Aaron McGruder & Rodney Barnes – "The Boondocks" - The Story of Gangstalicious Part 2 (Cartoon Network)
Erica D. Montolfo – "The Game" - White Coats and White Lies (CW)
Marc Wilmore – "The Simpsons" - My Pods and Broomstick (FOX)
Ryan Koh – "The Office" - Business Ethics (NBC)
Tracy Poust & Jon Kinnally – "Ugly Betty" - Crush'd (ABC)
Aaron Rahsaan Thomas – "Friday Night Lights" - Leave No One Behind (NBC)
Janine Sherman Barrois – "ER" - Parental Guidance (NBC)
Kathleen McGhee-Anderson – "Lincoln Heights" - Glass House (ABC)
Liz Friedman & Sara Hess – "House" - Lucky Thirteen (FOX)
Shonda Rhimes – "Grey’s Anatomy" - Freedom Part 1 & 2 (ABC)
Darnell Martin – "Cadillac Records" (Sony Music Film/Parkwood Pictures)
Gina Prince-Bythewood – "The Secret Life of Bees" (Fox Searchlight)
Jenny Lumet – "Rachel Getting Married" (Sony Pictures Classics)
Paris Qualles – "A Raisin In The Sun" (ABC)
Patrik-Ian Polk & John R. Gordon – "Noah’s Arc: Jumping the Broom" (LOGO)
Ali LeRoi – Everybody Hates Chris - Everybody Hates Port Authority" (CW)
Ken Whittingham – Entourage - Seth Green Day" (HBO)
Kevin Sullivan – 30 Rock - MILF Island" (NBC)
Tracee Ellis Ross – Girlfriends - What's Black-A-Lackin" (CW)
Victor Nelli, Jr. – Ugly Betty - Crush'd" (ABC)
Anthony Hemingway – Heroes - Chapter Five: Angels and Monsters" (NBC)
Eriq LaSalle – Law & Order: SVU - PTSD" (NBC)
Ernest Dickerson – Lincoln Heights - The Day Before Tomorrow" (ABC Family)
Paris Barclay – In Treatment - Alex-Week 8 (HBO)
Seith Mann – The Wire - The Dickensian Aspect" (HBO)
Darnell Martin – Cadillac Records (Sony Music Film/Parkwood Pictures)
Gina Prince Bythewood – The Secret Life of Bees (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Patrik Ian Polk – Noah’s Arc: Jumping the Broom (LOGO)
Spike Lee – Miracle at St. Anna (Touchstone Pictures)
Tyler Perry – Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys (Lionsgate)