53rd Directors Guild of America Awards

Ang Lee – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

• Cameron Crowe – Almost Famous
• Ridley Scott – Gladiator
• Steven Soderbergh – Erin Brockovich
• Steven Soderbergh – Traffic

Charles Braverman – High School Boot Camp

• Laurie Collyer – Nuyorican Dream
• Mark Lewis – The Natural History of the Chicken
• Michael Mierendorf – Broken Child
• David de Vries – The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai

Thomas Schlamme – The West Wing for "Noël"

• Paris Barclay – The West Wing for "The Portland Trip"
• Henry J. Bronchtein – The Sopranos for "From Where to Eternity"
• Allen Coulter – The Sopranos for "The Knight in White Satin Armor"
• John Patterson – The Sopranos for "Funhouse"

James Burrows – Will & Grace for "Lows in the Mid-Eighties"

• Allen Coulter – Sex and the City for "Cock-a-Doodle-Do"
• Bill D'Elia – Ally McBeal for "The Last Virgin"
• Pamela Fryman – Frasier for "And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon"
• Todd Holland – Malcolm in the Middle for "Pilot"

Jeff Bleckner – The Beach Boys: An American Family

• Kirk Browning – Death of a Salesman
• Martha Coolidge – If These Walls Could Talk 2 for "1972"
• Stephen Frears and Martin Pasetta – Fail Safe
• Joseph Sargent – For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story

Beth McCarthy-Miller – Saturday Night Live for "Host: Val Kilmer"

• Ellen Brown – The Tonight Show with Jay Leno for "Episode #1938"
• Jerry Foley – Late Show with David Letterman for "Episode #1527"
• Roger Goodman – ABC 2000 Today
• Louis J. Horvitz – The 72nd Annual Academy Awards

Jill Mitwell – One Life to Live for "Episode #8205"

• Bruce S. Barry – Guiding Light for "Episode #13562"
• Casey Childs – All My Children for "Episode #7919"
• Conal O'Brien – All My Children for "Episode #7969"
• JoAnne Sedwick – Guiding Light for "Episode #13511"

Greg Beeman – Miracle in Lane 2

• William Dear – The Wonderful World of Disney for "Santa Who?"
• Paul Hoen – Even Stevens for "Take My Sister...Please"
• Kevin Hooks – The Color of Friendship
• Sean McNamara – Even Stevens for "Easy Way"

Leslie Dektor – Idea Exchange's "New Eyes" and "The Run Home", and Pocketcards's "The Check"

• Dante Ariola – Nike's "Elephant" and Hewlett-Packard's "Tickets" and "Taxi"
• Bryan Buckley – FedEx' "Action Figures" and E-Trade's "Monkey", "Wazoo" and "Basketball"
• David Cornell – Visa's "Synchronized Commercialism", "Tattoo" and "I Enjoy Being a Girl", and Charles Schwab's "Ringo" and "Retirement"
• Lenard Dorfman – IBM's "Harlem Fencer" and "Senegal Women's Basketball", and Excite's "Camped"