Oscar History Part 5: Best Director
There was a loose connection
between Best Director and Best Picture right from the start, with at least two
of the Best Picture nominees getting a Best Director nomination, but the
connection was cemented in 1932. Of the
85 films that have been awarded Best Pictue, 62 have also been awarded Best
Director. Only three films have won Best
Picture without their directors being nominated (though only one since the
early 1930s): Wings (1927/28), Grand Hotel (1931/32), and Driving Miss Daisy (1989). Will Argo
join this elite group this year, winning Best Picture even though director
Ben Affleck was snubbed in this category?
The only two Best Director winners to win for films that did not receive a Best Picture nomination are in the early years as well: Lewis Milestone for Two Arabian Nights (1927/28) and Frank Lloyd for The Divine Lady (1928/29).
From 1932 to 1943 (the era of the 10 Best Picture nominations) only two films were nominated for Best Director but not Best Picture. One was Angels with Dirty Faces in 1938, which was one of two nominations for Michael Curtiz that year. According to Inside Oscar (on page 1015), the next year they changed the rule to only allow one nomination for a director in any given year (this is why if a Director has two worthy films, I list it as “also for”). This rule would explain single Director nominations for directors who direct two Best Picture nominees in the same year, such as Victor Fleming in 1939 (Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz), John Ford in 1940 (The Grapes of Wrath, The Long Voyage Home), Francis Ford Coppola in 1974 (The Godfather Part II, The Conversation) or Herbert Ross in 1977 (The Goodbye Girl, The Turning Point). However, the rule must have been changed again because in 2000 Steven Soderbergh received two Best Director nominations for Erin Brockovich and Traffic (winning for the latter). I still use the 5 different directors rule for my picks.
The second film from that era was My Man Godfrey in 1936. It was nominated for Best Director, Best Screenplay and all 4 acting categories but was not among the 10 nominees for Best Picture. Given that it was the first film in 5 years to be nominated for Director but not Picture, combined with the other major nominations, it is one of the strangest Best Picture omissions in Oscar history.
The expanded Best Picture category returned in 2009, with nominations fluctuating between 9 and 10 films. All the directors nominated since 2009 have also had their films nominated for Best Picture.
The major directors of the Studio Era deserve to be recognized. William Wyler received a record 12 nominations as a director, and won 3 times (1 fewer than John Ford, but all of Wyler’s were for Best Picture winners- Mrs. Miniver, The Best Years of Our Lives, Ben-Hur). Wyler is often forgotten as an auteur, but he was loved by the Academy.
John Ford won a record 4 Oscars for Best Director (The Informer, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, The Quiet Man). The odd thing is that only 1 of those 4 won Best Picture and it is the least respected (How Green Was My Valley in 1941 – which not only is not as good a film as the other three, but mainly is remembered today for having defeated Citizen Kane; hard to live down). But Ford only earned 1 other nomination in his long career.
Frank Capra dominated the 1930s with 3 wins and 2 other nominations. Of course he didn’t win for his best film (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) because of Gone with the Wind. The famous story in Inside Oscar is that when Capra was first nominated in 1933 for Lady for a Day, presenter Will Rogers said “It couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. Come up and get it, Frank!” Except Rogers was talking to Frank Lloyd, who had just won for Cavalcade. Capra was embarrassed, but won the next year for It Happened One Night (and again in 1936 for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and 1938 for You Can’t Take It With You).
The post World War II era saw the rise of foreign film directors and writer-directors in this category. Billy Wilder epitomized the latter, with 2 Oscars and 6 other nominations. Wilder was nominated 5 times in the 1950s (Sunset Blvd. Stalag 17, Sabrina, Witness for the Prosecution, and Some Like It Hot), but both his Oscars came outside that decade (in 1945 for The Lost Weekend and 1960 for The Apartment).
The first film in a foreign language to be nominated in this category was Jules Dassin for Never on Sunday (in French) in 1960, followed the next year by the first of Federico Fellini’s 4 nominations (La Dolce Vita, 8 ½, Fellini Satyricon, Amarcord- all in Italian). The rest of the 1960s were full of foreign directors, many who also wrote their scripts (Pietro Germi for Divorce, Italian Style- in Italian, Hiroshi Teshigahara for The Woman in the Dunes- in Japanese, Claude Lelouch for A Man and a Woman- in French, Gillo Pontecorvo for The Battle of Algiers- in French/Arabic). Z (in French) became the first foreign film nominated for both Best Picture and Director (Costa-Gavras) in 1969. The Academy took its time honoring the greats, however, waiting until 1973, 1974 and 1985 to finally see nominations for Ingmar Bergman (in Swedish), Francois Truffaut (in French), and Akira Kurosawa (in Japanese).
Other notable director nominees foreign language films include Jan Troell (The Emigrants- in Swedish), Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot- in German), Krzysztof Kieslowski (Three Colors: Red- in French), Roberto Benigni (Life is Beautiful- in Italian) Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon- in Mandarin), Pedro Almodovar (Talk to Her- in Spanish), Fernando Meirelles (City of God- in Brazilian Portugese), and Michael Haneke (Amour- in French).
The 1970s was the era where the kids from film school made their mark on Hollywood and film history, though the two most prominent of them (Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese) would wait decades to actually win. In fact, both Spielberg and Scorsese got their first Best Picture nominations in the mid-1970s (Jaws in 1975 and Taxi Driver in 1976) and both of them were passed over for Best Director nominations to foreign directors (Spielberg for Fellini, Scorsese for Bergman).
1977 saw the first nomination (and only win) for Woody Allen (for Annie Hall). His 6 nominations are surpassed only by peers Spielberg (2 wins and 7 nominations) and Scorsese (1 win and 7 nominations). All three are active, with their films earning Best Picture nominations in 2011 (Hugo, Midnight in Paris, War Horse).
1976 saw the first female ever nominated for Best Director (Lina Wertmuller for Seven Beauties). In the 30+ years since only three other females have matched that accomplishment (Jane Campion in 1993, Sofia Coppola in 2003, Kathryn Bigelow’s win in 2009).
