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JACEY ALDREDGE
Updated 11/4 1. Steve McQueen - Widows 2. Spike Lee - BlacKkKlansman 3. Bradley Cooper - A Star Is Born 4. Alfonso Cuaron - Roma 5. Adam McKay - Vice 6. Marielle Heller - Can You Ever Forgive Me? 7. Barry Jenkins - If Beale Street Could Talk 8. Ryan Coogler - Black Panther 9. Damien Chazelle - First Man 10. Yorgos Lanthimos - The Favourite |
DANILO CASTRO
Updated 11/16 1. Spike Lee - BlacKkKlansman 2. Alfonso Cuaron - Roma 3. Bradley Cooper - A Star Is Born 4. Damien Chazelle - First Man 5. Adam McKay - Vice 6. Steve McQueen - Widows 7. James Gray - Ad Astra 8. Debra Granik - Leave No Trace 9. Yorgos Lanthimos - The Favourite 10. Barry Jenkins - If Beale Street Could Talk |
LIAM HEFFERNAN
Updated 11/18 1. Alfonso Cuaron - Roma 2. Bradley Cooper - A Star Is Born 3. Spike Lee - BlacKkKlansman 4. Damien Chazelle - First Man 5. Yorgos Lanthimos - The Favourite 6. Adam McKay - Vice 7. Barry Jenkins - If Beale Street Could Talk 8. Peter Farrelly - Green Book 9. Steve McQueen - Widows 10. Marielle Heller - Can You Ever Forgive Me? |
DANIEL HOWAT
Updated 10/16 1. Bradley Cooper - A Star Is Born 2. Alfonso Cuarón - Roma 3. Barry Jenkins - If Beale Street Could Talk 4. Yorgos Lanthimos - The Favourite 5. Damien Chazelle - First Man 6. Adam McKay - Vice 7. Spike Lee - BlacKkKlansman 8. Peter Farrelly - Green Book 9. Marielle Heller - Can You Ever Forgive Me? 10. Steve McQueen - Widows |
WILL MAVITY
Updated 10/30 1. Bradley Cooper - A Star Is Born 2. Alfonso Cuarón - Roma 3. Spike Lee - BlackKklansman 4. Barry Jenkins- If Beale Street Could Talk 5. Yorgos Lanthimos - The Favorite 6. Damien Chapelle - First Man 7. Marielle Heller - Can You Ever Forgive Me? 8. Ryan Coogler - Black Panther 9. Adam McKay - Vice 10. Steve McQueen - Widows |
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MATT NEGLIA
Updated 11/16 1. Barry Jenkins - If Beale Street Could Talk 2. Alfonso Cuarón - Roma 3. Spike Lee - BlacKkKlansman 4. Bradley Cooper - A Star Is Born 5. Yorgos Lanthimos - The Favourite 6. Damien Chazelle - First Man 7. Steve McQueen - Widows 8. Adam McKay - Vice 9. Marielle Heller - Can You Ever Forgive Me? 10. Ryan Cooler - Black Panther |
JOSH PARHAM
Updated 10/29 1. Alfonso Cuarón - Roma 2. Spike Lee - BlacKkKlansman 3. Bradley Cooper - A Star is Born 4. Barry Jenkins - If Beale Street Coult Talk 5. Damien Chazelle - First Man 6. Yorgos Lanthimos - The Favourite 7. Marielle Heller - Can You Ever Forgive Me? 8. Adam McKay - Vice 9. Steve McQueen - Widows 10. Nadine Labaki - Capernaum |
MICHAEL SCHWARTZ
Updated 11/16 1. Alfonso Cuarón - Roma 2. Spike Lee - BlacKkKlansman 3. Bradley Cooper - A Star Is Born 4. Barry Jenkins - If Beale Street Could Talk 5. Yorgos Lanthimos - The Favorite 6. Adam McKay - Vice 7. Ryan Coogler - Black Panther 8. Damien Chazelle - First Man 9. Peter Farelly - Green Book 10. Steve McQueen - Widows |
RYAN C. SHOWERS
Updated 11/6 1. Barry Jenkins - If Beale Street Could Talk 2. Alfonso Cuaron - Roma 3. Bradley Cooper - A Star Is Born 4. Spike Lee - BlacKkKlansman 5. Yorgos Lanthimos - The Favourite 6. Peter Farelly - Green Book 7. Damien Chazelle - First Man 8. Steve McQueen - Widows 9. Marielle Heller - Can You Ever Forgive Me? 10. Adam McKay - Vice |
JOSH WILLIAMS
Updated 9/13 1. Alfonso Cuaron - Roma 2. Bradley Cooper - A Star Is Born 3. Spike Lee - BlacKkKlansman 4. Damien Chazelle - First Man 5. Adam McKay - Vice 6. Yorgos Lanthimos - The Favourite 7. James Gray - Ad Astra 8. Barry Jenkins - If Beale Street Could Talk 9. Josie Rourke - Mary Queen Of Scots 10. Steve McQueen - Widows |
AWARDS HISTORY
1927/28
Frank Borzage - 7th Heaven
Lewis Milestone - Two Arabian Knights
Herbert Brenon - Sorrell and Son
King Vidor - The Crowd
Ted Wilde - Speedy
1928/1929
Frank Lloyd - The Divine Lady
Lionel Barrymore - Madame X
Harry Beaumont - The Broadway Melody
Irving Cummings - In Old Arizona
Frank Lloyd - Drag
Frank Lloyd - Weary River
Ernst Lubitsch - The Patriot
1929/1930
Lewis Milestone - All Quiet on the Western Front
Clarence Brown - Anna Christie
Clarence Brown - Romance
Robert Z. Leonard - The Divorcee
Ernst Lubitsch - The Love Parade
King VidorHallelujah!
1930/1931
Norman Taurog - Skippy
Clarence Brown - A Free Soul
Lewis Milestone - The Front Page
Wesley Ruggles - Cimarron
Josef von Sternberg - Morocco
1931/1932
Frank Borzage - Bad Girl
King Vidor - The Champ
Josef von Sternberg - Shanghai Express
1932/1933
Frank Lloyd - Cavalcade
Frank Capra - Lady for a Day
George Cukor - Little Women
1934
Frank Capra - It Happened One Night
Victor Schertzinger - One Night of Love
W. S. Van Dyke - The Thin Man
1935
John Ford - The Informer
Henry Hathaway - The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Frank Lloyd - Mutiny on the Bounty
1936
Frank Capra - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Gregory La Cava - My Man Godfrey
Robert Z. Leonard - The Great Ziegfeld
W. S. Van Dyke - San Francisco
William Wyler - Dodsworth
1937
Leo McCarey - The Awful Truth
William Dieterle - The Life of Emile Zola
Sidney Franklin - The Good Earth
Gregory La Cava - Stage Door
William A. Wellman - A Star Is Born
1938
Frank Capra - You Can't Take It with You
Michael Curtiz - Angels with Dirty Faces
Michael Curtis - Four Daughters
Norman Taurog - Boys Town
King Vidor - The Citadel
1939
Victor Fleming - Gone with the Wind
Frank Capra - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
John Ford - Stagecoach
Sam Wood - Goodbye, Mr. Chips
William Wyler - Wuthering Heights
1940
John Ford - The Grapes of Wrath
George Cukor - The Philadelphia Story
Alfred Hitchcock - Rebecca
Sam Wood - Kitty Foyle
William Wyler - The Letter
1941
John Ford - How Green Was My Valley
Alexander Hall - Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Howard Hawks - Sergeant York
Orson Welles - Citizen Kane
William Wyler - The Little Foxes
1942
William Wyler - Mrs. Miniver
Michael Curtiz - Yankee Doodle Dandy
John Farrow - Wake Island
Mervyn LeRoy - Random Harvest
Sam Wood - Kings Row
1943
Michael Curtiz - Casablanca
Clarence Brown - The Human Comedy
Henry King - The Song of Bernadette
Ernst Lubitsch - Heaven Can Wait
George Stevens - The More the Merrier
1944
Leo McCarey - Going My Way
Alfred Hitchcock - Lifeboat
Henry King - Wilson
Otto Preminger - Laura
Billy Wilder - Double Indemnity
1945
Billy Wilder - The Lost Weekend
Clarence Brown - National Velvet
Alfred Hitchcock - Spellbound
Leo McCarey - The Bells of St. Mary's
Jean Renoir - The Southerner
1946
William Wyler - The Best Years of Our Lives
Clarence Brown - The Yearling
Frank Capra - It's a Wonderful Life
David Lean - Brief Encounter
Robert Siodmak - The Killers
1947
Elia Kazan - Gentleman's Agreement
George Cukor - A Double Life
Edward Dmytryk - Crossfire
Henry Koster - The Bishop's Wife
David Lean - Great Expectations
1948
John Huston - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Anatole Litvak - The Snake Pit
Jean Negulesco - Johnny Belinda
Laurence Olivier - Hamlet
Fred Zinnemann - The Search
1949
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - A Letter to Three Wives
Carol Reed - The Fallen Idol
Robert Rossen - All the King's Men
William A. Wellman - Battleground
William Wyler - The Heiress
1950
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - All About Eve
George Cukor - Born Yesterday
John Huston - The Asphalt Jungle
Carol Reed - The Third Man
Billy Wilder - Sunset Boulevard
1951
George Stevens - A Place in the Sun
John Huston - The African Queen
Elia Kazan - A Streetcar Named Desire
Vincente Minnelli - An American in Paris
William Wyler - Detective Story
1952
John Ford - The Quiet Man
Cecil B. DeMille - The Greatest Show on Earth
John Huston - Moulin Rouge
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - 5 Fingers
Fred Zinnemann - High Noon
1953
Fred Zinnemann - From Here to Eternity
George Stevens - Shane
Charles Walters - Lili
Billy Wilder - Stalag 17
William Wyler - Roman Holiday
1954
Elia Kazan - On the Waterfront
Alfred Hitchcock - Rear Window
George Seaton - The Country Girl
William A. Wellman - The High and the Mighty
Billy Wilder - Sabrina
1955
Delbert Mann - Marty
Elia Kazan - East of Eden
David Lean - Summertime
Joshua Logan - Picnic
John Sturges - Bad Day at Black Rock
1956
George Stevens - Giant
Michael Anderson - Around the World in 80 Days
Walter Lang - The King and I
King Vidor - War and Peace
William Wyler - Friendly Persuasion
1957
David Lean - The Bridge on the River Kwai
Joshua Logan - Sayonara
Sidney Lumet - 12 Angry Men
Mark Robson - Peyton Place
Billy Wilder - Witness for the Prosecution
1958
Vincente Minnelli - Gigi
Richard Brooks - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Stanley Kramer - The Defiant Ones
Mark Robson - The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Robert Wise - I Want to Live!
1959
William Wyler - Ben-Hur
Jack Clayton - Room at the Top
George Stevens - The Diary of Anne Frank
Billy Wilder - Some Like It Hot
Fred Zinnemann - The Nun's Story
1960
Billy Wilder - The Apartment
Jack Cardiff - Sons and Lovers
Jules Dassin - Never on Sunday
Alfred Hitchcock - Psycho
Fred Zinnemann - The Sundowners
1961
Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins - West Side Story
Federico Fellini - La Dolce Vita
Stanley Kramer - Judgment at Nuremberg
Robert Rossen - The Hustler
J. Lee Thompson - The Guns of Navarone
1962
David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia
Pietro Germi - Divorce Italian Style
Robert Mulligan - To Kill a Mockingbird
Arthur Penn - The Miracle Worker
Frank Perry - David and Lisa
1963
Tony Richardson - Tom Jones
Federico Fellini - 8½
Elia Kazan - America America
Otto Preminger - The Cardinal
Martin Ritt - Hud
1964
George Cukor - My Fair Lady
Michael Cacoyannis - Zorba the Greek
Peter Glenville - Becket
Stanley Kubrick - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Robert Stevenson - Mary Poppins
1965
Robert Wise - The Sound of Music
David Lean - Doctor Zhivago
John Schlesinger - Darling
Hiroshi Teshigahara - Woman in the Dunes
William Wyler - The Collector
1966
Fred Zinnemann - A Man for All Seasons
Michelangelo Antonioni - Blowup
Richard Brooks - The Professionals
Claude Lelouch - A Man and a Woman
Mike Nichols - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1967
Mike Nichols - The Graduate
Richard Brooks - In Cold Blood
Norman Jewison - In the Heat of the Night
Stanley Kramer - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Arthur Penn - Bonnie and Clyde
1968
Carol Reed - Oliver!
