Kathryn Bigelow - wikipedia Kathryn Bigelow Kathryn Bigelow Bigelow at the 82nd Academy Awards in 2010 Kathryn Ann Bigelow ( 1951 - 11 - 27 ) November 27, 1951 ( age 66 ) San Carlos, California, U.S. Education San Francisco Art Institute ( BFA ) Columbia University ( MFA ) Occupation Director producer writer Years active 1978 -- present Notable work The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty, Near Dark, Strange Days, Point Break Spouse ( s ) James Cameron ( m. 1989 ; div. 1991 ) Kathryn Ann Bigelow ( / ˈbɪɡəˌloʊ / ; born November 27, 1951 ) is an American director, producer, and writer. Covering a wide range of genres, her films include Near Dark ( 1987 ), Point Break ( 1991 ), Strange Days ( 1995 ), K - 19 : The Widowmaker ( 2002 ), The Hurt Locker ( 2008 ), Zero Dark Thirty ( 2012 ), and Detroit ( 2017 ). With The Hurt Locker, Bigelow became the first, and as of 2018 the only, woman to win any of the Academy Award for Best Director, the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing, the BAFTA Award for Best Direction, and the Critics ' Choice Movie Award for Best Director. She also became the first woman to win the Saturn Award for Best Director in 1995 for Strange Days. Bigelow was a member of the 2010 Time 100 list of most influential people of the year. Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Directing career 2.1 Early career 2.2 2008 -- present 2.3 Future projects 3 Film style 4 Other work 5 Personal life 6 Filmography 6.1 Film 6.2 Television 6.3 Other works 7 Awards and nominations 8 See also 9 References 10 External links Early life and education Bigelow was born in San Carlos, California, the only child of Gertrude Kathryn ( née Larson ; 1917 -- 1994 ), a librarian, and Ronald Elliot Bigelow ( 1915 -- 1992 ), a paint factory manager. Her mother was of Norwegian descent. She attended Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton, CA. Bigelow 's early creative endeavors were as a student of painting. She enrolled at San Francisco Art Institute in the fall of 1970 and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in December 1972. While enrolled at SFAI, she was accepted into the Whitney Museum of American Art 's Independent Study Program in New York City. Bigelow 's early work benefited from her apprenticeships with Vito Acconci, Richard Serra, and Lawrence Weiner. For a while, Bigelow lived as a starving artist, crashing with painter Julian Schnabel in performance artist Vito Acconci 's loft. Also in her early days in Manhattan, Bigelow teamed up with Philip Glass on a real - estate venture in which the pair personally renovated distressed apartments downtown then sold them for a profit. Bigelow entered the graduate film program at Columbia University, where she studied theory and criticism and earned her master 's degree. Her professors included Vito Acconci, Sylvère Lotringer and Susan Sontag, as well as Andrew Sarris and Edward W. Said, and she worked with the Art & Language collective and noted conceptualist Lawrence Weiner. She also taught at the California Institute of the Arts. While working with Art & Language, Bigelow began a short film, The Set - Up ( 1978 ), which found favor with director Miloš Forman, then teaching at Columbia University, and which Bigelow later submitted as part of her MFA at Columbia. Directing career Early career `` If there 's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons : I ca n't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. It 's irrelevant who or what directed a movie, the important thing is that you either respond to it or you do n't. There should be more women directing ; I think there 's just not the awareness that it 's really possible. It is. '' -- Kathryn Bigelow in 1990 Bigelow 's short The Set - Up is a 20 - minute deconstruction of violence in film. The film portrays `` two men fighting each other as the semioticians Sylvère Lotringer and Marshall Blonsky deconstruct the images in voice - over. '' Bigelow asked her actors to actually beat and bludgeon each other throughout the film 's all - night shoot. Her first full - length feature was The Loveless ( 1981 ), a biker film that she co-directed with Monty Montgomery and featured Willem Dafoe in his first starring role. Next, she directed Near Dark ( 1987 ), which she co-scripted with Eric Red. With this film, she began her life - long fascination with manipulating movie conventions and genre. In the same year, she directed a music video for the New Order song `` Touched by the Hand of God '' ; the