28th Directors Guild of America Awards

Miloš Forman – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

• Robert Altman – Nashville
• Stanley Kubrick – Barry Lyndon
• Sidney Lumet – Dog Day Afternoon
• Steven Spielberg – Jaws

James Cellan Jones – Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

• David Friedkin – Kojak for "How Cruel The Frost, How Bright The Stars"
• George Schaefer – Sandburg's Lincoln

Hy Averback – M*A*S*H for "Bombed"

• Hal Cooper – Maude
• Joan Darling – Mary Tyler Moore for "Chuckles Bites the Dust"

Sam O'Steen – Queen of the Stardust Ballroom

• Lamont Johnson – Fear on Trial
• Buzz Kulik – Babe

Jay Sandrich – The Lily Tomlin Show

• Bill Davis – John Denver: Rocky Mountain Years
• Dwight Hemion – Steve and Eydie: Our Love Is Here to Stay

Irv Drasnin – CBS Reports for "The Guns of Autumn"

• Martin Morris – Kennedy Assassination
• Howard Stringer – A Tale of Two Irelands