Academy Awards, Directing

2026

Joachim Trier / Affeksjonsverdi

Josh Safdie / Marty Supreme

Paul Thomas Anderson / One Battle After Another

Chloé Zhao / Hamnet

2025

Jacques Audiard / Emilia Pérez

Brady Corbet / The Brutalist

Sean Baker / Anora

Coralie Fargeat / The Substance

James Mangold / A Complete Unknown

2024

Yorgos Lanthimos / Poor Things

Jonathan Glazer / The Zone of Interest

Justine Triet / Anatomie d'une chute

Martin Scorsese / Killers of the Flower Moon

Christopher Nolan / Oppenheimer

2023

Steven Spielberg / The Fabelmans

Daniel Scheinert / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Ruben Östlund / Triangle of Sadness

Daniel Kwan / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Todd Field / TÁR

Martin McDonagh / The Banshees of Inisherin

2022

Steven Spielberg / West Side Story

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

2021

Lee Isaac Chung / Minari

David Fincher / Mank

Emerald Fennell / Promising Young Woman

Thomas Vinterberg / Druk

2020

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

Todd Phillips / Joker

Bong Joon-ho / 기생충

Sam Mendes / 1917

Martin Scorsese / The Irishman

2019

Adam McKay / Vice

Yorgos Lanthimos / The Favourite

Alfonso Cuarón / Roma

Spike Lee / BlacKkKlansman

2018

Greta Gerwig / Lady Bird

Guillermo del Toro / The Shape of Water

Jordan Peele / Get Out

2017

Damien Chazelle / La La Land

Denis Villeneuve / Arrival

Kenneth Lonergan / Manchester by the Sea

Mel Gibson / Hacksaw Ridge

2016

Tom McCarthy / Spotlight

Adam McKay / The Big Short

Alejandro González Iñárritu / The Revenant

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

David O. Russell / Silver Linings Playbook

Michael Haneke / Amour

Ang Lee / Life of Pi

2012

Michel Hazanavicius / The Artist

2011

Tom Hooper / The King's Speech

David O. Russell / The Fighter

Darren Aronofsky / Black Swan

David Fincher / The Social Network

2010

James Cameron / Avatar

Quentin Tarantino / Inglourious Basterds

Kathryn Bigelow / The Hurt Locker

Lee Daniels / Precious

Jason Reitman / Up in the Air

2009

Gus Van Sant / Milk

Stephen Daldry / The Reader

Danny Boyle / Slumdog Millionaire

David Fincher / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

2008

Jason Reitman / Juno

Tony Gilroy / Michael Clayton

Ethan Coen / No Country for Old Men

Joel Coen / No Country for Old Men

Julian Schnabel / Le Scaphandre et le Papillon

2007

Clint Eastwood / Letters from Iwo Jima

Martin Scorsese / The Departed

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

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

Fernando Meirelles / Cidade de Deus

Sofia Coppola / Lost in Translation

Clint Eastwood / Mystic River

2003

Martin Scorsese / Gangs of New York

Stephen Daldry / The Hours

Pedro Almodóvar / Hable con ella

Rob Marshall / Chicago

Roman Polanski / The Pianist

2002

David Lynch / Mulholland Dr.

