# BAFTA de melhor direção

BAFTA de melhor direção (no original em inglês BAFTA Award for Best Direction) é um prêmio entregue anualmente pela British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) ao diretor de cinema que se tenha distinguido durante o ano na direção de um filme.
Cineastas de qualquer nacionalidade são elegíveis para receber o prémio.
Lista dos cineastas premiados com o BAFTA de Melhor Direção e respectivos filmes:

## Vencedores e indicados
### Década de 1960

| Ano | Diretor | Filme |
| 1969 |
| 1969 | Mike Nichols | The Graduate |
| 1969 | Lindsay Anderson | if.... |
| 1969 | Carol Reed | Oliver! |
| 1969 | Franco Zeffirelli | Romeo and Juliet |
| 1970 |
| 1970 | John Schlesinger | Midnight Cowboy |
| 1970 | Richard Attenborough | Oh! What a Lovely War |
| 1970 | Ken Russell | Women in Love |
| 1970 | Peter Yates | Bullitt |

### Década de 1970

| Ano | Diretor | Filme |
| 1971 |
| 1971 | George Roy Hill | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
| 1971 | Robert Altman | M*A*S*H |
| 1971 | David Lean | Ryan's Daughter |
| 1971 | Ken Loach | Kes |
| 1972 |
| 1972 | John Schlesinger | Sunday Bloody Sunday |
| 1972 | Miloš Forman | Taking Off |
| 1972 | Joseph Losey | The Go-Between |
| 1972 | Luchino Visconti | Morte a Venezia (Death in Venice) |
| 1973 |
| 1973 | Bob Fosse | Cabaret |
| 1973 | Peter Bogdanovich | The Last Picture Show |
| 1973 | William Friedkin | The French Connection |
| 1973 | Stanley Kubrick | A Clockwork Orange |
| 1974 |
| 1974 | François Truffaut | La nuit américaine (Day for Night) |
| 1974 | Luis Buñuel | Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie) |
| 1974 | Nicolas Roeg | Don't Look Now |
| 1974 | Fred Zinnemann | The Day of the Jackal |
| 1975 |
| 1975 | Roman Polanski | Chinatown |
| 1975 | Francis Ford Coppola | The Conversation |
| 1975 | Sidney Lumet | Murder on the Orient Express / Serpico |
| 1975 | Louis Malle | Lacombe Lucien |
| 1976 |
| 1976 | Stanley Kubrick | Barry Lyndon |
| 1976 | Sidney Lumet | Dog Day Afternoon |
| 1976 | Martin Scorsese | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore |
| 1976 | Steven Spielberg | Jaws |
| 1977 |
| 1977 | Miloš Forman | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| 1977 | Alan J. Pakula | All the President's Men |
| 1977 | Alan Parker | Bugsy Malone |
| 1977 | Martin Scorsese | Taxi Driver |
| 1978 |
| 1978 | Woody Allen | Annie Hall |
| 1978 | Richard Attenborough | A Bridge Too Far |
| 1978 | John G. Avildsen | Rocky |
| 1978 | Sidney Lumet | Network |
| 1979 |
| 1979 | Alan Parker | Midnight Express |
| 1979 | Robert Altman | A Wedding |
| 1979 | Steven Spielberg | Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
| 1979 | Fred Zinnemann | Julia |
| 1980 |
| 1980 | Francis Ford Coppola | Apocalypse Now |
| 1980 | Woody Allen | Manhattan |
| 1980 | Michael Cimino | The Deer Hunter |
| 1980 | John Schlesinger | Yanks |

