Academy Awards, Directing

2026

Joachim Trier / Affeksjonsverdi

Chloé Zhao / Hamnet

Paul Thomas Anderson / One Battle After Another

Josh Safdie / Marty Supreme

2025

James Mangold / A Complete Unknown

Coralie Fargeat / The Substance

Jacques Audiard / Emilia Pérez

Brady Corbet / The Brutalist

Sean Baker / Anora

2024

Jonathan Glazer / The Zone of Interest

Martin Scorsese / Killers of the Flower Moon

Yorgos Lanthimos / Poor Things

Christopher Nolan / Oppenheimer

Justine Triet / Anatomie d'une chute

2023

Ruben Östlund / Triangle of Sadness

Steven Spielberg / The Fabelmans

Todd Field / TÁR

Daniel Kwan / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Daniel Scheinert / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Martin McDonagh / The Banshees of Inisherin

2022

Steven Spielberg / West Side Story

Kenneth Branagh / Belfast

Jane Campion / The Power of the Dog

Paul Thomas Anderson / Licorice Pizza

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi / ドライブ・マイ・カー

2021

Emerald Fennell / Promising Young Woman

David Fincher / Mank

Lee Isaac Chung / Minari

Thomas Vinterberg / Druk

2020

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

Martin Scorsese / The Irishman

Todd Phillips / Joker

Sam Mendes / 1917

Bong Joon-ho / 기생충

2019

Adam McKay / Vice

Spike Lee / BlacKkKlansman

Yorgos Lanthimos / The Favourite

Alfonso Cuarón / Roma

2018

Greta Gerwig / Lady Bird

Guillermo del Toro / The Shape of Water

Jordan Peele / Get Out

2017

Kenneth Lonergan / Manchester by the Sea

Damien Chazelle / La La Land

Mel Gibson / Hacksaw Ridge

Denis Villeneuve / Arrival

2016

Alejandro González Iñárritu / The Revenant

Tom McCarthy / Spotlight

Adam McKay / The Big Short

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

Ang Lee / Life of Pi

Michael Haneke / Amour

2012

Michel Hazanavicius / The Artist

2011

David Fincher / The Social Network

Tom Hooper / The King's Speech

Darren Aronofsky / Black Swan

David O. Russell / The Fighter

2010

James Cameron / Avatar

Quentin Tarantino / Inglourious Basterds

Kathryn Bigelow / The Hurt Locker

Jason Reitman / Up in the Air

Lee Daniels / Precious

2009

Stephen Daldry / The Reader

Danny Boyle / Slumdog Millionaire

Gus Van Sant / Milk

David Fincher / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

2008

Tony Gilroy / Michael Clayton

Ethan Coen / No Country for Old Men

Joel Coen / No Country for Old Men

Jason Reitman / Juno

Julian Schnabel / Le Scaphandre et le Papillon

2007

Martin Scorsese / The Departed

Stephen Frears / The Queen

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

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

Clint Eastwood / Mystic River

Sofia Coppola / Lost in Translation

Fernando Meirelles / Cidade de Deus

2003

Pedro Almodóvar / Hable con ella

Roman Polanski / The Pianist

Martin Scorsese / Gangs of New York

Rob Marshall / Chicago

Stephen Daldry / The Hours

2002

David Lynch / Mulholland Dr.

Ron Howard / A Beautiful Mind

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

2001

Steven Soderbergh / Traffic

Steven Soderbergh / Erin Brockovich

Ang Lee / 卧虎藏龙

2000

Lasse Hallström / The Cider House Rules

Spike Jonze / Being John Malkovich

M. Night Shyamalan / The Sixth Sense

Sam Mendes / American Beauty

1999

John Madden / Shakespeare in Love

Steven Spielberg / Saving Private Ryan

Roberto Benigni / La vita è bella

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

Mike Figgis / Leaving Las Vegas

Tim Robbins / Dead Man Walking

Mel Gibson / Braveheart

Michael Radford / Il Postino

1995

Robert Zemeckis / Forrest Gump

Robert Redford / Quiz Show

Krzysztof Kieślowski / Trois couleurs : Rouge

Quentin Tarantino / Pulp Fiction

1994

Jane Campion / The Piano

Steven Spielberg / Schindler's List

1993

Clint Eastwood / Unforgiven

Martin Brest / Scent of a Woman

1992

Oliver Stone / JFK

Jonathan Demme / The Silence of the Lambs

1991

Barbet Schroeder / Reversal of Fortune

Stephen Frears / The Grifters

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

Barry Levinson / Rain Man

Alan Parker / Mississippi Burning

Mike Nichols / Working Girl

1988

Lasse Hallström / Mitt liv som hund

Bernardo Bertolucci / The Last Emperor

Norman Jewison / Moonstruck

1987

David Lynch / Blue Velvet

Oliver Stone / Platoon

1986

John Huston / Prizzi's Honor

Sydney Pollack / Out of Africa

1985

Places in the Heart

David Lean / A Passage to India

Roland Joffé / The Killing Fields

Miloš Forman / Amadeus

1984

Ingmar Bergman / Fanny & Alexander

James L. Brooks / Terms of Endearment

Peter Yates / The Dresser

1983

Sydney Pollack / Tootsie

Steven Spielberg / E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Wolfgang Petersen / Das Boot