Anthony Harvey - The Lion in Winter
Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey
Gillo Pontecorvo - The Battle of Algiers
Franco Zeffirelli - Romeo and Juliet
1969
John Schlesinger - Midnight Cowboy
Costa-Gavras - Z
George Roy Hill - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Arthur Penn - Alice's Restaurant
Sydney Pollack - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
1970
Franklin J. Schaffner - Patton
Robert Altman - M*A*S*H
Federico Fellini - Fellini Satyricon
Arthur Hiller - Love Story
Ken Russell - Women in Love
1971
William Friedkin - The French Connection
Peter Bogdanovich - The Last Picture Show
Norman Jewison - Fiddler on the Roof
Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange
John Schlesinger - Sunday Bloody Sunday
1972
Bob Fosse - Cabaret
John Boorman - Deliverance
Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Sleuth
Jan Troell - The Emigrants
1973
George Roy Hill - The Sting
Ingmar Bergman - Cries and Whispers
Bernardo Bertolucci - Last Tango in Paris
William Friedkin - The Exorcist
George Lucas - American Graffiti
1974
Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather Part II
John Cassavetes - A Woman Under the Influence
Bob Fosse - Lenny
Roman Polanski - Chinatown
François Truffaut - Day for Night
1975
Miloš Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Robert Altman - Nashville
Federico Fellini - Amarcord
Stanley Kubrick - Barry Lyndon
Sidney Lumet - Dog Day Afternoon
1976
John G. Avildsen - Rocky
Ingmar Bergman - Face to Face
Sidney Lumet - Network
Alan J. Pakula - All the President's Men
Lina Wertmüller - Seven Beauties
1977
Woody Allen - Annie Hall
George Lucas - Star Wars
Herbert Ross - The Turning Point
Steven Spielberg - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Fred Zinnemann - Julia
1978
Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter
Woody Allen - Interiors
Hal Ashby - Coming Home
Warren Beatty & Buck Henry - Heaven Can Wait
Alan ParkerMidnight Express
1979
Robert Benton - Kramer vs. Kramer
Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now
Bob Fosse - All That Jazz
Édouard Molinaro - La Cage aux Folles
Peter Yates - Breaking Away
1980
Robert Redford - Ordinary People
David Lynch - The Elephant Man
Roman Polanski - Tess
Richard Rush - The Stunt Man
Martin ScorseseRaging Bull
1981
Warren Beatty - Reds
Hugh Hudson - Chariots of Fire
Louis Malle - Atlantic City
Mark Rydell - On Golden Pond
Steven Spielberg - Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982
Richard Attenborough - Gandhi
Sidney Lumet - The Verdict
Wolfgang Petersen - Das Boot
Sydney Pollack - Tootsie
Steven Spielberg - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1983
James L. Brooks - Terms of Endearment
Bruce Beresford - Tender Mercies
Ingmar Bergman - Fanny and Alexander
Mike Nichols - Silkwood
Peter Yates - The Dresser
1984
Miloš Forman - Amadeus
Woody Allen - Broadway Danny Rose
Robert Benton - Places in the Heart
Roland Joffé - The Killing Fields
David Lean - A Passage to India
1985
Sydney Pollack - Out of Africa
Héctor Babenco - Kiss of the Spider Woman
John Huston - Prizzi's Honor
Akira Kurosawa - Ran
Peter WeirWitness
1986
Oliver Stone - Platoon
Woody Allen - Hannah and Her Sisters
James Ivory - A Room with a View
Roland Joffé - The Mission
David Lynch - Blue Velvet
1987
Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor
John Boorman - Hope and Glory
Lasse Hallström - My Life as a Dog
Norman Jewison - Moonstruck
Adrian Lyne - Fatal Attraction
1988
Barry Levinson - Rain Man
Charles Crichton - A Fish Called Wanda
Mike Nichols - Working Girl
Alan Parker - Mississippi Burning
Martin Scorsese - The Last Temptation of Christ
1989
Oliver Stone - Born on the Fourth of July
Woody Allen - Crimes and Misdemeanors
Kenneth Branagh - Henry V
Jim Sheridan - My Left Foot
Peter Weir - Dead Poets Society
1990
Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves
Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather Part III
Stephen Frears - The Grifters
Barbet Schroeder - Reversal of Fortune
Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas
1991
Jonathan Demme - The Silence of the Lambs
Barry Levinson - Bugsy
Ridley Scott - Thelma & Louise
John Singleton - Boyz n the Hood
Oliver Stone - JFK
1992
Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
Robert Altman - The Player
Martin Brest - Scent of a Woman
James Ivory - Howards End
Neil Jordan - The Crying Game
1993
Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List
Robert Altman - Short Cuts
Jane Campion - The Piano
James Ivory - The Remains of the Day
Jim Sheridan - In the Name of the Father
1994
Robert Zemeckis - Forrest Gump
Woody Allen - Bullets over Broadway
Krzysztof Kieślowski - Three Colors: Red
Robert Redford - Quiz Show
Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction
1995
Mel Gibson - Braveheart
Mike Figgis - Leaving Las Vegas
Chris Noonan - Babe
Michael Radford - Il Postino: The Postman
Tim Robbins - Dead Man Walking
1996
Anthony Minghella - The English Patient
Joel Coen - Fargo
Miloš Forman - The People vs. Larry Flynt
Scott Hicks - Shine
Mike Leigh - Secrets & Lies
1997
James Cameron - Titanic
Peter Cattaneo - The Full Monty
Atom Egoyan - The Sweet Hereafter
Curtis Hanson - L.A. Confidential
Gus Van Sant - Good Will Hunting
1998
Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan
Roberto Benigni - Life Is Beautiful
John Madden - Shakespeare in Love
Terrence Malick - The Thin Red Line
Peter Weir - The Truman Show
1999
Sam Mendes - American Beauty
Lasse Hallström - The Cider House Rules
Spike Jonze - Being John Malkovich
Michael Mann - The Insider
M. Night Shyamalan - The Sixth Sense
2000
Steven Soderbergh - Traffic
Stephen Daldry - Billy Elliot
Ang Lee - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Ridley Scott - Gladiator
Steven Soderbergh - Erin Brockovich
2001
Ron Howard - A Beautiful Mind
Robert Altman - Gosford Park
Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
David Lynch - Mulholland Drive
Ridley Scott - Black Hawk Down
2002
Roman Polanski - The Pianist
Pedro Almodóvar - Talk to Her
Stephen Daldry - The Hours
Rob Marshall - Chicago
Martin Scorsese - Gangs of New York
2003
Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Sofia Coppola - Lost in Translation
Clint Eastwood - Mystic River
Fernando Meirelles - City of God
Peter Weir - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2004
Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby
Taylor Hackford - Ray
Mike Leigh - Vera Drake
Alexander Payne - Sideways
Martin Scorsese - The Aviator
2005
Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck
Paul Haggis - Crash
Bennett Miller - Capote
Steven Spielberg - Munich
2006
Martin Scorsese - The Departed
Clint Eastwood - Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears - The Queen
Paul Greengrass - United 93
Alejandro González Iñárritu - Babel
2007
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood
Tony Gilroy - Michael Clayton
Jason Reitman - Juno
Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2008
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
Stephen Daldry - The Reader
David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant - Milk
2009
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
James Cameron - Avatar
Lee Daniels - Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
Jason Reitman - Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds
2010
Tom Hooper - The King's Speech
Darren Aronofsky - Black Swan
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen - True Grit
David Fincher - The Social Network
David O. Russell - The Fighter
2011
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
Woody Allen - Midnight in Paris
Terrence Malick - The Tree of Life
Alexander Payne - The Descendants
Martin Scorsese - Hugo
2012
Ang Lee - Life of Pi
Michael Haneke - Amour
David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook
Steven Spielberg - Lincoln
Benh Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild
2013
Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity
Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave
Alexander Payne - Nebraska
David O. Russell - American Hustle
Martin Scorsese - The Wolf of Wall Street
2014
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Richard Linklater - Boyhood
Bennett Miller - Foxcatcher
Morten Tyldum - The Imitation Game
2015
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - The Revenant
Lenny Abrahamson - Room
Tom McCarthy - Spotlight
Adam McKay - The Big Short
George Miller - Mad Max: Fury Road
2016
Damien Chazelle - La La Land
Mel Gibson - Hacksaw Ridge
Barry Jenkins - Moonlight
Kenneth Lonergan - Manchester by the Sea
Denis Villeneuve - Arrival
2017
Guillermo del Toro - The Shape of Water
Paul Thomas Anderson - Phantom Thread
Greta Gerwig - Lady Bird
Christopher Nolan - Dunkirk
Jordan Peele - Get Out
Frank Borzage - 7th Heaven
Lewis Milestone - Two Arabian Knights
Herbert Brenon - Sorrell and Son
King Vidor - The Crowd
Ted Wilde - Speedy
1928/1929
Frank Lloyd - The Divine Lady
Lionel Barrymore - Madame X
Harry Beaumont - The Broadway Melody
Irving Cummings - In Old Arizona
Frank Lloyd - Drag
Frank Lloyd - Weary River
Ernst Lubitsch - The Patriot
1929/1930
Lewis Milestone - All Quiet on the Western Front
Clarence Brown - Anna Christie
Clarence Brown - Romance
Robert Z. Leonard - The Divorcee
Ernst Lubitsch - The Love Parade
King VidorHallelujah!
1930/1931
Norman Taurog - Skippy
Clarence Brown - A Free Soul
Lewis Milestone - The Front Page
Wesley Ruggles - Cimarron
Josef von Sternberg - Morocco
1931/1932
Frank Borzage - Bad Girl
King Vidor - The Champ
Josef von Sternberg - Shanghai Express
1932/1933
Frank Lloyd - Cavalcade
Frank Capra - Lady for a Day
George Cukor - Little Women
1934
Frank Capra - It Happened One Night
Victor Schertzinger - One Night of Love
W. S. Van Dyke - The Thin Man
1935
John Ford - The Informer
Henry Hathaway - The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Frank Lloyd - Mutiny on the Bounty
1936
Frank Capra - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Gregory La Cava - My Man Godfrey
Robert Z. Leonard - The Great Ziegfeld
W. S. Van Dyke - San Francisco
William Wyler - Dodsworth
1937
Leo McCarey - The Awful Truth
William Dieterle - The Life of Emile Zola
Sidney Franklin - The Good Earth
Gregory La Cava - Stage Door
William A. Wellman - A Star Is Born
1938
Frank Capra - You Can't Take It with You
Michael Curtiz - Angels with Dirty Faces
Michael Curtis - Four Daughters
Norman Taurog - Boys Town
King Vidor - The Citadel
1939
Victor Fleming - Gone with the Wind
Frank Capra - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
John Ford - Stagecoach
Sam Wood - Goodbye, Mr. Chips
William Wyler - Wuthering Heights
1940
John Ford - The Grapes of Wrath
George Cukor - The Philadelphia Story
Alfred Hitchcock - Rebecca
Sam Wood - Kitty Foyle
William Wyler - The Letter
1941
John Ford - How Green Was My Valley
Alexander Hall - Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Howard Hawks - Sergeant York
Orson Welles - Citizen Kane
William Wyler - The Little Foxes
1942
William Wyler - Mrs. Miniver
Michael Curtiz - Yankee Doodle Dandy
John Farrow - Wake Island
Mervyn LeRoy - Random Harvest
Sam Wood - Kings Row
1943
Michael Curtiz - Casablanca
Clarence Brown - The Human Comedy
Henry King - The Song of Bernadette
Ernst Lubitsch - Heaven Can Wait
George Stevens - The More the Merrier
1944
Leo McCarey - Going My Way
Alfred Hitchcock - Lifeboat
Henry King - Wilson
Otto Preminger - Laura
Billy Wilder - Double Indemnity
1945
Billy Wilder - The Lost Weekend
Clarence Brown - National Velvet
Alfred Hitchcock - Spellbound
Leo McCarey - The Bells of St. Mary's
Jean Renoir - The Southerner
1946
William Wyler - The Best Years of Our Lives
Clarence Brown - The Yearling
Frank Capra - It's a Wonderful Life
David Lean - Brief Encounter
Robert Siodmak - The Killers
1947
Elia Kazan - Gentleman's Agreement
George Cukor - A Double Life
Edward Dmytryk - Crossfire
Henry Koster - The Bishop's Wife
David Lean - Great Expectations
1948
John Huston - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Anatole Litvak - The Snake Pit
Jean Negulesco - Johnny Belinda
Laurence Olivier - Hamlet
Fred Zinnemann - The Search
1949
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - A Letter to Three Wives
Carol Reed - The Fallen Idol
Robert Rossen - All the King's Men
William A. Wellman - Battleground
William Wyler - The Heiress
1950
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - All About Eve
George Cukor - Born Yesterday
John Huston - The Asphalt Jungle
Carol Reed - The Third Man
Billy Wilder - Sunset Boulevard
1951
George Stevens - A Place in the Sun
John Huston - The African Queen
Elia Kazan - A Streetcar Named Desire
Vincente Minnelli - An American in Paris
William Wyler - Detective Story
1952
John Ford - The Quiet Man
Cecil B. DeMille - The Greatest Show on Earth
John Huston - Moulin Rouge
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - 5 Fingers
Fred Zinnemann - High Noon
1953
Fred Zinnemann - From Here to Eternity
George Stevens - Shane
Charles Walters - Lili
Billy Wilder - Stalag 17
William Wyler - Roman Holiday
1954
Elia Kazan - On the Waterfront
Alfred Hitchcock - Rear Window
George Seaton - The Country Girl
William A. Wellman - The High and the Mighty
Billy Wilder - Sabrina
1955
Delbert Mann - Marty
Elia Kazan - East of Eden
David Lean - Summertime
Joshua Logan - Picnic
John Sturges - Bad Day at Black Rock
1956
George Stevens - Giant
Michael Anderson - Around the World in 80 Days
Walter Lang - The King and I
King Vidor - War and Peace
William Wyler - Friendly Persuasion
1957
David Lean - The Bridge on the River Kwai
Joshua Logan - Sayonara
Sidney Lumet - 12 Angry Men
Mark Robson - Peyton Place
Billy Wilder - Witness for the Prosecution
1958
Vincente Minnelli - Gigi
Richard Brooks - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Stanley Kramer - The Defiant Ones
Mark Robson - The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Robert Wise - I Want to Live!
1959
William Wyler - Ben-Hur
Jack Clayton - Room at the Top
George Stevens - The Diary of Anne Frank
Billy Wilder - Some Like It Hot
Fred Zinnemann - The Nun's Story
1960
Billy Wilder - The Apartment
Jack Cardiff - Sons and Lovers
Jules Dassin - Never on Sunday
Alfred Hitchcock - Psycho
Fred Zinnemann - The Sundowners
1961
Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins - West Side Story
Federico Fellini - La Dolce Vita
Stanley Kramer - Judgment at Nuremberg
Robert Rossen - The Hustler
J. Lee Thompson - The Guns of Navarone
1962
David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia
Pietro Germi - Divorce Italian Style
Robert Mulligan - To Kill a Mockingbird
Arthur Penn - The Miracle Worker
Frank Perry - David and Lisa
1963
Tony Richardson - Tom Jones
Federico Fellini - 8½
Elia Kazan - America America
Otto Preminger - The Cardinal
Martin Ritt - Hud
1964
George Cukor - My Fair Lady
Michael Cacoyannis - Zorba the Greek
Peter Glenville - Becket
Stanley Kubrick - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Robert Stevenson - Mary Poppins
1965
Robert Wise - The Sound of Music
David Lean - Doctor Zhivago
John Schlesinger - Darling
Hiroshi Teshigahara - Woman in the Dunes
William Wyler - The Collector
1966
Fred Zinnemann - A Man for All Seasons
Michelangelo Antonioni - Blowup
Richard Brooks - The Professionals
Claude Lelouch - A Man and a Woman
Mike Nichols - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1967
Mike Nichols - The Graduate
Richard Brooks - In Cold Blood
Norman Jewison - In the Heat of the Night
Stanley Kramer - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Arthur Penn - Bonnie and Clyde
1968
Carol Reed - Oliver!
