Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program

The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program is awarded to one program each year. The category was split in 2018 to separately recognize documentary/nonfiction and reality programs.

In the following list, the first titles listed in gold are the winners; those not in gold are nominees, which are listed in alphabetical order. The years given are those in which the ceremonies took place:

Individuals with multiple nominations

 * 4 nominations
 * Ken Burns
 * 3 nominations
 * Brett Morgen
 * Lynn Novick
 * Martin Scorsese
 * Christopher Wilcha


 * 2 nominations
 * Judd Apatow
 * Adam Beckman
 * Alex Gibney
 * Davis Guggenheim
 * Rory Kennedy
 * Amanda McBaine
 * Jesse Moss
 * Fisher Stevens