Academy Awards, Directing

2026

Paul Thomas Anderson / One Battle After Another

Josh Safdie / Marty Supreme

Chloé Zhao / Hamnet

Joachim Trier / Affeksjonsverdi

2025

Coralie Fargeat / The Substance

Sean Baker / Anora

James Mangold / A Complete Unknown

Jacques Audiard / Emilia Pérez

Brady Corbet / The Brutalist

2024

Jonathan Glazer / The Zone of Interest

Justine Triet / Anatomie d'une chute

Christopher Nolan / Oppenheimer

Martin Scorsese / Killers of the Flower Moon

Yorgos Lanthimos / Poor Things

2023

Daniel Kwan / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Steven Spielberg / The Fabelmans

Daniel Scheinert / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Todd Field / TÁR

Ruben Östlund / Triangle of Sadness

Martin McDonagh / The Banshees of Inisherin

2022

Kenneth Branagh / Belfast

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi / ドライブ・マイ・カー

Jane Campion / The Power of the Dog

Steven Spielberg / West Side Story

Paul Thomas Anderson / Licorice Pizza

2021

Lee Isaac Chung / Minari

Chloé Zhao / Nomadland

Thomas Vinterberg / Druk

Emerald Fennell / Promising Young Woman

David Fincher / Mank

2020

Sam Mendes / 1917

Martin Scorsese / The Irishman

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

Bong Joon-ho / 기생충

Todd Phillips / Joker

2019

Yorgos Lanthimos / The Favourite

Adam McKay / Vice

Spike Lee / BlacKkKlansman

Alfonso Cuarón / Roma

2018

Guillermo del Toro / The Shape of Water

Greta Gerwig / Lady Bird

Jordan Peele / Get Out

2017

Kenneth Lonergan / Manchester by the Sea

Denis Villeneuve / Arrival

Mel Gibson / Hacksaw Ridge

Damien Chazelle / La La Land

2016

Adam McKay / The Big Short

Alejandro González Iñárritu / The Revenant

Tom McCarthy / Spotlight

2015

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

Wes Anderson / The Grand Budapest Hotel

2014

Steve McQueen / 12 Years a Slave

Martin Scorsese / The Wolf of Wall Street

Alfonso Cuarón / Gravity

2013

Ang Lee / Life of Pi

David O. Russell / Silver Linings Playbook

Michael Haneke / Amour

2012

Michel Hazanavicius / The Artist

2011

David Fincher / The Social Network

David O. Russell / The Fighter

Darren Aronofsky / Black Swan

Tom Hooper / The King's Speech

2010

Lee Daniels / Precious

Quentin Tarantino / Inglourious Basterds

Jason Reitman / Up in the Air

Kathryn Bigelow / The Hurt Locker

James Cameron / Avatar

2009

David Fincher / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Danny Boyle / Slumdog Millionaire

Gus Van Sant / Milk

Stephen Daldry / The Reader

2008

Joel Coen / No Country for Old Men

Ethan Coen / No Country for Old Men

Julian Schnabel / Le Scaphandre et le Papillon

Tony Gilroy / Michael Clayton

Jason Reitman / Juno

2007

Stephen Frears / The Queen

Clint Eastwood / Letters from Iwo Jima

Martin Scorsese / The Departed

2006

Bennett Miller / Capote

Ang Lee / Brokeback Mountain

2005

Clint Eastwood / Million Dollar Baby

Martin Scorsese / The Aviator

Taylor Hackford / Ray

2004

Fernando Meirelles / Cidade de Deus

Clint Eastwood / Mystic River

Sofia Coppola / Lost in Translation

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

2003

Rob Marshall / Chicago

Martin Scorsese / Gangs of New York

Pedro Almodóvar / Hable con ella

Roman Polanski / The Pianist

Stephen Daldry / The Hours

2002

Ron Howard / A Beautiful Mind

David Lynch / Mulholland Dr.

