BAFTA Awards, Best Director

2025

Edward Berger / Conclave

2024

Christopher Nolan / Oppenheimer

Justine Triet / Anatomie d'une chute

2023

Edward Berger / Im Westen nichts Neues

Todd Field / TÁR

Park Chan-wook / 헤어질 결심

Daniel Kwan / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Martin McDonagh / The Banshees of Inisherin

Gina Prince-Bythewood / The Woman King

Daniel Scheinert / Everything Everywhere All at Once

2022

Julia Ducournau / Titane

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi / ドライブ・マイ・カー

Audrey Diwan / L'Événement

Aleem Khan / After Love

Paul Thomas Anderson / Licorice Pizza

Jane Campion / The Power of the Dog

2021

Shannon Murphy / Babyteeth

Jasmila Zbanic / Quo vadis, Aida?

Chloé Zhao / Nomadland

Thomas Vinterberg / Druk

Sarah Gavron / Rocks

Lee Isaac Chung / Minari

2020

Sam Mendes / 1917

Martin Scorsese / The Irishman

Bong Joon-ho / 기생충

Todd Phillips / Joker

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

2019

Alfonso Cuarón / Roma

Yorgos Lanthimos / The Favourite

Bradley Cooper / A Star is Born

Spike Lee / BlacKkKlansman

2018

Luca Guadagnino / Call Me by Your Name

2017

Kenneth Lonergan / Manchester by the Sea

Denis Villeneuve / Arrival

Tom Ford / Nocturnal Animals

2014

Martin Scorsese / The Wolf of Wall Street

2013

Michael Haneke / Amour

Ang Lee / Life of Pi

Quentin Tarantino / Django Unchained

2012

Michel Hazanavicius / The Artist

Nicolas Winding Refn / Drive

2011

Danny Boyle / 127 Hours

David Fincher / The Social Network

2010

James Cameron / Avatar

Quentin Tarantino / Inglourious Basterds

Neill Blomkamp / District 9

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

Tim Burton / Big Fish

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

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

M. Night Shyamalan / The Sixth Sense

Anthony Minghella / The Talented Mr. Ripley

Pedro Almodóvar / Todo sobre mi madre

1998

James Cameron / Titanic

1995

Robert Zemeckis / Forrest Gump

Krzysztof Kieślowski / Trois couleurs : Rouge

Quentin Tarantino / Pulp Fiction

1994

Richard Attenborough / Shadowlands

Steven Spielberg / Schindler's List

1993

Clint Eastwood / Unforgiven

1989

Louis Malle / Au revoir les enfants

1988

Richard Attenborough / Cry Freedom

Claude Berri / Jean de Florette

1987

Oliver Stone / Platoon

David Lynch / Blue Velvet

1985

Roland Joffé / The Killing Fields

Sergio Leone / Once Upon a Time in America

Wim Wenders / Paris, Texas

1984

Peter Yates / The Dresser

Sydney Pollack / Tootsie

1983

Steven Spielberg / E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Richard Attenborough / Gandhi

Costa-Gavras / Missing

1982

Chariots of Fire

Louis Malle / Atlantic City

1981

David Lynch / The Elephant Man

Akira Kurosawa / Kagemusha

1980

Robert Benton / Kramer vs. Kramer

1979

Steven Spielberg / Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Michael Cimino / The Deer Hunter

1978

Richard Attenborough / A Bridge Too Far

Sidney Lumet / Network

1976

Sidney Lumet / Dog Day Afternoon

Steven Spielberg / Jaws

Stanley Kubrick / Barry Lyndon

1975

Sidney Lumet / Murder on the Orient Express

Francis Ford Coppola / The Conversation

Sidney Lumet / Serpico

1974

Luis Buñuel / Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie

François Truffaut / La Nuit américaine

1973

Stanley Kubrick / A Clockwork Orange

1972

John Schlesinger / Sunday Bloody Sunday

The Go-Between

1971

George Roy Hill / Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Robert Altman / M*A*S*H

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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