Academy Awards, Directing

2025

Jacques Audiard / Emilia Pérez

Coralie Fargeat / The Substance

Brady Corbet / The Brutalist

Sean Baker / Anora

James Mangold / A Complete Unknown

2024

Yorgos Lanthimos / Poor Things

Christopher Nolan / Oppenheimer

Justine Triet / Anatomie d'une chute

Jonathan Glazer / The Zone of Interest

Martin Scorsese / Killers of the Flower Moon

2023

Daniel Scheinert / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Steven Spielberg / The Fabelmans

Martin McDonagh / The Banshees of Inisherin

Daniel Kwan / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Ruben Östlund / Triangle of Sadness

Todd Field / TÁR

2022

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi / ドライブ・マイ・カー

Jane Campion / The Power of the Dog

Steven Spielberg / West Side Story

Kenneth Branagh / Belfast

Paul Thomas Anderson / Licorice Pizza

2021

David Fincher / Mank

Thomas Vinterberg / Druk

Chloé Zhao / Nomadland

Emerald Fennell / Promising Young Woman

Lee Isaac Chung / Minari

2020

Todd Phillips / Joker

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

Sam Mendes / 1917

Martin Scorsese / The Irishman

Bong Joon-ho / 기생충

2019

Yorgos Lanthimos / The Favourite

Alfonso Cuarón / Roma

Spike Lee / BlacKkKlansman

Adam McKay / Vice

2018

Greta Gerwig / Lady Bird

Guillermo del Toro / The Shape of Water

Jordan Peele / Get Out

2017

Denis Villeneuve / Arrival

Kenneth Lonergan / Manchester by the Sea

Damien Chazelle / La La Land

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

Steve McQueen / 12 Years a Slave

Alfonso Cuarón / Gravity

Martin Scorsese / The Wolf of Wall Street

2013

Michael Haneke / Amour

Ang Lee / Life of Pi

David O. Russell / Silver Linings Playbook

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

James Cameron / Avatar

Jason Reitman / Up in the Air

Quentin Tarantino / Inglourious Basterds

Kathryn Bigelow / The Hurt Locker

Lee Daniels / Precious

2009

Stephen Daldry / The Reader

Gus Van Sant / Milk

David Fincher / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Danny Boyle / Slumdog Millionaire

2008

Julian Schnabel / Le Scaphandre et le Papillon

Ethan Coen / No Country for Old Men

Jason Reitman / Juno

Tony Gilroy / Michael Clayton

Joel 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

Martin Scorsese / The Aviator

Taylor Hackford / Ray

2004

Fernando Meirelles / Cidade de Deus

Sofia Coppola / Lost in Translation

Clint Eastwood / Mystic River

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

2003

Rob Marshall / Chicago

Roman Polanski / The Pianist

Martin Scorsese / Gangs of New York

Pedro Almodóvar / Hable con ella

Stephen Daldry / The Hours

2002

David Lynch / Mulholland Dr.

