Golden Globe Awards, Best Director – Motion Picture

2026

Chloé Zhao / Hamnet

Joachim Trier / Affeksjonsverdi

Guillermo del Toro / Frankenstein

Jafar Panahi / یک تصادف ساده

2025

Sean Baker / Anora

Jacques Audiard / Emilia Pérez

Brady Corbet / The Brutalist

Edward Berger / Conclave

Coralie Fargeat / The Substance

2024

Greta Gerwig / Barbie

Yorgos Lanthimos / Poor Things

Martin Scorsese / Killers of the Flower Moon

Christopher Nolan / Oppenheimer

Celine Song / Past Lives

Bradley Cooper / Maestro

2023

Steven Spielberg / The Fabelmans

Martin McDonagh / The Banshees of Inisherin

Daniel Scheinert / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Daniel Kwan / Everything Everywhere All at Once

James Cameron / Avatar: The Way of Water

Baz Luhrmann / Elvis

2022

Maggie Gyllenhaal / The Lost Daughter

Denis Villeneuve / Dune: Part One

Jane Campion / The Power of the Dog

Kenneth Branagh / Belfast

Steven Spielberg / West Side Story

2021

Emerald Fennell / Promising Young Woman

Aaron Sorkin / The Trial of the Chicago 7

Regina King / One Night in Miami...

David Fincher / Mank

2020

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

Martin Scorsese / The Irishman

Toy Story 4

Todd Phillips / Joker

Bong Joon-ho / 기생충

Sam Mendes / 1917

2019

Spike Lee / BlacKkKlansman

Adam McKay / Vice

Alfonso Cuarón / Roma

2018

Guillermo del Toro / The Shape of Water

2017

Damien Chazelle / La La Land

Tom Ford / Nocturnal Animals

Mel Gibson / Hacksaw Ridge

Kenneth Lonergan / Manchester by the Sea

2016

Tom McCarthy / Spotlight

Alejandro González Iñárritu / The Revenant

2015

Richard Linklater / Boyhood

Wes Anderson / The Grand Budapest Hotel

David Fincher / Gone Girl

Ava DuVernay / Selma

2014

Steve McQueen / 12 Years a Slave

Alfonso Cuarón / Gravity

2013

Quentin Tarantino / Django Unchained

Ben Affleck / Argo

Ang Lee / Life of Pi

2012

Michel Hazanavicius / The Artist

Martin Scorsese / Hugo

2011

David Fincher / The Social Network

2010

Quentin Tarantino / Inglourious Basterds

Jason Reitman / Up in the Air

Clint Eastwood / Invictus

James Cameron / Avatar

2009

David Fincher / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Danny Boyle / Slumdog Millionaire

2008

Joel Coen / No Country for Old Men

Ethan Coen / No Country for Old Men

Julian Schnabel / Le Scaphandre et le Papillon

Tim Burton / Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

2007

Clint Eastwood / Letters from Iwo Jima

Clint Eastwood / Flags of Our Fathers

2006

Ang Lee / Brokeback Mountain

2005

Clint Eastwood / Million Dollar Baby

2004

Clint Eastwood / Mystic River

Peter Jackson / The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Sofia Coppola / Lost in Translation

2003

Spike Jonze / Adaptation.

2002

David Lynch / Mulholland Dr.

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

Steven Spielberg / A.I. Artificial Intelligence

2001

Ang Lee / 卧虎藏龙

2000

Anthony Minghella / The Talented Mr. Ripley

1999

Robert Redford / The Horse Whisperer

1998

James Cameron / Titanic

James L. Brooks / As Good as It Gets

1995

Quentin Tarantino / Pulp Fiction

Robert Redford / Quiz Show

Oliver Stone / Natural Born Killers

Robert Zemeckis / Forrest Gump

1994

Steven Spielberg / Schindler's List

Jane Campion / The Piano

1993

Robert Redford / A River Runs Through It

Clint Eastwood / Unforgiven

1992

Barbra Streisand / The Prince of Tides

Oliver Stone / JFK

Terry Gilliam / The Fisher King

1991

Francis Ford Coppola / The Godfather: Part III

1990

Oliver Stone / Born on the Fourth of July

1989

Fred Schepisi / A Cry in the Dark

Sidney Lumet / Running on Empty

Mike Nichols / Working Girl

Clint Eastwood / Bird

1988

Richard Attenborough / Cry Freedom

James L. Brooks / Broadcast News

1987

Oliver Stone / Platoon

1986

Richard Attenborough / A Chorus Line

Steven Spielberg / The Color Purple

Sydney Pollack / Out of Africa

1985

Sergio Leone / Once Upon a Time in America

Roland Joffé / The Killing Fields

1984

James L. Brooks / Terms of Endearment

Peter Yates / The Dresser

Barbra Streisand / Yentl

1983

Steven Spielberg / E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Costa-Gavras / Missing

Richard Attenborough / Gandhi

Sidney Lumet / The Verdict

Sydney Pollack / Tootsie

1982

Sidney Lumet / Prince of the City

Steven Spielberg / Raiders of the Lost Ark

1981

David Lynch / The Elephant Man

Roman Polanski / Tess

Robert Redford / Ordinary People

1980

Robert Benton / Kramer vs. Kramer

1979

Michael Cimino / The Deer Hunter

1978

George Lucas / Star Wars

Steven Spielberg / Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1977

Sidney Lumet / Network

1976

Steven Spielberg / Jaws

Sidney Lumet / Dog Day Afternoon

Stanley Kubrick / Barry Lyndon

1975

Francis Ford Coppola / The Conversation

1974

George Lucas / American Graffiti

1973

John Boorman / Deliverance

Billy Wilder / Avanti!

1972

William Friedkin / The French Connection

Stanley Kubrick / A Clockwork Orange

1971

Ken Russell / Women in Love

Franklin J. Schaffner / Patton

Robert Altman / M*A*S*H

1970

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

Gene Kelly / Hello, Dolly!

John Schlesinger / Midnight Cowboy

1969

Paul Newman / Rachel, Rachel

Franco Zeffirelli / Romeo and Juliet

1968

Mark Rydell / The Fox

Norman Jewison / In the Heat of the Night

1967

Lewis Gilbert / Alfie

Claude Lelouch / Un homme et une femme

Guy Green / A Patch of Blue

1966

John Schlesinger / Darling

1964

Martin Ritt / Hud

Elia Kazan / America America

1963

The Music Man

Stanley Kubrick / Lolita

1962

Stanley Kramer / Judgment at Nuremberg

1961

Billy Wilder / The Apartment

Stanley Kubrick / Spartacus

1960

George Stevens / The Diary of Anne Frank

William Wyler / Ben-Hur

1959

Stanley Kramer / The Defiant Ones

Vincente Minnelli / Gigi

Richard Brooks / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

1958

Billy Wilder / Witness for the Prosecution

Sidney Lumet / 12 Angry Men

Sayonara

1957

George Stevens / Giant

Michael Anderson / Around the World in 80 Days

Elia Kazan / Baby Doll

1955

Elia Kazan / On the Waterfront

1954

Fred Zinnemann / From Here to Eternity

1952

George Stevens / A Place in the Sun

1951

Billy Wilder / Sunset Boulevard

Joseph L. Mankiewicz / All About Eve

1950

William Wyler / The Heiress

1948

Elia Kazan / Gentleman's Agreement

1946

Billy Wilder / The Lost Weekend

1944

Henry King / The Song of Bernadette

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