Anthony Harvey - The Lion in Winter
Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey
Gillo Pontecorvo - The Battle of Algiers
Franco Zeffirelli - Romeo and Juliet
1969
John Schlesinger - Midnight Cowboy
Costa-Gavras - Z
George Roy Hill - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Arthur Penn - Alice's Restaurant
Sydney Pollack - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
1970
Franklin J. Schaffner - Patton
Robert Altman - M*A*S*H
Federico Fellini - Fellini Satyricon
Arthur Hiller - Love Story
Ken Russell - Women in Love
1971
William Friedkin - The French Connection
Peter Bogdanovich - The Last Picture Show
Norman Jewison - Fiddler on the Roof
Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange
John Schlesinger - Sunday Bloody Sunday
1972
Bob Fosse - Cabaret
John Boorman - Deliverance
Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Sleuth
Jan Troell - The Emigrants
1973
George Roy Hill - The Sting
Ingmar Bergman - Cries and Whispers
Bernardo Bertolucci - Last Tango in Paris
William Friedkin - The Exorcist
George Lucas - American Graffiti
1974
Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather Part II
John Cassavetes - A Woman Under the Influence
Bob Fosse - Lenny
Roman Polanski - Chinatown
François Truffaut - Day for Night
1975
Miloš Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Robert Altman - Nashville
Federico Fellini - Amarcord
Stanley Kubrick - Barry Lyndon
Sidney Lumet - Dog Day Afternoon
1976
John G. Avildsen - Rocky
Ingmar Bergman - Face to Face
Sidney Lumet - Network
Alan J. Pakula - All the President's Men
Lina Wertmüller - Seven Beauties
1977
Woody Allen - Annie Hall
George Lucas - Star Wars
Herbert Ross - The Turning Point
Steven Spielberg - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Fred Zinnemann - Julia
1978
Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter
Woody Allen - Interiors
Hal Ashby - Coming Home
Warren Beatty & Buck Henry - Heaven Can Wait
Alan ParkerMidnight Express
1979
Robert Benton - Kramer vs. Kramer
Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now
Bob Fosse - All That Jazz
Édouard Molinaro - La Cage aux Folles
Peter Yates - Breaking Away
1980
Robert Redford - Ordinary People
David Lynch - The Elephant Man
Roman Polanski - Tess
Richard Rush - The Stunt Man
Martin ScorseseRaging Bull
1981
Warren Beatty - Reds
Hugh Hudson - Chariots of Fire
Louis Malle - Atlantic City
Mark Rydell - On Golden Pond
Steven Spielberg - Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982
Richard Attenborough - Gandhi
Sidney Lumet - The Verdict
Wolfgang Petersen - Das Boot
Sydney Pollack - Tootsie
Steven Spielberg - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1983
James L. Brooks - Terms of Endearment
Bruce Beresford - Tender Mercies
Ingmar Bergman - Fanny and Alexander
Mike Nichols - Silkwood
Peter Yates - The Dresser
1984
Miloš Forman - Amadeus
Woody Allen - Broadway Danny Rose
Robert Benton - Places in the Heart
Roland Joffé - The Killing Fields
David Lean - A Passage to India
1985
Sydney Pollack - Out of Africa
Héctor Babenco - Kiss of the Spider Woman
John Huston - Prizzi's Honor
Akira Kurosawa - Ran
Peter WeirWitness
1986
Oliver Stone - Platoon
Woody Allen - Hannah and Her Sisters
James Ivory - A Room with a View
Roland Joffé - The Mission
David Lynch - Blue Velvet
1987
Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor
John Boorman - Hope and Glory
Lasse Hallström - My Life as a Dog
Norman Jewison - Moonstruck
Adrian Lyne - Fatal Attraction
1988
Barry Levinson - Rain Man
Charles Crichton - A Fish Called Wanda
Mike Nichols - Working Girl
Alan Parker - Mississippi Burning
Martin Scorsese - The Last Temptation of Christ
1989
Oliver Stone - Born on the Fourth of July
Woody Allen - Crimes and Misdemeanors
Kenneth Branagh - Henry V
Jim Sheridan - My Left Foot
Peter Weir - Dead Poets Society
1990
Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves
Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather Part III
Stephen Frears - The Grifters
Barbet Schroeder - Reversal of Fortune
Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas
1991
Jonathan Demme - The Silence of the Lambs
Barry Levinson - Bugsy
Ridley Scott - Thelma & Louise
John Singleton - Boyz n the Hood
Oliver Stone - JFK
1992
Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
Robert Altman - The Player
Martin Brest - Scent of a Woman
James Ivory - Howards End
Neil Jordan - The Crying Game
1993
Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List
Robert Altman - Short Cuts
Jane Campion - The Piano
James Ivory - The Remains of the Day
Jim Sheridan - In the Name of the Father
1994
Robert Zemeckis - Forrest Gump
Woody Allen - Bullets over Broadway
Krzysztof Kieślowski - Three Colors: Red
Robert Redford - Quiz Show
Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction
1995
Mel Gibson - Braveheart
Mike Figgis - Leaving Las Vegas
Chris Noonan - Babe
Michael Radford - Il Postino: The Postman
Tim Robbins - Dead Man Walking
1996
Anthony Minghella - The English Patient
Joel Coen - Fargo
Miloš Forman - The People vs. Larry Flynt
Scott Hicks - Shine
Mike Leigh - Secrets & Lies
1997
James Cameron - Titanic
Peter Cattaneo - The Full Monty
Atom Egoyan - The Sweet Hereafter
Curtis Hanson - L.A. Confidential
Gus Van Sant - Good Will Hunting
1998
Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan
Roberto Benigni - Life Is Beautiful
John Madden - Shakespeare in Love
Terrence Malick - The Thin Red Line
Peter Weir - The Truman Show
1999
Sam Mendes - American Beauty
Lasse Hallström - The Cider House Rules
Spike Jonze - Being John Malkovich
Michael Mann - The Insider
M. Night Shyamalan - The Sixth Sense
2000
Steven Soderbergh - Traffic
Stephen Daldry - Billy Elliot
Ang Lee - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Ridley Scott - Gladiator
Steven Soderbergh - Erin Brockovich
2001
Ron Howard - A Beautiful Mind
Robert Altman - Gosford Park
Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
David Lynch - Mulholland Drive
Ridley Scott - Black Hawk Down
2002
Roman Polanski - The Pianist
Pedro Almodóvar - Talk to Her
Stephen Daldry - The Hours
Rob Marshall - Chicago
Martin Scorsese - Gangs of New York
2003
Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Sofia Coppola - Lost in Translation
Clint Eastwood - Mystic River
Fernando Meirelles - City of God
Peter Weir - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2004
Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby
Taylor Hackford - Ray
Mike Leigh - Vera Drake
Alexander Payne - Sideways
Martin Scorsese - The Aviator
2005
Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck
Paul Haggis - Crash
Bennett Miller - Capote
Steven Spielberg - Munich
2006
Martin Scorsese - The Departed
Clint Eastwood - Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears - The Queen
Paul Greengrass - United 93
Alejandro González Iñárritu - Babel
2007
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood
Tony Gilroy - Michael Clayton
Jason Reitman - Juno
Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2008
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
Stephen Daldry - The Reader
David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant - Milk
2009
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
James Cameron - Avatar
Lee Daniels - Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
Jason Reitman - Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds
2010
Tom Hooper - The King's Speech
Darren Aronofsky - Black Swan
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen - True Grit
David Fincher - The Social Network
David O. Russell - The Fighter
2011
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
Woody Allen - Midnight in Paris
Terrence Malick - The Tree of Life
Alexander Payne - The Descendants
Martin Scorsese - Hugo
2012
Ang Lee - Life of Pi
Michael Haneke - Amour
David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook
Steven Spielberg - Lincoln
Benh Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild
2013
Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity
Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave
Alexander Payne - Nebraska
David O. Russell - American Hustle
Martin Scorsese - The Wolf of Wall Street
2014
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Richard Linklater - Boyhood
Bennett Miller - Foxcatcher
Morten Tyldum - The Imitation Game
2015
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - The Revenant
Lenny Abrahamson - Room
Tom McCarthy - Spotlight
Adam McKay - The Big Short
George Miller - Mad Max: Fury Road
2016
Damien Chazelle - La La Land
Mel Gibson - Hacksaw Ridge
Barry Jenkins - Moonlight
Kenneth Lonergan - Manchester by the Sea
Denis Villeneuve - Arrival
2017
Guillermo del Toro - The Shape of Water
Paul Thomas Anderson - Phantom Thread
Greta Gerwig - Lady Bird
Christopher Nolan - Dunkirk
Jordan Peele - Get Out
1943
Henry King - The Song of Bernadette
1944
Leo McCarey - Going My Way
1945
Billy Wilder - The Lost Weekend
1946
Frank Capra - It's a Wonderful Life
1947
Elia Kazan - Gentleman's Agreement
1948
John Huston - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949
Robert Rossen - All the King's Men
1950
Billy Wilder - Sunset Boulevard
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - All About Eve
John Huston - The Asphalt Jungle
George Cukor - Born Yesterday
1951
László Benedek - Death of a Salesman
Vincente Minnelli - An American in Paris
George Stevens - A Place in the Sun
1952
Cecil B. DeMille - The Greatest Show on Earth
Richard Fleischer - The Narrow Margin
John Ford - The Quiet Man
1953
Fred Zinnemann - From Here to Eternity
1954
Elia Kazan - On the Waterfront
1955
Joshua Logan - Picnic
1956
Elia Kazan - Baby Doll
Michael Anderson - Around the World in 80 Days
George Stevens - Giant
Vincente Minnelli - Lust for Life
King Vidor - War and Peace
1957
David Lean - The Bridge on the River Kwai
Sidney Lumet - 12 Angry Men
Fred Zinnemann - A Hatful of Rain
Joshua Logan - Sayonara
Billy Wilder - Witness for the Prosecution
1958
Vincente Minnelli - Gigi
Richard Brooks - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Stanley Kramer - The Defiant Ones
Robert Wise - I Want to Live!
Delbert Mann - Separate Tables
1959
William Wyler - Ben-Hur
Otto Preminger - Anatomy of a Murder
George Stevens - The Diary of Anne Frank
Fred Zinnemann - The Nun's Story
Stanley Kramer - On the Beach
1960
Jack Cardiff - Sons and Lovers
Billy Wilder - The Apartment
Richard Brooks - Elmer Gantry
Stanley Kubrick - Spartacus
Fred Zinnemann - The Sundowners
1961
Stanley Kramer - Judgment at Nuremberg
William Wyler - The Children's Hour
Anthony Mann - El Cid
J. Lee Thompson - The Guns of Navarone
Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise - West Side Story
1962
David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia
George Cukor - The Chapman Report
Blake Edwards - Days of Wine and Roses
John Huston - Freud
Mervyn LeRoy - Gypsy
Martin Ritt - Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
Stanley Kubrick - Lolita
John Frankenheimer - The Manchurian Candidate
Morton DaCosta - The Music Man
Ismael Rodríguez - My Son, the Hero (Los Hermanos Del Hierro)
Robert Mulligan - To Kill a Mockingbird
1963
Elia Kazan - America America
Otto Preminger - The Cardinal
Hall Bartlett - The Caretakers
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Cleopatra
Robert Wise - The Haunting
Martin Ritt - Hud
Tony Richardson - Tom Jones
George Englund - The Ugly American
1964
George Cukor - My Fair Lady
Peter Glenville - Becket
John Huston - The Night of the Iguana
John Frankenheimer - Seven Days in May
Michael Cacoyannis - Zorba the Greek (Alexis Zorbas)
1965
David Lean - Doctor Zhivago
William Wyler - The Collector
John Schlesinger - Darling
Guy Green - A Patch of Blue
Robert Wise - The Sound of Music
1966
Fred Zinnemann - A Man for All Seasons
Lewis Gilbert - Alfie
Claude Lelouch - A Man and a Woman
Robert Wise - The Sand Pebbles
Mike Nichols - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1967
Mike Nichols - The Graduate
Arthur Penn - Bonnie and Clyde
Mark Rydell - The Fox
Stanley Kramer - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Norman Jewison - In the Heat of the Night
1968
Paul Newman - Rachel, Rachel
William Wyler - Funny Girl
Anthony Harvey - The Lion in Winter
Carol Reed - Oliver!
Franco Zeffirelli - Romeo and Juliet
1969
Charles Jarrott - Anne of the Thousand Days
Gene Kelly - Hello, Dolly!
John Schlesinger - Midnight Cowboy
Stanley Kramer - The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Sydney Pollack - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
1970
Arthur Hiller - Love Story
Bob Rafelson - Five Easy Pieces
Robert Altman - M*A*S*H
Franklin J. Schaffner - Patton
Ken Russell - Women in Love
1971
William Friedkin - The French Connection
Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange
Norman Jewison - Fiddler on the Roof
Peter Bogdanovich - The Last Picture Show
Robert Mulligan - Summer of ‘42
1972
Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather
Billy Wilder - Avanti!
Bob Fosse - Cabaret
John Boorman - Deliverance
Alfred Hitchcock - Frenzy
1973
William Friedkin - The Exorcist
George Lucas - American Graffiti
Fred Zinnemann - The Day of the Jackal
Bernardo Bertolucci - Last Tango in Paris
Peter Bogdanovich - Paper Moon
1974
Roman Polanski - Chinatown
Francis Ford Coppola - The Conversation
Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather Part II
Bob Fosse - Lenny
John Cassavetes - A Woman Under the Influence
1975
Miloš Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Stanley Kubrick - Barry Lyndon
Sidney Lumet - Dog Day Afternoon
Steven Spielberg - Jaws
Robert Altman - Nashville
1976
Sidney Lumet - Network
Alan J. Pakula - All the President's Men
Hal Ashby - Bound for Glory
John Schlesinger - Marathon Man
John G. Avildsen - Rocky
1977
Herbert Ross - The Turning Point
Woody Allen - Annie Hall
Steven Spielberg - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Fred Zinnemann - Julia
George Lucas - Star Wars
1978
Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter
Hal Ashby - Coming Home
Terrence Malick - Days of Heaven
Woody Allen - Interiors
Alan Parker - Midnight Express
Paul Mazursky - An Unmarried Woman
1979
Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now
Hal Ashby - Being There
Peter Yates - Breaking Away
James Bridges - The China Syndrome
Robert Benton - Kramer vs. Kramer
1980
Robert Redford - Ordinary People
David Lynch - The Elephant Man
Martin Scorsese - Raging Bull
Richard Rush - The Stunt Man
Roman Polanski - Tess
1981
Warren Beatty - Reds
Louis Malle - Atlantic City
Mark Rydell - On Golden Pond
Sidney Lumet - Prince of the City
Miloš Forman - Ragtime
Steven Spielberg - Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982
Richard Attenborough - Gandhi
Steven Spielberg - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Constantin Costa-Gavras - Missing
Sydney Pollack - Tootsie
Sidney Lumet - The Verdict
1983
Barbra Streisand - Yentl
Peter Yates - The Dresser
Ingmar Bergman - Fanny and Alexander
Mike Nichols - Silkwood
Bruce Beresford - Tender Mercies
James L. Brooks - Terms of Endearment
1984
Miloš Forman - Amadeus
Francis Ford Coppola - The Cotton Club
Roland Joffé - The Killing Fields
Sergio Leone - Once Upon a Time in America
David Lean - A Passage to India
1985
John Huston - Prizzi's Honor
Richard Attenborough - A Chorus Line
Steven Spielberg - The Color Purple
Sydney Pollack - Out of Africa
Peter Weir - Witness
1986
Oliver Stone - Platoon
Woody Allen - Hannah and Her Sisters
Roland Joffé - The Mission
James Ivory - A Room with a View
Rob Reiner - Stand by Me
1987
Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor
James L. Brooks - Broadcast News
Richard Attenborough - Cry Freedom
Adrian Lyne - Fatal Attraction
John Boorman - Hope and Glory
1988
Clint Eastwood - Bird
Fred Schepisi - A Cry in the Dark
Alan Parker - Mississippi Burning
Barry Levinson - Rain Man
Sidney Lumet - Running on Empty
Mike Nichols - Working Girl
1989
Oliver Stone - Born on the Fourth of July
Peter Weir - Dead Poets Society
Spike Lee - Do the Right Thing
Edward Zwick - Glory
Rob Reiner - When Harry Met Sally...