Actors have been getting nominated for Best Director since the beginning of the Academy. The list of people who were primarily actors who have been nominated as director are (in chronological order): Charlie Chaplin, Lionel Barrymore, Orson Welles, Laurence Olivier, Woody Allen (seven times), Warren Beatty (twice), Buck Henry, Robert Redford (twice), Richard Attenborough, Kenneth Branagh, Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood (four times), Mel Gibson, Tim Robbins, Roberto Benigni, Ron Howard, Sofia Coppola, and George Clooney. They were all actors first. Their dominance from 1977 on (with Allen’s win) is notable. 8 actors turned into Best Director winners (not including Eastwood’s second win)
Poor Martin Scorsese experienced three losses to actor-turned-directors before he won for The Departed in 2006. He lost to Robert Redford in 1980 (Ordinary People over Raging Bull), Kevin Costner in 1990 (Dances with Wolves over Goodfellas), and Clint Eastwood in 2004 (Million Dollar Baby over The Aviator). Redford and Costner were both first time directors too!
The biggest winner? Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain in 2005. He had won 4 of the 6 major critics groups, the DGA, the BAFTA, the Golden Globe, the BFCA, the Golden Satellite and even the Independent Spirit.
The biggest loser in my mind is poor David Fincher for The Social Network. He won all 6 major critics groups, the BAFTA, the Golden Globe, the BFCA, and the Golden Satellite. But when he lost the DGA to Tom Hooper, the writing was on the wall and his Oscar rejection assured.
(blue won Best Picture, red was nominated for Best Picture and orange received no other nominations)
1927-28 AA: Frank Borzage for Seventh Heaven
1928-29 AA: Frank Lloyd for The Divine Lady, Weary River and Drag
1929-30 AA: Lewis Milestone for All Quiet on the Western Front
1930-31 AA: Norman Taurog for Skippy
1931-32 AA: Frank Borzage for Bad Girl
1932-33 AA: Frank Lloyd for Cavalcade
1934 AA: Frank Capra for It Happened One Night
1935 AA: John Ford for The Informer
1936 AA: Frank Capra for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1937 AA: Leo McCarey for The Awful Truth
1938 AA: Frank Capra for You Can’t Take It With You
1939 AA: Victor Fleming for Gone With the Wind
1940 AA: John Ford for The Grapes of Wrath
1941 AA: John Ford for How Green Was My Valley
1942 AA: William Wyler for Mrs. Miniver
Preston
Sturges for Sullivan’s Travels (also for The Palm Beach Story)
1943 AA: Michael Curtiz for Casablanca
Casablanca
1944 AA: Leo McCarey for Going My Way
1945 AA: Billy Wilder for The Lost Weekend
1946 AA: William Wyler for The Best Years of Our Lives
1947 AA: Elia Kazan for Gentleman’s Agreement
1948 AA: John Huston for Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949 AA: Joseph L. Mankiewicz for A Letter to Three Wives
1950 AA: Joseph L. Mankiewicz for All About Eve
1951 AA: George Stevens forA Place
1952 AA: John Ford for The Quiet Man
1953 AA: Fred Zinnemann for From Here to Eternity
1954 AA: Elia Kazan for On the Waterfront
1955 AA: Delbert Mann for Marty
1956 AA: George Stevens for Giant
1957 AA: David Lean for The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958 AA: Vincent Minnelli for Gigi
1959 AA: William Wyler for Ben-Hur
1960 AA: Billy Wilder for The Apartment
1961 AA: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins forWest Side Story
1962 AA: David Lean forLawrence of Arabia
1963 AA: Tony Richardson for Tom Jones
1964 AA: George Cukor for My Fair Lady
Stanley
1965 AA: Robert Wise for The Sound of Music
1966 AA: Fred Zinnemann for A Man for All Seasons
1967 AA: Mike Nichols for The Graduate
1968 AA: Carol Reed for Oliver!
Stanley
1969 AA: John Schlesinger for Midnight Cowboy
1970 AA: Franklin J. Schaffner for Patton
1971 AA: William Freidkin for The French Connection
Stanley
1972 AA: Bob Fosse for Cabaret
1973 AA: George Roy Hill for The Sting
1974 AA: Francis Ford Coppola for The Godfather Part II
Chinatown
1975 AA:Milos Forman for One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Milos
Forman for One Flew over the Cuckoo’s
Nest
1976 AA: John G. Avildsen for Rocky
1977 AA: Woody Allen for Annie Hall
1978 AA: Michael Cimino for The Deer Hunter
1979 AA: Robert Benton for Kramer vs. Kramer
1980 AA: Robert Redford for Ordinary People
1981 AA:Warren
1982 AA: Richard Attenborough for Gandhi
1983 AA: James L. Brooks for Terms of Endearment
1984 AA: Milos Forman for Amadeus
1985 AA: Sydney Pollack for Out of Africa
1986 AA: Oliver Stone for Platoon
1987 AA: Bernardo Bertolucci for The Last Emperor
1988 AA: Barry Levinson for Rain Man
1989 AA: Oliver Stone for Born on the Fourth of July
1990 AA: Kevin Costner for Dances with Wolves
1991 AA: Jonathan Demme for The Silence of the Lambs
1992 AA: Clint Eastwood for Unforgiven
1993 AA: Steven Spielberg for Schindler’s List
1994 AA: Robert Zemeckis for Forrest Gump
1995 AA: Mel Gibson for Braveheart
1996 AA: Anthony Minghella for The English Patient
Fargo
1997 AA: James Cameron for Titanic
1998 AA: Steven Spielberg for Saving Private Ryan
1999 AA: Sam Mendes for American Beauty
2000 AA: Steven Soderbergh for Traffic
2001 AA: Ron Howard for A Beautiful Mind
2002 AA: Roman Polanski for The Pianist
2003 AA: Peter Jackson for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
God
2004 AA: Clint Eastwood for Million Dollar Baby
2005 AA: Ang Lee forBrokeback
Mountain
2006 AA: Martin Scorsese for The Departed
2007 AA: Joel and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
2008 AA: Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire
2009 AA: Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker
2010 AA: Tom Hooper for The King’s Speech
2011 AA: Michel Hazanavicius for The Artist
2012 AA:
The only two Best Director winners to win for films that did not receive a Best Picture nomination are in the early years as well: Lewis Milestone for Two Arabian Nights (1927/28) and Frank Lloyd for The Divine Lady (1928/29).
