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Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series is a Primetime Emmy Award given out during the primetime Emmys telecast.

• 1959: Jack Smight for Alcoa-Goodyear Theatre (NBC)

• 1960: Robert Mulligan for The Moon and Sixpence (NBC)
• 1961: George Schaefer for Macbeth aired as part of the Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC)
• 1962: Franklin Schaffner for The Defenders (CBS)
• 1963: Stuart Rosenberg for The Defenders (CBS)
• 1964: Tom Gries for East Side/West Side (CBS)
• 1965: Paul Bogart for The Defenders
• 1966: Sydney Pollack for Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre (NBC)
• 1967: Alex Segal for Death of a Salesman (CBS)
• 1968: Lee Katzin for Mission Impossible (CBS)
• 1969: David Greene for The People Next Door CBS
• 1970: Paul Bogart for Shadow Game (CBS)
• 1971: Daryl Duke for The Bold Ones-The Senator (NBC) (for a single program of a continuing series)
• 1971: Fielder Cook for The Price (NBC) (for a single program)
• 1972: Alexander Singer fr The Bold Ones-The Lawyers (NBC)
• 1972: Tom Gries for The Glass House (CBS)
• 1973: Jerry Thorpe for Kung Fu (ABC)
• 1973: Joseph Sargent for The Marcus-Nelson Murders (CBS)

• 1974: John Korty for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (CBS)
• 1974: Robert Butler for The Blue Knight NBC

• 1975: Bill Bain for Upstairs, Downstairs (PBS)
• 1976: David Greene for Rich Man, Poor Man (ABC)
• 1977: David Greene for Roots (ABC)
• 1978: Marvin J. Chomsky for Holocaust (NBC)
• 1979: Jackie Cooper for The White Shadow (CBS)
• 1980: Roger Young for Lou Grant (CBS)
• 1981: Robert Butler for Hill Street Blues (NBC)
• 1982: Harry Harris for Fame (NBC)
• 1983: Jeff Bleckner for Hill Street Blues (NBC)
• 1984: Corey Allen for Hill Street Blues (NBC
• 1985: Karen Arthur for Cagney & Lacey (CBS)
• 1986: Georg Stanford Brown for Cagney & Lacey (CBS)
• 1987: Gregory Hoblit for L.A. Law (NBC)
• 1988: Mark Tinker for St. Elsewhere (NBC)
• 1989: Robert Altman for Tanner '88 (HBO)
• 1990: Thomas Carter for Equal Justice (ABC)
• 1990: Scott Winant for thirtysomething (ABC)
• 1991: Thomas Carter for Equal Justice (ABC)
• 1992: Eric Laneuville for I'll Fly Away (NBC)
• 1993: Barry Levinson for Homicide: Life on the Street (NBC)
• 1994: Daniel Sackheim for NYPD Blue (ABC)
• 1995: Mimi Leder for ER (NBC)
• 1996: Jeremy Kagan for Chicago Hope (CBS)
• 1997: Mark Tinker for NYPD Blue (ABC)
• 1998: Mark Tinker for Brooklyn South (CBS)
• 1998: Paris Barclay for NYPD Blue (ABC)
• 1999: Paris Barclay for NYPD Blue (ABC)
• 2000: Thomas Schlamme for The West Wing (NBC) (episode: "Pilot")
• 2001: Thomas Schlamme for The West Wing (NBC) (episodes: "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Parts I and II")
• 2002: Alan Ball for Six Feet Under (HBO) (episode: "Pilot")
• 2003: Christopher Misiano for The West Wing (NBC) (episode: "Twenty Five")
• 2004: Walter Hill for Deadwood (HBO) (episode: "Pilot")
• 2005: J.J. Abrams for Lost (ABC) (episode: "Pilot (Parts 1 and 2)")
• 2006: Jon Cassar for 24 (FOX) (episode: "7:00AM-8:00AM)