Academy Awards, Directing

2026

Ryan Coogler / Sinners

Josh Safdie / Marty Supreme

Chloé Zhao / Hamnet

Paul Thomas Anderson / One Battle After Another

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

Martin Scorsese / Killers of the Flower Moon

Jonathan Glazer / The Zone of Interest

Justine Triet / Anatomie d'une chute

Yorgos Lanthimos / Poor Things

Christopher Nolan / Oppenheimer

2023

Daniel Scheinert / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Daniel Kwan / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Todd Field / TÁR

Martin McDonagh / The Banshees of Inisherin

Steven Spielberg / The Fabelmans

Ruben Östlund / Triangle of Sadness

2022

Jane Campion / The Power of the Dog

Kenneth Branagh / Belfast

Steven Spielberg / West Side Story

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi / ドライブ・マイ・カー

Paul Thomas Anderson / Licorice Pizza

2021

Thomas Vinterberg / Druk

David Fincher / Mank

Chloé Zhao / Nomadland

Emerald Fennell / Promising Young Woman

Lee Isaac Chung / Minari

2020

Bong Joon-ho / 기생충

Sam Mendes / 1917

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

Todd Phillips / Joker

Martin Scorsese / The Irishman

2019

Alfonso Cuarón / Roma

Yorgos Lanthimos / The Favourite

Adam McKay / Vice

Spike Lee / BlacKkKlansman

2018

Jordan Peele / Get Out

Greta Gerwig / Lady Bird

Guillermo del Toro / The Shape of Water

2017

Damien Chazelle / La La Land

Mel Gibson / Hacksaw Ridge

Kenneth Lonergan / Manchester by the Sea

Denis Villeneuve / Arrival

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

Alfonso Cuarón / Gravity

Martin Scorsese / The Wolf of Wall Street

2013

Ang Lee / Life of Pi

Michael Haneke / Amour

David O. Russell / Silver Linings Playbook

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

Quentin Tarantino / Inglourious Basterds

Kathryn Bigelow / The Hurt Locker

Lee Daniels / Precious

Jason Reitman / Up in the Air

2009

David Fincher / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Gus Van Sant / Milk

Danny Boyle / Slumdog Millionaire

Stephen Daldry / The Reader

2008

Tony Gilroy / Michael Clayton

Ethan Coen / No Country for Old Men

Joel Coen / No Country for Old Men

Jason Reitman / Juno

Julian Schnabel / Le Scaphandre et le Papillon

2007

Martin Scorsese / The Departed

Clint Eastwood / Letters from Iwo Jima

Stephen Frears / The Queen

2006

Ang Lee / Brokeback Mountain

Bennett Miller / Capote

2005

Martin Scorsese / The Aviator

Taylor Hackford / Ray

Clint Eastwood / Million Dollar Baby

2004

Clint Eastwood / Mystic River

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

Fernando Meirelles / Cidade de Deus

Sofia Coppola / Lost in Translation

2003

Stephen Daldry / The Hours

Pedro Almodóvar / Hable con ella

Roman Polanski / The Pianist

Rob Marshall / Chicago

Martin Scorsese / Gangs of New York

2002

Ron Howard / A Beautiful Mind

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

David Lynch / Mulholland Dr.

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

Mike Figgis / Leaving Las Vegas

Mel Gibson / Braveheart

Michael Radford / Il Postino

Tim Robbins / Dead Man Walking

1995

Robert Zemeckis / Forrest Gump

Quentin Tarantino / Pulp Fiction

Krzysztof Kieślowski / Trois couleurs : Rouge

Robert Redford / Quiz Show

1994

Jane Campion / The Piano

Steven Spielberg / Schindler's List

1993

Clint Eastwood / Unforgiven

Martin Brest / Scent of a Woman

1992

Oliver Stone / JFK

Jonathan Demme / The Silence of the Lambs

1991

Francis Ford Coppola / The Godfather: Part III

Martin Scorsese / GoodFellas

Barbet Schroeder / Reversal of Fortune

Kevin Costner / Dances with Wolves

Stephen Frears / The Grifters

1990

Oliver Stone / Born on the Fourth of July

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

1989

Mike Nichols / Working Girl

Barry Levinson / Rain Man

Alan Parker / Mississippi Burning

1988

Norman Jewison / Moonstruck

Bernardo Bertolucci / The Last Emperor

Lasse Hallström / Mitt liv som hund

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

Miloš Forman / Amadeus

David Lean / A Passage to India

Places in the Heart

1984

Peter Yates / The Dresser

Ingmar Bergman / Fanny & Alexander

James L. Brooks / Terms of Endearment

1983

Richard Attenborough / Gandhi

Sidney Lumet / The Verdict

Steven Spielberg / E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Wolfgang Petersen / Das Boot