From 1932 to 1943 (the era of the 10 Best Picture nominations) only two films were nominated for Best Director but not Best Picture. One was Angels with Dirty Faces in 1938, which was one of two nominations for Michael Curtiz that year. According to Inside Oscar (on page 1015), the next year they changed the rule to only allow one nomination for a director in any given year (this is why if a Director has two worthy films, I list it as “also for”). This rule would explain single Director nominations for directors who direct two Best Picture nominees in the same year, such as Victor Fleming in 1939 (Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz), John Ford in 1940 (The Grapes of Wrath, The Long Voyage Home), Francis Ford Coppola in 1974 (The Godfather Part II, The Conversation) or Herbert Ross in 1977 (The Goodbye Girl, The Turning Point). However, the rule must have been changed again because in 2000 Steven Soderbergh received two Best Director nominations for Erin Brockovich and Traffic (winning for the latter). I still use the 5 different directors rule for my picks.
The second film from that era was My Man Godfrey in 1936. It was nominated for Best Director, Best Screenplay and all 4 acting categories but was not among the 10 nominees for Best Picture. Given that it was the first film in 5 years to be nominated for Director but not Picture, combined with the other major nominations, it is one of the strangest Best Picture omissions in Oscar history.
The expanded Best Picture category returned in 2009, with nominations fluctuating between 9 and 10 films. All the directors nominated since 2009 have also had their films nominated for Best Picture.
The major directors of the Studio Era deserve to be recognized. William Wyler received a record 12 nominations as a director, and won 3 times (1 fewer than John Ford, but all of Wyler’s were for Best Picture winners- Mrs. Miniver, The Best Years of Our Lives, Ben-Hur). Wyler is often forgotten as an auteur, but he was loved by the Academy.
John Ford won a record 4 Oscars for Best Director (The Informer, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, The Quiet Man). The odd thing is that only 1 of those 4 won Best Picture and it is the least respected (How Green Was My Valley in 1941 – which not only is not as good a film as the other three, but mainly is remembered today for having defeated Citizen Kane; hard to live down). But Ford only earned 1 other nomination in his long career.
Frank Capra dominated the 1930s with 3 wins and 2 other nominations. Of course he didn’t win for his best film (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) because of Gone with the Wind. The famous story in Inside Oscar is that when Capra was first nominated in 1933 for Lady for a Day, presenter Will Rogers said “It couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. Come up and get it, Frank!” Except Rogers was talking to Frank Lloyd, who had just won for Cavalcade. Capra was embarrassed, but won the next year for It Happened One Night (and again in 1936 for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and 1938 for You Can’t Take It With You).
The post World War II era saw the rise of foreign film directors and writer-directors in this category. Billy Wilder epitomized the latter, with 2 Oscars and 6 other nominations. Wilder was nominated 5 times in the 1950s (Sunset Blvd. Stalag 17, Sabrina, Witness for the Prosecution, and Some Like It Hot), but both his Oscars came outside that decade (in 1945 for The Lost Weekend and 1960 for The Apartment).
The first film in a foreign language to be nominated in this category was Jules Dassin for Never on Sunday (in French) in 1960, followed the next year by the first of Federico Fellini’s 4 nominations (La Dolce Vita, 8 ½, Fellini Satyricon, Amarcord- all in Italian). The rest of the 1960s were full of foreign directors, many who also wrote their scripts (Pietro Germi for Divorce, Italian Style- in Italian, Hiroshi Teshigahara for The Woman in the Dunes- in Japanese, Claude Lelouch for A Man and a Woman- in French, Gillo Pontecorvo for The Battle of Algiers- in French/Arabic). Z (in French) became the first foreign film nominated for both Best Picture and Director (Costa-Gavras) in 1969. The Academy took its time honoring the greats, however, waiting until 1973, 1974 and 1985 to finally see nominations for Ingmar Bergman (in Swedish), Francois Truffaut (in French), and Akira Kurosawa (in Japanese).
Other notable director nominees foreign language films include Jan Troell (The Emigrants- in Swedish), Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot- in German), Krzysztof Kieslowski (Three Colors: Red- in French), Roberto Benigni (Life is Beautiful- in Italian) Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon- in Mandarin), Pedro Almodovar (Talk to Her- in Spanish), Fernando Meirelles (City of God- in Brazilian Portugese), and Michael Haneke (Amour- in French).
The 1970s was the era where the kids from film school made their mark on Hollywood and film history, though the two most prominent of them (Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese) would wait decades to actually win. In fact, both Spielberg and Scorsese got their first Best Picture nominations in the mid-1970s (Jaws in 1975 and Taxi Driver in 1976) and both of them were passed over for Best Director nominations to foreign directors (Spielberg for Fellini, Scorsese for Bergman).
1977 saw the first nomination (and only win) for Woody Allen (for Annie Hall). His 6 nominations are surpassed only by peers Spielberg (2 wins and 7 nominations) and Scorsese (1 win and 7 nominations). All three are active, with their films earning Best Picture nominations in 2011 (Hugo, Midnight in Paris, War Horse).
1976 saw the first female ever nominated for Best Director (Lina Wertmuller for Seven Beauties). In the 30+ years since only three other females have matched that accomplishment (Jane Campion in 1993, Sofia Coppola in 2003, Kathryn Bigelow’s win in 2009).
Actors have been getting nominated for Best Director since the beginning of the Academy. The list of people who were primarily actors who have been nominated as director are (in chronological order): Charlie Chaplin, Lionel Barrymore, Orson Welles, Laurence Olivier, Woody Allen (seven times), Warren Beatty (twice), Buck Henry, Robert Redford (twice), Richard Attenborough, Kenneth Branagh, Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood (four times), Mel Gibson, Tim Robbins, Roberto Benigni, Ron Howard, Sofia Coppola, and George Clooney. They were all actors first. Their dominance from 1977 on (with Allen’s win) is notable. 8 actors turned into Best Director winners (not including Eastwood’s second win)
Poor Martin Scorsese experienced three losses to actor-turned-directors before he won for The Departed in 2006. He lost to Robert Redford in 1980 (Ordinary People over Raging Bull), Kevin Costner in 1990 (Dances with Wolves over Goodfellas), and Clint Eastwood in 2004 (Million Dollar Baby over The Aviator). Redford and Costner were both first time directors too!
The biggest winner? Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain in 2005. He had won 4 of the 6 major critics groups, the DGA, the BAFTA, the Golden Globe, the BFCA, the Golden Satellite and even the Independent Spirit.
The biggest loser in my mind is poor David Fincher for The Social Network. He won all 6 major critics groups, the BAFTA, the Golden Globe, the BFCA, and the Golden Satellite. But when he lost the DGA to Tom Hooper, the writing was on the wall and his Oscar rejection assured.
