Academy Awards, Directing

2025

Brady Corbet / The Brutalist

James Mangold / A Complete Unknown

Coralie Fargeat / The Substance

Jacques Audiard / Emilia Pérez

Sean Baker / Anora

2024

Martin Scorsese / Killers of the Flower Moon

Jonathan Glazer / The Zone of Interest

Justine Triet / Anatomie d'une chute

Yorgos Lanthimos / Poor Things

Christopher Nolan / Oppenheimer

2023

Ruben Östlund / Triangle of Sadness

Daniel Scheinert / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Daniel Kwan / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Martin McDonagh / The Banshees of Inisherin

Todd Field / TÁR

Steven Spielberg / The Fabelmans

2022

Jane Campion / The Power of the Dog

Steven Spielberg / West Side Story

Kenneth Branagh / Belfast

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi / ドライブ・マイ・カー

Paul Thomas Anderson / Licorice Pizza

2021

Thomas Vinterberg / Druk

David Fincher / Mank

Emerald Fennell / Promising Young Woman

Lee Isaac Chung / Minari

Chloé Zhao / Nomadland

2020

Bong Joon-ho / 기생충

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

Todd Phillips / Joker

Sam Mendes / 1917

Martin Scorsese / The Irishman

2019

Alfonso Cuarón / Roma

Yorgos Lanthimos / The Favourite

Spike Lee / BlacKkKlansman

Adam McKay / Vice

2018

Greta Gerwig / Lady Bird

Jordan Peele / Get Out

Guillermo del Toro / The Shape of Water

2017

Denis Villeneuve / Arrival

Mel Gibson / Hacksaw Ridge

Kenneth Lonergan / Manchester by the Sea

Damien Chazelle / La La Land

2016

Tom McCarthy / Spotlight

Alejandro González Iñárritu / The Revenant

Adam McKay / The Big Short

2015

Wes Anderson / The Grand Budapest Hotel

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

2014

Martin Scorsese / The Wolf of Wall Street

Steve McQueen / 12 Years a Slave

Alfonso Cuarón / Gravity

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

David O. Russell / The Fighter

Tom Hooper / The King's Speech

Darren Aronofsky / Black Swan

2010

Lee Daniels / Precious

Jason Reitman / Up in the Air

Kathryn Bigelow / The Hurt Locker

James Cameron / Avatar

Quentin Tarantino / Inglourious Basterds

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

Ethan Coen / No Country for Old Men

Tony Gilroy / Michael Clayton

Joel Coen / No Country for Old Men

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

Clint Eastwood / Million Dollar Baby

Taylor Hackford / Ray

Martin Scorsese / The Aviator

2004

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

Fernando Meirelles / Cidade de Deus

Clint Eastwood / Mystic River

Sofia Coppola / Lost in Translation

2003

Rob Marshall / Chicago

Martin Scorsese / Gangs of New York

Stephen Daldry / The Hours

Pedro Almodóvar / Hable con ella

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

Ang Lee / 卧虎藏龙

Steven Soderbergh / Traffic

Steven Soderbergh / Erin Brockovich

2000

M. Night Shyamalan / The Sixth Sense

Spike Jonze / Being John Malkovich

Lasse Hallström / The Cider House Rules

Sam Mendes / American Beauty

1999

John Madden / Shakespeare in Love

Steven Spielberg / Saving Private Ryan

Roberto Benigni / La vita è bella

1998

Gus Van Sant / Good Will Hunting

Curtis Hanson / L.A. Confidential

James Cameron / Titanic

1997

Scott Hicks / Shine

Joel Coen / Fargo

Anthony Minghella / The English Patient

1996

Mike Figgis / Leaving Las Vegas

Mel Gibson / Braveheart

Tim Robbins / Dead Man Walking

Michael Radford / Il Postino

1995

Robert Zemeckis / Forrest Gump

Krzysztof Kieślowski / Trois couleurs : Rouge

Quentin Tarantino / Pulp Fiction

Robert Redford / Quiz Show

1994

Steven Spielberg / Schindler's List

Jane Campion / The Piano

1993

Martin Brest / Scent of a Woman

Clint Eastwood / Unforgiven

1992

Jonathan Demme / The Silence of the Lambs

Oliver Stone / JFK

1991

Barbet Schroeder / Reversal of Fortune

Stephen Frears / The Grifters

Kevin Costner / Dances with Wolves

Francis Ford Coppola / The Godfather: Part III

Martin Scorsese / GoodFellas

1990

Oliver Stone / Born on the Fourth of July

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

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

Sydney Pollack / Out of Africa

John Huston / Prizzi's Honor

1985

Roland Joffé / The Killing Fields

David Lean / A Passage to India

Miloš Forman / Amadeus

Places in the Heart

1984

Ingmar Bergman / Fanny & Alexander

James L. Brooks / Terms of Endearment

Peter Yates / The Dresser

1983

Sidney Lumet / The Verdict

Sydney Pollack / Tootsie

Steven Spielberg / E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Richard Attenborough / Gandhi