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 / 卧虎藏龙

2000

M. Night Shyamalan / The Sixth Sense

Lasse Hallström / The Cider House Rules

Spike Jonze / Being John Malkovich

Sam Mendes / American Beauty

1999

Roberto Benigni / La vita è bella

John Madden / Shakespeare in Love

Steven Spielberg / Saving Private Ryan

1998

James Cameron / Titanic

Gus Van Sant / Good Will Hunting

Curtis Hanson / L.A. Confidential

1997

Anthony Minghella / The English Patient

Joel Coen / Fargo

Scott Hicks / Shine

1996

Michael Radford / Il Postino

Mel Gibson / Braveheart

Mike Figgis / Leaving Las Vegas

Tim Robbins / Dead Man Walking

1995

Quentin Tarantino / Pulp Fiction

Krzysztof Kieślowski / Trois couleurs : Rouge

Robert Redford / Quiz Show

Robert Zemeckis / Forrest Gump

1994

Jane Campion / The Piano

Steven Spielberg / Schindler's List

1993

Martin Brest / Scent of a Woman

Clint Eastwood / Unforgiven

1992

Jonathan Demme / The Silence of the Lambs

Oliver Stone / JFK

1991

Martin Scorsese / GoodFellas

Francis Ford Coppola / The Godfather: Part III

Barbet Schroeder / Reversal of Fortune

Kevin Costner / Dances with Wolves

Stephen Frears / The Grifters

1990

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

Oliver Stone / Born on the Fourth of July

1989

Mike Nichols / Working Girl

Alan Parker / Mississippi Burning

Barry Levinson / Rain Man

1988

Bernardo Bertolucci / The Last Emperor

Lasse Hallström / Mitt liv som hund

Norman Jewison / Moonstruck

1987

David Lynch / Blue Velvet

Oliver Stone / Platoon

1986

John Huston / Prizzi's Honor

Sydney Pollack / Out of Africa

1985

David Lean / A Passage to India

Roland Joffé / The Killing Fields

Miloš Forman / Amadeus

Places in the Heart

1984

Ingmar Bergman / Fanny & Alexander

Peter Yates / The Dresser

James L. Brooks / Terms of Endearment

1983

Sydney Pollack / Tootsie

Richard Attenborough / Gandhi

Wolfgang Petersen / Das Boot

Sidney Lumet / The Verdict

Steven Spielberg / E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

1982

Steven Spielberg / Raiders of the Lost Ark

Hugh Hudson / Chariots of Fire

Louis Malle / Atlantic City

1981

Roman Polanski / Tess

Robert Redford / Ordinary People

Akira Kurosawa / Kagemusha

David Lynch / The Elephant Man

Martin Scorsese / Raging Bull

1980

Robert Benton / Kramer vs. Kramer

Peter Yates / Breaking Away

Édouard Molinaro / La Cage aux Folles

Bob Fosse / All That Jazz

1979

Buck Henry / Heaven Can Wait

Ingmar Bergman / Höstsonaten

Warren Beatty / Heaven Can Wait

Michael Cimino / The Deer Hunter

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

Sidney Lumet / Network

Lina Wertmüller / Seven Beauties

1976

Sidney Lumet / Dog Day Afternoon

Miloš Forman / One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Federico Fellini / Amarcord

Stanley Kubrick / Barry Lyndon

1975

Francis Ford Coppola / The Godfather: Part II

François Truffaut / La Nuit américaine

1974

George Lucas / American Graffiti

George Roy Hill / The Sting

Ingmar Bergman / Cries and Whispers

1973

John Boorman / Deliverance

Bob Fosse / Cabaret

Jan Troell / Utvandrarna

1972

William Friedkin / The French Connection

Stanley Kubrick / A Clockwork Orange

John Schlesinger / Sunday Bloody Sunday

Peter Bogdanovich / The Last Picture Show

1971

Franklin J. Schaffner / Patton

Federico Fellini / Fellini Satyricon

Robert Altman / M*A*S*H

Ken Russell / Women in Love

1970

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

John Schlesinger / Midnight Cowboy

Costa-Gavras / Z

George Roy Hill / Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

1969

Carol Reed / Oliver!

Stanley Kubrick / 2001: A Space Odyssey

Franco Zeffirelli / Romeo and Juliet

1968

Mike Nichols / The Graduate

Norman Jewison / In the Heat of the Night

1967

Fred Zinnemann / A Man for All Seasons

Claude Lelouch / Un homme et une femme

1966

Robert Wise / The Sound of Music

John Schlesinger / Darling

1965

Robert Stevenson / Mary Poppins

George Cukor / My Fair Lady

1964

Elia Kazan / America America

Martin Ritt / Hud

Tony Richardson / Tom Jones

Otto Preminger / The Cardinal

Federico Fellini / 8½

1963

David Lean / Lawrence of Arabia

Pietro Germi / Divorzio all'italiana

Robert Mulligan / To Kill a Mockingbird

1962

Federico Fellini / La dolce vita

Stanley Kramer / Judgment at Nuremberg

Robert Wise / West Side Story

Jerome Robbins / West Side Story

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

Richard Brooks / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Stanley Kramer / The Defiant Ones

Vincente Minnelli / Gigi

1958

Sayonara

Billy Wilder / Witness for the Prosecution

Sidney Lumet / 12 Angry Men

David Lean / The Bridge on the River Kwai

1957

Walter Lang / The King and I

Michael Anderson / Around the World in 80 Days

George Stevens / Giant

1956

Elia Kazan / East of Eden

Delbert Mann / Marty

1955

Billy Wilder / Sabrina

Elia Kazan / On the Waterfront

Alfred Hitchcock / Rear Window

1954

Fred Zinnemann / From Here to Eternity

Billy Wilder / Stalag 17

1953

John Ford / The Quiet Man

1952

John Huston / The African Queen

George Stevens / A Place in the Sun

Elia Kazan / A Streetcar Named Desire

1951

Billy Wilder / Sunset Boulevard

Joseph L. Mankiewicz / All About Eve

1950

Robert Rossen / All the King's Men

William Wyler / The Heiress

Joseph L. Mankiewicz / A Letter to Three Wives

1949

Laurence Olivier / Hamlet

Jean Negulesco / Johnny Belinda

John Huston / The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

1948

Elia Kazan / Gentleman's Agreement

David Lean / Great Expectations

1947

David Lean / Brief Encounter

William Wyler / The Best Years of Our Lives

Clarence Brown / The Yearling

1946

Billy Wilder / The Lost Weekend

1945

Leo McCarey / Going My Way

Billy Wilder / Double Indemnity

1944

Henry King / The Song of Bernadette

Michael Curtiz / Casablanca

1943

Sam Wood / Kings Row

William Wyler / Mrs. Miniver

1942

John Ford / How Green Was My Valley

Orson Welles / Citizen Kane

1941

Alfred Hitchcock / Rebecca

John Ford / The Grapes of Wrath

1940

William Wyler / Wuthering Heights

John Ford / Stagecoach

Frank Capra / Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Sam Wood / Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Victor Fleming / Gone with the Wind

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

1931

Clarence Brown / A Free Soul

Norman Taurog / Skippy

Wesley Ruggles / Cimarron

Lewis Milestone / The Front Page

Josef von Sternberg / Morocco

1930

Lewis Milestone / All Quiet on the Western Front

Ernst Lubitsch / The Love Parade

Frank Lloyd / The Divine Lady

Clarence Brown / Anna Christie

Robert Z. Leonard / The Divorcee

King Vidor / Hallelujah

Clarence Brown / Romance

1929

Frank Borzage / 7th Heaven

Ted Wilde / Speedy

Lewis Milestone / Two Arabian Knights

King Vidor / The Crowd

Herbert Brenon / Sorrell and Son

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