Best Director

Winners

2024	Christopher Nolan	Oppenheimer
2023	Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert	Everything Everywhere All at Once
2022	Jane Campion	The Power of the Dog
2021	Chloé Zhao	Nomadland
2020	Bong Joon-ho	Parasite
2019	Alfonso Cuarón	Roma
2018	Guillermo del Toro	The Shape of Water
2017	Damien Chazelle	La La Land
2016	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	The Revenant
2015	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2014	Alfonso Cuarón	Gravity
2013	Ang Lee	Life of Pi
2012	Michel Hazanavicius	The Artist
2011	Tom Hooper	The King's Speech
2010	Kathryn Bigelow	The Hurt Locker
2009	Danny Boyle	Slumdog Millionaire
2008	Ethan Coen	No Country for Old Men
2007	Martin Scorsese	The Departed
2006	Ang Lee	Brokeback Mountain
2005	Clint Eastwood	Million Dollar Baby
2004	Peter Jackson	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003	Roman Polanski	The Pianist
2002	Ron Howard	A Beautiful Mind
2001	Steven Soderbergh	Traffic
2000	Sam Mendes	American Beauty
1999	Steven Spielberg	Saving Private Ryan
1998	James Cameron	Titanic
1997	Anthony Minghella	The English Patient
1996	Mel Gibson	Braveheart
1995	Robert Zemeckis	Forrest Gump
1994	Steven Spielberg	Schindler's List
1993	Clint Eastwood	Unforgiven
1992	Jonathan Demme	The Silence of the Lambs
1991	Kevin Costner	Dances with Wolves
1990	Oliver Stone	Born on the Fourth of July
1989	Barry Levinson	Rain Man
1988	Bernardo Bertolucci	The Last Emperor
1987	Oliver Stone	Platoon
1986	Sydney Pollack	Out of Africa
1985	Milos Forman	Amadeus
1984	James L. Brooks	Terms of Endearment
1983	Richard Attenborough	Gandhi
1982	Warren Beatty	Reds
1981	Robert Redford	Ordinary People
1980	Robert Benton	Kramer vs. Kramer
1979	Michael Cimino	The Deer Hunter
1978	Woody Allen	Annie Hall
1977	John G. Avildsen	Rocky
1976	Milos Forman	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975	Francis Ford Coppola	The Godfather: Part II
1974	George Roy Hill	The Sting
1973	Bob Fosse	Cabaret
1972	William Friedkin	The French Connection
1971	Franklin J. Schaffner	Patton
1970	John Schlesinger	Midnight Cowboy
1969	Carol Reed	Oliver!
1968	Mike Nichols	The Graduate
1967	Fred Zinnemann	A Man for All Seasons
1966	Robert Wise	The Sound of Music
1965	George Cukor	My Fair Lady
1964	Tony Richardson	Tom Jones
1963	David Lean	Lawrence of Arabia
1962	Robert Wise	West Side Story
1961	Billy Wilder	The Apartment
1960	William Wyler	Ben-Hur
1959	Vincente Minnelli	Gigi
1958	David Lean	The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957	George Stevens	Giant
1956	Delbert Mann	Marty
1955	Elia Kazan	On the Waterfront
1954	Fred Zinnemann	From Here to Eternity
1953	John Ford	The Quiet Man
1952	George Stevens	A Place in the Sun
1951	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	All About Eve
1950	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	A Letter to Three Wives
1949	John Huston	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948	Elia Kazan	Gentleman's Agreement
1947	William Wyler	The Best Years of Our Lives
1946	Billy Wilder	The Lost Weekend
1945	Leo McCarey	Going My Way
1944	Michael Curtiz	Casablanca
1943	William Wyler	Mrs. Miniver
1942	John Ford	How Green Was My Valley
1941	John Ford	The Grapes of Wrath
1940	Victor Fleming	Gone with the Wind
1939	Frank Capra	You Can't Take It with You
1938	Leo McCarey	The Awful Truth
1937	Frank Capra	Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936	John Ford	The Informer
1935	Frank Capra	It Happened One Night
1934	Frank Lloyd	Cavalcade
1933	Frank Borzage	Bad Girl
1932	Norman Taurog	Skippy
1931	Lewis Milestone	All Quiet on the Western Front
1930	Frank Lloyd	The Divine Lady
1929	Frank Borzage	7th Heaven (Drama)
	Lewis Milestone	Two Arabian Knights (Comedy)