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

Ron Howard / A Beautiful Mind

2001

Steven Soderbergh / Traffic

Ang Lee / 卧虎藏龙

Steven Soderbergh / Erin Brockovich

2000

Sam Mendes / American Beauty

Lasse Hallström / The Cider House Rules

M. Night Shyamalan / The Sixth Sense

Spike Jonze / Being John Malkovich

1999

Roberto Benigni / La vita è bella

John Madden / Shakespeare in Love

Steven Spielberg / Saving Private Ryan

1998

Gus Van Sant / Good Will Hunting

Curtis Hanson / L.A. Confidential

James Cameron / Titanic

1997

Joel Coen / Fargo

Scott Hicks / Shine

Anthony Minghella / The English Patient

1996

Mike Figgis / Leaving Las Vegas

Tim Robbins / Dead Man Walking

Michael Radford / Il Postino

Mel Gibson / Braveheart

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

Clint Eastwood / Unforgiven

Martin Brest / Scent of a Woman

1992

Jonathan Demme / The Silence of the Lambs

Oliver Stone / JFK

1991

Stephen Frears / The Grifters

Kevin Costner / Dances with Wolves

Barbet Schroeder / Reversal of Fortune

Francis Ford Coppola / The Godfather: Part III

Martin Scorsese / GoodFellas

1990

Oliver Stone / Born on the Fourth of July

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

1989

Barry Levinson / Rain Man

Mike Nichols / Working Girl

Alan Parker / Mississippi Burning

1988

Lasse Hallström / Mitt liv som hund

Bernardo Bertolucci / The Last Emperor

Norman Jewison / Moonstruck

1987

Oliver Stone / Platoon

David Lynch / Blue Velvet

1986

John Huston / Prizzi's Honor

Sydney Pollack / Out of Africa

1985

Places in the Heart

David Lean / A Passage to India

Roland Joffé / The Killing Fields

Miloš Forman / Amadeus

1984

Ingmar Bergman / Fanny & Alexander

Peter Yates / The Dresser

James L. Brooks / Terms of Endearment

1983

Wolfgang Petersen / Das Boot

Sidney Lumet / The Verdict

Richard Attenborough / Gandhi

Sydney Pollack / Tootsie

Steven Spielberg / E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

1982

Steven Spielberg / Raiders of the Lost Ark

Hugh Hudson / Chariots of Fire

Louis Malle / Atlantic City

1981

Martin Scorsese / Raging Bull

Robert Redford / Ordinary People

Roman Polanski / Tess

David Lynch / The Elephant Man

Akira Kurosawa / Kagemusha

1980

Robert Benton / Kramer vs. Kramer

Bob Fosse / All That Jazz

Peter Yates / Breaking Away

Édouard Molinaro / La cage aux folles

1979

Ingmar Bergman / Höstsonaten

Michael Cimino / The Deer Hunter

Buck Henry / Heaven Can Wait

Warren Beatty / Heaven Can Wait

Hal Ashby / Coming Home

1978

Steven Spielberg / Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Woody Allen / Annie Hall

George Lucas / Star Wars

1977

Lina Wertmüller / Seven Beauties

Sidney Lumet / Network

John G. Avildsen / Rocky

1976

Sidney Lumet / Dog Day Afternoon

Stanley Kubrick / Barry Lyndon

Miloš Forman / One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Federico Fellini / Amarcord

1975

François Truffaut / La Nuit américaine

Francis Ford Coppola / The Godfather: Part II

1974

George Roy Hill / The Sting

George Lucas / American Graffiti

Ingmar Bergman / Cries and Whispers

1973

Bob Fosse / Cabaret

Francis Ford Coppola / The Godfather

John Boorman / Deliverance

Jan Troell / Utvandrarna

1972

William Friedkin / The French Connection

Stanley Kubrick / A Clockwork Orange

John Schlesinger / Sunday Bloody Sunday

Peter Bogdanovich / The Last Picture Show

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

Costa-Gavras / Z

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

1969

Stanley Kubrick / 2001: A Space Odyssey

Carol Reed / Oliver!

Franco Zeffirelli / Romeo and Juliet

1968

Mike Nichols / The Graduate

Norman Jewison / In the Heat of the Night

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

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

George Cukor / My Fair Lady

Robert Stevenson / Mary Poppins

1964

Martin Ritt / Hud

Federico Fellini / 8½

Otto Preminger / The Cardinal

Elia Kazan / America America

Tony Richardson / Tom Jones

1963

Robert Mulligan / To Kill a Mockingbird

Pietro Germi / Divorzio all'italiana

David Lean / Lawrence of Arabia

1962

Robert Wise / West Side Story

Robert Rossen / The Hustler

Stanley Kramer / Judgment at Nuremberg

Federico Fellini / La dolce vita

Jerome Robbins / West Side Story

1961

Billy Wilder / The Apartment

1960

George Stevens / The Diary of Anne Frank

Billy Wilder / Some Like It Hot

William Wyler / Ben-Hur

1959

Stanley Kramer / The Defiant Ones

Richard Brooks / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Vincente Minnelli / Gigi

1958

Sayonara

Sidney Lumet / 12 Angry Men

David Lean / The Bridge on the River Kwai

Billy Wilder / Witness for the Prosecution

1957

Michael Anderson / Around the World in 80 Days

Walter Lang / The King and I

George Stevens / Giant

1956

Delbert Mann / Marty

Elia Kazan / East of Eden

1955

Alfred Hitchcock / Rear Window

Elia Kazan / On the Waterfront

Billy Wilder / Sabrina

1954

Fred Zinnemann / From Here to Eternity

Billy Wilder / Stalag 17

1953

Fred Zinnemann / High Noon

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

Joseph L. Mankiewicz / All About Eve

Billy Wilder / Sunset Boulevard

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

David Lean / Great Expectations

Elia Kazan / Gentleman's Agreement

1947

David Lean / Brief Encounter

Clarence Brown / The Yearling

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

Alfred Hitchcock / Rebecca

John Ford / The Grapes of Wrath

1940

Frank Capra / Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Sam Wood / Goodbye, Mr. Chips

John Ford / Stagecoach

William Wyler / Wuthering Heights

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

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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