Wolfgang Petersen / Das Boot

1982

Steven Spielberg / Raiders of the Lost Ark

Louis Malle / Atlantic City

Hugh Hudson / Chariots of Fire

1981

Akira Kurosawa / Kagemusha

Martin Scorsese / Raging Bull

David Lynch / The Elephant Man

Roman Polanski / Tess

Robert Redford / Ordinary People

1980

Robert Benton / Kramer vs. Kramer

Bob Fosse / All That Jazz

Peter Yates / Breaking Away

Édouard Molinaro / La cage aux folles

1979

Michael Cimino / The Deer Hunter

Hal Ashby / Coming Home

Ingmar Bergman / Höstsonaten

Buck Henry / Heaven Can Wait

Warren Beatty / Heaven Can Wait

1978

Steven Spielberg / Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Woody Allen / Annie Hall

George Lucas / Star Wars

1977

Sidney Lumet / Network

John G. Avildsen / Rocky

Lina Wertmüller / Seven Beauties

1976

Sidney Lumet / Dog Day Afternoon

Miloš Forman / One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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

Ingmar Bergman / Cries and Whispers

George Lucas / American Graffiti

1973

Jan Troell / Utvandrarna

John Boorman / Deliverance

Bob Fosse / Cabaret

Francis Ford Coppola / The Godfather

1972

Peter Bogdanovich / The Last Picture Show

Stanley Kubrick / A Clockwork Orange

William Friedkin / The French Connection

John Schlesinger / Sunday Bloody Sunday

1971

Robert Altman / M*A*S*H

Franklin J. Schaffner / Patton

Federico Fellini / Fellini Satyricon

Ken Russell / Women in Love

1970

Costa-Gavras / Z

John Schlesinger / Midnight Cowboy

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

George Roy Hill / Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

1969

Stanley Kubrick / 2001: A Space Odyssey

Franco Zeffirelli / Romeo and Juliet

Carol Reed / Oliver!

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

Robert Wise / The Sound of Music

1965

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

Robert Stevenson / Mary Poppins

George Cukor / My Fair Lady

1964

Martin Ritt / Hud

Elia Kazan / America America

Federico Fellini / 8½

Tony Richardson / Tom Jones

Otto Preminger / The Cardinal

1963

David Lean / Lawrence of Arabia

Robert Mulligan / To Kill a Mockingbird

Pietro Germi / Divorzio all'italiana

1962

Stanley Kramer / Judgment at Nuremberg

Jerome Robbins / West Side Story

Federico Fellini / La dolce vita

Robert Rossen / The Hustler

Robert Wise / West Side Story

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

Sidney Lumet / 12 Angry Men

Billy Wilder / Witness for the Prosecution

David Lean / The Bridge on the River Kwai

1957

Walter Lang / The King and I

George Stevens / Giant

Michael Anderson / Around the World in 80 Days

1956

Elia Kazan / East of Eden

Delbert Mann / Marty

1955

Elia Kazan / On the Waterfront

Alfred Hitchcock / Rear Window

Billy Wilder / Sabrina

1954

Billy Wilder / Stalag 17

Fred Zinnemann / From Here to Eternity

1953

John Ford / The Quiet Man

Fred Zinnemann / High Noon

1952

George Stevens / A Place in the Sun

John Huston / The African Queen

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

Joseph L. Mankiewicz / A Letter to Three Wives

William Wyler / The Heiress

1949

Jean Negulesco / Johnny Belinda

John Huston / The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Laurence Olivier / Hamlet

1948

David Lean / Great Expectations

Elia Kazan / Gentleman's Agreement

1947

William Wyler / The Best Years of Our Lives

David Lean / Brief Encounter

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

William Wyler / Mrs. Miniver

Sam Wood / Kings Row

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

William Wyler / Wuthering Heights

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

John Ford / The Informer

Frank Lloyd / Mutiny on the Bounty

1935

Frank Capra / It Happened One Night

1934

Frank Capra / Lady for a Day

Frank Lloyd / Cavalcade

1932

Frank Borzage / Bad Girl

1929

King Vidor / The Crowd

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