# Globo de Ouro de melhor direção

Lista dos diretores de cinema premiados com o prêmio Globo de Ouro de melhor direção. O maior vencedor da categoria é Elia Kazan, que recebeu o prêmio quatro vezes. Ele é procedido por Clint Eastwood, David Lean, Miloš Forman, Oliver Stone e Martin Scorsese, que venceram três vezes cada. Até 2025, Barbra Streisand, Chloé Zhao e Jane Campion foram as únicas mulheres a receberem o prêmio.

## Vencedores
### Notas

* "†" indica o vencedor do Óscar de Melhor Realizador ou Oscar de melhor direção.
* "‡" indica a nomeação para o Óscar de Melhor Realizador / Melhor Direção

### Anos 1940

* 1943 - Henry King por The Song of Bernadette
* 1944 - Leo McCarey por Going My Way
* 1945 - Billy Wilder por The Lost Weekend
* 1946 - Frank Capra por It's a Wonderful Life
* 1947 - Elia Kazan por Gentleman's Agreement
* 1948 - John Huston por The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
* 1949 - Robert Rossen por All the King's Men

### Anos 1950

* 1950 - Billy Wilder por Sunset Boulevard
* 1951 - László Benedek por Death of a Salesman
* 1952 - Cecil B. DeMille por The Greatest Show on Earth
* 1953 - Fred Zinnemann por From Here to Eternity
* 1954 - Elia Kazan por On the Waterfront
* 1955 - Joshua Logan por Picnic
* 1956 - Elia Kazan por Baby Doll
* 1957 - David Lean por The Bridge on the River Kwai
* 1958 - Vincente Minnelli por Gigi
* 1959 - William Wyler por Ben-Hur

### Anos 1960

* 1960 - Jack Cardiff por Sons and Lovers
* 1961 - Stanley Kramer por Judgment at Nuremberg
* 1962 - David Lean por Lawrence of Arabia
* 1963 - Elia Kazan por America, America
* 1964 - George Cukor por My Fair Lady
* 1965 - David Lean por Doctor Zhivago
* 1966 - Fred Zinnemann por A Man for All Seasons
* 1967 - Mike Nichols por The Graduate
* 1968 - Paul Newman por Rachel, Rachel
* 1969 - Charles Jarrott por Anne of the Thousand Days

### Anos 1970

* 1970 - Arthur Hiller por Love Story
* 1971 - William Friedkin, The French Connection
* 1972 - Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather
* 1973 - William Friedkin por The Exorcist
* 1974 - Roman Polanski por Chinatown
* 1975 - Miloš Forman por One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
* 1976 - Sidney Lumet por Network
* 1977 - Herbert Ross por The Turning Point
* 1978 - Michael Cimino por The Deer Hunter
* 1979 - Francis Ford Coppola por Apocalypse Now

### Anos 1980

* 1980 - Robert Redford por Ordinary People
* 1981 - Mark Rydell por On Golden Pond
* 1982 - Richard Attenborough por Gandhi
* 1983 - Barbra Streisand por Yentl
* 1984 - Miloš Forman por Amadeus
* 1985 - John Huston por Prizzi's Honor
* 1986 - Oliver Stone por Platoon
* 1987 - Bernardo Bertolucci por The Last Emperor
* 1988 - Clint Eastwood por Bird
* 1989 - Oliver Stone por Born on the Fourth of July

### Anos 1990

* 1990 - Kevin Costner por Dances with Wolves
* 1991 - Oliver Stone por JFK
* 1992 - Clint Eastwood por Unforgiven
* 1993 - Steven Spielberg por Schindler's List
* 1994 - Robert Zemeckis por Forrest Gump
* 1995 - Mel Gibson por Braveheart
* 1996 - Miloš Forman por The People vs. Larry Flynt
* 1997 - James Cameron por Titanic
* 1998 - Steven Spielberg por Saving Private Ryan
* 1999 - Sam Mendes por American Beauty

