BEST DIRECTOR - 2023

* = by tiebreaker

2022:
Winner: Todd Field - Tár
Runner-Up: Steven Spielberg - The Fabelmans

2021:
Winner: Jane Campion - The Power of the Dog
Runner-Up: Steven Spielberg - West Side Story

2020:
Winner: Florian Zeller - The Father
Runner-Up: Emerald Fennell - Promising Young Woman

2019:
Winner: Martin Scorsese - The Irishman
Runner-Up: Bong Joon-ho - Parasite

2018:
Winner: Yorgos Lanthimos - The Favourite
Runner-Up: Alfonso Cuarón - Roma

2017:
Winner: Paul Thomas Anderson - Phantom Thread
Runner-Up: Christopher Nolan - Dunkirk

2016:
Winner: Damien Chazelle - La La Land
Runner-Up: Martin Scorsese - Silence

2015:
Winner: George Miller - Mad Max: Fury Road
Runner-Up: Alejandro G. Iñárritu - The Revenant

2014:
Winner: Alejandro G. Iñárritu - Birdman
Runner-Up: Richard Linklater - Boyhood

2013:
Winner: Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity
Runner-Up: Martin Scorsese - The Wolf of Wall Street

2012:
Winner: Paul Thomas Anderson - The Master
Runner-Up: Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained

2011:
Winner: Terrence Malick - The Tree of Life
Runner-Up: Nicolas Winding Refn - Drive

2010:
Winner: Christopher Nolan - Inception
Runner-Up: David Fincher - The Social Network

2009:
Winner: Michael Haneke - The White Ribbon*
Runner-Up: Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds

2008:
Winner: Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight
Runner-Up: Sian Sono - Love Exposure

2007:
Winner: Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood
Runner-Up: Joel Coen & Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men

2006:
Winner: Guillermo del Toro - Pan's Labryinth
Runner-Up: Martin Scorsese - The Departed

2005:
Winner: Michael Haneke - Caché*
Runner-Up: Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain

2004:
Winner: Michael Mann - Collateral
Runner-Up: Michel Gondry - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2003:
Winner: Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King*
Runner-Up: Sofia Coppola - Lost in Translation

2002:
Winner: Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund - City of God
Runner-Up: Roman Polanski - The Pianist*

2001:
Winner: David Lynch - Mulholland Drive
Runner-Up: Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2000:
Winner: Christopher Nolan - Memento
Runner-Up: Steven Soderbergh - Traffic

1999:
Winner: Paul Thomas Anderson - Magnolia
Runner-Up: Michael Mann - The Insider

1998:
Winner: Terrence Malick - The Thin Red Line*
Runner-Up: Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan

1997:
Winner: Curtis Hanson - L.A. Confidential
Runner-Up: Paul Thomas Anderson - Boogie Nights*

1996:
Winner: Joel (and Ethan) Coen - Fargo
Runner-Up: Lars Von Trier - Breaking the Waves

1995:
Winner: Michael Mann - Heat
Runner-Up: David Fincher - Se7en

1994:
Winner: Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction
Runner-Up: Bela Tarr - Sátántangó

1993:
Winner: Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List
Runner-Up: Robert Altman - Short Cuts

1992:
Winner: Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
Runner-Up: David Lynch - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me*

1991:
Winner: Oliver Stone - JFK
Runner-Up: Jonathan Demme - The Silence of the Lambs

1990:
Winner: Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas
Runner-Up: Abbas Kiarostami - Close-Up

1989:
Winner: Peter Greenaway - The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover*
Runner-Up: Edward Zwick - Glory*

1988:
Winner: Robert Zemeckis - Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Runner-Up: Hayao Miyazaki - My Neighbor Totoro*

1987:
Winner: Stanley Kubrick - Full Metal Jacket*
Runner-Up: Brian De Palma - The Untouchables*

1986:
Winner: David Lynch - Blue Velvet
Runner-Up: David Cronenberg - The Fly

1985:
Winner: Akira Kurosawa - Ran
Runner-Up: Elem Klimov - Come and See

1984:
Winner: Milos Forman - Amadeus
Runner-Up: Sergio Leone - Once Upon a Time in America