### Década de 1980

| Ano | Diretor | Filme |
| 1981 |
| 1981 | Akira Kurosawa | Kagemusha |
| 1981 | Robert Benton | Kramer vs. Kramer |
| 1981 | David Lynch | The Elephant Man |
| 1981 | Alan Parker | Fame |
| 1982 |
| 1982 | Louis Malle | Atlantic City |
| 1982 | Bill Forsyth | Gregory's Girl |
| 1982 | Hugh Hudson | Chariots of Fire |
| 1982 | Karel Reisz | The French Lieutenant's Woman |
| 1983 |
| 1983 | Richard Attenborough | Gandhi |
| 1983 | Costa-Gavras | Missing |
| 1983 | Mark Rydell | On Golden Pond |
| 1983 | Steven Spielberg | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial |
| 1984 |
| 1984 | Bill Forsyth | Local Hero |
| 1984 | James Ivory | Heat and Dust |
| 1984 | Sydney Pollack | Tootsie |
| 1984 | Martin Scorsese | The King of Comedy |
| 1985 |
| 1985 | Wim Wenders | Paris, Texas |
| 1985 | Roland Joffé | The Killing Fields |
| 1985 | Sergio Leone | Once Upon a Time in America |
| 1985 | Peter Yates | The Dresser |
| 1986 | Sem registro de vencedor | — |
| 1987 |
| 1987 | Woody Allen | Hannah and Her Sisters |
| 1987 | Roland Joffé | The Mission |
| 1987 | Neil Jordan | Mona Lisa |
| 1987 | James Ivory | A Room with a View |
| 1988 |
| 1988 | Oliver Stone | Platoon |
| 1988 | Richard Attenborough | Cry Freedom |
| 1988 | Claude Berri | Jean de Florette |
| 1988 | John Boorman | Hope and Glory |
| 1989 |
| 1989 | Louis Malle | Au revoir les enfants (Goodbye, Children) |
| 1989 | Gabriel Axel | Babettes gæstebud (Babette's Feast) |
| 1989 | Bernardo Bertolucci | The Last Emperor |
| 1989 | Charles Crichton | A Fish Called Wanda |
| 1990 |
| 1990 | Kenneth Branagh | Henry V |
| 1990 | Stephen Frears | Dangerous Liaisons |
| 1990 | Alan Parker | Mississippi Burning |
| 1990 | Peter Weir | Dead Poets Society |

### Década de 1990

| Ano | Diretor | Filme |
| 1991 |
| 1991 | Martin Scorsese | Goodfellas |
| 1991 | Woody Allen | Crimes and Misdemeanors |
| 1991 | Bruce Beresford | Driving Miss Daisy |
| 1991 | Giuseppe Tornatore | Nuovo Cinema Paradiso |
| 1992 |
| 1992 | Alan Parker | The Commitments |
| 1992 | Kevin Costner | Dances with Wolves |
| 1992 | Jonathan Demme | The Silence of the Lambs |
| 1992 | Ridley Scott | Thelma & Louise |
| 1993 |
| 1993 | Robert Altman | The Player |
| 1993 | Clint Eastwood | Unforgiven |
| 1993 | James Ivory | Howards End |
| 1993 | Neil Jordan | The Crying Game |
| 1994 |
| 1994 | Steven Spielberg | Schindler's List |
| 1994 | Richard Attenborough | Shadowlands |
| 1994 | Jane Campion | The Piano |
| 1994 | James Ivory | The Remains of the Day |
| 1995 |
| 1995 | Mike Newell | Four Weddings and a Funeral |
| 1995 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Trois couleurs: Rouge (Three Colours: Red) |
| 1995 | Quentin Tarantino | Pulp Fiction |
| 1995 | Robert Zemeckis | Forrest Gump |
| 1996 |
| 1996 | Michael Radford | Il postino (The Postman) |
| 1996 | Mel Gibson | Braveheart |
| 1996 | Nicholas Hytner | The Madness of King George |
| 1996 | Ang Lee | Sense and Sensibility |
| 1997 |
| 1997 | Joel Coen | Fargo |
| 1997 | Scott Hicks | Shine |
| 1997 | Mike Leigh | Secrets & Lies |
| 1997 | Anthony Minghella | The English Patient |
| 1998 |
| 1998 | Baz Luhrmann | Romeo + Juliet |
| 1998 | James Cameron | Titanic |
| 1998 | Peter Cattaneo | The Full Monty |
| 1998 | Curtis Hanson | L.A. Confidential |
| 1999 |
| 1999 | Peter Weir | The Truman Show |
| 1999 | Shekhar Kapur | Elizabeth |
| 1999 | John Madden | Shakespeare in Love |
| 1999 | Steven Spielberg | Saving Private Ryan |
| 2000 |
| 2000 | Pedro Almodóvar | Todo sobre mi madre (All About My Mother) |
| 2000 | Neil Jordan | The End of the Affair |
| 2000 | Sam Mendes | American Beauty |
| 2000 | Anthony Minghella | The Talented Mr. Ripley |
| 2000 | M. Night Shyamalan | The Sixth Sense |

