Academy Awards, Directing

2026

Ryan Coogler / Sinners

Josh Safdie / Marty Supreme

Paul Thomas Anderson / One Battle After Another

Chloé Zhao / Hamnet

Joachim Trier / Affeksjonsverdi

2025

Brady Corbet / The Brutalist

James Mangold / A Complete Unknown

Sean Baker / Anora

Jacques Audiard / Emilia Pérez

Coralie Fargeat / The Substance

2024

Christopher Nolan / Oppenheimer

Yorgos Lanthimos / Poor Things

Martin Scorsese / Killers of the Flower Moon

Jonathan Glazer / The Zone of Interest

Justine Triet / Anatomie d'une chute

2023

Steven Spielberg / The Fabelmans

Daniel Kwan / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Daniel Scheinert / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Ruben Östlund / Triangle of Sadness

Todd Field / TÁR

Martin McDonagh / The Banshees of Inisherin

2022

Jane Campion / The Power of the Dog

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi / ドライブ・マイ・カー

Paul Thomas Anderson / Licorice Pizza

Steven Spielberg / West Side Story

Kenneth Branagh / Belfast

2021

Thomas Vinterberg / Druk

Emerald Fennell / Promising Young Woman

Lee Isaac Chung / Minari

Chloé Zhao / Nomadland

David Fincher / Mank

2020

Bong Joon-ho / 기생충

Todd Phillips / Joker

Sam Mendes / 1917

Quentin Tarantino / Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Martin Scorsese / The Irishman

2019

Spike Lee / BlacKkKlansman

Alfonso Cuarón / Roma

Adam McKay / Vice

Yorgos Lanthimos / The Favourite

2018

Greta Gerwig / Lady Bird

Jordan Peele / Get Out

Guillermo del Toro / The Shape of Water

2017

Damien Chazelle / La La Land

Kenneth Lonergan / Manchester by the Sea

Denis Villeneuve / Arrival

Mel Gibson / Hacksaw Ridge

2016

Alejandro González Iñárritu / The Revenant

Tom McCarthy / Spotlight

Adam McKay / The Big Short

2015

Wes Anderson / The Grand Budapest Hotel

Alejandro González Iñárritu / Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

2014

Martin Scorsese / The Wolf of Wall Street

Alfonso Cuarón / Gravity

Steve McQueen / 12 Years a Slave

2013

Ang Lee / Life of Pi

David O. Russell / Silver Linings Playbook

Michael Haneke / Amour

2012

Michel Hazanavicius / The Artist

2011

Tom Hooper / The King's Speech

Darren Aronofsky / Black Swan

David Fincher / The Social Network

David O. Russell / The Fighter

2010

James Cameron / Avatar

Jason Reitman / Up in the Air

Kathryn Bigelow / The Hurt Locker

Quentin Tarantino / Inglourious Basterds

Lee Daniels / Precious

2009

David Fincher / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Stephen Daldry / The Reader

Danny Boyle / Slumdog Millionaire

Gus Van Sant / Milk

2008

Jason Reitman / Juno

Julian Schnabel / Le Scaphandre et le Papillon

Joel Coen / No Country for Old Men

Tony Gilroy / Michael Clayton

Ethan Coen / No Country for Old Men

2007

Clint Eastwood / Letters from Iwo Jima

Stephen Frears / The Queen

Martin Scorsese / The Departed

2006

Ang Lee / Brokeback Mountain

Bennett Miller / Capote

2005

Clint Eastwood / Million Dollar Baby

Taylor Hackford / Ray

Martin Scorsese / The Aviator

2004

Sofia Coppola / Lost in Translation

Peter Weir / Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Clint Eastwood / Mystic River

Fernando Meirelles / Cidade de Deus

2003

Stephen Daldry / The Hours

Rob Marshall / Chicago

Roman Polanski / The Pianist

Martin Scorsese / Gangs of New York

Pedro Almodóvar / Hable con ella

2002

Peter Jackson / The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

David Lynch / Mulholland Dr.