1983:
Winner: David Cronenberg - Videodrome
Runner-Up: Martin Scorsese - The King of Comedy

1982:
Winner: Ridley Scott - Blade Runner
Runner-Up: John Carpenter - The Thing*

1981:
Winner: Steven Spielberg - Raiders of the Lost Ark
Runner-Up: Brian De Palma - Blow Out

1980:
Winner: David Lynch - The Elephant Man
Runner-Up: Martin Scorsese - Raging Bull

1979:
Winner: Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now
Runner-Up: Ridley Scott - Alien

1978:
Winner: Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter
Runner-Up: Terrence Malick - Days of Heaven

1977:
Winner: David Lynch - Eraserhead
Runner-Up: George Lucas - Star Wars*

1976:
Winner: Martin Scorsese - Taxi Driver
Runner-Up: Sidney Lumet - Network

1975:
Winner: Steven Spielberg - Jaws
Runner-Up: Stanley Kubrick - Barry Lyndon*

1974:
Winner: Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather Part II
Runner-Up: Francis Ford Coppola - The Conversation*

1973:
Winner: Nicolas Roeg - Don't Look Now*
Runner-Up: William Friedkin - The Exorcist

1972:
Winner: Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather
Runner-Up(s): Ingmar Bergman - Cries and Whispers & Werner Herzog - Aquirre, the Wrath of God

1971:
Winner: Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange
Runner-Up: Ken Russell - The Devils

1970:
Winner: Bernardo Bertolucci - The Conformist
Runner-Up: Jean-Pierre Melville - Le Cercle Rouge

1969:
Winner: John Schlesinger - Midnight Cowboy
Runner-Up: Sam Peckinpah - The Wild Bunch

1968:
Winner: Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey
Runner-Up: Sergio Leone - Once Upon a Time in the West

1967:
Winner: Mike Nichols - The Graduate
Runner-Up: Richard Brooks - In Cold Blood

1966:
Winner: Sergio Leone - The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly
Runner-Up: Ingmar Bergman - Persona

1965:
Winner: Roman Polanski - Repulsion
Runner-Up: Orson Welles - Chimes at Midnight

1964:
Winner: Stanley Kubrick - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Runner-Up: Jacques Demy - The Umbrellas of Cherbourg*

1963:
Winner: Federico Fellini - 8 ½
Runner-Up: Akira Kurosawa - High and Low

1962:
Winner: David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia
Runner-Up: Agnès Varda - Cléo from 5 to 7

1961:
Winner: Alain Resnais - Last Year at Marienbad*
Runner-Up: Akira Kurosawa - Yojimbo

1960:
Winner: Alfred Hitchcock - Psycho
Runner-Up: Federico Fellini - La Dolce Vita

1959:
Winner: François Truffaut - The 400 Blows
Runner-Up: William Wyler - Ben-Hur

1958:
Winner: Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo
Runner-Up: Orson Welles - Touch of Evil

1957:
Winner: Sidney Lumet - 12 Angry Men
Runner-Up: Ingmar Bergman - The Seventh Seal

1956:
Winner: John Ford - The Searchers*
Runner-Up: Robert Bresson - A Man Escaped

1955:
Winner: Charles Laughton - The Night of the Hunter
Runner-Up: Carl Theodor Dreyer - Ordet

1954:
Winner: Akira Kurosawa - Seven Samurai
Runner-Up: Alfred Hitchcock - Rear Window

1953:
Winner: Yasujiro Ozu - Tokyo Story
Runner-Up: Kenji Mizoguchi - Ugetsu

1952:
Winner: Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly - Singin' in the Rain
Runner-Up: Fred Zinneman - High Noon

1951:
Winner: Alfred Hitchcock - Strangers on a Train
Runner-Up: Elia Kazan - A Streetcar Named Desire

1950:
Winner: Billy Wilder - Sunset Boulevard
Runner-Up(s): Jean Cocteau - Orpheus & Joseph L. Mankiewicz - All About Eve

1949:
Winner: Carol Reed - The Third Man
Runner-Up: Yasujiro Ozu - Late Spring

1948:
Winner: John Huston - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre*
Runner-Up: Vittorio De Sica - Bicycle Thieves

1947:
Winner: Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger - Black Narcissus
Runner-Up: Jacques Tourneur - Out of the Past

