Best Director Awards
- 2009
- Kathryn Bigelow
- The Hurt Locker
- 2008
- Mike Leigh
- Happy-Go-Lucky
- 2007
- Joel and Ethan Coen
- No Country for Old Men
- 2006
- Martin Scorsese
- The Departed
- 2005
- Ang Lee
- Brokeback Mountain
- 2004
- Clint Eastwood
- Million Dollar Baby
- 2003
- Sofia Coppola
- Lost in Translation
- 2001
- Robert Altman
- Gosford Park
- 2000
- Steven Soderbergh
- Erin Brockovich & Traffic
- 1999
- Mike Leigh
- Topsy-Turvy
- 1998
- Terrence Malick
- The thin red Line
- 1997
- Curtis Hanson
- L. A. Confidential
- 1996
- Lars von Trier
- Breaking the Waves
- 1995
- Ang Lee
- Sense and Sensibility
- 1994
- Quentin Tarantino
- Pulp Fiction
- 1993
- Jane Campion
- The Piano
- 1992
- Robert Altman
- The Player
- 1991
- Jonathan Demme
- The Silence of the Lambs
- 1990
- Martin Scorsese
- Goodfellas
- 1989
- Paul Mazursky
- Enemies: A Love Story
- 1988
- Chris Menges
- A World apart
- 1987
- James L. Brooks
- Broadcast News
- 1986
- Woody Allen
- Hannah and her Sisters
- 1985
- John Huston
- Prizzi's Honor
- 1984
- David Lean
- Passage to India
- 1983
- Ingmar Bergman
- Fanny och Alexander (1982)
- 1982
- Sydney Pollack
- Tootsie
- 1981
- Sidney Lumet
- Prince of the City
- 1980
- Jonathan Demme
- Melvin and Howard
- 1979
- Woody Allen
- Manhattan
- 1978
- Terrence Malick
- Days of Heaven
- 1977
- Woody Allen
- Annie Hall
- 1976
- Alan J. Pakula
- All the President's Men
- 1975
- Robert Altman
- Nashville
- 1974
- Federico Fellini
- Amarcord
- 1973
- François Truffaut
- La Nuit Américaine
- 1972
- Ingmar Bergman
- Viskningar och rop
- 1971
- Stanley Kubrick
- A Clockwork Orange
- 1970
- Bob Rafelson
- Five easy Pieces
- 1969
- Costa-Gavras
- Z
- 1968
- Paul Newman
- Rachel, Rachel
- 1967
- Mike Nichols
- The Graduate
- 1966
- Fred Zinnemann
- A Man for all Seasons
- 1965
- John Schlesinger
- Darling
- 1964
- Stanley Kubrick
- Bomb
- 1963
- Tony Richardson (I)
- Tom Jones
- 1961
- Robert Rossen
- The Hustler
- 1960
- Billy Wilder
- The Apartment
- 1960
- Jack Cardiff
- Sons and Lovers
- 1959
- Fred Zinnemann
- The Nun's Story
- 1958
- Stanley Kramer
- The defiant Ones
- 1957
- David Lean
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- 1956
- John Huston
- Moby Dick
- 1955
- David Lean
- Summertime
- 1954
- Elia Kazan
- On the Waterfront
- 1953
- Fred Zinnemann
- From here to Eternity
- 1952
- Fred Zinnemann
- High Noon
- 1951
- Elia Kazan
- A Streetcar named Desire
- 1950
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- All About Eve
- 1949
- Carol Reed
- The fallen Idol (1948)
- 1948
- John Huston
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- 1947
- Elia Kazan
- Gentleman's Agreement
- 1946
- Wililam Wyler
- The best Years of our Lives
- 1945
- Billy Wilder
- The lost Weekend
- 1944
- Leo McCarey
- Going my Way
- 1943
- George Stevens
- The more the merrier
- 1942
- John Farrow (I)
- Wake Island
- 1941
- John Ford
- How Green was my Valley
- 1940
- John Ford
- The Grapes of Wrath
- 1939
- John Ford
- Stage Coach
- 1938
- Alfred Hitchcock
- The Lady vanishes
- 1937
- Gregory La Cava
- Stage Door
- 1936
- Rouben Mamoulian
- The Gay Desperado
- 1935
- John Ford
- The Informer