1990
Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves
Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather Part III
Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas
Barbet Schroeder - Reversal of Fortune
Bernardo Bertolucci - The Sheltering Sky
1991
Oliver Stone - JFK
Barry Levinson - Bugsy
Terry Gilliam - The Fisher King
Barbra Streisand - The Prince of Tides
Jonathan Demme - The Silence of the Lambs
1992
Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
Rob Reiner - A Few Good Men
James Ivory - Howards End
Robert Altman - The Player
Robert Redford - A River Runs Through It
1993
Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List
Martin Scorsese - The Age of Innocence
Andrew Davis - The Fugitive
Jane Campion - The Piano
James Ivory - The Remains of the Day
1994
Robert Zemeckis - Forrest Gump
Edward Zwick - Legends of the Fall
Oliver Stone - Natural Born Killers
Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction
Robert Redford - Quiz Show
1995
Mel Gibson - Braveheart
Rob Reiner - The American President
Ron Howard - Apollo 13
Martin Scorsese - Casino
Mike Figgis - Leaving Las Vegas
Ang Lee - Sense and Sensibility
1996
Miloš Forman - The People vs. Larry Flynt
Anthony Minghella - The English Patient
Alan Parker - Evita
Joel Coen - Fargo
Scott Hicks - Shine
1997
James Cameron - Titanic
Steven Spielberg - Amistad
James L. Brooks - As Good as It Gets
Jim Sheridan - The Boxer
Curtis Hanson - L.A. Confidential
1998
Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan
Shekhar Kapur - Elizabeth
Robert Redford - The Horse Whisperer
John Madden - Shakespeare in Love
Peter Weir - The Truman Show
1999
Sam Mendes - American Beauty
Neil Jordan - The End of the Affair
Norman Jewison - The Hurricane
Michael Mann - The Insider
Anthony Minghella - The Talented Mr. Ripley
2000
Ang Lee - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Steven Soderbergh - Erin Brockovich
Ridley Scott - Gladiator
István Szabó - Sunshine
Steven Soderbergh - Traffic
2001
Robert Altman - Gosford Park
Steven Spielberg - A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Ron Howard - A Beautiful Mind
Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Baz Luhrmann - Moulin Rouge!
David Lynch - Mulholland Drive
2002
Martin Scorsese - Gangs of New York
Alexander Payne - About Schmidt
Spike Jonze - Adaptation.
Rob Marshall - Chicago
Stephen Daldry - The Hours
Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2003
Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Anthony Minghella - Cold Mountain
Sofia Coppola - Lost in Translation
Peter Weir - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Clint Eastwood - Mystic River
2004
Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby
Martin Scorsese - The Aviator
Mike Nichols - Closer
Marc Forster - Finding Neverland
Alexander Payne - Sideways
2005
Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
Fernando Meirelles - The Constant Gardener
George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck.
Peter Jackson - King Kong
Woody Allen - Match Point
Steven Spielberg - Munich
2006
Martin Scorsese - The Departed
Alejandro González Iñárritu - Babel
Clint Eastwood - Flags of Our Fathers
Clint Eastwood - Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears - The Queen
2007
Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Ridley Scott - American Gangster
Joe Wright - Atonement
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men
Tim Burton - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2008
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
Stephen Daldry - The Reader
Sam Mendes - Revolutionary Road
2009
James Cameron - Avatar
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds
Clint Eastwood - Invictus
Jason Reitman - Up in the Air
2010
David Fincher - The Social Network
Darren Aronofsky - Black Swan
David O. Russell - The Fighter
Christopher Nolan - Inception
Tom Hooper - The King's Speech
2011
Martin Scorsese - Hugo
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
Alexander Payne - The Descendants
George Clooney - The Ides of March
Woody Allen - Midnight in Paris
2012
Ben Affleck - Argo
Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained
Ang Lee - Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg - Lincoln
Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty
2013
Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity
Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave
David O. Russell - American Hustle
Paul Greengrass - Captain Phillips
Alexander Payne - Nebraska
2014
Richard Linklater - Boyhood
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
David Fincher - Gone Girl
Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ava DuVernay - Selma
2015
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - The Revenant
Todd Haynes - Carol
George Miller - Mad Max: Fury Road
Ridley Scott - The Martian
Tom McCarthy - Spotlight
2016
Damien Chazelle - La La Land
Mel Gibson - Hacksaw Ridge
Barry Jenkins - Moonlight
Kenneth Lonergan - Manchester by the Sea
Tom Ford - Nocturnal Animals
2017
Guillermo del Toro - The Shape of Water
Ridley Scott - All the Money in the World
Christopher Nolan - Dunkirk
Steven Spielberg - The Post
Martin McDonagh - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Henry King - The Song of Bernadette
1944
Leo McCarey - Going My Way
1945
Billy Wilder - The Lost Weekend
1946
Frank Capra - It's a Wonderful Life
1947
Elia Kazan - Gentleman's Agreement
1948
John Huston - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949
Robert Rossen - All the King's Men
1950
Billy Wilder - Sunset Boulevard
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - All About Eve
John Huston - The Asphalt Jungle
George Cukor - Born Yesterday
1951
László Benedek - Death of a Salesman
Vincente Minnelli - An American in Paris
George Stevens - A Place in the Sun
1952
Cecil B. DeMille - The Greatest Show on Earth
Richard Fleischer - The Narrow Margin
John Ford - The Quiet Man
1953
Fred Zinnemann - From Here to Eternity
1954
Elia Kazan - On the Waterfront
1955
Joshua Logan - Picnic
1956
Elia Kazan - Baby Doll
Michael Anderson - Around the World in 80 Days
George Stevens - Giant
Vincente Minnelli - Lust for Life
King Vidor - War and Peace
1957
David Lean - The Bridge on the River Kwai
Sidney Lumet - 12 Angry Men
Fred Zinnemann - A Hatful of Rain
Joshua Logan - Sayonara
Billy Wilder - Witness for the Prosecution
1958
Vincente Minnelli - Gigi
Richard Brooks - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Stanley Kramer - The Defiant Ones
Robert Wise - I Want to Live!
Delbert Mann - Separate Tables
1959
William Wyler - Ben-Hur
Otto Preminger - Anatomy of a Murder
George Stevens - The Diary of Anne Frank
Fred Zinnemann - The Nun's Story
Stanley Kramer - On the Beach
1960
Jack Cardiff - Sons and Lovers
Billy Wilder - The Apartment
Richard Brooks - Elmer Gantry
Stanley Kubrick - Spartacus
Fred Zinnemann - The Sundowners
1961
Stanley Kramer - Judgment at Nuremberg
William Wyler - The Children's Hour
Anthony Mann - El Cid
J. Lee Thompson - The Guns of Navarone
Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise - West Side Story
1962
David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia
George Cukor - The Chapman Report
Blake Edwards - Days of Wine and Roses
John Huston - Freud
Mervyn LeRoy - Gypsy
Martin Ritt - Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
Stanley Kubrick - Lolita
John Frankenheimer - The Manchurian Candidate
Morton DaCosta - The Music Man
Ismael Rodríguez - My Son, the Hero (Los Hermanos Del Hierro)
Robert Mulligan - To Kill a Mockingbird
1963
Elia Kazan - America America
Otto Preminger - The Cardinal
Hall Bartlett - The Caretakers
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Cleopatra
Robert Wise - The Haunting
Martin Ritt - Hud
Tony Richardson - Tom Jones
George Englund - The Ugly American
1964
George Cukor - My Fair Lady
Peter Glenville - Becket
John Huston - The Night of the Iguana
John Frankenheimer - Seven Days in May
Michael Cacoyannis - Zorba the Greek (Alexis Zorbas)
1965
David Lean - Doctor Zhivago
William Wyler - The Collector
John Schlesinger - Darling
Guy Green - A Patch of Blue
Robert Wise - The Sound of Music
1966
Fred Zinnemann - A Man for All Seasons
Lewis Gilbert - Alfie
Claude Lelouch - A Man and a Woman
Robert Wise - The Sand Pebbles
Mike Nichols - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1967
Mike Nichols - The Graduate
Arthur Penn - Bonnie and Clyde
Mark Rydell - The Fox
Stanley Kramer - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Norman Jewison - In the Heat of the Night
1968
Paul Newman - Rachel, Rachel
William Wyler - Funny Girl
Anthony Harvey - The Lion in Winter
Carol Reed - Oliver!
Franco Zeffirelli - Romeo and Juliet
1969
Charles Jarrott - Anne of the Thousand Days
Gene Kelly - Hello, Dolly!
John Schlesinger - Midnight Cowboy
Stanley Kramer - The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Sydney Pollack - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
1970
Arthur Hiller - Love Story
Bob Rafelson - Five Easy Pieces
Robert Altman - M*A*S*H
Franklin J. Schaffner - Patton
Ken Russell - Women in Love
1971
William Friedkin - The French Connection
Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange
Norman Jewison - Fiddler on the Roof
Peter Bogdanovich - The Last Picture Show
Robert Mulligan - Summer of ‘42
1972
Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather
Billy Wilder - Avanti!
Bob Fosse - Cabaret
John Boorman - Deliverance
Alfred Hitchcock - Frenzy
1973
William Friedkin - The Exorcist
George Lucas - American Graffiti
Fred Zinnemann - The Day of the Jackal
Bernardo Bertolucci - Last Tango in Paris
Peter Bogdanovich - Paper Moon
1974
Roman Polanski - Chinatown
Francis Ford Coppola - The Conversation
Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather Part II
Bob Fosse - Lenny
John Cassavetes - A Woman Under the Influence
1975
Miloš Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Stanley Kubrick - Barry Lyndon
Sidney Lumet - Dog Day Afternoon
Steven Spielberg - Jaws
Robert Altman - Nashville
1976
Sidney Lumet - Network
Alan J. Pakula - All the President's Men
Hal Ashby - Bound for Glory
John Schlesinger - Marathon Man
John G. Avildsen - Rocky
1977
Herbert Ross - The Turning Point
Woody Allen - Annie Hall
Steven Spielberg - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Fred Zinnemann - Julia
George Lucas - Star Wars
1978
Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter
Hal Ashby - Coming Home
Terrence Malick - Days of Heaven
Woody Allen - Interiors
Alan Parker - Midnight Express
Paul Mazursky - An Unmarried Woman
1979
Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now
Hal Ashby - Being There
Peter Yates - Breaking Away
James Bridges - The China Syndrome
Robert Benton - Kramer vs. Kramer
1980
Robert Redford - Ordinary People
David Lynch - The Elephant Man
Martin Scorsese - Raging Bull
Richard Rush - The Stunt Man
Roman Polanski - Tess
1981
Warren Beatty - Reds
Louis Malle - Atlantic City
Mark Rydell - On Golden Pond
Sidney Lumet - Prince of the City
Miloš Forman - Ragtime
Steven Spielberg - Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982
Richard Attenborough - Gandhi
Steven Spielberg - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Constantin Costa-Gavras - Missing
Sydney Pollack - Tootsie
Sidney Lumet - The Verdict
1983
Barbra Streisand - Yentl
Peter Yates - The Dresser
Ingmar Bergman - Fanny and Alexander
Mike Nichols - Silkwood
Bruce Beresford - Tender Mercies
James L. Brooks - Terms of Endearment
1984
Miloš Forman - Amadeus
Francis Ford Coppola - The Cotton Club
Roland Joffé - The Killing Fields
Sergio Leone - Once Upon a Time in America
David Lean - A Passage to India
1985
John Huston - Prizzi's Honor
Richard Attenborough - A Chorus Line
Steven Spielberg - The Color Purple
Sydney Pollack - Out of Africa
Peter Weir - Witness
1986
Oliver Stone - Platoon
Woody Allen - Hannah and Her Sisters
Roland Joffé - The Mission
James Ivory - A Room with a View
Rob Reiner - Stand by Me
1987
Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor
James L. Brooks - Broadcast News
Richard Attenborough - Cry Freedom
Adrian Lyne - Fatal Attraction
John Boorman - Hope and Glory
1988
Clint Eastwood - Bird
Fred Schepisi - A Cry in the Dark
Alan Parker - Mississippi Burning
Barry Levinson - Rain Man
Sidney Lumet - Running on Empty
Mike Nichols - Working Girl
1989
Oliver Stone - Born on the Fourth of July
Peter Weir - Dead Poets Society
Spike Lee - Do the Right Thing
Edward Zwick - Glory
Rob Reiner - When Harry Met Sally...
1990
Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves
Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather Part III
Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas
Barbet Schroeder - Reversal of Fortune
Bernardo Bertolucci - The Sheltering Sky
1991
Oliver Stone - JFK
Barry Levinson - Bugsy
Terry Gilliam - The Fisher King
Barbra Streisand - The Prince of Tides
Jonathan Demme - The Silence of the Lambs
1992
Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
Rob Reiner - A Few Good Men
James Ivory - Howards End
Robert Altman - The Player
Robert Redford - A River Runs Through It
1993
Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List
Martin Scorsese - The Age of Innocence
Andrew Davis - The Fugitive
Jane Campion - The Piano
James Ivory - The Remains of the Day
1994
Robert Zemeckis - Forrest Gump
Edward Zwick - Legends of the Fall
Oliver Stone - Natural Born Killers
Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction
Robert Redford - Quiz Show
1995
Mel Gibson - Braveheart
Rob Reiner - The American President
Ron Howard - Apollo 13
Martin Scorsese - Casino
Mike Figgis - Leaving Las Vegas
Ang Lee - Sense and Sensibility
1996
Miloš Forman - The People vs. Larry Flynt
Anthony Minghella - The English Patient
Alan Parker - Evita
Joel Coen - Fargo
Scott Hicks - Shine
1997
James Cameron - Titanic
Steven Spielberg - Amistad
James L. Brooks - As Good as It Gets
Jim Sheridan - The Boxer
Curtis Hanson - L.A. Confidential
1998
Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan
Shekhar Kapur - Elizabeth
Robert Redford - The Horse Whisperer
John Madden - Shakespeare in Love
Peter Weir - The Truman Show
1999
Sam Mendes - American Beauty
Neil Jordan - The End of the Affair
Norman Jewison - The Hurricane
Michael Mann - The Insider
Anthony Minghella - The Talented Mr. Ripley
2000
Ang Lee - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Steven Soderbergh - Erin Brockovich
Ridley Scott - Gladiator
István Szabó - Sunshine
Steven Soderbergh - Traffic
2001
Robert Altman - Gosford Park
Steven Spielberg - A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Ron Howard - A Beautiful Mind
Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Baz Luhrmann - Moulin Rouge!