### Anos 2000

| Ano | Diretores | Filme |
| 2000 | Ang Lee ‡ | Wo hu cang long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) |
| 2000 | Ridley Scott ‡ | Gladiator |
| 2000 | Steven Soderbergh | Erin Brockovich |
| 2000 | Steven Soderbergh † | Traffic |
| 2000 | István Szabó | Sunshine |
| 2001 | Robert Altman ‡ | Gosford Park |
| 2001 | Ron Howard † | A Beautiful Mind |
| 2001 | Peter Jackson ‡ | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring |
| 2001 | Baz Luhrmann | Moulin Rouge! |
| 2001 | David Lynch ‡ | Mulholland Drive |
| 2001 | Steven Spielberg | A.I. Artificial Intelligence |
| 2002 | Martin Scorsese ‡ | Gangs of New York |
| 2002 | Stephen Daldry ‡ | The Hours |
| 2002 | Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers |
| 2002 | Spike Jonze | Adaptation. |
| 2002 | Rob Marshall ‡ | Chicago |
| 2002 | Alexander Payne | About Schmidt |
| 2003 | Peter Jackson † | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
| 2003 | Sofia Coppola ‡ | Lost in Translation |
| 2003 | Clint Eastwood ‡ | Mystic River |
| 2003 | Anthony Minghella | Cold Mountain |
| 2003 | Peter Weir ‡ | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World |
| 2004 | Clint Eastwood † | Million Dollar Baby |
| 2004 | Marc Forster | Finding Neverland |
| 2004 | Mike Nichols | Closer |
| 2004 | Alexander Payne ‡ | Sideways |
| 2004 | Martin Scorsese ‡ | The Aviator |
| 2005 | Ang Lee † | Brokeback Mountain |
| 2005 | Woody Allen | Match Point |
| 2005 | George Clooney ‡ | Good Night, and Good Luck. |
| 2005 | Peter Jackson | King Kong |
| 2005 | Fernando Meirelles | The Constant Gardener |
| 2005 | Steven Spielberg ‡ | Munich |
| 2006 | Martin Scorsese † | The Departed |
| 2006 | Clint Eastwood | Flags of Our Fathers |
| 2006 | Clint Eastwood ‡ | Letters from Iwo Jima |
| 2006 | Stephen Frears ‡ | The Queen |
| 2006 | Alejandro González Iñárritu ‡ | Babel |
| 2007 | Julian Schnabel ‡ | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly |
| 2007 | Tim Burton | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
| 2007 | Joel Coen & Ethan Coen † | No Country for Old Men |
| 2007 | Ridley Scott | American Gangster |
| 2007 | Joe Wright | Atonement |
| 2008 | Danny Boyle † | Slumdog Millionaire |
| 2008 | Stephen Daldry ‡ | The Reader |
| 2008 | David Fincher ‡ | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
| 2008 | Ron Howard ‡ | Frost/Nixon |
| 2008 | Sam Mendes | Revolutionary Road |
| 2009 | James Cameron ‡ | Avatar |
| 2009 | Kathryn Bigelow † | The Hurt Locker |
| 2009 | Clint Eastwood | Invictus |
| 2009 | Jason Reitman ‡ | Up in the Air |
| 2009 | Quentin Tarantino ‡ | Inglourious Basterds |