(blue won Best Picture, red was nominated for Best Picture and orange received no other nominations)
1927-28 AA: Frank Borzage for Seventh Heaven
- King Vidor for The Crowd
- Herbert Brenon for Sorrell and Son
- Carl Theodor Dreyer for The Passion of Joan of Arc
- F.W. Murnau for Sunrise
- Charles Chaplin for The Circus (was nominated
for Comedy Direction)
- Paul Leni for The Man Who Laughs
1928-29 AA: Frank Lloyd for The Divine Lady, Weary River and Drag
- Harry Beaumont for Broadway Melody
- Irving Cummings for In Old
- Ernst Lubitsch for The Patriot
- Lionel Barrymore for Madame X
- Abel Gance for Napoleon
- Buster Keaton for Steamboat Bill Jr.
- George
Wilhelm Pabst for Pandora’s Box
- Sergei Eisenstein for October
1929-30 AA: Lewis Milestone for All Quiet on the Western Front
- Robert Z. Leonard for the Divorcee
- Ernst Lubitsch for The Love
Parade
- Clarence Brown for Anna Christie
- Clarence Brown for Romance
- King Vidor for Hallelujah
- Howard Hughes for Hell’s Angels
- F.W. Murnau for City Girl
- Sergei Eisenstein for The General Line
- Alfred Hitchcock for Blackmail
1930-31 AA: Norman Taurog for Skippy
- Wesley Ruggles for
- Lewis Milestone for The Front
Page
- Clarence Brown for A Free Soul
- Josef von Sternberg for Morocco
- William Wellman for The Public Enemy
- Tod Browning for Dracula
- George Wilhelm Pabst for The Three Penny
Opera
- Aleksandr Dovzhenko for Earth
1931-32 AA: Frank Borzage for Bad Girl
- King Vidor for The Champ
- Josef von Sternberg for Shanghai
Express
- James Whale for Frankenstein
- Carl Theodor Dreyer for Vampyr
- Tod Browning for Freaks
- Rene Clair for A Nous La Liberte
1932-33 AA: Frank Lloyd for Cavalcade
- Frank Capra for Lady for a Day
- George Cukor for Little Women
- Ernest B. Schoedsack for King Kong
- James Whale for The Invisible Man
- Mervyn LeRoy for I Am a Fugitive from a
Chain Gang
- Jean Cocteau for The Blood of the Poet
1934 AA: Frank Capra for It Happened One Night
- Victor Schertzinger for One
Night of Love
- W. S. Van Dyke for The Thin Man
- W. S. Van Dyke for The Thin Man
- Mark Sandrich for The Gay Divorcee
- Billy Wilder and Alexander Esway for Mauvaise
Graine
- Yasujiro Ozu for A Story of Floating Weeds
1935 AA: John Ford for The Informer
- Frank Lloyd for The Mutiny on the
Bounty
- Henry Hathaway for The Lives of
a
- James Whale for The Bride of Frankenstein
- Alfred Hitchcock for The 39 Steps
(also for The Man Who Knew Too Much)
- Michael Curtiz for Captain Blood
- Frank Lloyd for The Mutiny on the Bounty
1936 AA: Frank Capra for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
- Robert Z. Leonard for The Great Ziegfeld
- W. S. Van Dyke for
- William Wyler for Dodsworth
- Gregory La Cava for My Man Godfrey
- Frank Capra for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
- Alfred Hitchcock for The Secret Agent
- Gregory La Cava for My Man Godfrey
- William Wyler for Dodsworth
1937 AA: Leo McCarey for The Awful Truth
- William Dieterle for The Life of Emile Zola
- Sidney Franklin for The Good
Earth
- Gregory La Cava for Stage Door
- William Wellman for A Star is
Born
- William Wellman for A Star is Born
- Frank Capra for Lost Horizon
- Jean Renoir for La Marseillaise
(also for The Lower Depths)
- Gregory La Cava for Stage Door
1938 AA: Frank Capra for You Can’t Take It With You
- Michael Curtiz for Four Daughters
- Norman Taurog for
- King Vidor for The Citadel
- Michael Curtiz for Angels with Dirty
Faces
- Michael Curtiz for The Adventures of
Robin Hood (also for Angels with Dirty Faces)
- Howard Hawks for Bringing Up Baby
- Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard for Pygmalion
- Frank Capra for You Can’t Take It With
You
1939 AA: Victor Fleming for Gone With the Wind
- Frank Capra for Mr. Smith Goes
to
- John Ford for Stagecoach
- Sam Wood for Goodbye, Mr. Chips
- William Wyler for
- Frank Capra for Mr. Smith Goes to
- William Wyler for
- John Ford for Stagecoach
- Alfred Hitchcock for The Lady Vanishes
1940 AA: John Ford for The Grapes of Wrath
- Alfred Hitchcock for Rebecca
- George Cukor for The
Philadelphia Story
- Sam Wood for Kitty Foyle
- William Wyler for The Letter
- Alfred Hitchcock for Rebecca (also for Foreign
Correspondent)
- Charles Chaplin for The Great Dictator
- George Cukor for The
- Howard Hawks for His Girl Friday
1941 AA: John Ford for How Green Was My Valley
- Alexander Hall for Here Comes
Mr.