David Lynch - Mulholland Drive
2002
Martin Scorsese - Gangs of New York
Alexander Payne - About Schmidt
Spike Jonze - Adaptation.
Rob Marshall - Chicago
Stephen Daldry - The Hours
Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2003
Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Anthony Minghella - Cold Mountain
Sofia Coppola - Lost in Translation
Peter Weir - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Clint Eastwood - Mystic River
2004
Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby
Martin Scorsese - The Aviator
Mike Nichols - Closer
Marc Forster - Finding Neverland
Alexander Payne - Sideways
2005
Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
Fernando Meirelles - The Constant Gardener
George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck.
Peter Jackson - King Kong
Woody Allen - Match Point
Steven Spielberg - Munich
2006
Martin Scorsese - The Departed
Alejandro González Iñárritu - Babel
Clint Eastwood - Flags of Our Fathers
Clint Eastwood - Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears - The Queen
2007
Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Ridley Scott - American Gangster
Joe Wright - Atonement
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men
Tim Burton - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2008
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
Stephen Daldry - The Reader
Sam Mendes - Revolutionary Road
2009
James Cameron - Avatar
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds
Clint Eastwood - Invictus
Jason Reitman - Up in the Air
2010
David Fincher - The Social Network
Darren Aronofsky - Black Swan
David O. Russell - The Fighter
Christopher Nolan - Inception
Tom Hooper - The King's Speech
2011
Martin Scorsese - Hugo
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
Alexander Payne - The Descendants
George Clooney - The Ides of March
Woody Allen - Midnight in Paris
2012
Ben Affleck - Argo
Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained
Ang Lee - Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg - Lincoln
Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty
2013
Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity
Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave
David O. Russell - American Hustle
Paul Greengrass - Captain Phillips
Alexander Payne - Nebraska
2014
Richard Linklater - Boyhood
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
David Fincher - Gone Girl
Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ava DuVernay - Selma
2015
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - The Revenant
Todd Haynes - Carol
George Miller - Mad Max: Fury Road
Ridley Scott - The Martian
Tom McCarthy - Spotlight
2016
Damien Chazelle - La La Land
Mel Gibson - Hacksaw Ridge
Barry Jenkins - Moonlight
Kenneth Lonergan - Manchester by the Sea
Tom Ford - Nocturnal Animals
2017
Guillermo del Toro - The Shape of Water
Ridley Scott - All the Money in the World
Christopher Nolan - Dunkirk
Steven Spielberg - The Post
Martin McDonagh - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
1968
Mike Nichols - The Graduate
Lindsay Anderson - if....
Carol Reed - Oliver!
Franco Zeffirelli - Romeo and Juliet
1969
John Schlesinger - Midnight Cowboy
Richard Attenborough - Oh! What a Lovely War
Ken Russell - Women in Love
Peter Yates - Bullitt
1970
George Roy Hill - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Robert Altman - M*A*S*H
David Lean - Ryan's Daughter
Ken Loach - Kes
1971
John Schlesinger - Sunday Bloody Sunday
Miloš Forman - Taking Off
Joseph Losey - The Go-Between
Luchino Visconti - Death in Venice
1972
Bob Fosse - Cabaret
Peter Bogdanovich - The Last Picture Show
William Friedkin - The French Connection
Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange
1973
François Truffaut - Day for Night
Luis Buñuel - The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Nicolas Roeg - Don't Look Now
Fred Zinnemann - The Day of the Jackal
1974
Roman Polanski - Chinatown
Francis Ford Coppola - The Conversation
Sidney Lumet - Murder on the Orient Express/Serpico
Louis Malle - Lacombe Lucien
1975
Stanley Kubrick - Barry Lyndon
Sidney Lumet - Dog Day Afternoon
Martin Scorsese - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Steven Spielberg - Jaws
1976
Miloš Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Alan J. Pakula - All the President's Men
Alan Parker - Bugsy Malone
Martin Scorsese - Taxi Driver
1977
Woody Allen - Annie Hall
Richard Attenborough - A Bridge Too Far
John G. Avildsen - Rocky
Sidney Lumet - Network
1978
Alan Parker - Midnight Express
Robert Altman - A Wedding
Steven Spielberg - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Fred Zinnemann - Julia
1979
Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now
Woody Allen - Manhattan
Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter
John Schlesinger - Yanks
1980
Akira Kurosawa - Kagemusha
Robert Benton - Kramer vs. Kramer
David Lynch - The Elephant Man
Alan Parker - Fame
1981
Louis Malle - Atlantic City
Bill Forsyth - Gregory's Girl
Hugh Hudson - Chariots of Fire
Karel Reisz - The French Lieutenant's Woman
1982
Richard Attenborough - Gandhi
Costa-Gavras - Missing
Mark Rydell - On Golden Pond
Steven Spielberg - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1983
Bill Forsyth - Local Hero
James Ivory - Heat and Dust
Sydney Pollack - Tootsie
Martin Scorsese - The King of Comedy
1984
Wim Wenders - Paris, Texas
Roland Joffé - The Killing Fields
Sergio Leone - Once Upon a Time in America
Peter Yates - The Dresser
1986
Woody Allen - Hannah and Her Sisters
Roland Joffé - The Mission
Neil Jordan - Mona Lisa
James Ivory - A Room with a View
1987
Oliver Stone - Platoon
Richard Attenborough - Cry Freedom
Claude Berri - Jean de Florette
John Boorman - Hope and Glory
1988
Louis Malle - Au revoir les enfants
Gabriel Axel - Babette's Feast
Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor
Charles Crichton - A Fish Called Wanda
1989
Kenneth Branagh - Henry V
Stephen Frears - Dangerous Liaisons
Alan Parker - Mississippi Burning
Peter Weir - Dead Poets Society
1990
Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas
Woody Allen - Crimes and Misdemeanors
Bruce Beresford - Driving Miss Daisy
Giuseppe Tornatore - Cinema Paradiso
1991
Alan Parker - The Commitments
Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves
Jonathan Demme - The Silence of the Lambs
Ridley Scott - Thelma & Louise
1992
Robert Altman - The Player
Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
James Ivory - Howards End
Neil Jordan - The Crying Game
1993
Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List
Richard Attenborough - Shadowlands
Jane Campion - The Piano
James Ivory - The Remains of the Day
1994
Mike Newell - Four Weddings and a Funeral
Krzysztof Kieślowski - Three Colours: Red
Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction
Robert Zemeckis - Forrest Gump
1995
Michael RadfordIl - Postino: The Postman
Mel Gibson - Braveheart
Nicholas Hytner - The Madness of King George
Ang Lee - Sense and Sensibility
1996
Joel Coen - Fargo
Scott Hicks - Shine
Mike Leigh - Secrets & Lies
Anthony Minghella - The English Patient
1997
Baz Luhrmann - Romeo + Juliet
James Cameron - Titanic
Peter Cattaneo - The Full Monty
Curtis Hanson - L.A. Confidential
1998
Peter Weir - The Truman Show
Shekhar Kapur - Elizabeth
John Madden - Shakespeare in Love
Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan
1999
Pedro Almodóvar - All About My Mother
Neil Jordan - The End of the Affair
Sam Mendes - American Beauty
Anthony Minghella - The Talented Mr. Ripley
M. Night Shyamalan - The Sixth Sense
2000
Ang Lee - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Stephen Daldry - Billy Elliot
Ridley Scott - Gladiator
Steven Soderbergh - Traffic
Steven Soderbergh - Erin Brockovich
2001
Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Robert Altman - Gosford Park
Ron Howard - A Beautiful Mind
Jean-Pierre Jeunet - Amélie
Baz Luhrmann - Moulin Rouge!
2002
Roman Polanski - The Pianist
Stephen Daldry - The Hours
Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Rob Marshall - Chicago
Martin Scorsese - Gangs of New York
2003
Peter Weir - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Tim Burton - Big Fish
Sofia Coppola - Lost in Translation
Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Anthony Minghella - Cold Mountain
2004
Mike Leigh - Vera Drake
Marc Forster - Finding Neverland
Michel Gondry - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Michael Mann - Collateral
Martin Scorsese - The Aviator
2005
Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck.
Paul Haggis - Crash
Fernando Meirelles - The Constant Gardener
Bennett Miller - Capote
2006
Paul Greengrass - United 93
Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris - Little Miss Sunshine
Stephen Frears - The Queen
Alejandro González Iñárritu - Babel
Martin Scorsese - The Departed
2007
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood
Paul Greengrass - The Bourne Ultimatum
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck - The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)
Joe Wright - Atonement
2008
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
Stephen Daldry - The Reader
Clint Eastwood - Changeling
David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
2009
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
Neill Blomkamp - District 9
James Cameron - Avatar
Lone Scherfig - An Education
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds
2010
David Fincher - The Social Network
Darren Aronofsky - Black Swan
Danny Boyle - 127 Hours
Tom Hooper - The King's Speech
Christopher Nolan - Inception
2011
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
Tomas Alfredson - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Lynne Ramsay - We Need to Talk About Kevin
Nicolas Winding Refn - Drive
Martin Scorsese - Hugo
2012
Ben Affleck - Argo
Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty
Michael Haneke - Amour
Ang Lee - Life of Pi
Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained
2013
Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity
Paul Greengrass - Captain Phillips
Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave
David O. Russell - American Hustle
Martin Scorsese - The Wolf of Wall Street
2014
Richard Linklater - Boyhood
Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Damien Chazelle - Whiplash
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - Birdman
James Marsh - The Theory of Everything
2015
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - The Revenant
Todd Haynes - Carol
Adam McKay - The Big Short
Ridley Scott - The Martian
Steven Spielberg - Bridge of Spies
2016
Damien Chazelle - La La Land
Tom Ford - Nocturnal Animals
Ken Loach - I, Daniel Blake
Kenneth Lonergan - Manchester by the Sea
Denis Villeneuve - Arrival
2017
Guillermo del Toro - The Shape of Water
Luca Guadagnino - Call Me by Your Name
Martin McDonagh - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Christopher Nolan - Dunkirk
Denis Villeneuve - Blade Runner 2049
Mike Nichols - The Graduate
Lindsay Anderson - if....
Carol Reed - Oliver!
Franco Zeffirelli - Romeo and Juliet
1969
John Schlesinger - Midnight Cowboy
Richard Attenborough - Oh! What a Lovely War
Ken Russell - Women in Love
Peter Yates - Bullitt
1970
George Roy Hill - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Robert Altman - M*A*S*H
David Lean - Ryan's Daughter
Ken Loach - Kes
1971
John Schlesinger - Sunday Bloody Sunday
Miloš Forman - Taking Off
Joseph Losey - The Go-Between
Luchino Visconti - Death in Venice
1972
Bob Fosse - Cabaret
Peter Bogdanovich - The Last Picture Show
William Friedkin - The French Connection
Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange
1973
François Truffaut - Day for Night
Luis Buñuel - The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Nicolas Roeg - Don't Look Now
Fred Zinnemann - The Day of the Jackal
1974
Roman Polanski - Chinatown
Francis Ford Coppola - The Conversation
Sidney Lumet - Murder on the Orient Express/Serpico
Louis Malle - Lacombe Lucien
1975
Stanley Kubrick - Barry Lyndon
Sidney Lumet - Dog Day Afternoon
Martin Scorsese - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Steven Spielberg - Jaws
1976
Miloš Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Alan J. Pakula - All the President's Men
Alan Parker - Bugsy Malone
Martin Scorsese - Taxi Driver
1977
Woody Allen - Annie Hall
Richard Attenborough - A Bridge Too Far
John G. Avildsen - Rocky
Sidney Lumet - Network
1978
Alan Parker - Midnight Express
Robert Altman - A Wedding
Steven Spielberg - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Fred Zinnemann - Julia
1979
Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now
Woody Allen - Manhattan
Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter
John Schlesinger - Yanks
1980
Akira Kurosawa - Kagemusha
Robert Benton - Kramer vs. Kramer
David Lynch - The Elephant Man
Alan Parker - Fame
1981
Louis Malle - Atlantic City
Bill Forsyth - Gregory's Girl
Hugh Hudson - Chariots of Fire
Karel Reisz - The French Lieutenant's Woman
1982
Richard Attenborough - Gandhi
Costa-Gavras - Missing
Mark Rydell - On Golden Pond
Steven Spielberg - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1983
Bill Forsyth - Local Hero
James Ivory - Heat and Dust
Sydney Pollack - Tootsie
Martin Scorsese - The King of Comedy
1984
Wim Wenders - Paris, Texas
Roland Joffé - The Killing Fields
Sergio Leone - Once Upon a Time in America
Peter Yates - The Dresser
1986
Woody Allen - Hannah and Her Sisters
Roland Joffé - The Mission
Neil Jordan - Mona Lisa
James Ivory - A Room with a View
1987
Oliver Stone - Platoon
Richard Attenborough - Cry Freedom
Claude Berri - Jean de Florette
John Boorman - Hope and Glory
1988
Louis Malle - Au revoir les enfants
Gabriel Axel - Babette's Feast
Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor
Charles Crichton - A Fish Called Wanda
1989
Kenneth Branagh - Henry V
Stephen Frears - Dangerous Liaisons
Alan Parker - Mississippi Burning
Peter Weir - Dead Poets Society
1990
Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas
Woody Allen - Crimes and Misdemeanors
Bruce Beresford - Driving Miss Daisy
Giuseppe Tornatore - Cinema Paradiso
1991
Alan Parker - The Commitments
Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves
Jonathan Demme - The Silence of the Lambs
Ridley Scott - Thelma & Louise
1992
Robert Altman - The Player
Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
James Ivory - Howards End
Neil Jordan - The Crying Game
1993
Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List
Richard Attenborough - Shadowlands
Jane Campion - The Piano
James Ivory - The Remains of the Day
1994
Mike Newell - Four Weddings and a Funeral
Krzysztof Kieślowski - Three Colours: Red
Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction
Robert Zemeckis - Forrest Gump
1995
Michael RadfordIl - Postino: The Postman
Mel Gibson - Braveheart
Nicholas Hytner - The Madness of King George
Ang Lee - Sense and Sensibility
1996
Joel Coen - Fargo
Scott Hicks - Shine
Mike Leigh - Secrets & Lies
Anthony Minghella - The English Patient
1997
Baz Luhrmann - Romeo + Juliet
James Cameron - Titanic
Peter Cattaneo - The Full Monty
Curtis Hanson - L.A. Confidential
1998
Peter Weir - The Truman Show
Shekhar Kapur - Elizabeth
John Madden - Shakespeare in Love
Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan
1999
Pedro Almodóvar - All About My Mother
Neil Jordan - The End of the Affair
Sam Mendes - American Beauty
Anthony Minghella - The Talented Mr. Ripley
M. Night Shyamalan - The Sixth Sense
2000
Ang Lee - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Stephen Daldry - Billy Elliot
Ridley Scott - Gladiator
Steven Soderbergh - Traffic
Steven Soderbergh - Erin Brockovich
2001
Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Robert Altman - Gosford Park
Ron Howard - A Beautiful Mind
Jean-Pierre Jeunet - Amélie
Baz Luhrmann - Moulin Rouge!
