Directors Guild of America Awards, Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film

2023

Daniel Kwan / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Todd Field / TÁR

Steven Spielberg / The Fabelmans

Joseph Kosinski / Top Gun: Maverick

Martin McDonagh / The Banshees of Inisherin

Daniel Scheinert / Everything Everywhere All at Once

2022

Denis Villeneuve / Dune

Steven Spielberg / West Side Story

Paul Thomas Anderson / Licorice Pizza

Kenneth Branagh / Belfast

Jane Campion / The Power of the Dog

2021

David Fincher / Mank

Chloé Zhao / Nomadland

Emerald Fennell / Promising Young Woman

Lee Isaac Chung / Minari

Aaron Sorkin / The Trial of the Chicago 7

2020

Sam Mendes / 1917

Bong Joon-Ho / 기생충

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

Taika Waititi / Jojo Rabbit

Martin Scorsese / The Irishman

2019

Adam McKay / Vice

Alfonso Cuarón / Roma

2018

Greta Gerwig / Lady Bird

Guillermo del Toro / The Shape of Water

2017

Damien Chazelle / La La Land

Denis Villeneuve / Arrival

Kenneth Lonergan / Manchester by the Sea

2016

Tom McCarthy / Spotlight

Alejandro González Iñárritu / The Revenant

2015

Clint Eastwood / American Sniper

Alejandro González Iñárritu / Birdman

2014

Alfonso Cuarón / Gravity

2013

Ben Affleck / Argo

Ang Lee / Life of Pi

2012

Michel Hazanavicius / The Artist

David Fincher / The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

2011

Tom Hooper / The King's Speech

David Fincher / The Social Network

2010

Jason Reitman / Up in the Air

Quentin Tarantino / Inglourious Basterds

Kathryn Bigelow / The Hurt Locker

2009

David Fincher / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Danny Boyle / Slumdog Millionaire

Gus Van Sant / Milk

2008

Julian Schnabel / Le Scaphandre et le Papillon

Joel Coen / No Country for Old Men

Ethan Coen / No Country for Old Men

2007

Bill Condon / Dreamgirls

Martin Scorsese / The Departed

2006

Ang Lee / Brokeback Mountain

2005

Clint Eastwood / Million Dollar Baby

2004

Sofia Coppola / Lost in Translation

Clint Eastwood / Mystic River

Gary Ross / Seabiscuit

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

2003

Rob Marshall / Chicago

2002

Ron Howard / A Beautiful Mind

2001

Ang Lee / 卧虎藏龙

Cameron Crowe / Almost Famous

2000

Spike Jonze / Being John Malkovich

M. Night Shyamalan / The Sixth Sense

Sam Mendes / American Beauty

1999

Steven Spielberg / Saving Private Ryan

1998

James Cameron / Titanic

Gus Van Sant / Good Will Hunting

1997

Anthony Minghella / The English Patient

Cameron Crowe / Jerry Maguire

1996

Ron Howard / Apollo 13

1995

Robert Zemeckis / Forrest Gump

Quentin Tarantino / Pulp Fiction

Robert Redford / Quiz Show

1994

Steven Spielberg / Schindler's List

1993

Clint Eastwood / Unforgiven

1992

Oliver Stone / JFK

Jonathan Demme / The Silence of the Lambs

1991

Kevin Costner / Dances with Wolves

1990

Oliver Stone / Born on the Fourth of July

1988

James L. Brooks / Broadcast News

1987

Oliver Stone / Platoon

1986

Steven Spielberg / The Color Purple

Sydney Pollack / Out of Africa

1985

Miloš Forman / Amadeus

Roland Joffé / The Killing Fields

David Lean / A Passage to India

1984

James L. Brooks / Terms of Endearment

1983

Steven Spielberg / E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Sydney Pollack / Tootsie

Richard Attenborough / Gandhi

1982

Steven Spielberg / Raiders of the Lost Ark

1981

David Lynch / The Elephant Man

Michael Apted / Coal Miner's Daughter

Robert Redford / Ordinary People

1978

George Lucas / Star Wars

Steven Spielberg / Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1977

Sidney Lumet / Network

1976

Stanley Kubrick / Barry Lyndon

Sidney Lumet / Dog Day Afternoon

Steven Spielberg / Jaws

1975

Sidney Lumet / Murder on the Orient Express

Francis Ford Coppola / The Conversation

1974

George Lucas / American Graffiti

Sidney Lumet / Serpico

1973

Francis Ford Coppola / The Godfather

1972

John Schlesinger / Sunday Bloody Sunday

Stanley Kubrick / A Clockwork Orange

1971

Franklin J. Schaffner / Patton

Robert Altman / M*A*S*H

1970

Gene Kelly / Hello, Dolly!

George Roy Hill / Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

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

John Schlesinger / Midnight Cowboy

Richard Attenborough / Oh! What a Lovely War

Dennis Hopper / Easy Rider

1969

Stanley Kubrick / 2001: A Space Odyssey

Roman Polanski / Rosemary's Baby

Franco Zeffirelli / Romeo and Juliet

1968

Stuart Rosenberg / Cool Hand Luke

1966

John Schlesinger / Darling

Sidney Lumet / The Pawnbroker

1965

Robert Stevenson / Mary Poppins

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

1964

Ralph Nelson / Lilies of the Field

Federico Fellini / 8½

Elia Kazan / America America

Martin Ritt / Hud

1963

Sidney Lumet / Long Day's Journey Into Night

Stanley Kubrick / Lolita

1962

Robert Rossen / The Hustler

Stanley Kramer / Judgment at Nuremberg

Elia Kazan / Splendor in the Grass

Frank Capra / Pocketful of Miracles

Marlon Brando / One-Eyed Jacks

1961

Billy Wilder / The Apartment

1960

George Stevens / The Diary of Anne Frank

Billy Wilder / Some Like It Hot

William Wyler / Ben-Hur

Frank Capra / A Hole in the Head

1959

The Young Lions

Martin Ritt / The Long, Hot Summer

Vincente Minnelli / Gigi

1958

Sidney Lumet / 12 Angry Men

Billy Wilder / Witness for the Prosecution

Billy Wilder / Love in the Afternoon

Elia Kazan / A Face in the Crowd

Sayonara

1957

Walter Lang / The King and I

George Stevens / Giant

1956

Mark Robson / The Bridges at Toko-Ri

Billy Wilder / The Seven Year Itch

Elia Kazan / East of Eden

1955

Billy Wilder / Sabrina

Alfred Hitchcock / Dial M for Murder

Elia Kazan / On the Waterfront

Alfred Hitchcock / Rear Window

1954

Fred Zinnemann / From Here to Eternity

Billy Wilder / Stalag 17

1953

Fred Zinnemann / High Noon

Gene Kelly / Singin' in the Rain

Elia Kazan / Viva Zapata!

1952

Michael Gordon / Cyrano de Bergerac

Elia Kazan / A Streetcar Named Desire

George Stevens / A Place in the Sun

1951

Billy Wilder / Sunset Boulevard

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