Academy Awards, Directing

2026

Paul Thomas Anderson / One Battle After Another

Joachim Trier / Affeksjonsverdi

Chloé Zhao / Hamnet

Josh Safdie / Marty Supreme

2025

Coralie Fargeat / The Substance

James Mangold / A Complete Unknown

Jacques Audiard / Emilia Pérez

Brady Corbet / The Brutalist

Sean Baker / Anora

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

Daniel Kwan / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Todd Field / TÁR

Ruben Östlund / Triangle of Sadness

Martin McDonagh / The Banshees of Inisherin

Daniel Scheinert / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Steven Spielberg / The Fabelmans

2022

Jane Campion / The Power of the Dog

Paul Thomas Anderson / Licorice Pizza

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi / ドライブ・マイ・カー

Kenneth Branagh / Belfast

Steven Spielberg / West Side Story

2021

David Fincher / Mank

Thomas Vinterberg / Druk

Emerald Fennell / Promising Young Woman

Lee Isaac Chung / Minari

2020

Todd Phillips / Joker

Martin Scorsese / The Irishman

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

Bong Joon-ho / 기생충

Sam Mendes / 1917

2019

Yorgos Lanthimos / The Favourite

Spike Lee / BlacKkKlansman

Alfonso Cuarón / Roma

Adam McKay / Vice

2018

Greta Gerwig / Lady Bird

Guillermo del Toro / The Shape of Water

Jordan Peele / Get Out

2017

Kenneth Lonergan / Manchester by the Sea

Denis Villeneuve / Arrival

Damien Chazelle / La La Land

Mel Gibson / Hacksaw Ridge

2016

Alejandro González Iñárritu / The Revenant

Tom McCarthy / Spotlight

Adam McKay / The Big Short

2015

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

Wes Anderson / The Grand Budapest Hotel

2014

Alfonso Cuarón / Gravity

Steve McQueen / 12 Years a Slave

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

David Fincher / The Social Network

Tom Hooper / The King's Speech

David O. Russell / The Fighter

Darren Aronofsky / Black Swan

2010

Lee Daniels / Precious

Quentin Tarantino / Inglourious Basterds

Kathryn Bigelow / The Hurt Locker

James Cameron / Avatar

Jason Reitman / Up in the Air

2009

Gus Van Sant / Milk

Danny Boyle / Slumdog Millionaire

Stephen Daldry / The Reader

David Fincher / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

2008

Jason Reitman / Juno

Julian Schnabel / Le Scaphandre et le Papillon

Ethan Coen / No Country for Old Men

Joel Coen / No Country for Old Men

Tony Gilroy / Michael Clayton

2007

Stephen Frears / The Queen

Clint Eastwood / Letters from Iwo Jima

Martin Scorsese / The Departed

2006

Bennett Miller / Capote

Ang Lee / Brokeback Mountain

2005

Martin Scorsese / The Aviator

Taylor Hackford / Ray

Clint Eastwood / Million Dollar Baby

2004

Clint Eastwood / Mystic River

Fernando Meirelles / Cidade de Deus

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

Sofia Coppola / Lost in Translation

2003

Rob Marshall / Chicago

Martin Scorsese / Gangs of New York

Roman Polanski / The Pianist

Stephen Daldry / The Hours

Pedro Almodóvar / Hable con ella

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

Ang Lee / 卧虎藏龙

Steven Soderbergh / Erin Brockovich

2000

Spike Jonze / Being John Malkovich

Lasse Hallström / The Cider House Rules

Sam Mendes / American Beauty

M. Night Shyamalan / The Sixth Sense

1999

John Madden / Shakespeare in Love

Roberto Benigni / La vita è bella

Steven Spielberg / Saving Private Ryan

1998

James Cameron / Titanic

Gus Van Sant / Good Will Hunting

Curtis Hanson / L.A. Confidential

1997

Scott Hicks / Shine

Joel Coen / Fargo

Anthony Minghella / The English Patient

1996

Tim Robbins / Dead Man Walking

Mike Figgis / Leaving Las Vegas

Michael Radford / Il Postino

Mel Gibson / Braveheart

1995

Krzysztof Kieślowski / Trois couleurs : Rouge

Quentin Tarantino / Pulp Fiction

Robert Zemeckis / Forrest Gump

Robert Redford / Quiz Show

1994

Steven Spielberg / Schindler's List

Jane Campion / The Piano

1993

Clint Eastwood / Unforgiven

Martin Brest / Scent of a Woman

1992

Jonathan Demme / The Silence of the Lambs

Oliver Stone / JFK

1991

Stephen Frears / The Grifters

Francis Ford Coppola / The Godfather: Part III

Kevin Costner / Dances with Wolves

Barbet Schroeder / Reversal of Fortune

Martin Scorsese / GoodFellas

1990

Oliver Stone / Born on the Fourth of July

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

1989

Barry Levinson / Rain Man

Alan Parker / Mississippi Burning

Mike Nichols / Working Girl

1988

Lasse Hallström / Mitt liv som hund

Norman Jewison / Moonstruck

Bernardo Bertolucci / The Last Emperor

1987

Oliver Stone / Platoon

David Lynch / Blue Velvet

1986

Sydney Pollack / Out of Africa

John Huston / Prizzi's Honor

1985

Miloš Forman / Amadeus

David Lean / A Passage to India

Roland Joffé / The Killing Fields

Places in the Heart

1984

Peter Yates / The Dresser

James L. Brooks / Terms of Endearment

Ingmar Bergman / Fanny & Alexander

1983

Steven Spielberg / E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Wolfgang Petersen / Das Boot