2002
Roman Polanski - The Pianist
Stephen Daldry - The Hours
Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Rob Marshall - Chicago
Martin Scorsese - Gangs of New York
2003
Peter Weir - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Tim Burton - Big Fish
Sofia Coppola - Lost in Translation
Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Anthony Minghella - Cold Mountain
2004
Mike Leigh - Vera Drake
Marc Forster - Finding Neverland
Michel Gondry - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Michael Mann - Collateral
Martin Scorsese - The Aviator
2005
Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck.
Paul Haggis - Crash
Fernando Meirelles - The Constant Gardener
Bennett Miller - Capote
2006
Paul Greengrass - United 93
Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris - Little Miss Sunshine
Stephen Frears - The Queen
Alejandro González Iñárritu - Babel
Martin Scorsese - The Departed
2007
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood
Paul Greengrass - The Bourne Ultimatum
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck - The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)
Joe Wright - Atonement
2008
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
Stephen Daldry - The Reader
Clint Eastwood - Changeling
David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
2009
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
Neill Blomkamp - District 9
James Cameron - Avatar
Lone Scherfig - An Education
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds
2010
David Fincher - The Social Network
Darren Aronofsky - Black Swan
Danny Boyle - 127 Hours
Tom Hooper - The King's Speech
Christopher Nolan - Inception
2011
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
Tomas Alfredson - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Lynne Ramsay - We Need to Talk About Kevin
Nicolas Winding Refn - Drive
Martin Scorsese - Hugo
2012
Ben Affleck - Argo
Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty
Michael Haneke - Amour
Ang Lee - Life of Pi
Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained
2013
Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity
Paul Greengrass - Captain Phillips
Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave
David O. Russell - American Hustle
Martin Scorsese - The Wolf of Wall Street
2014
Richard Linklater - Boyhood
Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Damien Chazelle - Whiplash
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - Birdman
James Marsh - The Theory of Everything
2015
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - The Revenant
Todd Haynes - Carol
Adam McKay - The Big Short
Ridley Scott - The Martian
Steven Spielberg - Bridge of Spies
2016
Damien Chazelle - La La Land
Tom Ford - Nocturnal Animals
Ken Loach - I, Daniel Blake
Kenneth Lonergan - Manchester by the Sea
Denis Villeneuve - Arrival
2017
Guillermo del Toro - The Shape of Water
Luca Guadagnino - Call Me by Your Name
Martin McDonagh - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Christopher Nolan - Dunkirk
Denis Villeneuve - Blade Runner 2049
1995
Mel Gibson - Braveheart
1996
Anthony Minghella - The English Patient
1997
James Cameron - Titanic
1998
Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan
1999
Sam Mendes - American Beauty
2000
Steven Soderbergh - Erin Brockovich & Traffic
2001
Ron Howard - A Beautiful Mind / Baz Luhrmann - Moulin Rouge! (TIE)
Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002
Steven Spielberg - Catch Me If You Can and Minority Report
Roman Polanski - The Pianist
Martin Scorsese - Gangs of New York
2003
Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Tim Burton - Big Fish
Sofia Coppola - Lost in Translation
Clint Eastwood - Mystic River
Jim Sheridan - In America
2004
Martin Scorsese - The Aviator
Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby
Marc Forster - Finding Neverland
Taylor Hackford - Ray
Alexander Payne - Sideways
2005
Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck
Paul Haggis - Crash
Ron Howard - Cinderella Man
Steven Spielberg - Munich
2006
Martin Scorsese - The Departed
Bill Condon - Dreamgirls
Clint Eastwood - Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears - The Queen
Paul Greengrass - United 93
2007
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men
Tim Burton - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Sean Penn - Into the Wild
Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Joe Wright - Atonement
2008
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight
Gus Van Sant - Milk
2009
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
James Cameron - Avatar
Lee Daniels - Precious
Clint Eastwood - Invictus
Jason Reitman - Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds
2010
David Fincher - The Social Network
Darren Aronofsky - Black Swan
Danny Boyle - 127 Hours
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - True Grit
Tom Hooper - The King's Speech
Christopher Nolan - Inception
2011
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
Stephen Daldry - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Alexander Payne - The Descendants
Nicolas Winding Refn - Drive
Martin Scorsese - Hugo
Steven Spielberg - War Horse
2012
Ben Affleck - Argo
Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty
Tom Hooper - Les Misérables
Ang Lee - Life of Pi
David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook
Steven Spielberg - Lincoln
2013
Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity
Paul Greengrass - Captain Phillips
Spike Jonze - Her
Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave
David O. Russell - American Hustle
Martin Scorsese - The Wolf of Wall Street
2014
Richard Linklater - Boyhood
Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ava DuVernay - Selma
David Fincher - Gone Girl
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - Birdman
Angelina Jolie - Unbroken
2015
George Miller - Mad Max: Fury Road
Todd Haynes - Carol
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - The Revenant
Tom McCarthy - Spotlight
Ridley Scott - The Martian
Steven Spielberg - Bridge of Spies
2016
Damien Chazelle - La La Land
Mel Gibson - Hacksaw Ridge
Barry Jenkins - Moonlight
Kenneth Lonergan - Manchester by the Sea
David Mackenzie - Hell or High Water
Denis Villeneuve - Arrival
Denzel Washington - Fences
2017
Guillermo del Toro - The Shape of Water
Greta Gerwig - Lady Bird
Luca Guadagnino - Call Me by Your Name
Martin McDonagh - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Christopher Nolan - Dunkirk
Jordan Peele - Get Out
Steven Spielberg - The Post
Mel Gibson - Braveheart
1996
Anthony Minghella - The English Patient
1997
James Cameron - Titanic
1998
Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan
1999
Sam Mendes - American Beauty
2000
Steven Soderbergh - Erin Brockovich & Traffic
2001
Ron Howard - A Beautiful Mind / Baz Luhrmann - Moulin Rouge! (TIE)
Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002
Steven Spielberg - Catch Me If You Can and Minority Report
Roman Polanski - The Pianist
Martin Scorsese - Gangs of New York
2003
Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Tim Burton - Big Fish
Sofia Coppola - Lost in Translation
Clint Eastwood - Mystic River
Jim Sheridan - In America
2004
Martin Scorsese - The Aviator
Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby
Marc Forster - Finding Neverland
Taylor Hackford - Ray
Alexander Payne - Sideways
2005
Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck
Paul Haggis - Crash
Ron Howard - Cinderella Man
Steven Spielberg - Munich
2006
Martin Scorsese - The Departed
Bill Condon - Dreamgirls
Clint Eastwood - Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears - The Queen
Paul Greengrass - United 93
2007
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men
Tim Burton - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Sean Penn - Into the Wild
Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Joe Wright - Atonement
2008
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight
Gus Van Sant - Milk
2009
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
James Cameron - Avatar
Lee Daniels - Precious
Clint Eastwood - Invictus
Jason Reitman - Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds
2010
David Fincher - The Social Network
Darren Aronofsky - Black Swan
Danny Boyle - 127 Hours
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - True Grit
Tom Hooper - The King's Speech
Christopher Nolan - Inception
2011
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
Stephen Daldry - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Alexander Payne - The Descendants
Nicolas Winding Refn - Drive
Martin Scorsese - Hugo
Steven Spielberg - War Horse
2012
Ben Affleck - Argo
Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty
Tom Hooper - Les Misérables
Ang Lee - Life of Pi
David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook
Steven Spielberg - Lincoln
2013
Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity
Paul Greengrass - Captain Phillips
Spike Jonze - Her
Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave
David O. Russell - American Hustle
Martin Scorsese - The Wolf of Wall Street
2014
Richard Linklater - Boyhood
Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ava DuVernay - Selma
David Fincher - Gone Girl
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - Birdman
Angelina Jolie - Unbroken
2015
George Miller - Mad Max: Fury Road
Todd Haynes - Carol
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - The Revenant
Tom McCarthy - Spotlight
Ridley Scott - The Martian
Steven Spielberg - Bridge of Spies
2016
Damien Chazelle - La La Land
Mel Gibson - Hacksaw Ridge
Barry Jenkins - Moonlight
Kenneth Lonergan - Manchester by the Sea
David Mackenzie - Hell or High Water
Denis Villeneuve - Arrival
Denzel Washington - Fences
2017
Guillermo del Toro - The Shape of Water
Greta Gerwig - Lady Bird
Luca Guadagnino - Call Me by Your Name
Martin McDonagh - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Christopher Nolan - Dunkirk
Jordan Peele - Get Out
Steven Spielberg - The Post
1948
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - A Letter to Three Wives
Howard Hawks - Red River
Anatole Litvak - The Snake Pit
Fred Zinnemann - The Search
1949
Robert Rossen - All the King's Men
Carol Reed - The Third Man
Mark Robson - Champion
Alfred L. Werker - Lost Boundaries
1950
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - All About Eve
John Huston - The Asphalt Jungle
Vincente Minnelli - Father's Little Dividend
Billy Wilder - Sunset Boulevard
1951
George Stevens - A Place in the Sun
László Benedek - Death of a Salesman
Michael Gordon - Cyrano de Bergerac
Alfred Hitchcock - Strangers on a Train
Elia Kazan - A Streetcar Named Desire
Henry King - David and Bathsheba
Mervyn LeRoy - Quo Vadis
Anatole Litvak - Decision Before Dawn
Vincente Minnelli - An American in Paris
George Sidney - Show Boat
Richard Thorpe - The Great Caruso
William Wyler - Detective Story
1952
John Ford - The Quiet Man
Charles Crichton - The Lavender Hill Mob
George Cukor - Pat and Mike
Michael Curtiz - I'll See You in My Dreams
Cecil B. DeMille - The Greatest Show on Earth
Hugo Fregonese - My Six Convicts
Howard Hawks - The Big Sky
Elia Kazan - Viva Zapata!
Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen - Singin' in the Rain
Henry King - The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Akira Kurosawa - Rashomon
Albert Lewin - Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - 5 Fingers
Vincente Minnelli - The Bad and the Beautiful
George Sidney - Scaramouche
Richard Thorpe - Ivanhoe
Charles Vidor - Hans Christian Andersen
Fred Zinnemann - High Noon
1953
Fred Zinnemann - From Here to Eternity
Melvin Frank and Norman Panama - Above and Beyond
Henry Koster - The Robe
Walter Lang - Call Me Madam
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Julius Caesar
Daniel Mann - Come Back, Little Sheba
Jean Negulesco - Titanic
George Sidney - Young Bess
George Stevens - Shane
Charles Walters - Lili
Billy Wilder - Stalag 17
William Wyler - Roman Holiday
1954
Elia Kazan - On the Waterfront
George Cukor - A Star Is Born
Edward Dmytryk - The Caine Mutiny
Stanley Donen - Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Melvin Frank and Norman Panama - Knock on Wood
Samuel Fuller - Hell and High Water
Alfred Hitchcock - Rear Window
Henry King - King of the Khyber Rifles
Anthony Mann - The Glenn Miller Story
Jean Negulesco - Three Coins in the Fountain
George Seaton - The Country Girl
Don Siegel - Riot in Cell Block 11
William A. Wellman - The High and the Mighty
Robert Wise - Executive Suite
Billy Wilder - Sabrina
1955
Delbert Mann - Marty
Richard Brooks - Blackboard Jungle
John Ford - The Long Gray Line
Elia Kazan - East of Eden
Henry Koster - A Man Called Peter
Joshua Logan - Picnic
Daniel Mann - The Rose Tattoo
Mark Robson - The Bridges at Toko-Ri
John Sturges - Bad Day at Black Rock
Charles Vidor - Love Me or Leave Me
Billy Wilder - The Seven Year Itch
1956
George Stevens - Giant
Michael Anderson - Around the World in 80 Days
John Huston - Moby Dick
Joshua Logan - Bus Stop
Daniel Mann - Teahouse of the August Moon
King Vidor - War and Peace
Robert Wise - Somebody Up There Likes Me
William Wyler - Friendly Persuasion
1957
David Lean - The Bridge on the River Kwai
George Cukor - Les Girls
Stanley Donen - Funny Face
José Ferrer - The Great Man
John Huston - Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Elia Kazan - A Face in the Crowd
Stanley Kramer - The Pride and the Passion
Anthony Mann - Men in War
Leo McCarey - An Affair to Remember
Robert Mulligan - Fear Strikes Out
John Sturges - Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Fred Zinnemann - A Hatful of Rain
1958
Vincente Minnelli - Gigi
George Abbott and Stanley Donen - Damn Yankees
Richard Brooks - The Brothers Karamazov
Delmer Daves - Cowboy
Edward Dmytryk - The Young Lions
Richard Fleischer - The Vikings
Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo
Martin Ritt - The Long, Hot Summer
George Seaton - Teacher's Pet
William Wyler - The Big Country
1959
William Wyler - Ben-Hur
Charles Barton -The Shaggy Dog
Frank Capra - A Hole in the Head
Richard Fleischer - Compulsion
John Ford - The Horse Soldiers
Howard Hawks - Rio Bravo
Alfred Hitchcock - North by Northwest
Leo McCarey - Rally Round the Flag, Boys!
Otto Preminger - Anatomy of a Murder
Douglas Sirk - Imitation of Life
George Stevens - The Diary of Anne Frank
Billy Wilder - Some Like It Hot
Fred Zinnemann - The Nun's Story
1960
Billy Wilder - The Apartment
Richard Brooks - Elmer Gantry
Vincent J. Donehue - Sunrise at Campobello
Lewis Gilbert - Sink the Bismarck!