### Década de 2000

| Ano | Diretor(a) | Filme |
| 2001 |
| 2001 | Ang Lee | Wo hu cang long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) |
| 2001 | Stephen Daldry | Billy Elliot |
| 2001 | Ridley Scott | Gladiator |
| 2001 | Steven Soderbergh | Traffic |
| 2001 | Steven Soderbergh | Erin Brockovich |
| 2002 |
| 2002 | Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring |
| 2002 | Robert Altman | Gosford Park |
| 2002 | Ron Howard | A Beautiful Mind |
| 2002 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain |
| 2002 | Baz Luhrmann | Moulin Rouge! |
| 2003 |
| 2003 | Roman Polanski | The Pianist |
| 2003 | Stephen Daldry | The Hours |
| 2003 | Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers |
| 2003 | Rob Marshall | Chicago |
| 2003 | Martin Scorsese | Gangs of New York |
| 2004 |
| 2004 | Peter Weir | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World |
| 2004 | Tim Burton | Big Fish |
| 2004 | Sofia Coppola | Lost in Translation |
| 2004 | Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
| 2004 | Anthony Minghella | Cold Mountain |
| 2005 |
| 2005 | Mike Leigh | Vera Drake |
| 2005 | Marc Forster | Finding Neverland |
| 2005 | Michel Gondry | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
| 2005 | Michael Mann | Collateral |
| 2005 | Martin Scorsese | The Aviator |
| 2006 |
| 2006 | Ang Lee | Brokeback Mountain |
| 2006 | George Clooney | Good Night, and Good Luck. |
| 2006 | Paul Haggis | Crash |
| 2006 | Fernando Meirelles | The Constant Gardener |
| 2006 | Bennett Miller | Capote |
| 2007 |
| 2007 | Paul Greengrass | United 93 |
| 2007 | Jonathan Dayton e Valerie Faris | Little Miss Sunshine |
| 2007 | Stephen Frears | The Queen |
| 2007 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Babel |
| 2007 | Martin Scorsese | The Departed |
| 2008 |
| 2008 | Joel e Ethan Coen | No Country for Old Men |
| 2008 | Paul Thomas Anderson | There Will Be Blood |
| 2008 | Paul Greengrass | The Bourne Ultimatum |
| 2008 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) |
| 2008 | Joe Wright | Atonement |
| 2009 |
| 2009 | Danny Boyle | Slumdog Millionaire |
| 2009 | Stephen Daldry | The Reader |
| 2009 | Clint Eastwood | Changeling |
| 2009 | David Fincher | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
| 2009 | Ron Howard | Frost/Nixon |
| 2010 |
| 2010 | Kathryn Bigelow | The Hurt Locker |
| 2010 | Neill Blomkamp | District 9 |
| 2010 | James Cameron | Avatar |
| 2010 | Lone Scherfig | An Education |
| 2010 | Quentin Tarantino | Inglourious Basterds |

