BAFTA Award for Best Direction

Winners of the BAFTA Award for Best Direction presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

Year	Winner	Film
1968	Mike Nichols	The Graduate
1969	John Schlesinger	Midnight Cowboy
1970	George Roy Hill	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1971	John Schlesinger	Sunday Bloody Sunday
1972	Bob Fosse	Cabaret
1973	François Truffaut	La Nuit américaine
1974	Roman Polanski	Chinatown
1975	Stanley Kubrick	Barry Lyndon
1976	Milos Forman	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1977	Woody Allen	Annie Hall
1978	Alan Parker	Midnight Express
1979	Francis Ford Coppola	Apocalypse Now
1980	Akira Kurosawa	Kagemusha
1981	Louis Malle	Atlantic City
1982	Richard Attenborough	Gandhi
1983	Bill Forsyth	Local Hero
1984	Wim Wenders	Paris, Texas
1985	-	-
1986	Woody Allen	Hannah and Her Sisters
1987	Oliver Stone	Platoon
1988	Louis Malle	Au revoir, les enfants
1989	Kenneth Branagh	Henry V
1990	Martin Scorsese	GoodFellas
1991	Alan Parker	The Commitments
1992	Robert Altman	The Player
1993	Steven Spielberg	Schindler's List
1994	Mike Newell	Four Weddings and a Funeral
1995	Michael Radford	Il Postino
1996	Joel Coen	Fargo
1997	Baz Luhrmann	Romeo + Juliet
1998	Peter Weir	The Truman Show
1999	Pedro Almodóvar	Todo sobre mi madre
2000	Ang Lee	Wo hu cang long
2001	Peter Jackson	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002	Roman Polanski	The Pianist
2003	Peter Weir	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2004	Mike Leigh	Vera Drake
2005	Ang Lee	Brokeback Mountain
2006	Paul Greengrass	United 93