Film

• Best Director - Motion Picture:
  • Martin Scorsese
    Martin Scorsese
    Martin Charles Scorsese is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. In 1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation...
    
     - The Departed
    The Departed
    The Departed is a 2006 American crime thriller film, fashioned as a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs. The film was directed by Martin Scorsese and written by William Monahan...
    
    

• Best Director - Documentary Feature:
  • Arūnas Matelis
    Arunas Matelis
    Arūnas Matelis is an acclaimed Lithuanian documentary film director. From 1979 till 1983 Arūnas Matelis studied Mathematics at Vilnius University and later in 1989 graduated from the Lithuanian Music Academy. In 1992, he established one of the first independent film production companies in...
    
     - Before Flying Back to the Earth
    Before Flying Back to the Earth
    Before Flying Back to the Earth is the first feature-length documentary film by the Lithuanian film director Arūnas Matelis...
    
    

Television

• Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children's Programs:
  • Kenny Ortega
    Kenny Ortega
    Kenneth John "Kenny" Ortega is an American producer, director, and choreographer. He is known for directing the High School Musical trilogy and Michael Jackson's This Is It concert tour.-Life and career:...
    
     - High School Musical
    High School Musical
    High School Musical is a 2006 American television film, first in the High School Musical film franchise. Upon its release on January 20, 2006, it became the most successful film that Disney Channel Original Movie ever produced, with a television sequel High School Musical 2 released in 2007 and...
    
    

• Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series' - Night:
  • Jon Cassar
    Jon Cassar
    Jon Cassar , is a Canadian director and producer of seasons 1 to 7 of the television series 24, as well as a number of other film-related works. In 2006, he won an Emmy Award for his directing work on 24...
    
     - 24
    24 (TV series)
    24 is an American television series produced for the Fox Network and syndicated worldwide, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer. Each 24-episode season covers 24 hours in the life of Bauer, using the real time method of narration...
    
    

• Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials:
  • Dante Ariola - First Tate-Coca Cola

• Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Daytime Serials:
  • Jill Mitwell
    Jill Mitwell
    Jill Mitwell is an American television soap opera director. Mitwell gave the acceptance speech for One Life to Live winning the Daytime Emmy Award for the directing team in 2008.-DirectingcCredits:All My Children* Occasional Director...
    
     - One Life to Live
    One Life to Live
    One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...
    
    

• Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical/Variety:
  • Rob Marshall
    Rob Marshall
    Rob Marshall is an American theater director, film director and choreographer. He is a six-time Tony Award nominee, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe nominee and four-time Emmy winner whose most noted work is the 2002 Academy Award for Best Picture winner Chicago.-Life and career:Marshall was...
    
     - Tony Bennett: An American Classic