Ben Affleck – Argo
Paul Thomas Anderson – The Master
Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty
Michael Haneke – Amour
Tom Hooper – Les Misérables
Ang Lee – Life of Pi
David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook
Steven Spielberg – Lincoln
Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained
Other
1. Bigelow
2. Spielberg
3. Affleck
4. Russell
5. Lee
6. Tarrantino