Academy Awards, Directing

2025

James Mangold / A Complete Unknown

Sean Baker / Anora

Jacques Audiard / Emilia Pérez

Coralie Fargeat / The Substance

Brady Corbet / The Brutalist

2024

Justine Triet / Anatomie d'une chute

Jonathan Glazer / The Zone of Interest

Martin Scorsese / Killers of the Flower Moon

Christopher Nolan / Oppenheimer

Yorgos Lanthimos / Poor Things

2023

Martin McDonagh / The Banshees of Inisherin

Steven Spielberg / The Fabelmans

Daniel Kwan / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Todd Field / TÁR

Daniel Scheinert / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Ruben Östlund / Triangle of Sadness

2022

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi / ドライブ・マイ・カー

Kenneth Branagh / Belfast

Paul Thomas Anderson / Licorice Pizza

Jane Campion / The Power of the Dog

Steven Spielberg / West Side Story

2021

Emerald Fennell / Promising Young Woman

Thomas Vinterberg / Druk

Chloé Zhao / Nomadland

David Fincher / Mank

Lee Isaac Chung / Minari

2020

Todd Phillips / Joker

Sam Mendes / 1917

Martin Scorsese / The Irishman

Bong Joon-ho / 기생충

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

2019

Alfonso Cuarón / Roma

Spike Lee / BlacKkKlansman

Adam McKay / Vice

Yorgos Lanthimos / The Favourite

2018

Guillermo del Toro / The Shape of Water

Greta Gerwig / Lady Bird

Jordan Peele / Get Out

2017

Mel Gibson / Hacksaw Ridge

Denis Villeneuve / Arrival

Damien Chazelle / La La Land

Kenneth Lonergan / Manchester by the Sea

2016

Alejandro González Iñárritu / The Revenant

Adam McKay / The Big Short

Tom McCarthy / Spotlight

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

Tom Hooper / The King's Speech

David O. Russell / The Fighter

Darren Aronofsky / Black Swan

2010

Quentin Tarantino / Inglourious Basterds

Jason Reitman / Up in the Air

Lee Daniels / Precious

James Cameron / Avatar

Kathryn Bigelow / The Hurt Locker

2009

Danny Boyle / Slumdog Millionaire

Stephen Daldry / The Reader

David Fincher / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Gus Van Sant / Milk

2008

Ethan Coen / No Country for Old Men

Jason Reitman / Juno

Joel Coen / No Country for Old Men

Tony Gilroy / Michael Clayton

Julian Schnabel / Le Scaphandre et le Papillon

2007

Stephen Frears / The Queen

Martin Scorsese / The Departed

Clint Eastwood / Letters from Iwo Jima

2006

Bennett Miller / Capote

Ang Lee / Brokeback Mountain

2005

Martin Scorsese / The Aviator

Taylor Hackford / Ray

Clint Eastwood / Million Dollar Baby

2004

Sofia Coppola / Lost in Translation

Fernando Meirelles / Cidade de Deus

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

Clint Eastwood / Mystic River

2003

Rob Marshall / Chicago

Stephen Daldry / The Hours

Pedro Almodóvar / Hable con ella

Roman Polanski / The Pianist

Martin Scorsese / Gangs of New York

2002

Ron Howard / A Beautiful Mind

David Lynch / Mulholland Dr.

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

2001

Steven Soderbergh / Erin Brockovich

Steven Soderbergh / Traffic

Ang Lee / 卧虎藏龙

2000

Sam Mendes / American Beauty

Lasse Hallström / The Cider House Rules

M. Night Shyamalan / The Sixth Sense

Spike Jonze / Being John Malkovich

1999

Steven Spielberg / Saving Private Ryan

Roberto Benigni / La vita è bella

John Madden / Shakespeare in Love

1998

Curtis Hanson / L.A. Confidential

Gus Van Sant / Good Will Hunting

James Cameron / Titanic

1997

Anthony Minghella / The English Patient

Joel Coen / Fargo

Scott Hicks / Shine

1996

Michael Radford / Il Postino

Mike Figgis / Leaving Las Vegas

Mel Gibson / Braveheart

Tim Robbins / Dead Man Walking

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

Oliver Stone / JFK

Jonathan Demme / The Silence of the Lambs

1991

Stephen Frears / The Grifters

Barbet Schroeder / Reversal of Fortune

Martin Scorsese / GoodFellas

Kevin Costner / Dances with Wolves

Francis Ford Coppola / The Godfather: Part III

1990

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

Oliver Stone / Born on the Fourth of July

1989

Mike Nichols / Working Girl

Barry Levinson / Rain Man

Alan Parker / Mississippi Burning

1988

Norman Jewison / Moonstruck

Lasse Hallström / Mitt liv som hund

Bernardo Bertolucci / The Last Emperor

1987

Oliver Stone / Platoon

David Lynch / Blue Velvet

1986

Sydney Pollack / Out of Africa

John Huston / Prizzi's Honor

1985

David Lean / A Passage to India

Places in the Heart

Roland Joffé / The Killing Fields

Miloš Forman / Amadeus

1984

Peter Yates / The Dresser

Ingmar Bergman / Fanny & Alexander

James L. Brooks / Terms of Endearment

1983

Steven Spielberg / E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Sidney Lumet / The Verdict