video is a spoof of glam metal imagery. Bigelow 's subsequent trilogy of action films, Blue Steel, Point Break, and Strange Days, merged her philosophically - minded manipulation of pace with the market demands of mainstream film - making. In the process, Bigelow became recognizable as both a Hollywood brand and an auteur. All three films rethink the conventions of action cinema while exploring gendered and racial politics. Bigelow at the Time 100 Gala in 2010 Blue Steel starred Jamie Lee Curtis as a rookie police officer who is stalked by a psychopathic killer, played by Ron Silver. As with Near Dark, Eric Red co-wrote the screenplay. The film, originally bankrolled for $10 million, was shot on location in New York both due to financial considerations and because Bigelow does n't `` like movies where you see a welfare apartment and it 's the size of two football fields. '' Bigelow followed Blue Steel with Point Break ( 1991 ), which starred Keanu Reeves as an FBI agent who poses as a surfer to catch the `` Ex-Presidents '', a team of surfing armed robbers led by Patrick Swayze who wear Reagan, Nixon, LBJ and Jimmy Carter masks when they hold up banks. Point Break was Bigelow 's most profitable ' studio ' film, taking approximately $80 million at the global box office during the year of its release, and yet it remains one of her least well - received films, both in commercial reviews and academic analysis. This is perhaps due to the fact that it most successfully conforms to its action genre and abandons much of the stylistic substance and subtext of Bigelow 's other work. In 1993, she directed an episode of the TV series Wild Palms. `` I 've spent a fair amount of time thinking about what my aptitude is, and I really think it 's to explore and push the medium. It 's not about breaking gender roles or genre traditions. '' -- Kathryn Bigelow in 2009 Bigelow 's 1995 film Strange Days was written and produced by her ex-husband James Cameron. Despite some positive reviews, the film was a commercial failure. Furthermore, many attributed the creative vision to Cameron, diminishing Bigelow 's perceived influence on the film. She directed episodes of Homicide : Life on the Street in 1997 and 1998. Based on Anita Shreve 's novel of the same name, Bigelow 's 2000 film The Weight of Water is a portrait of two women trapped in suffocating relationships. In 2002, she directed K - 19 : The Widowmaker, starring Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson, about a group of men aboard the Soviet Union 's first nuclear - powered submarine. The film fared poorly at the box office and was received with mixed reactions by critics. Bigelow speaking at the Seattle International Film Festival in 2009 2008 -- present Bigelow next directed The Hurt Locker, which was first shown at the Venice Film Festival in September 2008, was the Closing Night selection for Maryland Film Festival in May 2009, and theatrically released in the US in June 2009. It qualified for the 2010 Oscars as it did not premiere in an Oscar - qualifying run in Los Angeles until mid-2009. Set in post-invasion Iraq, the film received `` universal acclaim '' ( according to Metacritic ) and a 97 % `` fresh '' rating from the critics aggregated by Rotten Tomatoes. The film stars Jeremy Renner, Brian Geraghty and Anthony Mackie, with cameos by Guy Pearce, David Morse and Ralph Fiennes. She won the Directors Guild of America award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures ( becoming the first woman to win the award ) and also received a Golden Globe nomination for her direction. In 2010, she won the award for Best Director and The Hurt Locker won Best Picture at the 63rd British Academy Film Awards. She became the first woman to receive an Academy Award for Best Director for The Hurt Locker. She was the fourth woman in history to be nominated for the honor, and only the second American woman. She defeated her ex-husband James Cameron in the category, for his directorial work in his sci - fi film Avatar, with a budget of $200 million. The Hurt Locker was far less expensive to make, relying on the use of hand - held cameras, long takes, and diligent sound design. In her acceptance speech for her Academy Award, Bigelow surprised many audience members when she did n't mention her status as the first woman to ever receive an Oscar for Best Director. In the past, Bigelow has refused to identify herself as a `` woman filmmaker '' or a `` feminist filmmaker. '' Throughout her career, she has been faced with harsh