58th Directors Guild of America Awards

Ang Lee – Brokeback Mountain

• George Clooney – Good Night, and Good Luck.
• Paul Haggis – Crash
• Bennett Miller – Capote
• Steven Spielberg – Munich

Werner Herzog – Grizzly Man

• Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani – The Devil's Miner
• Sean McAllister – The Liberace of Baghdad
• Rupert Murray – Unknown White Male
• Brent Renaud and Craig Renaud – Off to War: Welcome to Baghdad

Michael Apted – Rome for "The Stolen Eagle"

• Alan Ball – Six Feet Under for "Everyone's Waiting"
• Paris Barclay – House for "Three Stories"
• Peter Horton – Grey's Anatomy for "A Hard Day's Night"
• Jeff Melman – Grey's Anatomy for "Into You Like a Train"

Marc Buckland – My Name Is Earl for "Pilot"

• James Burrows – Will & Grace for "Alive and Schticking"
• Larry Charles – Curb Your Enthusiasm for "The End"
• Julian Farino – Entourage for "Exodus"
• Bryan Gordon – Curb Your Enthusiasm for "Korean Bookie"

Joseph Sargent – Warm Springs (TIE)
George C. Wolfe – Lackawanna Blues (TIE)

• Darnell Martin – Oprah Winfrey Presents: Their Eyes Were Watching God
• James Steven Sadwith – Elvis
• Fred Schepisi – Empire Falls

Matthew Diamond – Great Performances: Dance in America for "Swan Lake with American Ballet Theatre"

• Jerry Foley – Late Show with David Letterman for "Show #2452"
• Louis J. Horvitz – The 77th Annual Academy Awards
• Chuck O'Neil – The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
• Alan Skog – Live from Lincoln Center for "Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Benefit"
• Glenn Weiss – The 59th Annual Tony Awards

Owen Renfroe – General Hospital for "Episode #10914"

• Larry Carpenter – One Life to Live for "Episode #9385"
• Herbert Stein and Albert Alarr – Days of Our Lives for "Episode #10090"
• Michael Stich – The Bold and the Beautiful for "Episode #4623"
• Ellen Wheeler – Guiding Light for "Episode #14696"

Tony Croll – Three Wishes for "Pilot" (TIE)
J. Rupert Thompson – Fear Factor for "Heist Fear Factor" (TIE)

• Ross Breitenbach – Brat Camp for "Episode #104"
• Starling Price – Penn & Teller: Bullshit! for "Circumcision"
• Bertram van Munster – The Amazing Race for "Episode #805"

Chris Eyre – Edge of America

• Ellen Goosenberg Kent – I Have Tourette's but Tourette's Doesn't Have Me
• David Jackson – Buffalo Dreams
• D. J. MacHale – Flight 29 Down for "The Pits"
• Jessica Sharzer – Speak

Craig Gillespie – Ameriquest's "Surprise Dinner" and "Mini-Mart", and Altoids's "People of Pain" and "Fable of the Fruit Bat"

• Spike Jonze – Adidas' "Hello Tomorrow", Miller Beer's "Penguin", and Gap's "Pardon Our Dust"
• Rocky Morton – BellSouth's "Kung Fu Clowns" and "Dance Fight Plumbers", Cheese Nips' "Office", and CSI's "Take Me Home"
• Noam Murro – Hummer's "Monsters", Orange's "Black Out", and Nike's "Run Barefoot"
• Rupert Sanders – Adidas' "Made to Perfection" and Xbox's "Joy"