Academy Awards, Directing

2026

Paul Thomas Anderson / One Battle After Another

Ryan Coogler / Sinners

Chloé Zhao / Hamnet

Joachim Trier / Affeksjonsverdi

2025

Jacques Audiard / Emilia Pérez

James Mangold / A Complete Unknown

Sean Baker / Anora

Brady Corbet / The Brutalist

Coralie Fargeat / The Substance

2024

Martin Scorsese / Killers of the Flower Moon

Yorgos Lanthimos / Poor Things

Christopher Nolan / Oppenheimer

Justine Triet / Anatomie d'une chute

Jonathan Glazer / The Zone of Interest

2023

Ruben Östlund / Triangle of Sadness

Martin McDonagh / The Banshees of Inisherin

Todd Field / TÁR

Daniel Scheinert / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Daniel Kwan / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Steven Spielberg / The Fabelmans

2022

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi / ドライブ・マイ・カー

Kenneth Branagh / Belfast

Steven Spielberg / West Side Story

Jane Campion / The Power of the Dog

Paul Thomas Anderson / Licorice Pizza

2021

Chloé Zhao / Nomadland

Emerald Fennell / Promising Young Woman

Lee Isaac Chung / Minari

David Fincher / Mank

Thomas Vinterberg / Druk

2020

Sam Mendes / 1917

Martin Scorsese / The Irishman

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

Todd Phillips / Joker

Bong Joon-ho / 기생충

2019

Adam McKay / Vice

Spike Lee / BlacKkKlansman

Alfonso Cuarón / Roma

Yorgos Lanthimos / The Favourite

2018

Guillermo del Toro / The Shape of Water

Jordan Peele / Get Out

Greta Gerwig / Lady Bird

2017

Denis Villeneuve / Arrival

Damien Chazelle / La La Land

Mel Gibson / Hacksaw Ridge

Kenneth Lonergan / Manchester by the Sea

2016

Adam McKay / The Big Short

Alejandro González Iñárritu / The Revenant

Tom McCarthy / Spotlight

2015

Wes Anderson / The Grand Budapest Hotel

Alejandro González Iñárritu / Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

2014

Alfonso Cuarón / Gravity

Steve McQueen / 12 Years a Slave

Martin Scorsese / The Wolf of Wall Street

2013

Michael Haneke / Amour

David O. Russell / Silver Linings Playbook

Ang Lee / Life of Pi

2012

Michel Hazanavicius / The Artist

2011

David O. Russell / The Fighter

David Fincher / The Social Network

Tom Hooper / The King's Speech

Darren Aronofsky / Black Swan

2010

James Cameron / Avatar

Lee Daniels / Precious

Quentin Tarantino / Inglourious Basterds

Jason Reitman / Up in the Air

Kathryn Bigelow / The Hurt Locker

2009

Danny Boyle / Slumdog Millionaire

David Fincher / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Gus Van Sant / Milk

Stephen Daldry / The Reader

2008

Joel Coen / No Country for Old Men

Jason Reitman / Juno

Julian Schnabel / Le Scaphandre et le Papillon

Tony Gilroy / Michael Clayton

Ethan Coen / No Country for Old Men

2007

Martin Scorsese / The Departed

Clint Eastwood / Letters from Iwo Jima

Stephen Frears / The Queen

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

Clint Eastwood / Mystic River

Fernando Meirelles / Cidade de Deus

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

2003

Pedro Almodóvar / Hable con ella

Stephen Daldry / The Hours

Roman Polanski / The Pianist

Rob Marshall / Chicago

Martin Scorsese / Gangs of New York

2002

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

Ron Howard / A Beautiful Mind

David Lynch / Mulholland Dr.

