40th Directors Guild of America Awards

Bernardo Bertolucci – The Last Emperor

• James L. Brooks – Broadcast News
• Lasse Hallström – My Life as a Dog
• Adrian Lyne – Fatal Attraction
• Steven Spielberg – Empire of the Sun

Marshall Herskovitz – thirtysomething for "Pilot"

• Sharron Miller – Cagney & Lacey for "Turn, Turn, Turn (Part 1)"
• Mark Tinker – St. Elsewhere for "Weigh In, Weigh Out"

Will Mackenzie – Family Ties for "A, My Name is Alex"

• James Burrows – Cheers for "Home Is the Sailor"
• Terry Hughes – The Golden Girls for "Old Friends"

Jud Taylor – Foxfire

• Paul Bogart – Nutcracker: Money, Madness and Murder
• Marvin J. Chomsky – Billionaire Boys Club

Dwight Hemion – Julie Andrews... The Sound Of Christmas

• Hal Gurnee – Late Night with David Letterman for "5th Anniversary Special"
• Don Mischer – Great Performances for "Made in USA with Mikhail Baryshnikov"

Victoria Hochberg – ABC Afterschool Special for "Just a Regular Kid: An AIDS Story"

• Nell Cox – ABC Afterschool Special for "Read Between the Lines"
• Joanna Lee – ABC Afterschool Special for "The Kid Who Wouldn't Quit: The Brad Silverman Story"

Elena Mannes – God and Politics for "The Kingdom Divided"

• John Peaslee and Judd Pillot – How To Raise a Street Smart Child
• Terry Sanders – Slow Fires: On the Preservation of the Human Record

Robert Fishman – 1987 NCAA Basketball Championship for "Syracuse vs. Indiana"

• Sandy Grossman – Super Bowl XXI
• Edward Nathanson – AFC Championship

Richard Levine – Pepsi's "Apartment 10-G", DuPont's "Bill Demby", and Arnott's Biscuits' "Trouble"

• Leslie Dektor – Drug Free America Foundation's "Girl & Dealer" and "Tricks of the Trade", and United Airlines' "Pep Talk"
• Robert Lieberman – Hallmark Cards' "40th Birthday" and McDonald's' "New Kid"
• Jeffrey Lovinger – American Express' "Recital", Little Caesars' "The Wisdom", and Aetna's "World Series"
• Joe Pytka – Perrier's "Continents", John Hancock Financial's "40th Birthday", and Apple's "I'm Different"