Film

Contemporary Film:

• Mark Digby – Slumdog Millionaire
  • Jess Gonchor – Burn After Reading
  • James J. Murakami – Gran Torino
  • Dennis Gassner – Quantum of Solace
  • Timothy Grimes – The Wrestler

Fantasy Film:

• Nathan Crowley – The Dark Knight
  • Guy Hendrix Dyas – Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
  • J. Michael Riva – Iron Man
  • James D. Bissell – The Spiderwick Chronicles
  • Ralph Eggleston – WALL-E

Period Film:

• Donald Graham Burt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  • James J. Murakami – Changeling
  • David Gropman – Doubt
  • Michael Corenblith – Frost/Nixon
  • Bill Groom – Milk

Television

Episode of One Hour Single-Camera Series:

• Dan Bishop – Mad Men for "The Jet Set"
  • Michael Wylie – Pushing Daisies for "Bzzzzzzzzz!"
  • Suzuki Ingerslev – True Blood for "Burning House of Love"
  • Tom Conroy – The Tudors for "Episode 210"
  • Mark Worthington – Ugly Betty for "When Betty Met Yeti"

Miniseries or Television Film:

• Gemma Jackson – John Adams
  • Jerry Wanek – The Andromeda Strain
  • Robb Wilson King – The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice
  • Yuda Acco – Lone Rider
  • Patti Podesta – Recount