Ron Howard / A Beautiful Mind

2001

Ang Lee / 卧虎藏龙

Steven Soderbergh / Erin Brockovich

Steven Soderbergh / Traffic

2000

M. Night Shyamalan / The Sixth Sense

Spike Jonze / Being John Malkovich

Lasse Hallström / The Cider House Rules

Sam Mendes / American Beauty

1999

Roberto Benigni / La vita è bella

John Madden / Shakespeare in Love

Steven Spielberg / Saving Private Ryan

1998

James Cameron / Titanic

Curtis Hanson / L.A. Confidential

Gus Van Sant / Good Will Hunting

1997

Scott Hicks / Shine

Joel Coen / Fargo

Anthony Minghella / The English Patient

1996

Michael Radford / Il Postino

Mel Gibson / Braveheart

Tim Robbins / Dead Man Walking

Mike Figgis / Leaving Las Vegas

1995

Quentin Tarantino / Pulp Fiction

Krzysztof Kieślowski / Trois couleurs : Rouge

Robert Zemeckis / Forrest Gump

Robert Redford / Quiz Show

1994

Steven Spielberg / Schindler's List

Jane Campion / The Piano

1993

Martin Brest / Scent of a Woman

Clint Eastwood / Unforgiven

1992

Jonathan Demme / The Silence of the Lambs

Oliver Stone / JFK

1991

Martin Scorsese / GoodFellas

Kevin Costner / Dances with Wolves

Stephen Frears / The Grifters

Barbet Schroeder / Reversal of Fortune

Francis Ford Coppola / The Godfather: Part III

1990

Oliver Stone / Born on the Fourth of July

Jim Sheridan / My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

1989

Barry Levinson / Rain Man

Alan Parker / Mississippi Burning

Mike Nichols / Working Girl

1988

Lasse Hallström / Mitt liv som hund

Bernardo Bertolucci / The Last Emperor

Norman Jewison / Moonstruck

1987

David Lynch / Blue Velvet

Oliver Stone / Platoon

1986

Sydney Pollack / Out of Africa

John Huston / Prizzi's Honor

1985

David Lean / A Passage to India

Miloš Forman / Amadeus

Roland Joffé / The Killing Fields

Places in the Heart

1984

Ingmar Bergman / Fanny & Alexander

Peter Yates / The Dresser

James L. Brooks / Terms of Endearment

1983

Sydney Pollack / Tootsie

Richard Attenborough / Gandhi

Steven Spielberg / E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Sidney Lumet / The Verdict

Wolfgang Petersen / Das Boot

1982

Hugh Hudson / Chariots of Fire

Steven Spielberg / Raiders of the Lost Ark

Louis Malle / Atlantic City

1981

David Lynch / The Elephant Man

Robert Redford / Ordinary People

Akira Kurosawa / Kagemusha

Martin Scorsese / Raging Bull

Roman Polanski / Tess

1980

Bob Fosse / All That Jazz

Peter Yates / Breaking Away

Édouard Molinaro / La cage aux folles

Robert Benton / Kramer vs. Kramer

1979

Michael Cimino / The Deer Hunter

Ingmar Bergman / Höstsonaten

Warren Beatty / Heaven Can Wait

Buck Henry / Heaven Can Wait

Hal Ashby / Coming Home

1978

George Lucas / Star Wars

Woody Allen / Annie Hall

Steven Spielberg / Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1977

Sidney Lumet / Network

Lina Wertmüller / Seven Beauties

John G. Avildsen / Rocky

1976

Federico Fellini / Amarcord

Miloš Forman / One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Sidney Lumet / Dog Day Afternoon

Stanley Kubrick / Barry Lyndon

1975

François Truffaut / La Nuit américaine

Francis Ford Coppola / The Godfather: Part II

1974

Ingmar Bergman / Cries and Whispers

George Roy Hill / The Sting

George Lucas / American Graffiti

1973

Jan Troell / Utvandrarna

John Boorman / Deliverance

Bob Fosse / Cabaret

1972

William Friedkin / The French Connection

Peter Bogdanovich / The Last Picture Show

John Schlesinger / Sunday Bloody Sunday

Stanley Kubrick / A Clockwork Orange

1971

Franklin J. Schaffner / Patton

Ken Russell / Women in Love

Federico Fellini / Fellini Satyricon

Robert Altman / M*A*S*H

1970

Sydney Pollack / They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

John Schlesinger / Midnight Cowboy

George Roy Hill / Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Costa-Gavras / Z

1969

Carol Reed / Oliver!

