Don Mischer
    Don Mischer is an American television events producer and director.Mischer has produced television programs since 1976, when he produced a special for Barbra Streisand...
    
     - Motown Returns to the Apollo
• Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Sports
  • Andy J. Kindle - Tour de France 1985