Sydney Pollack / Tootsie

1982

Louis Malle / Atlantic City

Hugh Hudson / Chariots of Fire

Steven Spielberg / Raiders of the Lost Ark

1981

Martin Scorsese / Raging Bull

Roman Polanski / Tess

Robert Redford / Ordinary People

David Lynch / The Elephant Man

Akira Kurosawa / Kagemusha

1980

Édouard Molinaro / La cage aux folles

Bob Fosse / All That Jazz

Robert Benton / Kramer vs. Kramer

Peter Yates / Breaking Away

1979

Ingmar Bergman / Höstsonaten

Michael Cimino / The Deer Hunter

Buck Henry / Heaven Can Wait

Warren Beatty / Heaven Can Wait

Hal Ashby / Coming Home

1978

Woody Allen / Annie Hall

Steven Spielberg / Close Encounters of the Third Kind

George Lucas / Star Wars

1977

Lina Wertmüller / Seven Beauties

Sidney Lumet / Network

John G. Avildsen / Rocky

1976

Miloš Forman / One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Stanley Kubrick / Barry Lyndon

Sidney Lumet / Dog Day Afternoon

Federico Fellini / Amarcord

1975

Francis Ford Coppola / The Godfather: Part II

François Truffaut / La Nuit américaine

1974

Ingmar Bergman / Cries and Whispers

George Lucas / American Graffiti

George Roy Hill / The Sting

1973

Francis Ford Coppola / The Godfather

Jan Troell / Utvandrarna

Bob Fosse / Cabaret

John Boorman / Deliverance

1972

Stanley Kubrick / A Clockwork Orange

Peter Bogdanovich / The Last Picture Show

William Friedkin / The French Connection

John Schlesinger / Sunday Bloody Sunday

1971

Federico Fellini / Fellini Satyricon

Franklin J. Schaffner / Patton

Ken Russell / Women in Love

Robert Altman / M*A*S*H

1970

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

George Roy Hill / Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Costa-Gavras / Z

John Schlesinger / Midnight Cowboy

1969

Carol Reed / Oliver!

Franco Zeffirelli / Romeo and Juliet

Stanley Kubrick / 2001: A Space Odyssey

1968

Norman Jewison / In the Heat of the Night

Mike Nichols / The Graduate

1967

Fred Zinnemann / A Man for All Seasons

Claude Lelouch / Un homme et une femme

1966

Robert Wise / The Sound of Music

John Schlesinger / Darling

1965

Robert Stevenson / Mary Poppins

Stanley Kubrick / Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

George Cukor / My Fair Lady

1964

Otto Preminger / The Cardinal

Tony Richardson / Tom Jones

Elia Kazan / America America

Federico Fellini / 8½

Martin Ritt / Hud

1963

Robert Mulligan / To Kill a Mockingbird

Pietro Germi / Divorzio all'italiana

David Lean / Lawrence of Arabia

1962

Robert Wise / West Side Story

Stanley Kramer / Judgment at Nuremberg

Jerome Robbins / West Side Story

Robert Rossen / The Hustler

Federico Fellini / La dolce vita

1961

Billy Wilder / The Apartment

1960

George Stevens / The Diary of Anne Frank

William Wyler / Ben-Hur

Billy Wilder / Some Like It Hot

1959

Stanley Kramer / The Defiant Ones

Richard Brooks / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Vincente Minnelli / Gigi

1958

Sayonara

Billy Wilder / Witness for the Prosecution

Sidney Lumet / 12 Angry Men

David Lean / The Bridge on the River Kwai

1957

Michael Anderson / Around the World in 80 Days

George Stevens / Giant

Walter Lang / The King and I

1956

Delbert Mann / Marty

Elia Kazan / East of Eden

1955

Elia Kazan / On the Waterfront

Alfred Hitchcock / Rear Window

Billy Wilder / Sabrina

1954

Fred Zinnemann / From Here to Eternity

Billy Wilder / Stalag 17

1953

John Ford / The Quiet Man

1952

Elia Kazan / A Streetcar Named Desire

John Huston / The African Queen

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

John Huston / The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Laurence Olivier / Hamlet

Jean Negulesco / Johnny Belinda

1948

Elia Kazan / Gentleman's Agreement

David Lean / Great Expectations

1947

William Wyler / The Best Years of Our Lives

David Lean / Brief Encounter

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

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

Frank Capra / Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Sam Wood / Goodbye, Mr. Chips

William Wyler / Wuthering Heights

John Ford / Stagecoach

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 Capra / Lady for a Day

Frank Lloyd / Cavalcade

1932

Frank Borzage / Bad Girl

1929

King Vidor / The Crowd

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