criticism for the violence in her films, facing questions such as Mark Salisbury 's in The Guardian, `` Why does she make the kind of movie she makes ? '', or Marcia Froelke Coburn for the Chicago Tribune 's, `` What 's a nice woman like Bigelow doing making erotic, violent vampire movies ? '' Bigelow 's next film was Zero Dark Thirty, a dramatization of American efforts to find Osama bin Laden. Zero Dark Thirty was acclaimed by film critics but has also attracted controversy and strong criticism for its allegedly pro-torture stance. Bigelow won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director for the film, making her the first woman to win the award twice. She had already won previously for directing The Hurt Locker. She also won the National Board of Review Award for Best Director, making her the first woman to win that award. Bigelow collaborated with Mark Boal again on the film Detroit, set during the 1967 Detroit riots. Detroit began filming in the summer of 2016, and was released in July 2017, around the time of the 50th anniversary of the riots, and on the anniversary day of the Algiers Motel incident, which is depicted in the film. John Boyega, Hannah Murray, Will Poulter, Jack Reynor, Anthony Mackie, and Joseph David - Jones starred in the film. Future projects In 2014, Bigelow announced plans to direct two movies : an adaptation of Anand Giridharadas 's non-fiction book The True American : Murder and Mercy in Texas starring Tom Hardy and a feature based on the life of Bowe Bergdahl written by her frequent collaborator Mark Boal. Film style Bigelow is known for her shifting relationship to Hollywood and its conventional film standards and techniques. Her work `` both satisfies and transcends the demands of formula to create cinema that 's ideologically complex, viscerally thrilling, and highly personal ''. She has had success both ascribing to conventional Hollywood cinema techniques as well as creating her own unique style that pushes against mainstream conventions. She is also known for entrenching social issues of gender, race, and politics into her work of all genres. While her films are often categorized in the action genre, she describes her own style as an exploration of `` film 's potential to be kinetic ''. Her frequent and notable action sequences are unique because of her use of `` purpose - built '' camera equipment to create unique mobile shots that are very distinctive and indicative of the physicality of her work. In many of her films, such as The Hurt Locker, Point Break, and Strange Days, she has used utilized mobile and hand - held cameras. Perhaps what Bigelow is most well - known for is her use of extensive violence in her films. Most of her films include violent sequences and many of them revolve around the theme of violence. Violence has been a staple in her films from the beginning of her career. In her first short film The Set - Up ( 1978 ), two professors deconstruct two men beating each other up and reflect on the `` fascistic appeal of screen violence ''. For this film Bigelow asked the two actors, including a then unknown Gary Busey, to actually beat each other up in the film 's all - night shoot. This interest in violence seeped its way into her first full - length feature film The Loveless, starring William Dafoe, which follows a 1950 's motorcycle gang 's visit to a small town and the ensuing violence that occurs. Her next film Near Dark follows a young boy who falls in love with a vampire after being bitten by her. The film was originally conceived of as a Western but the genre was so unpopular at the time that Bigelow had to adjust her script and invert the genres conventions. She still used the violent staples of the genre including sieges, shoot - outs, and horseback chases. It is regarded for its combination of the Western and Horror genre and its exploration of `` homosexuality and ' white America 's illusion of safety and control ' ''. The film became a cult classic within the horror genre community. Bigelow herself saw a screening of it in Greenwich Village with a horror genre crowd. Her film Blue Steel, which was quickly followed by Point Break and Strange Days, was her first venture into the action film genre, in which she has stayed in throughout her career and has found her most success. The film revolves around a female cop who is falsely accused of a murder and who in the process of clearing her name investigates a killing spree connected to the original murder. Similarly to Near Dark, Bigelow inverts the typical