Film

Period Film:

• Sarah Greenwood – Anna Karenina
  • Peter Borckl – Argo
  • David F. Klassen – Django Unchained
  • Eve Stewart – Les Misérables
  • Rick Carter – Lincoln

Fantasy Film:

• David Gropman – Life of Pi
  • Uli Hanisch – Cloud Atlas
  • Nathan Crowley, Kevin Kavanaugh – The Dark Knight Rises
  • Dan Hennah – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
  • Arthur Max – Prometheus

Contemporary Film:

• Dennis Gassner – Skyfall
  • Alan MacDonald – The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
  • Nelson Coates – Flight
  • Eugenio Caballero – The Impossible
  • Jeremy Hindle – Zero Dark Thirty

Television

One-Hour Single Camera Television Series:

• Gemma Jackson – Game of Thrones (for "The Ghost of Harrenhal")
  • Bill Groom – Boardwalk Empire (for "Resolution")
  • Donal Woods – Downton Abbey (for "Christmas at Downton Abbey")
  • John D. Kretschmer – Homeland (for "The Choice")
  • Richard Hoover – The Newsroom (for "We Just Decided To")

Episode of a Half Hour Single-Camera Television Series

• Judy Becker – Girls (for "Pilot")
  • Denise Pizzini – Community (for "Pillows and Blankets")
  • Richard Berg – Modern Family (for "Misery Date")
  • Ian Phillips – Parks and Recreation (for "Soda Tax")
  • Tony Fanning – The New Normal (for "Sofa's Choice")

Multi-Camera Unscripted Series:

• Keith Raywood, Eugene Lee, Akira Yoshimura & N. Joseph DeTullio – Saturday Night Live (for "Host: Mick Jagger")
  • Glenda Rovello – 2 Broke Girls (for "And The Silent Partner")
  • Stephan G. Olson – How I Met Your Mother (for "The Magician's Code, Part 1")
  • Bruce Rodgers – Democratic National Convention
  • Anton Goss and James Pearse Connelly – The Voice

Miniseries or Television Movie:

• Mark Worthington – American Horror Story: Asylum (for "I Am Anne Frank, Part 2")
  • Michael Corenblith – Game Change
  • Derek R. Hill – Hatfields & McCoys
  • Geoffrey Kirkland – Hemingway & Gellhorn
  • Michael Wylie – Mockingbird Lane