Walter Lang - Can-Can
Delbert Mann - The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Carol Reed - Our Man in Havana
Alain Resnais - Hiroshima mon amour
Charles Walters - Please Don't Eat the Daisies
1961
Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins - West Side Story
Marlon Brando - One-Eyed Jacks
Frank Capra - Pocketful of Miracles
Jack Clayton - The Innocents
Peter Glenville - Summer and Smoke
John Huston - The Misfits
Elia Kazan - Splendor in the Grass
Henry Koster - Flower Drum Song
Stanley Kramer - Judgment at Nuremberg
Philip Leacock - Hand in Hand
Mervyn LeRoy - A Majority of One
Joshua Logan - Fanny
Anthony Mann - El Cid
Robert Mulligan - The Great Impostor
Daniel Petrie - A Raisin in the Sun
Robert Stevenson - The Absent-Minded Professor
Peter Ustinov - Romanoff and Juliet
William Wyler - The Children's Hour
1962
David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia
Robert Aldrich - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Morton DaCosta - The Music Man
Stanley Kubrick - Lolita
Lewis Milestone - Mutiny on the Bounty
Robert Mulligan - To Kill a Mockingbird
Ralph Nelson - Requiem for a Heavyweight
Arthur Penn - The Miracle Worker
Tony Richardson - A Taste of Honey
1963
Tony Richardson - Tom Jones
Federico Fellini - 8½
Elia Kazan - America America
Ralph Nelson - Lilies of the Field
Martin Ritt - Hud
1964
George Cukor - My Fair Lady
Peter Glenville - Becket
John Huston - The Night of the Iguana
Stanley Kubrick - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Robert Stevenson - Mary Poppins
1965
Robert Wise - The Sound of Music
Sidney J. Furie - The Ipcress File
Sidney Lumet - The Pawnbroker
John Schlesinger - Darling
Elliot Silverstein - Cat Ballou
1966
Fred Zinnemann - A Man for All Seasons
Richard Brooks - The Professionals
John Frankenheimer - Grand Prix
Lewis Gilbert - Alfie
James Hill - Born Free
Norman Jewison - The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
Claude Lelouch - A Man and a Woman
Silvio Narizzano - Georgy Girl
Mike Nichols - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Robert Wise - The Sand Pebbles
1967
Mike Nichols - The Graduate
Robert Aldrich - The Dirty Dozen
Richard Brooks - In Cold Blood
James Clavell - To Sir, with Love
Stanley Donen - Two for the Road
Norman Jewison - In the Heat of the Night
Stanley Kramer - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Arthur Penn - Bonnie and Clyde
Stuart Rosenberg - Cool Hand Luke
Joseph Strick - Ulysses
1968
Anthony Harvey - The Lion in Winter
Paul Almond - Isabel
Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey
Jiří Menzel - Closely Watched Trains
Paul Newman - Rachel, Rachel
Roman Polanski - Rosemary's Baby
Carol Reed - Oliver!
Gene Saks - The Odd Couple
William Wyler - Funny Girl
Franco Zeffirelli - Romeo and Juliet
1969
John Schlesinger - Midnight Cowboy
Richard Attenborough - Oh! What a Lovely War
Costa-Gavras - Z
George Roy Hill - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Dennis Hopper - Easy Rider
Gene Kelly - Hello, Dolly!
Sam Peckinpah - The Wild Bunch
Larry Peerce - Goodbye, Columbus
Sydney Pollack - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Haskell Wexler - Medium Cool
1970
Franklin J. Schaffner - Patton
Robert Altman - M*A*S*H
Arthur Hiller - Love Story
David Lean - Ryan's Daughter
Bob Rafelson - Five Easy Pieces
1971
William Friedkin - The French Connection
Peter Bogdanovich - The Last Picture Show
Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange
Robert Mulligan - Summer of '42
John Schlesinger - Sunday Bloody Sunday
1972
Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather
John Boorman - Deliverance
Bob Fosse - Cabaret
George Roy Hill - Slaughterhouse-Five
Martin Ritt - Sounder
1973
George Roy Hill - The Sting
Bernardo Bertolucci - Last Tango in Paris
William Friedkin - The Exorcist
George Lucas - American Graffiti
Sidney Lumet - Serpico
1974
Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather Part II
Francis Ford Coppola - The Conversation
Bob Fosse - Lenny
Sidney Lumet - Murder on the Orient Express
Roman Polanski - Chinatown
1975
Miloš Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Robert Altman - Nashville
Stanley Kubrick - Barry Lyndon
Sidney Lumet - Dog Day Afternoon
Steven Spielberg - Jaws
1976
John G. Avildsen - Rocky
Sidney Lumet - Network
Alan J. Pakula - All the President's Men
Martin Scorsese - Taxi Driver
Lina Wertmüller - Seven Beauties
1977
Woody Allen - Annie Hall
George Lucas - Star Wars
Herbert Ross - The Turning Point
Steven Spielberg - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Fred Zinnemann - Julia
1978
Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter
Hal Ashby - Coming Home
Warren Beatty and Buck Henry - Heaven Can Wait
Paul Mazursky - An Unmarried Woman
Alan Parker - Midnight Express
1979
Robert Benton - Kramer vs. Kramer
Woody Allen - Manhattan
James Bridges - The China Syndrome
Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now
Peter Yates - Breaking Away
1980
Robert Redford - Ordinary People
Michael Apted - Coal Miner's Daughter
David Lynch - The Elephant Man
Richard Rush - The Stunt Man
Martin Scorsese - Raging Bull
1981
Warren Beatty - Reds
Hugh Hudson - Chariots of Fire
Louis Malle - Atlantic City
Mark Rydell - On Golden Pond
Steven Spielberg - Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982
Richard Attenborough - Gandhi
Taylor Hackford - An Officer and a Gentleman
Wolfgang Petersen - Das Boot
Sydney Pollack - Tootsie
Steven Spielberg - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1983
James L. Brooks - Terms of Endearment
Bruce Beresford - Tender Mercies
Ingmar Bergman - Fanny and Alexander
Lawrence Kasdan - The Big Chill
Philip Kaufman - The Right Stuff
1984
Miloš Forman - Amadeus
Robert Benton - Places in the Heart
Norman Jewison - A Soldier's Story
Roland Joffé - The Killing Fields
David Lean - A Passage to India
1985
Steven Spielberg - The Color Purple
Ron Howard - Cocoon
John Huston - Prizzi's Honor
Sydney Pollack - Out of Africa
Peter Weir - Witness
1986
Oliver Stone - Platoon
Woody Allen - Hannah and Her Sisters
Randa Haines - Children of a Lesser God
James Ivory - A Room with a View
Rob Reiner - Stand by Me
1987
Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor
James L. Brooks - Broadcast News
Lasse Hallström - My Life as a Dog
Adrian Lyne - Fatal Attraction
Steven Spielberg - Empire of the Sun
1988
Barry Levinson - Rain Man
Charles Crichton - A Fish Called Wanda
Mike Nichols - Working Girl
Alan Parker - Mississippi Burning
Robert Zemeckis - Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989
Oliver Stone - Born on the Fourth of July
Woody Allen - Crimes and Misdemeanors
Rob Reiner - When Harry Met Sally...
Phil Alden Robinson - Field of Dreams
Peter Weir - Dead Poets Society
1990
Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves
Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather Part III
Barry Levinson - Avalon
Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas
Giuseppe Tornatore - Cinema Paradiso
1991
Jonathan Demme - The Silence of the Lambs
Barry Levinson - Bugsy
Ridley Scott - Thelma and Louise
Oliver Stone - JFK
Barbra Streisand - The Prince of Tides
1992
Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
Robert Altman The Player
James Ivory ‡Howards End
Neil Jordan ‡The Crying Game
Rob ReinerA Few Good Men
1993
Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List
Jane Campion ‡The Piano
Andrew DavisThe Fugitive
James Ivory ‡The Remains of the Day
Martin ScorseseThe Age of Innocence
1994
Robert Zemeckis - Forrest Gump
Frank DarabontThe Shawshank Redemption
Mike NewellFour Weddings and a Funeral
Robert Redford ‡Quiz Show
Quentin Tarantino ‡Pulp Fiction
1995
Ron Howard - Apollo 13
Mike Figgis ‡Leaving Las Vegas
Mel Gibson † ††Braveheart
Ang LeeSense and Sensibility
Michael Radford ‡Il Postino: The Postman
1996
Anthony Minghella - The English Patient
Joel Coen ‡Fargo
Cameron CroweJerry Maguire
Scott Hicks ‡Shine
Mike Leigh ‡Secrets and Lies
1997
James Cameron - Titanic
James L. BrooksAs Good as It Gets
Curtis Hanson ‡L.A. Confidential
Steven SpielbergAmistad
Gus Van Sant ‡Good Will Hunting
1998
Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan
Roberto Benigni ‡Life Is Beautiful
John Madden ‡ ††Shakespeare in Love
Terrence Malick ‡The Thin Red Line
Peter Weir ‡The Truman Show
1999
Sam Mendes - American Beauty
Frank DarabontThe Green Mile
Spike Jonze ‡Being John Malkovich
Michael Mann ‡The Insider
M. Night Shyamalan ‡The Sixth Sense
YearWinners and nomineesFilm
2000
Ang Lee - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Cameron CroweAlmost Famous
Ridley Scott ‡ ††Gladiator
Steven Soderbergh ‡Erin Brockovich
Steven Soderbergh †Traffic
2001
Ron Howard - A Beautiful Mind
Peter Jackson ‡The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Baz LuhrmannMoulin Rouge!
Christopher NolanMemento
Ridley Scott ‡Black Hawk Down
2002
Rob Marshall - Chicago
Stephen Daldry ‡The Hours
Peter JacksonThe Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Roman Polanski †The Pianist
Martin Scorsese ‡Gangs of New York
2003
Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Sofia Coppola ‡Lost in Translation
Clint Eastwood ‡Mystic River
Gary RossSeabiscuit
Peter Weir ‡Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2004
Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby
Marc ForsterFinding Neverland
Taylor Hackford ‡Ray
Alexander Payne ‡Sideways
Martin Scorsese ‡The Aviator
2005
Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck
Paul Haggis ‡ ††Crash
Bennett Miller ‡Capote
Steven Spielberg ‡Munich
2006
Martin Scorsese - The Departed
Bill CondonDreamgirls
Jonathan Dayton and Valerie FarisLittle Miss Sunshine
Stephen Frears ‡The Queen
Alejandro González Iñárritu ‡Babel
2007
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson ‡There Will Be Blood
Tony Gilroy ‡Michael Clayton
Sean PennInto the Wild
Julian Schnabel ‡The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2008
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
David Fincher ‡The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard ‡Frost/Nixon
Christopher NolanThe Dark Knight
Gus Van Sant ‡Milk
2009
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
James Cameron ‡Avatar
Lee Daniels ‡Precious
Jason Reitman ‡Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino ‡Inglourious Basterds
2010
Tom Hooper - The King's Speech
Darren Aronofsky ‡Black Swan
David Fincher ‡The Social Network
Christopher NolanInception
David O. Russell ‡The Fighter
2011
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
Woody Allen ‡Midnight in Paris
David FincherThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Alexander Payne ‡The Descendants
Martin Scorsese ‡Hugo
2012
Ben Affleck - Argo
Kathryn BigelowZero Dark Thirty
Tom HooperLes Misérables
Ang Lee †Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg ‡Lincoln
2013
Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity
Paul GreengrassCaptain Phillips
Steve McQueen ‡ ††12 Years a Slave
David O. Russell ‡American Hustle
Martin Scorsese ‡The Wolf of Wall Street
2014
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Wes Anderson ‡The Grand Budapest Hotel
Clint EastwoodAmerican Sniper
Richard Linklater ‡Boyhood
Morten Tyldum ‡The Imitation Game
2015
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - The Revenant
Tom McCarthy ‡ ††Spotlight
Adam McKay ‡The Big Short
George Miller ‡Mad Max: Fury Road
Ridley ScottThe Martian
2016
Damien Chazelle - La La Land
Garth DavisLion
Barry Jenkins ‡ ††Moonlight
Kenneth Lonergan ‡Manchester by the Sea
Denis Villeneuve ‡Arrival
2017
Guillermo del Toro - The Shape of Water
Greta Gerwig ‡Lady Bird
Martin McDonaghThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Christopher Nolan ‡Dunkirk
Jordan Peele ‡Get Out
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - A Letter to Three Wives
Howard Hawks - Red River
Anatole Litvak - The Snake Pit
Fred Zinnemann - The Search
1949
Robert Rossen - All the King's Men
Carol Reed - The Third Man
Mark Robson - Champion
Alfred L. Werker - Lost Boundaries
1950
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - All About Eve
John Huston - The Asphalt Jungle
Vincente Minnelli - Father's Little Dividend
Billy Wilder - Sunset Boulevard
1951
George Stevens - A Place in the Sun
László Benedek - Death of a Salesman
Michael Gordon - Cyrano de Bergerac
Alfred Hitchcock - Strangers on a Train
Elia Kazan - A Streetcar Named Desire
Henry King - David and Bathsheba
Mervyn LeRoy - Quo Vadis
Anatole Litvak - Decision Before Dawn
Vincente Minnelli - An American in Paris
George Sidney - Show Boat
Richard Thorpe - The Great Caruso
William Wyler - Detective Story
1952
John Ford - The Quiet Man
Charles Crichton - The Lavender Hill Mob
George Cukor - Pat and Mike
Michael Curtiz - I'll See You in My Dreams
Cecil B. DeMille - The Greatest Show on Earth
Hugo Fregonese - My Six Convicts
Howard Hawks - The Big Sky
Elia Kazan - Viva Zapata!
Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen - Singin' in the Rain
Henry King - The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Akira Kurosawa - Rashomon
Albert Lewin - Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - 5 Fingers
Vincente Minnelli - The Bad and the Beautiful
George Sidney - Scaramouche
Richard Thorpe - Ivanhoe
Charles Vidor - Hans Christian Andersen
Fred Zinnemann - High Noon
1953
Fred Zinnemann - From Here to Eternity
Melvin Frank and Norman Panama - Above and Beyond
Henry Koster - The Robe
Walter Lang - Call Me Madam
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Julius Caesar
Daniel Mann - Come Back, Little Sheba
Jean Negulesco - Titanic
George Sidney - Young Bess
George Stevens - Shane
Charles Walters - Lili
Billy Wilder - Stalag 17
William Wyler - Roman Holiday
1954
Elia Kazan - On the Waterfront
George Cukor - A Star Is Born
Edward Dmytryk - The Caine Mutiny
Stanley Donen - Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Melvin Frank and Norman Panama - Knock on Wood
Samuel Fuller - Hell and High Water
Alfred Hitchcock - Rear Window
Henry King - King of the Khyber Rifles
Anthony Mann - The Glenn Miller Story
Jean Negulesco - Three Coins in the Fountain
George Seaton - The Country Girl
Don Siegel - Riot in Cell Block 11
William A. Wellman - The High and the Mighty
Robert Wise - Executive Suite
Billy Wilder - Sabrina
1955
Delbert Mann - Marty
Richard Brooks - Blackboard Jungle
John Ford - The Long Gray Line
Elia Kazan - East of Eden
Henry Koster - A Man Called Peter
Joshua Logan - Picnic
Daniel Mann - The Rose Tattoo
Mark Robson - The Bridges at Toko-Ri
John Sturges - Bad Day at Black Rock
Charles Vidor - Love Me or Leave Me
Billy Wilder - The Seven Year Itch
1956
George Stevens - Giant
Michael Anderson - Around the World in 80 Days
John Huston - Moby Dick
Joshua Logan - Bus Stop
Daniel Mann - Teahouse of the August Moon
King Vidor - War and Peace
Robert Wise - Somebody Up There Likes Me
William Wyler - Friendly Persuasion
1957
David Lean - The Bridge on the River Kwai
George Cukor - Les Girls
Stanley Donen - Funny Face
José Ferrer - The Great Man
John Huston - Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Elia Kazan - A Face in the Crowd
Stanley Kramer - The Pride and the Passion
Anthony Mann - Men in War
Leo McCarey - An Affair to Remember
Robert Mulligan - Fear Strikes Out
John Sturges - Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Fred Zinnemann - A Hatful of Rain
1958
Vincente Minnelli - Gigi
George Abbott and Stanley Donen - Damn Yankees
Richard Brooks - The Brothers Karamazov
Delmer Daves - Cowboy
Edward Dmytryk - The Young Lions
Richard Fleischer - The Vikings
Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo
Martin Ritt - The Long, Hot Summer
George Seaton - Teacher's Pet
William Wyler - The Big Country
1959
William Wyler - Ben-Hur
Charles Barton -The Shaggy Dog
Frank Capra - A Hole in the Head
Richard Fleischer - Compulsion
John Ford - The Horse Soldiers
Howard Hawks - Rio Bravo
Alfred Hitchcock - North by Northwest
Leo McCarey - Rally Round the Flag, Boys!
Otto Preminger - Anatomy of a Murder
Douglas Sirk - Imitation of Life
George Stevens - The Diary of Anne Frank
Billy Wilder - Some Like It Hot
Fred Zinnemann - The Nun's Story
1960
Billy Wilder - The Apartment
Richard Brooks - Elmer Gantry
Vincent J. Donehue - Sunrise at Campobello
Lewis Gilbert - Sink the Bismarck!
Walter Lang - Can-Can
Delbert Mann - The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Carol Reed - Our Man in Havana
Alain Resnais - Hiroshima mon amour
Charles Walters - Please Don't Eat the Daisies
1961
Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins - West Side Story
Marlon Brando - One-Eyed Jacks
Frank Capra - Pocketful of Miracles
Jack Clayton - The Innocents
Peter Glenville - Summer and Smoke
John Huston - The Misfits
Elia Kazan - Splendor in the Grass
Henry Koster - Flower Drum Song
Stanley Kramer - Judgment at Nuremberg
Philip Leacock - Hand in Hand
Mervyn LeRoy - A Majority of One
Joshua Logan - Fanny
Anthony Mann - El Cid
Robert Mulligan - The Great Impostor
Daniel Petrie - A Raisin in the Sun
Robert Stevenson - The Absent-Minded Professor
Peter Ustinov - Romanoff and Juliet
William Wyler - The Children's Hour
1962
David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia
Robert Aldrich - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Morton DaCosta - The Music Man
Stanley Kubrick - Lolita
Lewis Milestone - Mutiny on the Bounty
Robert Mulligan - To Kill a Mockingbird
Ralph Nelson - Requiem for a Heavyweight
Arthur Penn - The Miracle Worker
Tony Richardson - A Taste of Honey
1963
Tony Richardson - Tom Jones
Federico Fellini - 8½
Elia Kazan - America America
Ralph Nelson - Lilies of the Field
Martin Ritt - Hud
1964
George Cukor - My Fair Lady
Peter Glenville - Becket
John Huston - The Night of the Iguana
Stanley Kubrick - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Robert Stevenson - Mary Poppins
1965
Robert Wise - The Sound of Music
Sidney J. Furie - The Ipcress File
Sidney Lumet - The Pawnbroker
John Schlesinger - Darling
Elliot Silverstein - Cat Ballou
1966
Fred Zinnemann - A Man for All Seasons
Richard Brooks - The Professionals
John Frankenheimer - Grand Prix
Lewis Gilbert - Alfie
James Hill - Born Free
Norman Jewison - The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
Claude Lelouch - A Man and a Woman
Silvio Narizzano - Georgy Girl
Mike Nichols - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Robert Wise - The Sand Pebbles
1967
Mike Nichols - The Graduate
Robert Aldrich - The Dirty Dozen
Richard Brooks - In Cold Blood
James Clavell - To Sir, with Love
Stanley Donen - Two for the Road
Norman Jewison - In the Heat of the Night
Stanley Kramer - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Arthur Penn - Bonnie and Clyde
Stuart Rosenberg - Cool Hand Luke
Joseph Strick - Ulysses
1968
Anthony Harvey - The Lion in Winter
Paul Almond - Isabel
Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey
Jiří Menzel - Closely Watched Trains
Paul Newman - Rachel, Rachel
Roman Polanski - Rosemary's Baby
Carol Reed - Oliver!
Gene Saks - The Odd Couple
William Wyler - Funny Girl
Franco Zeffirelli - Romeo and Juliet
1969
John Schlesinger - Midnight Cowboy
Richard Attenborough - Oh! What a Lovely War
Costa-Gavras - Z
George Roy Hill - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Dennis Hopper - Easy Rider
Gene Kelly - Hello, Dolly!
Sam Peckinpah - The Wild Bunch
Larry Peerce - Goodbye, Columbus
Sydney Pollack - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Haskell Wexler - Medium Cool
1970
Franklin J. Schaffner - Patton
Robert Altman - M*A*S*H
Arthur Hiller - Love Story
David Lean - Ryan's Daughter
Bob Rafelson - Five Easy Pieces
1971
William Friedkin - The French Connection
Peter Bogdanovich - The Last Picture Show
Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange
Robert Mulligan - Summer of '42
John Schlesinger - Sunday Bloody Sunday
1972
Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather
John Boorman - Deliverance
Bob Fosse - Cabaret
George Roy Hill - Slaughterhouse-Five
Martin Ritt - Sounder
1973
George Roy Hill - The Sting
Bernardo Bertolucci - Last Tango in Paris
William Friedkin - The Exorcist
George Lucas - American Graffiti
Sidney Lumet - Serpico
1974
Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather Part II
Francis Ford Coppola - The Conversation
Bob Fosse - Lenny
Sidney Lumet - Murder on the Orient Express
Roman Polanski - Chinatown
1975
Miloš Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Robert Altman - Nashville
Stanley Kubrick - Barry Lyndon
Sidney Lumet - Dog Day Afternoon
Steven Spielberg - Jaws
1976
John G. Avildsen - Rocky
Sidney Lumet - Network
Alan J. Pakula - All the President's Men
Martin Scorsese - Taxi Driver
Lina Wertmüller - Seven Beauties
1977
Woody Allen - Annie Hall
George Lucas - Star Wars
Herbert Ross - The Turning Point
Steven Spielberg - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Fred Zinnemann - Julia
1978
Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter
Hal Ashby - Coming Home
Warren Beatty and Buck Henry - Heaven Can Wait
Paul Mazursky - An Unmarried Woman
Alan Parker - Midnight Express
1979
Robert Benton - Kramer vs. Kramer
Woody Allen - Manhattan
James Bridges - The China Syndrome
Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now
Peter Yates - Breaking Away
1980
Robert Redford - Ordinary People
Michael Apted - Coal Miner's Daughter
David Lynch - The Elephant Man
Richard Rush - The Stunt Man
Martin Scorsese - Raging Bull
1981
Warren Beatty - Reds
Hugh Hudson - Chariots of Fire
Louis Malle - Atlantic City
Mark Rydell - On Golden Pond
Steven Spielberg - Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982
Richard Attenborough - Gandhi
Taylor Hackford - An Officer and a Gentleman
Wolfgang Petersen - Das Boot
Sydney Pollack - Tootsie
Steven Spielberg - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1983
James L. Brooks - Terms of Endearment
Bruce Beresford - Tender Mercies
Ingmar Bergman - Fanny and Alexander
Lawrence Kasdan - The Big Chill
Philip Kaufman - The Right Stuff
1984
Miloš Forman - Amadeus
Robert Benton - Places in the Heart
Norman Jewison - A Soldier's Story
Roland Joffé - The Killing Fields
David Lean - A Passage to India
1985
Steven Spielberg - The Color Purple
Ron Howard - Cocoon
John Huston - Prizzi's Honor
Sydney Pollack - Out of Africa
Peter Weir - Witness
1986
Oliver Stone - Platoon
Woody Allen - Hannah and Her Sisters
Randa Haines - Children of a Lesser God
James Ivory - A Room with a View
Rob Reiner - Stand by Me
1987
Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor
James L. Brooks - Broadcast News
Lasse Hallström - My Life as a Dog
Adrian Lyne - Fatal Attraction
Steven Spielberg - Empire of the Sun
1988
Barry Levinson - Rain Man
Charles Crichton - A Fish Called Wanda
Mike Nichols - Working Girl
Alan Parker - Mississippi Burning
Robert Zemeckis - Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989
Oliver Stone - Born on the Fourth of July
Woody Allen - Crimes and Misdemeanors
Rob Reiner - When Harry Met Sally...
Phil Alden Robinson - Field of Dreams
Peter Weir - Dead Poets Society
1990
Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves
Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather Part III
Barry Levinson - Avalon
Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas
Giuseppe Tornatore - Cinema Paradiso
1991
Jonathan Demme - The Silence of the Lambs
Barry Levinson - Bugsy
Ridley Scott - Thelma and Louise
Oliver Stone - JFK
Barbra Streisand - The Prince of Tides
1992
Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
Robert Altman The Player
James Ivory ‡Howards End
Neil Jordan ‡The Crying Game
Rob ReinerA Few Good Men
1993
Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List
Jane Campion ‡The Piano
Andrew DavisThe Fugitive
James Ivory ‡The Remains of the Day
Martin ScorseseThe Age of Innocence
1994
Robert Zemeckis - Forrest Gump
Frank DarabontThe Shawshank Redemption
Mike NewellFour Weddings and a Funeral
Robert Redford ‡Quiz Show
Quentin Tarantino ‡Pulp Fiction
1995
Ron Howard - Apollo 13
Mike Figgis ‡Leaving Las Vegas
Mel Gibson † ††Braveheart
Ang LeeSense and Sensibility
Michael Radford ‡Il Postino: The Postman
1996
Anthony Minghella - The English Patient
Joel Coen ‡Fargo
Cameron CroweJerry Maguire
Scott Hicks ‡Shine
Mike Leigh ‡Secrets and Lies
1997
James Cameron - Titanic
James L. BrooksAs Good as It Gets
Curtis Hanson ‡L.A. Confidential
Steven SpielbergAmistad
Gus Van Sant ‡Good Will Hunting
1998
Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan
Roberto Benigni ‡Life Is Beautiful
John Madden ‡ ††Shakespeare in Love
Terrence Malick ‡The Thin Red Line
Peter Weir ‡The Truman Show
1999
Sam Mendes - American Beauty
Frank DarabontThe Green Mile
Spike Jonze ‡Being John Malkovich
Michael Mann ‡The Insider
M. Night Shyamalan ‡The Sixth Sense
YearWinners and nomineesFilm
2000
Ang Lee - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Cameron CroweAlmost Famous
Ridley Scott ‡ ††Gladiator
Steven Soderbergh ‡Erin Brockovich
Steven Soderbergh †Traffic
2001
Ron Howard - A Beautiful Mind
Peter Jackson ‡The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Baz LuhrmannMoulin Rouge!
Christopher NolanMemento
Ridley Scott ‡Black Hawk Down
2002
Rob Marshall - Chicago
Stephen Daldry ‡The Hours
Peter JacksonThe Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Roman Polanski †The Pianist
Martin Scorsese ‡Gangs of New York
2003
Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Sofia Coppola ‡Lost in Translation
Clint Eastwood ‡Mystic River
Gary RossSeabiscuit
Peter Weir ‡Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2004
Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby
Marc ForsterFinding Neverland
Taylor Hackford ‡Ray
Alexander Payne ‡Sideways
Martin Scorsese ‡The Aviator
2005
Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck
Paul Haggis ‡ ††Crash
Bennett Miller ‡Capote
Steven Spielberg ‡Munich
2006
Martin Scorsese - The Departed
Bill CondonDreamgirls
Jonathan Dayton and Valerie FarisLittle Miss Sunshine
Stephen Frears ‡The Queen
Alejandro González Iñárritu ‡Babel
2007
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson ‡There Will Be Blood
Tony Gilroy ‡Michael Clayton
Sean PennInto the Wild
Julian Schnabel ‡The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2008
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
David Fincher ‡The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard ‡Frost/Nixon
Christopher NolanThe Dark Knight
Gus Van Sant ‡Milk
2009
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
James Cameron ‡Avatar
Lee Daniels ‡Precious
Jason Reitman ‡Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino ‡Inglourious Basterds
2010
Tom Hooper - The King's Speech
Darren Aronofsky ‡Black Swan
David Fincher ‡The Social Network
Christopher NolanInception
David O. Russell ‡The Fighter
2011
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
Woody Allen ‡Midnight in Paris
David FincherThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Alexander Payne ‡The Descendants
Martin Scorsese ‡Hugo
2012
Ben Affleck - Argo
Kathryn BigelowZero Dark Thirty
Tom HooperLes Misérables
Ang Lee †Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg ‡Lincoln
2013
Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity
Paul GreengrassCaptain Phillips
Steve McQueen ‡ ††12 Years a Slave
David O. Russell ‡American Hustle
Martin Scorsese ‡The Wolf of Wall Street
2014
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Wes Anderson ‡The Grand Budapest Hotel
Clint EastwoodAmerican Sniper
Richard Linklater ‡Boyhood
Morten Tyldum ‡The Imitation Game
2015
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - The Revenant
Tom McCarthy ‡ ††Spotlight
Adam McKay ‡The Big Short
George Miller ‡Mad Max: Fury Road
Ridley ScottThe Martian
2016
Damien Chazelle - La La Land
Garth DavisLion
Barry Jenkins ‡ ††Moonlight
Kenneth Lonergan ‡Manchester by the Sea
Denis Villeneuve ‡Arrival
2017
Guillermo del Toro - The Shape of Water
Greta Gerwig ‡Lady Bird
Martin McDonaghThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Christopher Nolan ‡Dunkirk
Jordan Peele ‡Get Out
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