action genre conventions by placing a female protagonist at the center. The film digs deeply into feminist issues and is often taught and studied by feminist film scholars. Her next film Point Break, starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, was her breakout film that truly bolstered her to mainstream success. The film follows a detective who goes undercover in a suspected criminal gang of surfers who primarily rob banks. It marks the first time that Bigelow used lengthy Steadicam tracking shots. It was also her biggest financial success yet, grossing $83.5 million worldwide with a budget of $24 million. Although her next film Strange Days, which ruminates on the relationships between media, sex, race, class, and technology, had a budget of $42 million, it only grossed just under $8 million. Although the film flopped, it led Bigelow and her team to spend over a year developing a camera that intended to approximate human vision. Sequences filmed by this camera are widely regarded as innovative and startling regardless of the film 's success. The commercial failure of Strange Days was followed by a stream of commercial and critical flops for Bigelow. Her films The Weight of Water and K - 19 : The Widowmaker received negative reviews from critics and little attention from the general public. It was n't until Bigelow decided to independently produce her film The Hurt Locker that she made a commercial and critical comeback. This film was her first transition into definitively political and historical film. The Hurt Locker, which follows members of a bomb squad serving in the Iraq War, was Bigelow 's first venture into pseudo-documentary style film, abandoning the aesthetic stylization found in Strange Days and Near Dark. The film utilizes the genre 's tendency to use quick cuts, shaky camera, and rapid zooms. It also breaks with the conventional narrative structures of her previous films, following a more unorganized and experimental narrative structure. Her next film, Zero Dark Thirty, is widely seen as a direct extension of The Hurt Locker, going further in - depth of historical analysis and addressing issues of geopolitics and American foreign policy. The film is her most controversial to date, with heavy criticism on the depiction of the CIA 's torture practices. Throughout her career, Bigelow has been known for her tendency to go to extremes for her films. In Point Break, while filming the famous skydiving scene, Bigelow was on the airplane with a parachute on, as she filmed Patrick Swayze throw himself into the sky. During surfing scenes in the same film, she would either paddle on a longboard or lean over a nearby boat as far as possible to get shots of Keanu Reeves surfing. For the opening of Strange Days she controlled a crane that dropped a camera man off the edge of a tall building. For The Hurt Locker, Bigelow filmed in Jordan in up to 130 degree heat. Other work In the early 1980s, Bigelow modeled for a Gap advertisement. Her acting credits include Lizzie Borden 's 1983 film Born in Flames as a feminist newspaper editor, and as the leader of a cowgirl gang in the 1988 music video of Martini Ranch 's `` Reach '', which was directed by James Cameron. Personal life Bigelow was married to fellow director James Cameron from 1989 to 1991. She and Cameron were both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for the 82nd Academy Awards in 2010. Bigelow won the award. Filmography Film Year Film Director Writer Producer Notes 1981 The Loveless Yes Yes No Directorial Debut Co-directed with Monty Montgomery Near Dark Yes Yes No Co-written with Eric Red Blue Steel Yes Yes No 1991 Point Break Yes No No 1995 Strange Days Yes No No Undertow No Yes No Co-written with Eric Red 2000 The Weight of Water Yes No No 2002 K - 19 : The Widowmaker Yes No Yes 2009 The Hurt Locker Yes No Yes 2012 Zero Dark Thirty Yes No Yes 2017 Detroit Yes No Yes Television Wild Palms : `` Rising Sons '' ( 1993 ) miniseries Homicide : Life on the Street : `` Fallen Heroes '' Parts 1 & 2 ( 1998 ) Homicide : Life on the Street : `` Lines of Fire '' ( 1999 ) Karen Sisco : `` He Was a Friend of Mine '' ( 2004 ) Other works Year Film Role Notes 1978 The Set - Up Director Short film Born in Flames Actress `` Touched by the Hand of God '' -- New Order Director Music video `` Reach '' -- Martini Ranch Actress Music video 2014 Last Days Director Short film / PSA Awards and nominations Year Association Nominated work Result Ref. Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival Silver Raven Near Dark Won Saturn Awards Best Director Nominated 1995 Saturn Awards Best Director Strange Days Won 2000 San Sebastián International Film Festival Golden Shell Award The Weight of Water Won 2008 Academy Awards Best Director The Hurt Locker Won Best Picture Won AFI Dallas International Film Festival Dallas Star Award Won Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award Best Director Won Best Picture Won Best Woman Director Won Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Film Industry Won Women 's Image Award Won American Film Institute Top 10 Films of 2009 Won Austin Film Critics Association Awards Best Director Won BAFTA Awards Best Direction Won Best Film Won Boston Society of Film Critics Awards Best Director Won Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Director Won Chicago Film Critics Association Awards Best Director Won Columbia University `` Andrew Sarris '' Award Won Denver Film Critics Society Awards Best Director Won Directors Guild of America Awards Outstanding Directing -- Feature Film Won Hollywood Film Festival Award Director of the Year Won Houston Film Critics Society Awards Best Director Won Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards Best Director Won Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Best Director Won London Film Critics ' Circle Awards Director of the Year Won National Society of Film Critics Awards Best Director Won New York Film Critics Circle Awards Best Director Won New York Film Critics Online Awards Best Director Won Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards Best Director Won Online Film Critics Society Best Director Won Producers Guild of America Awards Best Theatrical Motion Picture Won San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards Best Director Won Santa Barbara International Film Festival Awards Outstanding Director of the Year Won Satellite Awards Best Director Won Best Director, Golden Space Needle Award Won Southeastern Film Critics Association Award Best Director Won St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Best Director Won Vancouver Film Critics Circle Best Director Won Venice Film Festival Human Rights Film Network Award Won Sergio Trasatti Award Won Arca Cinemagiovani Award for Best Film Venezia 65 Won SIGNIS Award Won Young Cinema Award Won Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards Best Director Won Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award Best of the Fests Nominated Perseverance Award Nominated Golden Globe Awards Best Director Nominated Best Motion Picture -- Drama Nominated Venice Film Festival Golden Lion Nominated Saturn Awards Best Director Nominated 2017 Rome Film Festival BNL People 's Choice Award Detroit Nominated See also List of Academy Award records List of female film and television directors List of accolades received by Zero Dark Thirty List of accolades received by The Hurt Locker References Jump up ^ `` Bigelow, Kathryn ''. Current Biography Yearbook 2010. Ipswich, MA : H.W. Wilson. 2010. pp. 38 -- 42. ISBN 9780824211134. Jump up ^ `` ' Hurt Locker ' wins best picture, director ''. Today.msnbc.msn.com. March 8, 2010. Retrieved July 10, 2010. Jump up ^ `` First woman to win top Guild 's award ''. Gulf Times. January 31, 2010. Retrieved July 10, 2010. 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University of California Press ; link via JSTOR. `` Abstract : Kathryn Bigelow 's eight feature films all seek a balance between progressive representations of gender and race and the demands of commercial filmmaking. Close attention to the filmmaker 's experiments with duration and camera technology reveals her interest in reworking Hollywood conventions to critique conventionally masculinist genres. '' ^ Jump up to : Keough, Peter ( 2013 ). Kathryn Bigelow : Interviews. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi. pp. ix -- xii. ^ Jump up to : Dargis, Manohla, `` Action ! '', New York Times, June 18, 2009. Access date : June 27, 2009 Jump up ^ Hond, Paul, ( 1 ), Columbia Magazine, Winter 2009 - 10. Access date : Sept. 10, 2015 Jump up ^ Rapold, Nicolas, `` Interview : Kathryn Bigelow Goes Where the Action Is '', Village Voice, June 23, 2009. Access date : June 27, 2009. Jump up ^ `` Kathryn Bigelow -- Filmmaking at the Dark Edge of Exhilaration '', Harvard Film Archive, July 1, 2009. 