Saturn Award for Best Direction

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The following is a list of Saturn Award winners for Best Direction:

Year	Director	Motion Picture
1974/75	Mel Brooks	Young Frankenstein
1976	Dan Curtis	Burnt Offerings
1977	George Lucas (tie) Steven Spielberg	Star Wars Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1978	Philip Kaufman	Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1979	Ridley Scott	Alien
1980	Irvin Kershner	The Empire Strikes Back
1981	Steven Spielberg	Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982	Nicholas Meyer	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
1983	John Badham	WarGames
1984	Joe Dante	Gremlins
1985	Ron Howard	Cocoon
1986	James Cameron	Aliens
1987	Paul Verhoeven	RoboCop
1988	Robert Zemeckis	Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989/90	James Cameron	The Abyss
1991	James Cameron	Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1992	Francis Ford Coppola	Bram Stoker's Dracula
1993	Steven Spielberg	Jurassic Park
1994	James Cameron	True Lies
1995	Kathryn Bigelow	Strange Days
1996	Roland Emmerich	Independence Day
1997	John Woo	Face/Off
1998	Michael Bay	Armageddon
1999	Andy and Larry Wachowski	The Matrix
2000	Bryan Singer	X-Men
2001	Peter Jackson	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002	Steven Spielberg	Minority Report
2003	Peter Jackson	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004	Sam Raimi	Spider-Man 2
2005	Peter Jackson	King Kong
2006	Bryan Singer	Superman Returns

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