Film

Period Film:

• Adam Stockhausen – The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • Maria Djurkovic – The Imitation Game
  • David Crank – Inherent Vice
  • John-Paul Kelly – The Theory of Everything
  • Jon Hutman – Unbroken

Fantasy Film:

• Charles Wood – Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Peter Wenham – Captain America: The Winter Soldier
  • James Chinlund – Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
  • Nathan Crowley – Interstellar
  • Dennis Gassner – Into the Woods

Contemporary Film:

• Kevin Thompson – Birdman
  • James J. Murakami and Charisse Cardenas – American Sniper
  • Jess Gonchor – Foxcatcher
  • Donald Graham Burt – Gone Girl
  • Kevin Kavanaugh – Nightcrawler

Television

One-Hour Period or Fantasy Single-Camera Television Series

• Deborah Riley – Game of Thrones (for "The Laws of Gods and Men")
  • Bill Groom – Boardwalk Empire (for "Golden Days for Boys and Girls")
  • Doug Kraner – Gotham (for "Pilot")
  • Howard Cummings – The Knick (for "Method and Madness" and "Working Late a Lot")
  • Dan Bishop – Mad Men (for "Time Zones")

One-Hour Contemporary Single-Camera Television Series

• Alex DiGerlando – True Detective (for "The Locked Room" and "Form and Void")
  • John D. Kretschmer – Homeland (for "The Drone Queen")
  • Steve Arnold – House of Cards (for "Chapter 18")
  • Dave Blass – Justified (for "A Murder of Crowes", "Wrong Roads", and "The Toll")
  • Karen Steward – The Newsroom (for "Boston", "Main Justice", and "Contempt")

Episode of a Half Hour Single-Camera Television Series

• Richard Toyon – Silicon Valley (for "Articles of Incorporation", "Signaling Risk", and "Optimal Tip-To-Tip Efficiency")
  • Ray Yamagata – Californication (for "Faith, Hope, Love", "Like Father Like Son", and "Kickoff")
  • Ray Yamagata – House of Lies (for "Wreckage", "Middlegame", and "Zha- Moreng")
  • Claire Bennett – Modern Family (for "Marco Polo", "Won't You Be Our Neighbor", and "Halloween 3: AwesomeLand")
  • James Gloster – Veep (for "Clovis", "Special Relationship", and "Debate")

Multi-Camera Series

• John Shaffner – The Big Bang Theory (for "The Convention Conundrum", "The Locomotive Manipulation", and "The Status Quo Combustion")
  • Stephan Olson – How I Met Your Mother (for "How Your Mother Met Me")
  • John Shaffner – Mike & Molly (for "Mike & Molly's Excellent Adventure" and "The Dice Lady Cometh")
  • Glenda Rovello – The Millers (for "You Are the Wind Beneath My Wings, Man", "Con-Troversy", and "Papa Was a Rolling Bone")
  • Cabot McMullen – Undateable (for "Pilot")

Miniseries or Television Movie:

• Mark Worthington – American Horror Story: Freak Show (for "Massacres and Matinees")
  • Seth Reed – Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (for "Unafraid of the Dark")
  • John Blackie and Warren Alan Young – Fargo
  • Patrizia Von Brandenstein – Houdini
  • Arwel W. Jones – Sherlock: His Last Vow