22nd Directors Guild of America Awards

John Schlesinger – Midnight Cowboy

• Richard Attenborough – Oh! What a Lovely War
• Costa-Gavras – Z
• George Roy Hill – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Dennis Hopper – Easy Rider
• Gene Kelly – Hello, Dolly!
• Sam Peckinpah – The Wild Bunch
• Larry Peerce – Goodbye, Columbus
• Sydney Pollack – They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
• Haskell Wexler – Medium Cool

Fielder Cook – Hallmark Hall of Fame for "Teacher, Teacher"

• Joel Banow – First Manned Landing on the Moon (CBS News coverage)
• Paul Bogart – CBS Playhouse for "Shadow Game"
• Gower Champion – An Evening with Julie Andrews and Harry Belafonte
• William Graham – CBS Playhouse for "Sadbird"
• Marty Pasetta – The H Andrew Williams Magic Lantern Show
• Daniel Petrie – Silent Night, Lonely Night
• Boris Sagal – Destiny of a Spy
• George Schaefer – Hallmark Hall of Fame for The File on Devlin
• Gordon Wiles – Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In