- Howard Hawks for Sergeant York
- Orson Welles for Citizen Kane
- William Wyler for The Little
Foxes
- John Huston for The Maltese Falcon
- Alfred Hitchcock for Suspicion
- William Wyler for The Little Foxes
1942 AA: William Wyler for Mrs. Miniver
- Michael Curtiz for Yankee
Doodle Dandy
- John Farrow for
- Mervyn LeRoy for Random Harvest
- Sam Wood for Kings Row
- Orson Welles for The Magnificent
Ambersons
- Michael Curtiz for Yankee Doodle Dandy
- William Wyler for Mrs. Miniver
- Jacques Tourneur for Cat People
1943 AA: Michael Curtiz for Casablanca
- Clarence Brown for The Human
Comedy
- Henry King for The Song of
Bernadette
- Ernst Lubitsch for Heaven Can
Wait
- George Stevens for The More the
Merrier
- Alfred Hitchcock for Shadow of a Doubt
- David Lean and Noel Coward for In Which
We Serve
- Sam Wood for For Whom the
- Ernst Lubitsch for Heaven Can Wait
1944 AA: Leo McCarey for Going My Way
- Henry King for
- Billy Wilder for Double
Indemnity
- Alfred Hitchcock for Lifeboat
- Otto Preminger for Laura
- George Cukor for Gaslight
- Preston Sturges for Hail the Conquering
Hero (also for The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek)
- Otto Preminger for Laura
- Frank Capra for Arsenic and Old Lace
1945 AA: Billy Wilder for The Lost Weekend
- Alfred Hitchcock for Spellbound
- Leo McCarey for The Bells of
St. Mary’s
- Clarence Brown for National Velvet
- Jean Renoir for The Southerner
- Alfred Hitchcock for Spellbound
- Michael Powell for The Life and Death of
Colonel Blimp
- Howard Hawks for To Have and Have Not
- William Wellman for The Story of G.I. Joe
1946 AA: William Wyler for The Best Years of Our Lives
- Clarence Brown for The Yearling
- Frank Capra for It’s a
Wonderful Life
- David Lean for Brief Encounter
- Robert Siodmak for The Killers
- Marcel Carne for Children of
- David Lean for Brief Encounter
- William Wyler for The Best Years of Our Lives
- Howard Hawks for The Big Sleep
1947 AA: Elia Kazan for Gentleman’s Agreement
- Edward Dmytryk for Crossfire
- Henry Koster for The Bishop’s
Wife
- David Lean for Great
Expectations
- George Cukor for A Double Life
- David Lean for Great Expectations
- Michael Powell for Stairway to Heaven
- Sergei Eisenstein for Ivan the Terrible
Part I
- Jean Vigo for L’Atalante
1948 AA: John Huston for Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Laurence Olivier for Hamlet
- Anatole Litvak for The Snake
Pit
- Jean Negulesco for Johnny
Belinda
- Fred Zinnemann for The Search
- Laurence Olivier for Hamlet
- Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger for The Red Shoes
- Howard Hawks for Red River
- Orson Welles for Macbeth (also for The
Lady from Shanghai)
1949 AA: Joseph L. Mankiewicz for A Letter to Three Wives
- Robert Rossen for All the King’s Men
- William A. Wellman for Battleground
- William Wyler for The Heiress
- Carol Reed for The Fallen Idol
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz for A Letter to
Three Wives
- Carol Reed for The Fallen Idol
- Robert Rossen for All the King’s Men
- Roberto Rossellini for Paisan
1950 AA: Joseph L. Mankiewicz for All About Eve
- George Cukor for Born Yesterday
- Billy Wilder for Sunset
Boulevard
- John Huston for The Asphalt Jungle
- Carol Reed for The Third Man
- Billy Wilder for Sunset Boulevard
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz for All About Eve
- Jean Renoir for The Rules of the Game
- Jules Dassin for Night and the City
1951 AA: George Stevens for
- Vincente Minnelli for An American in
- Elia Kazan for A Streetcar
Named Desire
- John Huston for The African Queen
- William Wyler for Detective Story
- Alfred Hitchcock for Strangers on a Train
- Billy Wilder for Ace in the Hole
- George Stevens for
- David Lean for Oliver Twist
1952 AA: John Ford for The Quiet Man
- Cecil B. DeMille for The Greatest Show on
Earth
- John Huston for Moulin Rouge
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz for Five Fingers
- Fred Zinnemann for High Noon
- Fred Zinnemann for High Noon
- Gene Kelly and Stanley Donan for Singin’
in the Rain
- Vincente Minnelli for The Bad and the
Beautiful
- John Ford for The Quiet Man
1953 AA: Fred Zinnemann for From Here to Eternity
- George Stevens for Shane
- William Wyler for Roman Holiday
- Charles Walters for Lili
- Billy Wilder for Stalag 17
- Billy Wilder for Stalag 17
- Fritz Lang for The Big Heat
- William Wyler for Roman Holiday
- George Stevens for Shane
1954 AA: Elia Kazan for On the Waterfront
- George Seaton for The Country
Girl
- Alfred Hitchcock for Rear Window
- William Wellman for The High and the
Mighty
- Billy Wilder for Sabrina
- Alfred Hitchcock for Rear Window
- Rene Clement for Forbidden Games
- Billy Wilder for Sabrina
- Max
Ophuls for The
Earrings of Madame de...
1955 AA: Delbert Mann for Marty
- Joshua Logan for Picnic
- Elia Kazan for East of
- David Lean for Summertime
- John Sturges for Bad Day at Black Rock
- Nicholas Ray for Rebel Without a Cause
- John Sturges for Bad Day at Black Rock
- Alfred Hitchcock for To Catch a Thief
- David Lean for Summertime
1956 AA: George Stevens for Giant
- Michael Anderson for Around the World in 80
Days
- Walter Lang for The King and I
- William Wyler for Friendly
Persuasion
- King Vidor for War and Peace
- John Ford for The Searchers
- Federico
Fellini for La
Strada
- Stanley Kubrick for The Killing
- Henri-Georgeous Clouzot for Diabolique
1957 AA: David Lean for The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Joshua Logan for Sayonara
- Sidney Lumet for 12 Angry Men
- Mark Robson for
- Billy Wilder for Witness for
the Prosecution
- Ingmar Bergman for Smiles of a Summer
Night
- Sidney Lumet for 12 Angry Men
- Billy Wilder for Witness for the Prosecution
1958 AA: Vincent Minnelli for Gigi
- Richard Brooks for Cat on a Hot
Tin Roof
- Stanley Kramer for The Defiant Ones
- Robert Wise for I Want to Live!
