BAFTA Awards, Best Director

2025

Edward Berger / Conclave

2024

Justine Triet / Anatomie d'une chute

Christopher Nolan / Oppenheimer

2023

Todd Field / TÁR

Daniel Scheinert / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Daniel Kwan / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Gina Prince-Bythewood / The Woman King

Martin McDonagh / The Banshees of Inisherin

Edward Berger / Im Westen nichts Neues

Park Chan-wook / 헤어질 결심

2022

Jane Campion / The Power of the Dog

Aleem Khan / After Love

Audrey Diwan / L'Événement

Paul Thomas Anderson / Licorice Pizza

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi / ドライブ・マイ・カー

Julia Ducournau / Titane

2021

Jasmila Zbanic / Quo vadis, Aida?

Thomas Vinterberg / Druk

Shannon Murphy / Babyteeth

Chloé Zhao / Nomadland

Sarah Gavron / Rocks

Lee Isaac Chung / Minari

2020

Todd Phillips / Joker

Bong Joon-ho / 기생충

Martin Scorsese / The Irishman

Sam Mendes / 1917

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

2019

Yorgos Lanthimos / The Favourite

Spike Lee / BlacKkKlansman

Alfonso Cuarón / Roma

Bradley Cooper / A Star is Born

2018

Luca Guadagnino / Call Me by Your Name

2017

Tom Ford / Nocturnal Animals

Kenneth Lonergan / Manchester by the Sea

Denis Villeneuve / Arrival

2014

Martin Scorsese / The Wolf of Wall Street

2013

Ang Lee / Life of Pi

Quentin Tarantino / Django Unchained

Michael Haneke / Amour

2012

Nicolas Winding Refn / Drive

Michel Hazanavicius / The Artist

2011

David Fincher / The Social Network

Danny Boyle / 127 Hours

2010

James Cameron / Avatar

Neill Blomkamp / District 9

Quentin Tarantino / Inglourious Basterds

2009

David Fincher / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Clint Eastwood / Changeling

Danny Boyle / Slumdog Millionaire

2008

Joel Coen / No Country for Old Men

Ethan Coen / No Country for Old Men

2006

Ang Lee / Brokeback Mountain

2004

Peter Jackson / The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Tim Burton / Big Fish

2002

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

Jean-Pierre Jeunet / Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain

2001

Ang Lee / 卧虎藏龙

2000

Anthony Minghella / The Talented Mr. Ripley

M. Night Shyamalan / The Sixth Sense

Pedro Almodóvar / Todo sobre mi madre

1998

James Cameron / Titanic

1995

Robert Zemeckis / Forrest Gump

Quentin Tarantino / Pulp Fiction

Krzysztof Kieślowski / Trois couleurs : Rouge

1994

Steven Spielberg / Schindler's List

Richard Attenborough / Shadowlands

1993

Clint Eastwood / Unforgiven

1989

Louis Malle / Au revoir les enfants

1988

Claude Berri / Jean de Florette

Richard Attenborough / Cry Freedom

1987

Oliver Stone / Platoon

David Lynch / Blue Velvet

1985

Sergio Leone / Once Upon a Time in America

Roland Joffé / The Killing Fields

Wim Wenders / Paris, Texas

1984

Sydney Pollack / Tootsie

Peter Yates / The Dresser

1983

Richard Attenborough / Gandhi

Steven Spielberg / E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Costa-Gavras / Missing

1982

Louis Malle / Atlantic City

Chariots of Fire

1981

Akira Kurosawa / Kagemusha

David Lynch / The Elephant Man

1980

Robert Benton / Kramer vs. Kramer

1979

Michael Cimino / The Deer Hunter

Steven Spielberg / Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1978

Richard Attenborough / A Bridge Too Far

Sidney Lumet / Network

1976

Stanley Kubrick / Barry Lyndon

Sidney Lumet / Dog Day Afternoon

Steven Spielberg / Jaws

1975

Sidney Lumet / Murder on the Orient Express

Sidney Lumet / Serpico

Francis Ford Coppola / The Conversation

1974

Luis Buñuel / Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie

François Truffaut / La Nuit américaine

1973

Stanley Kubrick / A Clockwork Orange

1972

The Go-Between

John Schlesinger / Sunday Bloody Sunday

1971

Robert Altman / M*A*S*H

George Roy Hill / Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

1970

Richard Attenborough / Oh! What a Lovely War

John Schlesinger / Midnight Cowboy

Ken Russell / Women in Love

1969

Franco Zeffirelli / Romeo and Juliet

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