Richard Attenborough / Gandhi

Sidney Lumet / The Verdict

1982

Steven Spielberg / Raiders of the Lost Ark

Hugh Hudson / Chariots of Fire

Louis Malle / Atlantic City

1981

Roman Polanski / Tess

Akira Kurosawa / Kagemusha

David Lynch / The Elephant Man

Robert Redford / Ordinary People

Martin Scorsese / Raging Bull

1980

Peter Yates / Breaking Away

Robert Benton / Kramer vs. Kramer

Édouard Molinaro / La Cage aux Folles

Bob Fosse / All That Jazz

1979

Ingmar Bergman / Höstsonaten

Hal Ashby / Coming Home

Warren Beatty / Heaven Can Wait

Buck Henry / Heaven Can Wait

Michael Cimino / The Deer Hunter

1978

Woody Allen / Annie Hall

George Lucas / Star Wars

Steven Spielberg / Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1977

Lina Wertmüller / Seven Beauties

John G. Avildsen / Rocky

Sidney Lumet / Network

1976

Sidney Lumet / Dog Day Afternoon

Stanley Kubrick / Barry Lyndon

Miloš Forman / One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Federico Fellini / Amarcord

1975

François Truffaut / La Nuit américaine

Francis Ford Coppola / The Godfather: Part II

1974

Ingmar Bergman / Cries and Whispers

George Roy Hill / The Sting

George Lucas / American Graffiti

1973

John Boorman / Deliverance

Jan Troell / Utvandrarna

Bob Fosse / Cabaret

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

Franklin J. Schaffner / Patton

Robert Altman / M*A*S*H

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

Franco Zeffirelli / Romeo and Juliet

Stanley Kubrick / 2001: A Space Odyssey

Carol Reed / Oliver!

1968

Norman Jewison / In the Heat of the Night

Mike Nichols / The Graduate

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

Robert Stevenson / Mary Poppins

George Cukor / My Fair Lady

1964

Federico Fellini / 8½

Elia Kazan / America America

Martin Ritt / Hud

Tony Richardson / Tom Jones

Otto Preminger / The Cardinal

1963

Robert Mulligan / To Kill a Mockingbird

David Lean / Lawrence of Arabia

Pietro Germi / Divorzio all'italiana

1962

Robert Rossen / The Hustler

Federico Fellini / La dolce vita

Stanley Kramer / Judgment at Nuremberg

Robert Wise / West Side Story

Jerome Robbins / West Side Story

1961

Billy Wilder / The Apartment

1960

William Wyler / Ben-Hur

George Stevens / The Diary of Anne Frank

Billy Wilder / Some Like It Hot

1959

Richard Brooks / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Vincente Minnelli / Gigi

Stanley Kramer / The Defiant Ones

1958

Sayonara

Sidney Lumet / 12 Angry Men

David Lean / The Bridge on the River Kwai

Billy Wilder / Witness for the Prosecution

1957

Michael Anderson / Around the World in 80 Days

Walter Lang / The King and I

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

Elia Kazan / A Streetcar Named Desire

George Stevens / A Place in the Sun

John Huston / The African Queen

1951

Joseph L. Mankiewicz / All About Eve

Billy Wilder / Sunset Boulevard

1950

Robert Rossen / All the King's Men

Joseph L. Mankiewicz / A Letter to Three Wives

William Wyler / The Heiress

1949

Laurence Olivier / Hamlet

John Huston / The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Jean Negulesco / Johnny Belinda

1948

Elia Kazan / Gentleman's Agreement

David Lean / Great Expectations

1947

William Wyler / The Best Years of Our Lives

David Lean / Brief Encounter

Clarence Brown / The Yearling

1946

Billy Wilder / The Lost Weekend

1945

Billy Wilder / Double Indemnity

Leo McCarey / Going My Way

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

Frank Capra / Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

John Ford / Stagecoach

Sam Wood / Goodbye, Mr. Chips

William Wyler / Wuthering Heights

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

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

1931

Norman Taurog / Skippy

Clarence Brown / A Free Soul

Josef von Sternberg / Morocco

Lewis Milestone / The Front Page

Wesley Ruggles / Cimarron

1930

Clarence Brown / Anna Christie

Frank Lloyd / The Divine Lady

King Vidor / Hallelujah

Lewis Milestone / All Quiet on the Western Front

Clarence Brown / Romance

Robert Z. Leonard / The Divorcee

Ernst Lubitsch / The Love Parade

1929

Lewis Milestone / Two Arabian Knights

King Vidor / The Crowd

Ted Wilde / Speedy

Frank Borzage / 7th Heaven

Herbert Brenon / Sorrell and Son

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