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

2001

Steven Soderbergh / Erin Brockovich

Ang Lee / 卧虎藏龙

Steven Soderbergh / Traffic

2000

Spike Jonze / Being John Malkovich

M. Night Shyamalan / The Sixth Sense

Lasse Hallström / The Cider House Rules

Sam Mendes / American Beauty

1999

Roberto Benigni / La vita è bella

Steven Spielberg / Saving Private Ryan

John Madden / Shakespeare in Love

1998

Curtis Hanson / L.A. Confidential

Gus Van Sant / Good Will Hunting

James Cameron / Titanic

1997

Joel Coen / Fargo

Scott Hicks / Shine

Anthony Minghella / The English Patient

1996

Mel Gibson / Braveheart

Tim Robbins / Dead Man Walking

Michael Radford / Il Postino

Mike Figgis / Leaving Las Vegas

1995

Krzysztof Kieślowski / Trois couleurs : Rouge

Quentin Tarantino / Pulp Fiction

Robert Zemeckis / Forrest Gump

Robert Redford / Quiz Show

1994

Steven Spielberg / Schindler's List

Jane Campion / The Piano

1993

Clint Eastwood / Unforgiven

Martin Brest / Scent of a Woman

1992

Jonathan Demme / The Silence of the Lambs

Oliver Stone / JFK

1991

Barbet Schroeder / Reversal of Fortune

Francis Ford Coppola / The Godfather: Part III

Stephen Frears / The Grifters

Martin Scorsese / GoodFellas

Kevin Costner / Dances with Wolves

1990

Oliver Stone / Born on the Fourth of July

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

1989

Alan Parker / Mississippi Burning

Barry Levinson / Rain Man

Mike Nichols / Working Girl

1988

Lasse Hallström / Mitt liv som hund

Bernardo Bertolucci / The Last Emperor

Norman Jewison / Moonstruck

1987

Oliver Stone / Platoon

David Lynch / Blue Velvet

1986

Sydney Pollack / Out of Africa

John Huston / Prizzi's Honor

1985

Roland Joffé / The Killing Fields

Places in the Heart

Miloš Forman / Amadeus

David Lean / A Passage to India

1984

Ingmar Bergman / Fanny & Alexander

Peter Yates / The Dresser

James L. Brooks / Terms of Endearment

1983

Sidney Lumet / The Verdict

Richard Attenborough / Gandhi

Steven Spielberg / E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Wolfgang Petersen / Das Boot

Sydney Pollack / Tootsie

1982

Hugh Hudson / Chariots of Fire

Steven Spielberg / Raiders of the Lost Ark

Louis Malle / Atlantic City

1981

Martin Scorsese / Raging Bull

Robert Redford / Ordinary People

Akira Kurosawa / Kagemusha

David Lynch / The Elephant Man

Roman Polanski / Tess

1980

Robert Benton / Kramer vs. Kramer

Bob Fosse / All That Jazz

Édouard Molinaro / La cage aux folles

Peter Yates / Breaking Away

1979

Ingmar Bergman / Höstsonaten

Buck Henry / Heaven Can Wait

Hal Ashby / Coming Home

Warren Beatty / Heaven Can Wait

Michael Cimino / The Deer Hunter

1978

Steven Spielberg / Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Woody Allen / Annie Hall

George Lucas / Star Wars

1977

John G. Avildsen / Rocky

Sidney Lumet / Network

Lina Wertmüller / Seven Beauties

1976

Stanley Kubrick / Barry Lyndon

Sidney Lumet / Dog Day Afternoon

Miloš Forman / One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Federico Fellini / Amarcord

1975

Francis Ford Coppola / The Godfather: Part II

François Truffaut / La Nuit américaine

1974

George Lucas / American Graffiti

George Roy Hill / The Sting

Ingmar Bergman / Cries and Whispers

1973

Bob Fosse / Cabaret

Jan Troell / Utvandrarna

John Boorman / Deliverance

1972

John Schlesinger / Sunday Bloody Sunday

Stanley Kubrick / A Clockwork Orange

Peter Bogdanovich / The Last Picture Show

William Friedkin / The French Connection

1971

Robert Altman / M*A*S*H

Franklin J. Schaffner / Patton

Federico Fellini / Fellini Satyricon

Ken Russell / Women in Love

1970

George Roy Hill / Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

John Schlesinger / Midnight Cowboy

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

Costa-Gavras / Z

1969

Stanley Kubrick / 2001: A Space Odyssey

Carol Reed / Oliver!