Richard Attenborough / Gandhi

Sydney Pollack / Tootsie

Wolfgang Petersen / Das Boot

1982

Louis Malle / Atlantic City

Hugh Hudson / Chariots of Fire

Steven Spielberg / Raiders of the Lost Ark

1981

Roman Polanski / Tess

Akira Kurosawa / Kagemusha

Robert Redford / Ordinary People

David Lynch / The Elephant Man

Martin Scorsese / Raging Bull

1980

Édouard Molinaro / La cage aux folles

Robert Benton / Kramer vs. Kramer

Bob Fosse / All That Jazz

Peter Yates / Breaking Away

1979

Hal Ashby / Coming Home

Ingmar Bergman / Höstsonaten

Michael Cimino / The Deer Hunter

Buck Henry / Heaven Can Wait

Warren Beatty / Heaven Can Wait

1978

George Lucas / Star Wars

Woody Allen / Annie Hall

Steven Spielberg / Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1977

Lina Wertmüller / Seven Beauties

John G. Avildsen / Rocky

Sidney Lumet / Network

1976

Miloš Forman / One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Sidney Lumet / Dog Day Afternoon

Stanley Kubrick / Barry Lyndon

Federico Fellini / Amarcord

1975

Francis Ford Coppola / The Godfather: Part II

François Truffaut / La Nuit américaine

1974

George Roy Hill / The Sting

George Lucas / American Graffiti

Ingmar Bergman / Cries and Whispers

1973

Jan Troell / Utvandrarna

Bob Fosse / Cabaret

John Boorman / Deliverance

Francis Ford Coppola / The Godfather

1972

Peter Bogdanovich / The Last Picture Show

John Schlesinger / Sunday Bloody Sunday

Stanley Kubrick / A Clockwork Orange

William Friedkin / The French Connection

1971

Ken Russell / Women in Love

Federico Fellini / Fellini Satyricon

Robert Altman / M*A*S*H

Franklin J. Schaffner / Patton

1970

Costa-Gavras / Z

John Schlesinger / Midnight Cowboy

George Roy Hill / Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

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

1969

Carol Reed / Oliver!

Franco Zeffirelli / Romeo and Juliet

Stanley Kubrick / 2001: A Space Odyssey

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

Robert Wise / The Sound of Music

John Schlesinger / Darling

1965

George Cukor / My Fair Lady

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

Robert Stevenson / Mary Poppins

1964

Otto Preminger / The Cardinal

Martin Ritt / Hud

Federico Fellini / 8½

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

Jerome Robbins / West Side Story

Stanley Kramer / Judgment at Nuremberg

Robert Wise / West Side Story

Federico Fellini / La dolce vita

Robert Rossen / The Hustler

1961

Billy Wilder / The Apartment

1960

Billy Wilder / Some Like It Hot

William Wyler / Ben-Hur

George Stevens / The Diary of Anne Frank

1959

Stanley Kramer / The Defiant Ones

Vincente Minnelli / Gigi

Richard Brooks / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

1958

Sayonara

Billy Wilder / Witness for the Prosecution

David Lean / The Bridge on the River Kwai

Sidney Lumet / 12 Angry Men

1957

George Stevens / Giant

Michael Anderson / Around the World in 80 Days

Walter Lang / The King and I

1956

Delbert Mann / Marty

Elia Kazan / East of Eden

1955

Billy Wilder / Sabrina

Alfred Hitchcock / Rear Window

Elia Kazan / On the Waterfront

1954

Fred Zinnemann / From Here to Eternity

Billy Wilder / Stalag 17

1953

John Ford / The Quiet Man

Fred Zinnemann / High Noon

1952

George Stevens / A Place in the Sun

Elia Kazan / A Streetcar Named Desire

John Huston / The African Queen

1951

Billy Wilder / Sunset Boulevard

Joseph L. Mankiewicz / All About Eve

1950

Joseph L. Mankiewicz / A Letter to Three Wives

Robert Rossen / All the King's Men

William Wyler / The Heiress

1949

Jean Negulesco / Johnny Belinda

Laurence Olivier / Hamlet

John Huston / The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

1948

Elia Kazan / Gentleman's Agreement

David Lean / Great Expectations

1947

William Wyler / The Best Years of Our Lives

Clarence Brown / The Yearling

David Lean / Brief Encounter

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

Sam Wood / Kings Row

William Wyler / Mrs. Miniver

1942

Orson Welles / Citizen Kane

John Ford / How Green Was My Valley

1941

John Ford / The Grapes of Wrath

Alfred Hitchcock / Rebecca

1940

Victor Fleming / Gone with the Wind

William Wyler / Wuthering Heights

Sam Wood / Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Frank Capra / Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

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

John Ford / The Informer

Frank Lloyd / Mutiny on the Bounty

1935

Frank Capra / It Happened One Night

1934

Frank Lloyd / Cavalcade

Frank Capra / Lady for a Day

1932

Frank Borzage / Bad Girl

1929

King Vidor / The Crowd

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