- Mark Robson for The Inn of the Sixth
Happiness
- Ingmar Bergman for The Seventh Seal
- Orson Welles for Touch of Evil
- Satyajit Ray for Pather Panchali
- Juan Antonio Bardem for Death of a
Cyclist
1959 AA: William Wyler for Ben-Hur
- Jack Clayton for Room at the
Top
- George Stevens for The Diary of
Anne Frank
- Fred Zinnemann for The Nun’s
Story
- Billy Wilder for Some Like It Hot
- Billy Wilder in Some Like It Hot
- Alfred Hitchcock for North by Northwest
- Francois Truffaut for The 400 Blows
- Sergei Eisenstein for Ivan the Terrible Part II
1960 AA: Billy Wilder for The Apartment
- Jack Cardiff for Sons and
Lovers
- Fred Zinnemann for The
Sundowners
- Jules Dassin for Never on Sunday
- Alfred Hitchcock for Psycho
- Billy Wilder for The Apartment
- Ingmar Bergman for The Virgin Spring
- Akira Kurosawa for Ikiru (also for The
Hidden Fortress)
- Mikhail Kalatazov for The Cranes are
Flying
1961 AA: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for
- Robert Rossen for The Hustler
- J. Lee Thompson for The Guns of
Navarone
- Federico Fellini for La Dolce Vita
- Akira Kurosawa for Throne of Blood
(also for Yojimbo)
- Federico Fellini for La Dolce Vita
- Michelangelo Antonioni for L’Avventura
- Stanley Kramer for Judgment at Nuremberg
1962 AA: David Lean for
- Robert Mulligan for To Kill a
Mockingbird
- Pietro Germi for Divorce – Italian Style
- Arthur Penn for The Miracle Worker
- Frank Perry for David and Lisa
- Robert Mulligan for To Kill a Mockingbird
- John Frankenheimer for The Manchurian
Candidate
- Ingmar Bergman for Through a Glass Darkly
- Francois Truffaut for Jules and Jim
1963 AA: Tony Richardson for Tom Jones
- Elia Kazan for
- Federico Fellini for 8 1/2
- Otto Preminger for The Cardinal
- Martin Ritt for Hud
- Akira Kurosawa for High and Low (also for Stray
Dog)
- John Sturges for The Great Escape
- Ingmar Bergman for Winter Light
- Roman Polanski for Knife in the Water
1964 AA: George Cukor for My Fair Lady
- Michael Cacoyannis for Zorba
the Greek
- Peter Glenville for Becket
- Robert Stevenson for Mary
Poppins
- George Cukor for My Fair Lady
- Robert Stevenson for Mary Poppins
- John Huston for Night of the Iguana
- Masaki Kobayashi for Harakiri
1965 AA: Robert Wise for The Sound of Music
- David Lean for Doctor Zhivago
- John Schlesinger for Darling
- William Wyler for The Collector
- Hiroshi Teshigahara for Woman in the
Dunes
- Roman Polanski for Repulsion
- Sidney Lumet for The Pawnbroker
- William Wyler for The Collector
- Robert Wise for The Sound of Music
1966 AA: Fred Zinnemann for A Man for All Seasons
- Mike Nichols for Who’s Afraid
of Virginia Woolf?
- Michelangelo Antonioni for Blow-Up
- Richard Brooks for The Professionals
- Claude Lelouch for A Man and a Woman
1967 AA: Mike Nichols for The Graduate
- Norman Jewison for In the Heat of the
Night
- Stanley Kramer for Guess Who’s
Coming to Dinner?
- Arthur Penn for Bonnie and
- Richard Brooks for In Cold Blood
- Arthur Penn for Bonnie and
- Norman Jewison for In the Heat of the Night
- Ingmar Bergman for Persona
- Richard Brooks for In Cold Blood
1968 AA: Carol Reed for Oliver!
- Anthony Harvey for The Lion in
Winter
- Franco Zeffirelli for Romeo and
Juliet
- Gillo Pontecorvo for The
- Anthony Harvey for The Lion in Winter
- Sergio Leone for The Good, the Bad and
the Ugly
- Gillo Pontecorvo for The Battle of Algiers
- Luis Bunuel for Belle de Jour
1969 AA: John Schlesinger for Midnight Cowboy
- Costa-Gavras for Z
- George Roy Hill for Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Sydney Pollack for They Shoot Horses,
Don’t They?
- Arthur Penn for Alice’s Restaraunt
- Sergio Leone for Once Upon a Time in the
West
- George Roy Hill for Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid
- Costa-Gavras for Z
- Andrei Tarkovsky for Andrei Rublev
1970 AA: Franklin J. Schaffner for Patton
- Robert Altman for M*A*S*H
- Arthur Hiller for Love Story
- Ken Russell for Women in Love
- Federico Fellini for Fellini Satyricon
- Franklin J. Schaffner for Patton
- Ken Russell for Women in Love
- Bob Rafelson for Five Easy Pieces
- Yasujiro Ozu for Floating Weeds
1971 AA: William Freidkin for The French Connection
- Peter Bogdanovich for The Last
Picture Show
- Norman Jewison for Fiddler on
the Roof
- John Schlesinger for Sunday, Bloody
Sunday
- Robert Altman for McCabe and Mrs. Miller
- Peter Bogdanovich for The Last Picture
Show
- William Freidkin for The French
Connection
- Nicolas Roeg for Walkabout
1972 AA: Bob Fosse for Cabaret
- Francis Ford Coppola for The Godfather
- John Boorman for Deliverance
- Jan Troell for The Emigrants
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz for Sleuth
- Yasujiro Ozu for Tokyo Story
- Bob Fosse for Cabaret
- Luis Bunuel for The Discreet Charm of the
Bourgeoisie
- John Boorman for Deliverance
1973 AA: George Roy Hill for The Sting
- Ingmar Bergman for Cries and
Whispers
- William Freidkin for The
Exorcist
- George Lucas for American
Graffiti
- Bernardo Bertolucci for Last Tango in
- Martin Scorsese for Mean Streets
- William Freidkin for The Exorcist
- George Lucas for American Graffiti
- Bernardo Bertolucci for Last Tango in
Paris
1974 AA: Francis Ford Coppola for The Godfather Part II
- Bob Fosse for Lenny
- Roman Polanski for
- John Cassavetes for A Woman Under the
Influence
- Francois Truffaut for Day for Night
- Francis Ford Coppola for The Godfather
Part II (also for The Conversation)
- Ingmar Bergman for Scenes from a Marriage
- Francois Truffaut for Day for Night
- Terrence Malick for Badlands
1975 AA:
- Robert Altman for
- Sidney Lumet for Dog Day
Afternoon
- Federico Fellini for Amarcord
- Robert Altman for
- Steven Spielberg for Jaws
- Stanley Kubrick for Barry Lyndon
- Federico Fellini for Amarcord
1976 AA: John G. Avildsen for Rocky
- Sidney Lumet for Network
- Alan J. Pakula for All the
President’s Men
- Ingmar Bergman for Face to Face
- Lina Wertmuller for Seven Beauties
- Alan J. Pakula for All the President’s
Men
- Sidney Lumet for Network
- Andrei Tarkovsky for Solaris
- Ingmar Bergman for Face to Face
1977 AA: Woody Allen for Annie Hall
- George Lucas for Star Wars
- Herbert Ross for The Turning
Point
- Fred Zinnemann for Julia
- Steven Spielberg for Close Encounters of