Franco Zeffirelli / Romeo and Juliet

1968

Norman Jewison / In the Heat of the Night

Mike Nichols / The Graduate

1967

Claude Lelouch / Un homme et une femme

Fred Zinnemann / A Man for All Seasons

1966

John Schlesinger / Darling

Robert Wise / The Sound of Music

1965

Robert Stevenson / Mary Poppins

George Cukor / My Fair Lady

1964

Martin Ritt / Hud

Elia Kazan / America America

Otto Preminger / The Cardinal

Tony Richardson / Tom Jones

Federico Fellini / 8½

1963

Robert Mulligan / To Kill a Mockingbird

Pietro Germi / Divorzio all'italiana

David Lean / Lawrence of Arabia

1962

Stanley Kramer / Judgment at Nuremberg

Robert Rossen / The Hustler

Jerome Robbins / West Side Story

Federico Fellini / La dolce vita

Robert Wise / West Side Story

1961

Billy Wilder / The Apartment

1960

William Wyler / Ben-Hur

George Stevens / The Diary of Anne Frank

Billy Wilder / Some Like It Hot

1959

Stanley Kramer / The Defiant Ones

Vincente Minnelli / Gigi

Richard Brooks / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

1958

Billy Wilder / Witness for the Prosecution

Sayonara

Sidney Lumet / 12 Angry Men

David Lean / The Bridge on the River Kwai

1957

Michael Anderson / Around the World in 80 Days

Walter Lang / The King and I

George Stevens / Giant

1956

Elia Kazan / East of Eden

Delbert Mann / Marty

1955

Billy Wilder / Sabrina

Alfred Hitchcock / Rear Window

Elia Kazan / On the Waterfront

1954

Fred Zinnemann / From Here to Eternity

Billy Wilder / Stalag 17

1953

John Ford / The Quiet Man

1952

John Huston / The African Queen

Elia Kazan / A Streetcar Named Desire

George Stevens / A Place in the Sun

1951

Billy Wilder / Sunset Boulevard

Joseph L. Mankiewicz / All About Eve

1950

Robert Rossen / All the King's Men

Joseph L. Mankiewicz / A Letter to Three Wives

William Wyler / The Heiress

1949

Laurence Olivier / Hamlet

Jean Negulesco / Johnny Belinda

John Huston / The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

1948

David Lean / Great Expectations

Elia Kazan / Gentleman's Agreement

1947

David Lean / Brief Encounter

William Wyler / The Best Years of Our Lives

Clarence Brown / The Yearling

1946

Billy Wilder / The Lost Weekend

1945

Leo McCarey / Going My Way

Billy Wilder / Double Indemnity

1944

Michael Curtiz / Casablanca

Henry King / The Song of Bernadette

1943

William Wyler / Mrs. Miniver

Sam Wood / Kings Row

1942

Orson Welles / Citizen Kane

John Ford / How Green Was My Valley

1941

John Ford / The Grapes of Wrath

Alfred Hitchcock / Rebecca

1940

Frank Capra / Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

John Ford / Stagecoach

Victor Fleming / Gone with the Wind

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

John Ford / The Informer

Frank Lloyd / Mutiny on the Bounty

1935

Frank Capra / It Happened One Night

1934

Frank Capra / Lady for a Day

Frank Lloyd / Cavalcade

1932

Frank Borzage / Bad Girl

1929

King Vidor / The Crowd

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