The core objects in Director provide access to the core functionality and features available in Director, projectors, and the Adobe Shockwave Player. Core objects include the Director player engine, movie windows, sprites, sounds, and so on. They represent the base layer through which almost all APIs and other object categories are accessed; the exceptions are the scripting objects, which extend the core functionality of Director.

For an illustration of how the core objects relate to each other and to other objects in Director, see Object model diagrams.