Academy Awards, Directing

2021

Lee Isaac Chung / Minari

Thomas Vinterberg / Druk

David Fincher / Mank

Chloé Zhao / Nomadland

Emerald Fennell / Promising Young Woman

2020

Bong Joon-Ho / 기생충

Martin Scorsese / The Irishman

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

Sam Mendes / 1917

Todd Phillips / Joker

2019

Adam McKay / Vice

Alfonso Cuarón / Roma

2018

Jordan Peele / Get Out

Guillermo del Toro / The Shape of Water

2017

Damien Chazelle / La La Land

Kenneth Lonergan / Manchester by the Sea

2016

Alejandro González Iñárritu / The Revenant

2015

Alejandro González Iñárritu / Birdman

Wes Anderson / The Grand Budapest Hotel

2014

Steve McQueen / 12 Years a Slave

Martin Scorsese / The Wolf of Wall Street

Alfonso Cuarón / Gravity

2013

Ang Lee / Life of Pi

Michael Haneke / Amour

David O. Russell / Silver Linings Playbook

2012

Michel Hazanavicius / The Artist

2011

Tom Hooper / The King's Speech

Darren Aronofsky / Black Swan

David O. Russell / The Fighter

2010

Quentin Tarantino / Inglourious Basterds

James Cameron / Avatar

Lee Daniels / Precious

Kathryn Bigelow / The Hurt Locker

2009

Danny Boyle / Slumdog Millionaire

Gus Van Sant / Milk

Stephen Daldry / The Reader

2008

Tony Gilroy / Michael Clayton

Ethan Coen / No Country for Old Men

Julian Schnabel / The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Joel Coen / No Country for Old Men

2007

Martin Scorsese / The Departed

Stephen Frears / The Queen

Clint Eastwood / Letters from Iwo Jima

2006

Ang Lee / Brokeback Mountain

Bennett Miller / Capote

2005

Martin Scorsese / The Aviator

Clint Eastwood / Million Dollar Baby

Taylor Hackford / Ray

2004

Sofia Coppola / Lost in Translation

2003

Fernando Meirelles / Cidade de Deus

Rob Marshall / Chicago

Roman Polanski / The Pianist

Hable con ella

2002

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

Ron Howard / A Beautiful Mind

2001

Steven Soderbergh / Traffic

Steven Soderbergh / Erin Brockovich

Ang Lee / Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

2000

M. Night Shyamalan / The Sixth Sense

Lasse Hallström / The Cider House Rules

Sam Mendes / American Beauty

1999

Roberto Benigni / Life Is Beautiful

John Madden / Shakespeare in Love

Steven Spielberg / Saving Private Ryan

1998

Curtis Hanson / L.A. Confidential

James Cameron / Titanic

1997

Anthony Minghella / The English Patient

Joel Coen / Fargo

Scott Hicks / Shine

1996

Tim Robbins / Dead Man Walking

Mike Figgis / Leaving Las Vegas

Michael Radford / The Postman

Mel Gibson / Braveheart

1995

Robert Zemeckis / Forrest Gump

Three Colours: Red

Quentin Tarantino / Pulp Fiction

1994

Steven Spielberg / Schindler's List

1993

Martin Brest / Scent of a Woman

Clint Eastwood / Unforgiven

1992

Jonathan Demme / The Silence of the Lambs

1991

Martin Scorsese / GoodFellas

Francis Ford Coppola / The Godfather: Part III

Kevin Costner / Dances with Wolves

Barbet Schroeder / Reversal of Fortune

1990

Oliver Stone / Born on the Fourth of July

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

1989

Barry Levinson / Rain Man

Mike Nichols / Working Girl

1988

Norman Jewison / Moonstruck

Lasse Hallström / Mitt liv som hund

1987

Oliver Stone / Platoon

1985

David Lean / A Passage to India

1984

Ingmar Bergman / Fanny & Alexander

Peter Yates / The Dresser

James L. Brooks / Terms of Endearment

1983

Richard Attenborough / Gandhi

Wolfgang Petersen / Das Boot

1982

Hugh Hudson / Chariots of Fire

Louis Malle / Atlantic City

1981

Roman Polanski / Tess

Akira Kurosawa / Kagemusha

Martin Scorsese / Raging Bull

David Lynch / The Elephant Man

Robert Redford / Ordinary People

1980

Bob Fosse / All That Jazz

Robert Benton / Kramer vs. Kramer

La cage aux folles

1979

Ingmar Bergman / Autumn Sonata

Hal Ashby / Coming Home

Michael Cimino / The Deer Hunter

1978

George Lucas / Star Wars

1977

Lina Wertmüller / Seven Beauties

1976

Sidney Lumet / Dog Day Afternoon

1975

Federico Fellini / Amarcord

Francis Ford Coppola / The Godfather: Part II

François Truffaut / Day for Night

1974

Ingmar Bergman / Cries and Whispers

George Lucas / American Graffiti

1973

Francis Ford Coppola / The Godfather

Jan Troell / Utvandrarna

1972

William Friedkin / The French Connection

John Schlesinger / Sunday Bloody Sunday

1971

Women in Love

Franklin J. Schaffner / Patton

1970

George Roy Hill / Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Costa-Gavras / Z

John Schlesinger / Midnight Cowboy

1969

Franco Zeffirelli / Romeo and Juliet

1968

Norman Jewison / In the Heat of the Night

1967

Claude Lelouch / A Man and a Woman

Fred Zinnemann / A Man for All Seasons

1966

John Schlesinger / Darling

1965

Robert Stevenson / Mary Poppins

1963

Robert Mulligan / To Kill a Mockingbird

1962

Stanley Kramer / Judgment at Nuremberg

Robert Rossen / The Hustler

1960

William Wyler / Ben-Hur

1959

Vincente Minnelli / Gigi

1958

Sidney Lumet / 12 Angry Men

Witness for the Prosecution

1957

George Stevens / Giant

Michael Anderson / Around the World in Eighty Days

1956

Elia Kazan / East of Eden

Delbert Mann / Marty

1955

Elia Kazan / On the Waterfront

1951

Billy Wilder / Sunset Boulevard

1950

William Wyler / The Heiress

All the King's Men

1949

Laurence Olivier / Hamlet

Jean Negulesco / Johnny Belinda

1948

David Lean / Great Expectations

1947

David Lean / Brief Encounter

1946

Billy Wilder / The Lost Weekend

1945

Leo McCarey / Going My Way

1944

Michael Curtiz / Casablanca

Henry King / The Song of Bernadette

1943

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

William Wyler / Wuthering Heights

Victor Fleming / Gone with the Wind

John Ford / Stagecoach

Sam Wood / Goodbye, Mr. Chips

1936

Frank Lloyd / Mutiny on the Bounty

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