| RANK |
NOMINEE
|
SCORE |
CHANGE |
|
|
| 1 |
Martin
Scorsese
The Departed
|
97 |
= |
|
|
| 2 |
Alejandro
González Iñárritu
Babel
|
87 |
+1 |
| 3 |
Stephen
Frears
The Queen
|
87 |
-1 |
| 4 |
Bill
Condon
Dreamgirls
|
76 |
= |
| 5 |
Clint
Eastwood
Letters From Iwo Jima
|
71 |
= |
|
|
| 6 |
Paul
Greengrass
United 93
|
50 |
= |
|
|
| 7 |
Daynton
& Farris
Little Miss Sunshine
|
48 |
= |
| 8 |
Guillermo
Del Toro
Pan's Labyrynth
|
39 |
+2 |
| 9 |
Alfonso
Cuaron
Children of Men
|
35 |
-1 |
|
|
| 10 |
Pedro
Almodovar
Volver
|
|
|
| 11 |
Todd
Field
Little Children
|
|
|
| 12 |
Robert
Altman
A Prairie Home Companion
|
|
|
| 13 |
Clint
Eastwood
Flags of Our Fathers
|
|
|
| 14 |
Mel
Gibson
Apocalypto
|
|
|
| |
| 15 |
Oliver
Stone
World Trade Center
|
|
|
| 16 |
Steven
Soderbergh
The Good German
|
|
|
| 17 |
Edward
Zwick
Blood Diamond
|
|
|
| 18 |
Kevin
Macdonald
The Last King of Scottland
|
|
|
| 19 |
Robert
De Niro
The Good Shepherd
|
|
|
| |
| 20 |
Christopher
Nolan
The Prestige
|
|
|
| 21 |
Zhang
Yimou
Curse of the Golden Flower
|
|
|
| 22 |
Anthony
Minghella
Breaking and Entering
|
|
|
| 23 |
Emilio
Estevez
Bobby
|
|
|
| 24 |
Ryan
Fleck
Half Nelson
|
|
|