the Third Kind
- Steven Spielberg for Close Encounters of
the Third Kind
- Woody Allen for Annie Hall
- Werner Herzog for Aguirre – The Wrath of
God
- David Lynch for Eraserhead
1978 AA: Michael Cimino for The Deer Hunter
- Hal Ashby for Coming Home
- Alan Parker for Midnight
Express
- Woody Allen for Interiors
- Terrence Malick for Days of Heaven
- Alan Parker for Midnight Express
- Ingmar Bergman for Autumn Sonata
- Woody Allen for Interiors
1979 AA: Robert Benton for Kramer vs. Kramer
- Francis Coppola for Apocalypse
Now
- Bob Fosse for All That Jazz
- Peter Yates for Breaking Away
- Edouard Molinaro for La Cage Aux Folles
- Ridley Scott for Alien
- Woody Allen for
- Hal Ashby for Being There
- Peter Weir for Picnic at Hanging Rock
1980 AA: Robert Redford for Ordinary People
- David Lynch for The Elephant
Man
- Roman Polanski for Tess
- Martin Scorsese for Raging Bull
- Richard Rush for The Stunt Man
- David Lynch for The Elephant Man
- Akira Kurosawa for Kagemusha
- Robert Redford for Ordinary People
1981 AA:
- Hugh Hudson for Chariots of Fire
- Louis Malle for
- Mark Rydell for On Golden Pond
- Steven Spielberg for Raiders of
the Lost
- Peter Weir for Gallipoli
- Louis Malle for
- Warren Beatty for Reds
- Sidney Lumet for Prince of the City
1982 AA: Richard Attenborough for Gandhi
- Sidney Lumet for The Verdict
- Sydney Pollack for Tootsie
- Steven Spielberg for E.T. The
Extra-Terrestrial
- Wolfgang Peterson for Das Boot
- Ridley Scott for Blade Runner
- Steven Spielberg for E.T. The
Extra-Terrestrial
- Sidney Lumet for The Verdict
- Werner Herzog for Fitzcarraldo
1983 AA: James L. Brooks for Terms of Endearment
- Bruce Beresford for Tender
Mercies
- Peter Yates for The Dresser
- Ingmar Bergman for Fanny and Alexander
- Mike Nichols for Silkwood
- James L. Brooks for Terms of Endearment
- Philip Kaufman for The Right Stuff
- Martin Scorsese for The King of Comedy
1984 AA: Milos Forman for Amadeus
- Robert Benton for Places in the
Heart
- Roland Joffe for The Killing
Fields
- David Lean for A Passage to
India
- Woody Allen for Broadway Danny Rose
- Wim Wenders for Paris, Texas
- David Lean for A Passage to India
- Roland Joffe for The Killing Fields
1985 AA: Sydney Pollack for Out of Africa
- Hector Babenco for Kiss of the
Spider Woman
- John Huston for Prizzi’s Honor
- Peter Weir for Witness
- Akira Kurosawa for Ran
- Steven Spielberg for The Color Purple
- Terry Gilliam for
- Peter Weir for Witness
- Woody Allen for The Purple Rose of
1986 AA: Oliver Stone for Platoon
- Woody Allen for Hannah and Her
Sisters
- James Ivory for A Room with a
View
- Roland Joffe for The
- David Lynch for Blue Velvet
- Oliver Stone for Platoon
- Woody Allen for Hannah and Her Sisters
- Roland Joffe for The
- Andrei Tarkovsky for The Sacrifice
1987 AA: Bernardo Bertolucci for The Last Emperor
- John Boorman for Hope and Glory
- Norman Jewison for Moonstruck
- Adrian Lyne for Fatal
Attraction
- Lasse Hallstrom for My Life as a Dog
- Bernardo Bertolucci for The Last Emperor
- James L. Brooks for Broadcast News
- Stanley Kubrick for Full Metal Jacket
- Louis Malle for Au Revoir, Les Enfants
1988 AA: Barry Levinson for Rain Man
- Mike Nichols for Working Girl
- Alan Parker for
- Charles Crichton for A Fish Called Wanda
- Martin Scorsese for The Last Temptation
of Christ
- Stephen Frears for Dangerous Liaisons
- Philip Kaufman for The Unbearable
Lightness of Being
- Martin Scorsese for The Last Temptation of Christ
- Barry Levinson for Rain Man
1989 AA: Oliver Stone for Born on the Fourth of July
- Jim Sheridan for My Left Foot
- Peter Weir for Dead Poets
Society
- Woody Allen for Crimes and Misdemeanors
- Kenneth Branagh for Henry V
- Spike Lee for Do the Right Thing
- Steven Soderbergh for sex, lies, and videotape
- Peter Weir for Dead Poets Society
- Woody Allen for Crimes and Misdemeanors
1990 AA: Kevin Costner for Dances with Wolves
- Francis Coppola for The
Godfather Part
- Martin Scorsese for GoodFellas
- Stephen Frears for The Grifters
- Barbet Schroeder for Reversal of Fortune
- Kevin Costner for Dances with Wolves
- Joel Coen for Miller’s Crossing
- Stephen Frears for The Grifters
- Francis Ford Coppola for The Godfather Part
1991 AA: Jonathan Demme for The Silence of the Lambs
- Barry Levinson for Bugsy
- Oliver Stone for JFK
- Ridley Scott for Thelma and Louise
- John Singelton for Boyz N the Hood
- Oliver Stone for JFK
- Terry Gilliam for The Fisher King
- John Singleton for Boyz N the Hood
- Krzysztof Kieslowski for The Double Life of Veronique
1992 AA: Clint Eastwood for Unforgiven
- Martin Brest for Scent of a
Woman
- James Ivory for Howards End
- Neal Jordan for The Crying Game
- Robert Altman for The Player
- Neal Jordan for The Crying Game
- David Mamet for Glengarry Glen Ross
- Robert Altman for The Player
- Spike Lee for Malcolm X
1993 AA: Steven Spielberg for Schindler’s List
- Jane Campion for The Piano
- James Ivory for The Remains of
the Day
- Jim Sheridan for In the Name of
the Father
- Robert Altman for Short Cuts
- Martin Scorsese for The Age of Innocence
- Robert Altman for Short Cuts
- Krzysztof Kieslowski for Three Colors: Blue
- Jim Sheridan for In the Name of the
Father
1994 AA: Robert Zemeckis for Forrest Gump
- Robert Redford for Quiz Show
- Quentin Tarantino for Pulp
Fiction
- Woody Allen for Bullets Over Broadway
- Krzysztof Kieslowski for Three Colors: Red
- Frank Darabont for The Shawshank Redemption
- Tim Burton for Ed Wood
- Krzysztof Kieslowski for Three Colors: Red
- Robert Redford for Quiz Show
1995 AA: Mel Gibson for Braveheart
- Chris Noonan for Babe
- Michael Radford for Il Postino
- Michael Figgis for Leaving Las Vegas
- Tim Robbins for Dead Man Walking
- Ang Lee for Sense and Sensibility
- Terry Gilliam for 12 Monkeys
- Tim Robbins for Dead Man Walking
- Michael Figgis for Leaving
1996 AA: Anthony Minghella for The English Patient
- Joel Coen for
- Scott Hicks for Shine
- Mike Leigh for Secrets and Lies
- Milos Forman for The People vs. Larry
Flynt
- John Sayles for Lone Star
- Lars von Trier for Breaking the Waves
- Anthony Minghella for The English Patient
- Kenneth Branagh for Hamlet
1997 AA: James Cameron for Titanic
- Peter Cattaneo for The Full
Monty
- Curtis Hanson for L.A.