2001

Steven Soderbergh / Erin Brockovich

Steven Soderbergh / Traffic

Ang Lee / 卧虎藏龙

2000

Spike Jonze / Being John Malkovich

Sam Mendes / American Beauty

Lasse Hallström / The Cider House Rules

M. Night Shyamalan / The Sixth Sense

1999

Roberto Benigni / La vita è bella

Steven Spielberg / Saving Private Ryan

John Madden / Shakespeare in Love

1998

Curtis Hanson / L.A. Confidential

Gus Van Sant / Good Will Hunting

James Cameron / Titanic

1997

Scott Hicks / Shine

Joel Coen / Fargo

Anthony Minghella / The English Patient

1996

Mel Gibson / Braveheart

Mike Figgis / Leaving Las Vegas

Tim Robbins / Dead Man Walking

Michael Radford / Il Postino

1995

Krzysztof Kieślowski / Trois couleurs : Rouge

Quentin Tarantino / Pulp Fiction

Robert Redford / Quiz Show

Robert Zemeckis / Forrest Gump

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

Martin Scorsese / GoodFellas

Kevin Costner / Dances with Wolves

Stephen Frears / The Grifters

Barbet Schroeder / Reversal of Fortune

Francis Ford Coppola / The Godfather: Part III

1990

Oliver Stone / Born on the Fourth of July

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

1989

Mike Nichols / Working Girl

Barry Levinson / Rain Man

Alan Parker / Mississippi Burning

1988

Bernardo Bertolucci / The Last Emperor

Lasse Hallström / Mitt liv som hund

Norman Jewison / Moonstruck

1987

Oliver Stone / Platoon

David Lynch / Blue Velvet

1986

Sydney Pollack / Out of Africa

John Huston / Prizzi's Honor

1985

Places in the Heart

David Lean / A Passage to India

Miloš Forman / Amadeus

Roland Joffé / The Killing Fields

1984

Ingmar Bergman / Fanny & Alexander

Peter Yates / The Dresser

James L. Brooks / Terms of Endearment

1983

Richard Attenborough / Gandhi

Wolfgang Petersen / Das Boot

Steven Spielberg / E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Sidney Lumet / The Verdict

Sydney Pollack / Tootsie

1982

Louis Malle / Atlantic City

Hugh Hudson / Chariots of Fire

Steven Spielberg / Raiders of the Lost Ark

1981

David Lynch / The Elephant Man

Roman Polanski / Tess

Akira Kurosawa / Kagemusha

Robert Redford / Ordinary People

Martin Scorsese / Raging Bull

1980

Peter Yates / Breaking Away

Robert Benton / Kramer vs. Kramer

Bob Fosse / All That Jazz

Édouard Molinaro / La cage aux folles

1979

Michael Cimino / The Deer Hunter

Buck Henry / Heaven Can Wait

Warren Beatty / Heaven Can Wait

Ingmar Bergman / Höstsonaten

Hal Ashby / Coming Home

1978

Steven Spielberg / Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Woody Allen / Annie Hall

George Lucas / Star Wars

1977

John G. Avildsen / Rocky

Lina Wertmüller / Seven Beauties

Sidney Lumet / Network

1976

Federico Fellini / Amarcord

Stanley Kubrick / Barry Lyndon

Miloš Forman / One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Sidney Lumet / Dog Day Afternoon

1975

François Truffaut / La Nuit américaine

Francis Ford Coppola / The Godfather: Part II

1974

George Lucas / American Graffiti

Ingmar Bergman / Cries and Whispers

George Roy Hill / The Sting

1973

John Boorman / Deliverance

Bob Fosse / Cabaret

Jan Troell / Utvandrarna

1972

William Friedkin / The French Connection

John Schlesinger / Sunday Bloody Sunday

Stanley Kubrick / A Clockwork Orange

Peter Bogdanovich / The Last Picture Show

1971

Robert Altman / M*A*S*H

Ken Russell / Women in Love

Federico Fellini / Fellini Satyricon

Franklin J. Schaffner / Patton

1970

Costa-Gavras / Z

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

John Schlesinger / Midnight Cowboy

George Roy Hill / Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

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

Robert Wise / The Sound of Music

John Schlesinger / Darling

Robert Wise / The Sound of Music

1965

George Cukor / My Fair Lady

Robert Stevenson / Mary Poppins

1964

Tony Richardson / Tom Jones

Federico Fellini / 8½

Martin Ritt / Hud

Elia Kazan / America America

Otto Preminger / The Cardinal

1963

Pietro Germi / Divorzio all'italiana

Robert Mulligan / To Kill a Mockingbird

David Lean / Lawrence of Arabia

1962

Robert Wise / West Side Story

Jerome Robbins / West Side Story

Robert Rossen / The Hustler

Federico Fellini / La dolce vita

Stanley Kramer / Judgment at Nuremberg

1961

Billy Wilder / The Apartment

1960

George Stevens / The Diary of Anne Frank

Billy Wilder / Some Like It Hot

William Wyler / Ben-Hur

1959

Richard Brooks / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Vincente Minnelli / Gigi

Stanley Kramer / The Defiant Ones

1958

David Lean / The Bridge on the River Kwai

Billy Wilder / Witness for the Prosecution

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Sidney Lumet / 12 Angry Men

1957

George Stevens / Giant

Walter Lang / The King and I

Michael Anderson / Around the World in 80 Days

1956

Delbert Mann / Marty

Elia Kazan / East of Eden

1955

Elia Kazan / On the Waterfront

Alfred Hitchcock / Rear Window

Billy Wilder / Sabrina

1954

Fred Zinnemann / From Here to Eternity

Billy Wilder / Stalag 17

1953

John Ford / The Quiet Man

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

John Huston / The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Laurence Olivier / Hamlet

1948

Elia Kazan / Gentleman's Agreement

David Lean / Great Expectations

1947

Clarence Brown / The Yearling

David Lean / Brief Encounter

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

Henry King / The Song of Bernadette

Michael Curtiz / Casablanca

1943

William Wyler / Mrs. Miniver

Sam Wood / Kings Row

1942

John Ford / How Green Was My Valley

Orson Welles / Citizen Kane

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

Frank Lloyd / Mutiny on the Bounty

John Ford / The Informer

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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