Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All at Once

• Todd Field – Tár
• Joseph Kosinski – Top Gun: Maverick
• Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin
• Steven Spielberg – The Fabelmans

Sara Dosa – Fire of Love

• Matthew Heineman – Retrograde
• Laura Poitras – All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
• Daniel Roher – Navalny
• Shaunak Sen – All That Breathes

Charlotte Wells – Aftersun

• Alice Diop – Saint Omer
• Audrey Diwan – Happening
• John Patton Ford – Emily the Criminal
• Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović – Murina

Sam Levinson – Euphoria for "Stand Still Like the Hummingbird" (HBO)

• Jason Bateman – Ozark for "A Hard Way To Go" (Netflix)
• Vince Gilligan – Better Call Saul for "Waterworks" (AMC)
• Aoife McArdle – Severance for "Hide and Seek" (Apple TV+)
• Ben Stiller – Severance for "The We We Are" (Apple TV+)

Bill Hader – Barry for "710N" (HBO)

• Tim Burton – Wednesday for "Wednesday's Child is Full of Woe" (Netflix)
• Amy Sherman-Palladino – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel for "How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?" (Prime Video)
• Christopher Storer – The Bear for "Review" (FX on Hulu)
• Mike White – The White Lotus for "Arrivederci" (HBO)

Helen Shaver – Station Eleven for "Who's There?" (HBO Max)

• Eric Appel – Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (The Roku Channel)
• Deborah Chow – Obi-Wan Kenobi (Disney+)
• Jeremy Podeswa – Station Eleven for "Unbroken Circle" (HBO Max)
• Tom Verica – Inventing Anna for "The Devil Wore Anna" (Netflix)

Liz Patrick – Saturday Night Live for "Jack Harlow" (NBC)

• Paul G. Casey – Real Time with Bill Maher for "#2010" (HBO)
• Jim Hoskinson – The Late Show with Stephen Colbert for "#1333" (CBS)
• David Paul Meyer – The Daily Show with Trevor Noah for "Brandi Carlile Discusses Her New Deluxe Album and Performs 'You and Me on the Rock'" (Comedy Central)
• Paul Pennolino – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver for "Afghanistan" (HBO)

Glenn Weiss – The 75th Annual Tony Awards (CBS)

• Ian Berger – The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Presents "Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse – Hungary for Democracy" (Comedy Central)
• Hamish Hamilton – Super Bowl LVI halftime show (NBC)
• James Merryman – Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter (ABC)
• Marcus Raboy – Mark Twain Prize 2022: Celebrating Jon Stewart (PBS)

Ben Simms – Running Wild with Bear Grylls for "Florence Pugh in the Volcanic Rainforests of Costa Rica" (Nat Geo)

• Joseph Guidry – The Big Brunch for "Carb Loading Brunch" (HBO Max)
• Carrie Havel – The Go-Big Show for "Only One Can Win" (TBS)
• Rich Kim – Lego Masters for "Jurass-brick World" (Fox)
• Michael Shea – FBOY Island for "Do You Like Cats?" (HBO Max)

Anne Renton – Best Foot Forward for "Halloween" (Apple TV+)

• Tim Federle – Better Nate Than Ever (Disney+)
• Bonnie Hunt – Amber Brown for "I, Amber Brown" (Apple TV+)
• Dean Israelite – Are You Afraid of the Dark? for "The Tale of Room 13" (Nickelodeon)
• Michael Lembeck – Snow Day (Nickelodeon)

Kim Gehrig – Apple's "Accessibility" and "Run Baby Run"

• Juan Cabral – John Lewis & Partners' "For All Life's Moments" and Apple's "Share the Joy"
• Craig Gillespie – Apple's "Hard Knocks", Jimmy John's' "Problem", and Nissan's "Thrill Driver"
• David Shane – Apple's "Detectives", ITVX's "Smile", and Procter & Gamble's "Traffic Stop"
• Ivan Zachariáš – Apple's "Data Auction" and Upwork's "This Is How We Work Now"