Billy Wilder – The Apartment

• Richard Brooks – Elmer Gantry
• Vincent J. Donehue – Sunrise at Campobello
• Lewis Gilbert – Sink the Bismarck!
• Walter Lang – Can-Can
• Delbert Mann – The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
• Carol Reed – Our Man in Havana
• Alain Resnais – Hiroshima mon amour
• Charles Walters – Please Don't Eat the Daisies

George Schaefer – Hallmark Hall of Fame for "Macbeth"

• Vincent J. Donehue – Peter Pan
• Norman Jewison – Belafonte, New York 19
• Howard W. Koch – The Untouchables for "The Unhired Assassin"
• Franklin J. Schaffner – Playhouse 90 for "The Cruel Day"