WOODY ALLEN for Midnight in Paris
(Sony Pictures Classics)
DAVID FINCHER for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
(Columbia Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures)
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS for The Artist
(The Weinstein Company)
ALEXANDER PAYNE for The Descendants
(Fox Searchlight Pictures)
MARTIN SCORSESE for Hugo
(Paramount Pictures)