### Década de 2010

| Ano | Diretor(a) | Filme |
| 2011 |
| 2011 | David Fincher | The Social Network |
| 2011 | Darren Aronofsky | Black Swan |
| 2011 | Danny Boyle | 127 Hours |
| 2011 | Tom Hooper | The King's Speech |
| 2011 | Christopher Nolan | Inception |
| 2012 |
| 2012 | Michel Hazanavicius | The Artist |
| 2012 | Tomas Alfredson | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy |
| 2012 | Lynne Ramsay | We Need to Talk About Kevin |
| 2012 | Nicolas Winding Refn | Drive |
| 2012 | Martin Scorsese | Hugo |
| 2013 |
| 2013 | Ben Affleck | Argo |
| 2013 | Kathryn Bigelow | Zero Dark Thirty |
| 2013 | Michael Haneke | Amour |
| 2013 | Ang Lee | Life of Pi |
| 2013 | Quentin Tarantino | Django Unchained |
| 2014 |
| 2014 | Alfonso Cuarón | Gravity |
| 2014 | Paul Greengrass | Captain Phillips |
| 2014 | Steve McQueen | 12 Years a Slave |
| 2014 | David O. Russell | American Hustle |
| 2014 | Martin Scorsese | The Wolf of Wall Street |
| 2015 |
| 2015 | Richard Linklater | Boyhood |
| 2015 | Wes Anderson | The Grand Budapest Hotel |
| 2015 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) |
| 2015 | Damien Chazelle | Whiplash |
| 2015 | James Marsh | The Theory of Everything |
| 2016 |
| 2016 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | The Revenant |
| 2016 | Todd Haynes | Carol |
| 2016 | Adam McKay | The Big Short |
| 2016 | Ridley Scott | The Martian |
| 2016 | Steven Spielberg | Bridge of Spies |
| 2017 |
| 2017 | Damien Chazelle | La La Land |
| 2017 | Tom Ford | Nocturnal Animals |
| 2017 | Ken Loach | I, Daniel Blake |
| 2017 | Kenneth Lonergan | Manchester by the Sea |
| 2017 | Denis Villeneuve | Arrival |
| 2018 |
| 2018 | Guillermo del Toro | The Shape of Water |
| 2018 | Luca Guadagnino | Call Me by Your Name |
| 2018 | Martin McDonagh | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri |
| 2018 | Christopher Nolan | Dunkirk |
| 2018 | Denis Villeneuve | Blade Runner 2049 |
| 2019 |
| 2019 | Alfonso Cuarón | Roma |
| 2019 | Bradley Cooper | A Star Is Born |
| 2019 | Yorgos Lanthimos | The Favourite |
| 2019 | Paweł Pawlikowski | Zimna wojna (Cold War) |
| 2019 | Spike Lee | BlacKkKlansman |
| 2020 |
| 2020 | Sam Mendes | 1917 |
| 2020 | Todd Phillips | Joker |
| 2020 | Bong Joon-ho | Gisaengchung (Parasite) |
| 2020 | Martin Scorsese | The Irishman |
| 2020 | Quentin Tarantino | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood |

### Década de 2020

| Ano | Diretor(a) | Filme |
| 2021 |
| 2021 | Chloé Zhao | Nomadland |
| 2021 | Lee Isaac Chung | Minari |
| 2021 | Thomas Vinterberg | Druk (Another Round) |
| 2021 | Jasmila Žbanić | Quo Vadis, Aida? |
| 2021 | Shannon Murphy | Babyteeth |
| 2021 | Sarah Gavron | Rocks |
| 2022 |
| 2022 | Jane Campion | The Power of the Dog |
| 2022 | Paul Thomas Anderson | Licorice Pizza |
| 2022 | Ryūsuke Hamaguchi | Doraibu mai kā (Drive My Car) |
| 2022 | Audrey Diwan | L'événement (Happening) |
| 2022 | Julia Ducournau | Titane |
| 2022 | Aleem Khan | After Love |
| 2023 |
| 2023 | Edward Berger | Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front) |
| 2023 | Daniel Kwan e Daniel Scheinert | Everything Everywhere All at Once |
| 2023 | Martin McDonagh | The Banshees of Inisherin |
| 2023 | Park Chan-wook | Heojil gyeolsim (Decision to Leave) |
| 2023 | Todd Field | Tár |
| 2023 | Gina Prince-Bythewood | The Woman King |
| 2024 |
| 2024 | Christopher Nolan | Oppenheimer |
| 2024 | Jonathan Glazer | The Zone of Interest |
| 2024 | Bradley Cooper | Maestro |
| 2024 | Alexander Payne | The Holdovers |
| 2024 | Andrew Haigh | All of Us Strangers |
| 2024 | Justine Triet | Anatomie d'une chute (Anatomy of a Fall) |
| 2025 |
| 2025 | Brady Corbet | The Brutalist |
| 2025 | Coralie Fargeat | The Substance |
| 2025 | Denis Villeneuve | Dune: Part Two |
| 2025 | Edward Berger | Conclave |
| 2025 | Jacques Audiard | Emilia Pérez |
| 2025 | Sean Baker | Anora |