Stanley Kubrick / 2001: A Space Odyssey

Franco Zeffirelli / Romeo and Juliet

1968

Mike Nichols / The Graduate

Norman Jewison / In the Heat of the Night

1967

Fred Zinnemann / A Man for All Seasons

Claude Lelouch / Un homme et une femme

1966

John Schlesinger / Darling

Robert Wise / The Sound of Music

1965

Robert Stevenson / Mary Poppins

George Cukor / My Fair Lady

1964

Tony Richardson / Tom Jones

Elia Kazan / America America

Otto Preminger / The Cardinal

Federico Fellini / 8½

Martin Ritt / Hud

1963

Robert Mulligan / To Kill a Mockingbird

David Lean / Lawrence of Arabia

Pietro Germi / Divorzio all'italiana

1962

Robert Rossen / The Hustler

Jerome Robbins / West Side Story

Stanley Kramer / Judgment at Nuremberg

Robert Wise / West Side Story

Federico Fellini / La dolce vita

1961

Billy Wilder / The Apartment

1960

Billy Wilder / Some Like It Hot

William Wyler / Ben-Hur

George Stevens / The Diary of Anne Frank

1959

Stanley Kramer / The Defiant Ones

Richard Brooks / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Vincente Minnelli / Gigi

1958

Billy Wilder / Witness for the Prosecution

David Lean / The Bridge on the River Kwai

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Sidney Lumet / 12 Angry Men

1957

Walter Lang / The King and I

George Stevens / Giant

Michael Anderson / Around the World in 80 Days

1956

Delbert Mann / Marty

Elia Kazan / East of Eden

1955

Elia Kazan / On the Waterfront

Alfred Hitchcock / Rear Window

Billy Wilder / Sabrina

1954

Billy Wilder / Stalag 17

Fred Zinnemann / From Here to Eternity

1953

John Ford / The Quiet Man

1952

John Huston / The African Queen

George Stevens / A Place in the Sun

Elia Kazan / A Streetcar Named Desire

1951

Joseph L. Mankiewicz / All About Eve

Billy Wilder / Sunset Boulevard

1950

Joseph L. Mankiewicz / A Letter to Three Wives

Robert Rossen / All the King's Men

William Wyler / The Heiress

1949

Jean Negulesco / Johnny Belinda

Laurence Olivier / Hamlet

John Huston / The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

1948

Elia Kazan / Gentleman's Agreement

David Lean / Great Expectations

1947

Clarence Brown / The Yearling

David Lean / Brief Encounter

William Wyler / The Best Years of Our Lives

1946

Billy Wilder / The Lost Weekend

1945

Billy Wilder / Double Indemnity

Leo McCarey / Going My Way

1944

Michael Curtiz / Casablanca

Henry King / The Song of Bernadette

1943

William Wyler / Mrs. Miniver

Sam Wood / Kings Row

1942

John Ford / How Green Was My Valley

Orson Welles / Citizen Kane

1941

John Ford / The Grapes of Wrath

Alfred Hitchcock / Rebecca

1940

Victor Fleming / Gone with the Wind

John Ford / Stagecoach

Frank Capra / Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Sam Wood / Goodbye, Mr. Chips

William Wyler / Wuthering Heights

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

Frank Lloyd / Mutiny on the Bounty

John Ford / The Informer

1935

Frank Capra / It Happened One Night

1934

Frank Lloyd / Cavalcade

Frank Capra / Lady for a Day

1932

Frank Borzage / Bad Girl

1929

King Vidor / The Crowd

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