44th Directors Guild of America Awards

Jonathan Demme – The Silence of the Lambs

• Barry Levinson – Bugsy
• Ridley Scott – Thelma and Louise
• Oliver Stone – JFK
• Barbra Streisand – The Prince of Tides

Barbara Kopple – American Dream

• Eleanor Coppola, Fax Bahr, and George Hickenlooper – Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
• Albert Maysles, Bob Eisenhardt, Susan Froemke, and Peter Gelb – Soldiers of Music: Rostropovich Returns to Russia
• Alan Raymond – Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House

Eric Laneuville – I'll Fly Away for "All God's Children"

• James Hayman – Northern Exposure for "Jules & Joel"
• Stuart Margolin – Northern Exposure for "Goodbye To All That"

Peter Bonerz – Murphy Brown for "Uh-Oh: Part 2"

• James Burrows – Cheers for "Days of Wine & Neurosis"
• David Steinberg – Seinfeld for "The Tape"

Stephen Gyllenhaal – Paris Trout

• Joshua Brand – I'll Fly Away for "Pilot"
• Brian Gibson – The Josephine Baker Story

Walter C. Miller – The 45th Annual Tony Awards

• Hal Gurnee – Late Night with David Letterman
• Jeff Margolis – The 63rd Annual Academy Awards

Michael Stich – The Bold and the Beautiful for "Episode #1103"

• Mike Denney – The Young and the Restless for "Episode #4708"
• Heather Hill – The Young and the Restless for "Episode #4730"

Roy Campanella II – WonderWorks for "Brother Future"

• Consuelo Gonzalez – ABC Afterschool Special for "In the Shadow of Love"
• Barra Grant – CBS Schoolbreak Special for "Lies of the Heart"

Joe Pytka – Hallmark Cards' "Dance Card" and Nike's "The Bo Show"

• Leslie Dektor – Bell Atlantic's "Joanne", Saturn's "Petersburg", and Tele-Communications Inc.'s "Taxi Driver"
• James Gartner – FedEx' "Adoption" and HBO's "Party"
• Stephen Kessler – MasterCard's "Directions", Tony's Pizza's "House", MCI Communications' "Joe College", Giant Eagle's "Romeo & Julie" and "Tea Time", and Jack in the Box' "Trapeze Act"
• Domenic Mastrippolito – AIDS Project Los Angeles' "Talk About It"