Confidential
- Gus Van Sant for Good Will
Hunting
- Atom Egoyan for The Sweet Hereafter
- Paul Thomas Anderson for Boogie Nights
- Ang Lee for The Ice Storm
- Atom Egoyan for The Sweet Hereafter
- Quentin Tarantino for Jackie Brown
1998 AA: Steven Spielberg for Saving Private Ryan
- John Madden for Shakespeare in Love
- Roberto Benigni for Life is
Beautiful
- Terrence Malick for The Thin
Red Line
- Peter Weir for The Truman Show
- Peter Weir for The Truman Show
- Steven Soderbergh for Out of Sight
- Steven Spielberg for Saving Private Ryan
- Sam Raimi for A Simple Plan
1999 AA: Sam Mendes for American Beauty
- Lasse Hallstrom for The Cider
House Rules
- Michael Mann for The Insider
- M. Night Shyamalan for The
Sixth Sense
- Spike Jonze for Being John Malkovich
- Paul Thomas Anderson for Magnolia
- Michael Mann for The Insider
- Spike Jonze for Being John Malkovich
2000 AA: Steven Soderbergh for Traffic
- Ridley Scott for Gladiator
- Ang Lee for Crouching Tiger,
Hidden Dragon
- Steven Soderbergh for Chocolat
- Stephen Daldry for Billy Elliot
- Ang Lee for Crouching Tiger, Hidden
Dragon
- Cameron Crowe for Almost Famous
- Darren Aronofsky for Requiem for a Dream
- Sofia Coppola for The Virgin Suicides
2001 AA: Ron Howard for A Beautiful Mind
- Robert Altman for
- Peter Jackson for The Lord of
the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Ridley Scott for Black Hawk Down
- David Lynch for Mulholland Drive
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet for Amelie
- David Lynch for
- Robert Altman for
- Christopher Nolan for Memento
2002 AA: Roman Polanski for The Pianist
- Rob Marshall for
- Stephen Daldry for The Hours
- Martin Scorsese for Gangs of
New York
- Pedro Almodovar for Talk to Her
- Martin Scorsese for Gangs of
- Spike Lee for 25th Hour
- Sam Mendes for Road to Perdition
- Peter Jackson for The Lord of the Rings: The
2003 AA: Peter Jackson for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- Sofia Coppola for Lost in
Translation
- Clint Eastwood for Mystic River
- Peter Weir for Master and
Commander: Far Side of the World
- Fernando Meirelles for City of
- Clint Eastwood for
- Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation
- Jim Sheridan for In
- Peter Jackson for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004 AA: Clint Eastwood for Million Dollar Baby
- Taylor Hackford for Ray
- Alexander Payne for Sideways
- Martin Scorsese for The Aviator
- Mike Leigh for Vera Drake
- Martin Scorsese for The Aviator
- Clint Eastwood for Million Dollar Baby
- Alexander Payne for Sideways
- Mike Nichols for Closer
2005 AA: Ang Lee for
- Paul Haggis for Crash
- George Clooney for Good Night
and Good Luck
- Bennett Miller for Capote
- Steven Spielberg for Munich
- Terrence Malick for The New World
- Steven Spielberg for
- George Clooney for Good Night and Good
Luck
- David Cronenberg for A History of
Violence
2006 AA: Martin Scorsese for The Departed
- Clint Eastwood for Letters from
Iwo Jima
- Stephen Frears for The Queen
- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for
- Paul Greengrass for United 93
- Paul Greengrass for United 93
- Martin Scorsese for The Departed
- Guillermo del Toro for Pan’s Labyrinth
- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for
2007 AA: Joel and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
- Paul Thomas Anderson for There
Will Be Blood
- Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton
- Jason Reitman for Juno
- Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and
the Butterfly
- Joel and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
- David Fincher for Zodiac
- Andrew Dominik for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
- Sidney Lumet for Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
2008 AA: Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire
- Stephen Daldry for The Reader
- David Fincher for The Curious
Case of Benjamin Button
- Ron Howard for Frost/Nixon
- Gus Van Sant for Milk
- Gus Van Sant for Milk
- Jonathan Demme for Rachel Getting Married
- Darren Aronofsky for The Wrestler
- Sam Mendes for Revolutionary Road
2009 AA: Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker
- James Cameron for Avatar
- Lee Daniels for Precious
- Jason Reitman for Up in the Air
- Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds
- Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds
- Michael Haneke for The White Ribbon
- Joel and Ethan Coen for A Serious Man
- Olivier Assayas for Summer Hours
2010 AA: Tom Hooper for The King’s Speech
- Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan
- Joel and Ethan Coen for True Grit
- David Fincher for The Social Network
- David O. Russell for The Fighter
- Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan
- Christopher Nolan for Inception
- Olivier Assayas for Carlos
- Edgar Wright for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
2011 AA: Michel Hazanavicius for The Artist
- Woody Allen for Midnight in Paris
- Terrence Malick for The Tree of Life
- Alexander Payne for The Descendants
- Martin Scorsese for Hugo
- Michel Hazanavicius for The Artist
- David Fincher for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Nicolas Winding Refn for Drive
- Lars von Trier for Melancholia
2012 AA:
- Michael Haneke for Amour
- Ang Lee for Life of Pi
- David O. Russell for Silver Linings Playbook
- Steven Spielberg for Lincoln
- Benh Zeitlin for Beasts of the Southern Wild
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