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'', blog, The New Yorker, January 2013. `` The problems people have with Zero Dark Thirty are about directorial choices, and it is more than reasonable that Kathryn Bigelow be judged on them. '' Denby, David, `` Bigelow 's Fact and Fiction '', review, The New Yorker, December 2012. G. Roger Denson, `` Zero Dark Thirty Account of Torture Verified by Media Record of Legislators and CIA Officials '', commentary, criticism, `` Huffington Post '', December 31, 2012. G. Roger Denson, `` Women Looking at Men Loving : Eve Sussman, Kathryn Bigelow and the Women Writers of Mad Men '', cultural criticism, `` Huffington Post '', March 8, 2013. Brockes, Emma, `` Kathryn Bigelow : under fire '', The Guardian ( London ), January 11, 2013. `` ( S ) ome say her new thriller, Zero Dark Thirty... endorses torture ''. The films of Kathryn Bigelow, Hell Is For Hyphenates, December 31, 2013 Films directed by Kathryn Bigelow The Loveless ( 1982 ) Near Dark ( 1987 ) Blue Steel ( 1990 ) Point Break ( 1991 ) Strange Days ( 1995 ) The Weight of Water ( 2000 ) K - 19 : The Widowmaker ( 2002 ) The Hurt Locker ( 2008 ) Zero Dark Thirty ( 2012 ) Detroit ( 2017 ) Awards for Kathryn Bigelow Academy Award for Best Director 1927 -- 1950 Frank Borzage ( 1927 ) Lewis Milestone ( 1928 ) Frank Lloyd ( 1929 ) Lewis Milestone ( 1930 ) Norman Taurog ( 1931 ) Frank Borzage ( 1932 ) Frank Lloyd ( 1933 ) Frank Capra ( 1934 ) John Ford ( 1935 ) Frank Capra ( 1936 ) Leo McCarey ( 1937 ) Frank Capra ( 1938 ) Victor Fleming ( 1939 ) John Ford ( 1940 ) John Ford ( 1941 ) William Wyler ( 1942 ) Michael Curtiz ( 1943 ) Leo McCarey ( 1944 ) Billy Wilder ( 1945 ) William Wyler ( 1946 ) Elia Kazan ( 1947 ) John Huston ( 1948 ) Joseph L. Mankiewicz ( 1949 ) Joseph L. Mankiewicz ( 1950 ) 1951 -- 1975 George Stevens ( 1951 ) John Ford ( 1952 ) Fred Zinnemann ( 1953 ) Elia Kazan ( 1954 ) Delbert Mann ( 1955 ) George Stevens ( 1956 ) David Lean ( 1957 ) Vincente Minnelli ( 1958 ) William Wyler ( 1959 ) Billy Wilder ( 1960 ) Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise ( 1961 ) David Lean ( 1962 ) Tony Richardson ( 1963 ) George Cukor ( 1964 ) Robert Wise ( 1965 ) Fred Zinnemann ( 1966 ) Mike Nichols ( 1967 ) Carol Reed ( 1968 ) John Schlesinger ( 1969 ) Franklin J. Schaffner ( 1970 ) William Friedkin ( 1971 ) Bob Fosse ( 1972 ) George Roy Hill ( 1973 ) Francis Ford Coppola ( 1974 ) Miloš Forman ( 1975 ) 1976 -- 2000 John G. Avildsen ( 1976 ) Woody Allen ( 1977 ) Michael Cimino ( 1978 ) Robert Benton ( 1979 ) Robert Redford ( 1980 ) Warren Beatty ( 1981 ) Richard Attenborough ( 1982 ) James L. Brooks ( 1983 ) Miloš Forman ( 1984 ) Sydney Pollack ( 1985 ) Oliver Stone ( 1986 ) Bernardo Bertolucci ( 1987 ) Barry Levinson ( 1988 ) Oliver Stone ( 1989 ) Kevin Costner ( 1990 ) Jonathan Demme ( 1991 ) Clint Eastwood ( 1992 ) Steven Spielberg ( 1993 ) Robert Zemeckis ( 1994 ) Mel Gibson ( 1995 ) Anthony Minghella ( 1996 ) James Cameron ( 1997 ) Steven Spielberg ( 1998 ) Sam Mendes ( 1999 ) Steven Soderbergh ( 2000 ) 2001 -- present Ron Howard ( 2001 ) Roman Polanski ( 2002 ) Peter Jackson ( 2003 ) Clint Eastwood ( 2004 ) Ang Lee ( 2005 ) Martin Scorsese ( 2006 ) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen ( 2007 ) Danny Boyle ( 2008 ) Kathryn Bigelow ( 2009 ) Tom Hooper ( 2010 ) Michel Hazanavicius ( 2011 ) Ang Lee ( 2012 ) Alfonso Cuarón ( 2013 ) Alejandro G. Iñárritu ( 2014 ) Alejandro G. Iñárritu ( 2015 ) Damien Chazelle ( 2016 ) Guillermo del Toro ( 2017 ) BAFTA Award for Best Direction Mike Nichols ( 1968 ) John Schlesinger ( 1969 ) George Roy Hill ( 1970 ) John Schlesinger ( 1971 ) Bob Fosse ( 1972 ) François Truffaut ( 1973 ) Roman Polanski ( 1974 ) Stanley Kubrick ( 1975 ) Miloš Forman ( 1976 ) Woody Allen ( 1977 ) Alan Parker ( 1978 ) Francis Ford Coppola ( 1979 ) Akira Kurosawa ( 1980 ) Louis Malle ( 1981 ) Richard Attenborough ( 1982 ) Bill Forsyth ( 1983 ) Wim Wenders ( 1984 ) No Award ( 1985 ) Woody Allen ( 1986 ) Oliver Stone ( 1987 ) Louis Malle ( 1988 ) Kenneth Branagh ( 1989 ) Martin Scorsese ( 1990 ) Alan Parker ( 1991 ) Robert Altman ( 1992 ) Steven Spielberg ( 1993 ) Mike Newell ( 1994 ) Michael Radford ( 1995 ) Joel Coen ( 1996 ) Baz Luhrmann ( 1997 ) Peter Weir ( 1998 ) Pedro Almodóvar ( 1999 ) Ang Lee ( 2000 ) Peter Jackson ( 2001 ) Roman Polanski ( 2002 ) Peter Weir ( 2003 ) Mike Leigh ( 2004 ) Ang Lee ( 2005 ) Paul Greengrass ( 2006 ) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen ( 2007 ) Danny Boyle ( 2008 ) Kathryn Bigelow ( 2009 ) David Fincher ( 2010 ) Michel Hazanavicius ( 2011 ) Ben Affleck ( 2012 ) Alfonso Cuarón ( 2013 ) Richard Linklater ( 2014 ) Alejandro G. 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