### Anos 2010

| Ano | Diretores | Filme |
| 2010 | David Fincher ‡ | The Social Network |
| 2010 | Darren Aronofsky ‡ | Black Swan |
| 2010 | Tom Hooper † | The King's Speech |
| 2010 | Christopher Nolan | Inception |
| 2010 | David O. Russell ‡ | The Fighter |
| 2011 | Martin Scorsese ‡ | Hugo |
| 2011 | Woody Allen ‡ | Midnight in Paris |
| 2011 | George Clooney | The Ides of March |
| 2011 | Michel Hazanavicius † | The Artist |
| 2011 | Alexander Payne ‡ | The Descendants |
| 2012 | Ben Affleck | Argo |
| 2012 | Kathryn Bigelow | Zero Dark Thirty |
| 2012 | Ang Lee † | Life of Pi |
| 2012 | Steven Spielberg ‡ | Lincoln |
| 2012 | Quentin Tarantino | Django Unchained |
| 2013 | Alfonso Cuarón † | Gravity |
| 2013 | Steve McQueen ‡ | 12 Years a Slave |
| 2013 | David O. Russell ‡ | American Hustle |
| 2013 | Paul Greengrass | Captain Phillips |
| 2013 | Alexander Payne ‡ | Nebraska |
| 2014 | Richard Linklater ‡ | Boyhood |
| 2014 | Alejandro González Iñárritu † | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) |
| 2014 | David Fincher | Gone Girl |
| 2014 | Wes Anderson ‡ | The Grand Budapest Hotel |
| 2014 | Ava DuVernay | Selma |
| 2015 | Alejandro González Iñárritu † | The Revenant |
| 2015 | Todd Haynes | Carol |
| 2015 | George Miller ‡ | Mad Max: Fury Road |
| 2015 | Ridley Scott | The Martian |
| 2015 | Tom McCarthy ‡ | Spotlight |
| 2016 | Damien Chazelle † | La La Land |
| 2016 | Tom Ford | Nocturnal Animals |
| 2016 | Mel Gibson ‡ | Hacksaw Ridge |
| 2016 | Barry Jenkins ‡ | Moonlight |
| 2016 | Kenneth Lonergan ‡ | Manchester by the Sea |
| 2017 | Guillermo del Toro † | The Shape of Water |
| 2017 | Martin McDonagh | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri |
| 2017 | Christopher Nolan ‡ | Dunkirk |
| 2017 | Ridley Scott | All the Money in the World |
| 2017 | Steven Spielberg | The Post |
| 2018 | Alfonso Cuarón † | Roma |
| 2018 | Adam McKay ‡ | Vice |
| 2018 | Bradley Cooper | A Star Is Born |
| 2018 | Peter Farrelly | Green Book |
| 2018 | Spike Lee ‡ | BlacKkKlansman |
| 2019 | Sam Mendes ‡ | 1917 |
| 2019 | Martin Scorsese ‡ | The Irishman |
| 2019 | Bong Joon-ho † | Gisaengchung (Parasite) |
| 2019 | Todd Phillips ‡ | Joker |
| 2019 | Quentin Tarantino ‡ | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood |

### Anos 2020

| Ano | Diretores | Filme |
| 2020 | Chloé Zhao † | Nomadland |
| 2020 | Aaron Sorkin | The Trial of the Chicago 7 |
| 2020 | David Fincher ‡ | Mank |
| 2020 | Emerald Fennell ‡ | Promising Young Woman |
| 2020 | Regina King | One Night in Miami... |
| 2021 | Jane Campion † | The Power of the Dog |
| 2021 | Denis Villeneuve | Dune |
| 2021 | Kenneth Branagh ‡ | Belfast |
| 2021 | Maggie Gyllenhaal | The Lost Daughter |
| 2021 | Steven Spielberg ‡ | West Side Story |
| 2022 | Steven Spielberg ‡ | The Fabelmans |
| 2022 | James Cameron | Avatar: The Way of Water |
| 2022 | Baz Luhrmann | Elvis |
| 2022 | Martin McDonagh ‡ | The Banshees of Inisherin |
| 2022 | Daniel Kwan e Daniel Scheinert † | Everything Everywhere All at Once |
| 2023 | Christopher Nolan † | Oppenheimer |
| 2023 | Yorgos Lanthimos ‡ | Poor Things |
| 2023 | Martin Scorsese ‡ | Killers of the Flower Moon |
| 2023 | Bradley Cooper | Maestro |
| 2023 | Greta Gerwig | Barbie |
| 2023 | Celine Song | Past Lives |
| 2024 | Brady Corbet | The Brutalist |
| 2024 | Sean Baker | Anora |
| 2024 | Payal Kapadia | All We Imagine as Light |
| 2024 | Edward Berger | Conclave |
| 2024 | Coralie Fargeat | The Substance |
| 2024 | Jacques Audiard | Emilia Pérez |