BAFTA Award for Best Direction

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

Contents

1 2010s
2 2000s
3 1990s
4 1980s
5 1970s
6 1960s

2010s

2010 - David Fincher – The Social Network
- Tom Hooper – The King's Speech
- Danny Boyle – 127 Hours
- Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
- Christopher Nolan – Inception

2000s

2009 - Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
- James Cameron – Avatar
- Neill Blomkamp – District 9
- Lone Scherfig – An Education
- Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

2008 - Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
- Clint Eastwood – Changeling
- David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon
- Stephen Daldry – The Reader

2007 - Ethan and Joel Coen - No Country For Old Men

2006 - Paul Greengrass - United 93
- Martin Scorsese - The Departed
- Stephen Frears - The Queen
- Alejandro González Iñárritu - Babel
- Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris - Little Miss Sunshine

2005 - Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
- George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck
- Paul Haggis - Crash
- Fernando Meirelles - The Constant Gardener
- Bennett Miller - Capote

2004 - Mike Leigh - Vera Drake
- Martin Scorsese - The Aviator
- Marc Forster - Finding Neverland
- Michael Mann - Collateral
- Michel Gondry - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2003 - Peter Weir - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
- Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- Sofia Coppola - Lost in Translation
- Anthony Minghella - Cold Mountain
- Tim Burton - Big Fish

2002 - Roman Polanski - The Pianist
- Rob Marshall - Chicago
- Stephen Daldry - The Hours
- Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- Martin Scorsese - Gangs of New York

2001 - Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Ron Howard - A Beautiful Mind
- Baz Luhrmann - Moulin Rouge!
- Robert Altman - Gosford Park
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet - Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain

2000 - Ang Lee - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Steven Soderbergh - Traffic
- Steven Soderbergh - Erin Brockovich
- Ridley Scott - Gladiator
- Stephen Daldry - Billy Elliot

1990s

1999 - Pedro Almodóvar - Todo sobre mi madre
- Sam Mendes - American Beauty
- M. Night Shyamalan - The Sixth Sense
- Anthony Minghella - The Talented Mr. Ripley
- Neil Jordan - The End of the Affair

1998 - Peter Weir - The Truman Show
- John Madden - Shakespeare in Love
- Shekhar Kapur - Elizabeth
- Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan

1997 - Baz Luhrmann - Romeo + Juliet
- James Cameron - Titanic
- Curtis Hanson - L.A. Confidential
- Peter Cattaneo - The Full Monty

1996 - Joel Coen - Fargo
- Anthony Minghella - The English Patient
- Scott Hicks - Shine
- Mike Leigh - Secrets & Lies

1995 - Michael Radford - Il Postino
- Mel Gibson - Braveheart
- Ang Lee - Sense and Sensibility
- Nicholas Hytner - The Madness of King George

1994 - Mike Newell - Four Weddings and a Funeral
- Robert Zemeckis - Forrest Gump
- Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction
- Krzysztof Kieslowski - Trois couleurs: Rouge

1993 - Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List
- Jane Campion - The Piano
- James Ivory - The Remains of the Day
- Richard Attenborough - Shadowlands

1992 - Robert Altman - The Player
- Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
- Neil Jordan - The Crying Game
- James Ivory - Howards End

1991 - Alan Parker - The Commitments
- Jonathan Demme - The Silence of the Lambs
- Ridley Scott - Thelma & Louise
- Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves

1990 - Martin Scorsese - GoodFellas
- Woody Allen - Crimes and Misdemeanors
- Bruce Beresford - Driving Miss Daisy
- Giuseppe Tornatore - Nuovo cinema Paradiso

1980s

1989 - Kenneth Branagh - Henry V
- Stephen Frears - Dangerous Liaisons
- Peter Weir - Dead Poets Society
- Alan Parker - Mississippi Burning

1988 - Louis Malle - Au revoir, les enfants
- Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor
- Charles Crichton - A Fish Called Wanda
- Gabriel Axel - Babettes gæstebud

1987 - Oliver Stone - Platoon
- Claude Berri - Jean de Florette
- John Boorman - Hope and Glory
- Richard Attenborough - Cry Freedom

1986 - Woody Allen - Hannah and Her Sisters
- Roland Joffé - The Mission
- Neil Jordan - Mona Lisa
- James Ivory - A Room with a View

1985 - -

1984 - Wim Wenders - Paris, Texas
- Sergio Leone - Once Upon a Time in America
- Roland Joffé - The Killing Fields
- Peter Yates - The Dresser

1983 - Bill Forsyth - Local Hero
- Sydney Pollack - Tootsie
- Martin Scorsese - The King of Comedy
- James Ivory - Heat and Dust

1982 - Richard Attenborough - Gandhi
- Steven Spielberg - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
- Costa-Gavras - Missing
- Mark Rydell - On Golden Pond

1981 - Louis Malle - Atlantic City
- Hugh Hudson - Chariots of Fire
- Karel Reisz - The French Lieutenant's Woman
- Bill Forsyth - Gregory's Girl

1980 - Akira Kurosawa - Kagemusha
- David Lynch - The Elephant Man
- Alan Parker - Fame
- Robert Benton - Kramer vs. Kramer

1970s

1979 - Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now
- Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter
- Woody Allen - Manhattan
- John Schlesinger - Yanks

1978 - Alan Parker - Midnight Express
- Steven Spielberg - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Fred Zinnemann - Julia
- Robert Altman - A Wedding

1977 - Woody Allen - Annie Hall
- John G. Avildsen - Rocky
- Sidney Lumet - Network
- Richard Attenborough - A Bridge Too Far

1976 - Milos Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Alan J. Pakula - All the President's Men
- Martin Scorsese - Taxi Driver
- Alan Parker - Bugsy Malone

1975 - Stanley Kubrick - Barry Lyndon
- Steven Spielberg - Jaws
- Sidney Lumet - Dog Day Afternoon
- Martin Scorsese - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

1974 - Roman Polanski - Chinatown
- Francis Ford Coppola - The Conversation
- Louis Malle - Lacombe Lucien
- Sidney Lumet - Murder on the Orient Express
- Sidney Lumet - Serpico

1973 - François Truffaut - Day for Night

1972 - Bob Fosse - Cabaret

1971 - John Schlesinger - Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Joseph Losey - The Go-Between
- Luchino Visconti - Death in Venice
- Milos Forman - Taking Off

1970 - George Roy Hill - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Ken Loach - Kes
- Robert Altman - MASH
- David Lean - Ryan's Daughter

1960s

1969 - John Schlesinger - Midnight Cowboy
- Peter Yates - Bullitt
- Richard Attenborough - Oh! What a Lovely War
- Ken Russell - Women in Love

1968 - Mike Nichols - The Graduate
- Carol Reed - Oliver!
- Lindsay Anderson - If....
- Franco Zeffirelli - Romeo and Juliet

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