1946:
Winner: Frank Capra - It's a Wonderful Life
Runner-Up: William Wyler - The Best Years of Our Lives

1945:
Winner: David Lean - Brief Encounter
Runner-Up(s): Marcel Carné - Children of Paradise & Billy Wilder - The Lost Weekend

1944:
Winner: Billy Wilder - Double Indemnity
Runner-Up: Frank Capra - Arsenic and Old Lace

1943:
Winner: Luchino Visconti - Ossessione*
Runner-Up: Alfred Hitchcock - Shadow of a Doubt

1942:
Winner: Michael Curtiz - Casablanca
Runner-Up: Orson Welles - The Magnificent Ambersons

1941:
Winner: Orson Welles - Citizen Kane
Runner-Up: John Huston - The Maltese Falcon

1940:
Winner: Alfred Hitchcock - Rebecca
Runner-Up(s): Charles Chaplin - The Great Dictator & John Ford - The Grapes of Wrath

1939:
Winner: Victor Fleming - Gone With the Wind
Runner-Up: Jean Renoir - The Rules of the Game

1938:
Winner: Michael Curtiz - Angels with Dirty Faces
Runner-Up: Michael Curtiz & William Keighley - The Adventures of Robin Hood

1937:
Winner: Jean Renoir - La Grande Illusion
Runner-Up: Frank Capra - Lost Horizon

1936:
Winner: Charles Chaplin - Modern Times
Runner-Up: Sacha Guitry - The Story of a Cheat

1935:
Winner: John Ford - The Informer
Runner-Up: Frank Lloyd - Mutiny on the Bounty

1934:
Winner: Frank Capra - It Happened One Night
Runner-Up: Josef von Sternberg - The Scarlet Empress

1933:
Winner: Fritz Lang - The Testament of Dr. Mabuse*
Runner-Up: Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack - King Kong

1932:
Winner: Carl Theodor Dreyer - Vampyr
Runner-Up: Howard Hawks & Richard Rosson - Scarface

1931:
Winner: Fritz Lang - M
Runner-Up: Charles Chaplin - City Lights

1930:
Winner: Lewis Milestone - All Quiet on the Western Front
Runner-Up: Luis Buñuel - L’Age d’Or

1929:
Winner: Dziga Vertov - Man with a Movie Camera
Runner-Up: Luis Buñuel - Un Chien Andalou*

1928:
Winner: Carl Theodor Dreyer - The Passion of Joan of Arc
Runner-Up: Charles Chaplin - The Circus

1927:
Winner: Fritz Lang - Metropolis
Runner-Up: F.W. Murnau - Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

1926:
Winner: Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton - The General
Runner-Up: F.W. Murnau - Faust

1925:
Winner(s): Charles Chaplin - The Gold Rush & Sergei M. Eisenstein - Battleship Potemkin*
Runner-Up: Josef von Sternberg - The Salvation Hunters

1924:
Winner: Erich von Stroheim - Greed
Runner-Up: Buster Keaton - Sherlock Jr.

1923:
Winner: Cecil B. DeMille - The Ten Commandments
Runner-Up: Ivan Mozzhukhin - The Burning Brazier*

1922:
Winner: F.W. Murnau - Nosferatu
Runner-Up: Benjamin Christensen - Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages*

1921:
Winner: Victor Sjöström - The Phantom Carriage
Runner-Up: Marcel L'Herbier - El Dorado

1920:
Winner: Robert Wiene - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Runner-Up: Victor Sjöström - The Monastery of Sendomir*

1919:
Winner: Abel Gance - J'accuse!
Runner-Up: D.W. Griffith - Broken Blossoms*

1918:
Winner: Charles Chaplin - A Dog's Life
Runner-Up: Marshall Neilan - Stella Maris*

1917:
Winner: Victor Sjöström - Terje Vigen
Runner-Up: Charles Chaplin - The Immigrant*

1916:
Winner: D.w. Griffith - Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages
Runner-Up: Stuart Paton - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea* & Yakov Protazanov -The Queen of Spades*

1915:
Winner: D.W. Griffith - The Birth of a Nation
Runner-Up: Yevgeni Bauer - After Death