1. Jamie Lloyd, Sunset Blvd.
2. Michael Arden, Maybe Happy Ending
3. David Cromer, Dead Outlaw
4. Alex Timbers, Just in Time
5. George C. Wolfe, Gypsy
6. Christopher Gattelli, Death Becomes Her
7. Robert Hastie, Operation Mincemeat
8. Saheem Ali, Buena Vista Social Club
9. Sergio Trujillo, Real Women Have Curves: The Musical
10. Scott Ellis, Pirates! The Penzance Musical
11. Susan Stroman, Smash
12. Jerry Mitchell, BOOP! The Musical
13. Tina Landau, Floyd Collins
14. Matthew Bourne, Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends
15. Whitney White, The Last Five Years
16. Lear deBessonet, Once Upon a Mattress
17. Michael Mayer, Swept Away
18. Tina Landau, Redwood
19. Christopher Renshaw, A Wonderful World
20. Phillip William McKinley, Elf
21. Rupert Goold, Tammy Faye
