Best Director
- J.J. Abrams - Super 8
- Tomas Alfredson - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
- Woody Allen - Midnight In Paris
- Pedro Almodovar - The Skin I Live In
- J.C. Chandor - Margin Call
- George Clooney - The Ides of March
- Cameron Crowe - We Bought A Zoo
- Simon Curtis - My Week with Marilyn
- Stephen Daldry - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- Drake Doremus - Like Crazy
- Sean Durkin - Martha Marcy May Marlene
- Clint Eastwood - J. Edgar
- Ralph Fiennes - Coriolanus
- David Fincher - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
- Phyllida Lloyd - The Iron Lady
- Terrence Malick - The Tree of Life
- Steve McQueen - Shame
- Alexander Payne - The Descendants
- Roman Polanski - Carnage
- Lynne Ramsay - We Need To Talk About Kevin
- Dee Rees - Pariah
- Nicolas Winding Refn - Drive
- Jason Reitman - Young Adult
- Martin Scorcese - Hugo
- Steven Soderbergh - Contagion
- Steven Spielberg - War Horse
