Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise – West Side Story

• Marlon Brando – One-Eyed Jacks
• Frank Capra – Pocketful of Miracles
• Jack Clayton – The Innocents
• Peter Glenville – Summer and Smoke
• John Huston – The Misfits
• Elia Kazan – Splendor in the Grass
• Henry Koster – Flower Drum Song
• Philip Leacock – Hand in Hand
• Mervyn LeRoy – A Majority of One
• Joshua Logan – Fanny
• Anthony Mann – El Cid
• Robert Mulligan – The Great Impostor
• Daniel Petrie – A Raisin in the Sun
• Robert Stevenson – The Absent-Minded Professor
• Peter Ustinov – Romanoff and Juliet
• William Wyler – The Children's Hour

Ernie Kovacs and Joseph Behar – Ernie Kovacs Special

• Marc Daniels – The Power and the Glory
• Ralph Nelson – The Dick Powell Show for "Doyle Against the House"
• George Schaefer – Hallmark Hall of Fame for "Victoria Regina"
• Bud Yorkin – Danny Goes it Alone