Sidney Lumet / The Verdict

Richard Attenborough / Gandhi

Sydney Pollack / Tootsie

1982

Hugh Hudson / Chariots of Fire

Steven Spielberg / Raiders of the Lost Ark

Louis Malle / Atlantic City

1981

Roman Polanski / Tess

Martin Scorsese / Raging Bull

Robert Redford / Ordinary People

Akira Kurosawa / Kagemusha

David Lynch / The Elephant Man

1980

Édouard Molinaro / La Cage aux Folles

Peter Yates / Breaking Away

Bob Fosse / All That Jazz

Robert Benton / Kramer vs. Kramer

1979

Hal Ashby / Coming Home

Michael Cimino / The Deer Hunter

Warren Beatty / Heaven Can Wait

Buck Henry / Heaven Can Wait

Ingmar Bergman / Höstsonaten

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

Stanley Kubrick / Barry Lyndon

Federico Fellini / Amarcord

Miloš Forman / One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1975

Francis Ford Coppola / The Godfather: Part II

François Truffaut / La Nuit américaine

1974

George Lucas / American Graffiti

Ingmar Bergman / Cries and Whispers

George Roy Hill / The Sting

1973

Bob Fosse / Cabaret

John Boorman / Deliverance

Jan Troell / Utvandrarna

1972

John Schlesinger / Sunday Bloody Sunday

William Friedkin / The French Connection

Peter Bogdanovich / The Last Picture Show

Stanley Kubrick / A Clockwork Orange

1971

Federico Fellini / Fellini Satyricon

Robert Altman / M*A*S*H

Franklin J. Schaffner / Patton

Ken Russell / Women in Love

1970

George Roy Hill / Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

John Schlesinger / Midnight Cowboy

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

Costa-Gavras / Z

1969

Franco Zeffirelli / Romeo and Juliet

Carol Reed / Oliver!

Stanley Kubrick / 2001: A Space Odyssey

1968

Norman Jewison / In the Heat of the Night

Mike Nichols / The Graduate

1967

Fred Zinnemann / A Man for All Seasons

Claude Lelouch / Un homme et une femme

1966

John Schlesinger / Darling

Robert Wise / The Sound of Music

1965

George Cukor / My Fair Lady

Robert Stevenson / Mary Poppins

1964

Federico Fellini / 8½

Martin Ritt / Hud

Otto Preminger / The Cardinal

Elia Kazan / America America

Tony Richardson / Tom Jones

1963

Robert Mulligan / To Kill a Mockingbird

Pietro Germi / Divorzio all'italiana

David Lean / Lawrence of Arabia

1962

Stanley Kramer / Judgment at Nuremberg

Federico Fellini / La dolce vita

Jerome Robbins / West Side Story

Robert Rossen / The Hustler

Robert Wise / West Side Story

1961

Billy Wilder / The Apartment

1960

Billy Wilder / Some Like It Hot

George Stevens / The Diary of Anne Frank

William Wyler / Ben-Hur

1959

Vincente Minnelli / Gigi

Richard Brooks / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Stanley Kramer / The Defiant Ones

1958

David Lean / The Bridge on the River Kwai

Billy Wilder / Witness for the Prosecution

Sidney Lumet / 12 Angry Men

Sayonara

1957

George Stevens / Giant

Walter Lang / The King and I

Michael Anderson / Around the World in 80 Days

1956

Delbert Mann / Marty

Elia Kazan / East of Eden

1955

Alfred Hitchcock / Rear Window

Elia Kazan / On the Waterfront

Billy Wilder / Sabrina

1954

Fred Zinnemann / From Here to Eternity

Billy Wilder / Stalag 17

1953

John Ford / The Quiet Man

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

William Wyler / The Heiress

Joseph L. Mankiewicz / A Letter to Three Wives

Robert Rossen / All the King's Men

1949

Jean Negulesco / Johnny Belinda

Laurence Olivier / Hamlet

John Huston / The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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

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

John Ford / Stagecoach

Sam Wood / Goodbye, Mr. Chips

William Wyler / Wuthering Heights

Victor Fleming / Gone with the Wind

Frank Capra / Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

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

Josef von Sternberg / Morocco

Lewis Milestone / The Front Page

Wesley Ruggles / Cimarron

Norman Taurog / Skippy

Clarence Brown / A Free Soul

1930

Lewis Milestone / All Quiet on the Western Front

King Vidor / Hallelujah

Frank Lloyd / The Divine Lady

Clarence Brown / Romance

Clarence Brown / Anna Christie

Robert Z. Leonard / The Divorcee

Ernst Lubitsch / The Love Parade

1929

Frank Borzage / 7th Heaven

Herbert Brenon / Sorrell and Son

King Vidor / The Crowd

Lewis Milestone / Two Arabian Knights

Ted Wilde / Speedy

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