# Golden Globe Award for Best Director – Motion Picture

| Golden Globe for Best Director – Motion Picture |
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| Awarded for | Best Director of a Motion Picture |
| Location | United States |
| Presented by | Hollywood Foreign Press Association |
| Currently held by | Jane Campion for *The Power of the Dog* (2021) |
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**The Golden Globe Award for Best Director – Motion Picture** is an annual award. It is for a director of a movie. It is part of the Golden Globe Awards. The directors with the most nominations are Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese.

## Nominations and Awards

### 1940s

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

### 1950s

| Year | Nominees | Film |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1950 | **Billy Wilder** | Sunset Boulevard |
| Joseph L. Mankiewicz | *All About Eve* |
| John Huston | *The Asphalt Jungle* |
| George Cukor | *Born Yesterday* |
| 1951 | **László Benedek** | Death of a Salesman |
| Vincente Minnelli | *An American in Paris* |
| George Stevens | *A Place in the Sun* |
| 1952 | **Cecil B. DeMille** | The Greatest Show on Earth |
| Richard Fleischer | *The Happy Time* |
| John Ford | *The Quiet Man* |
| 1953 | **Fred Zinnemann** | From Here to Eternity |
| 1954 | **Elia Kazan** | On the Waterfront |
| 1955 | **Joshua Logan** | Picnic |
| 1956 | **Elia Kazan** | Baby Doll |
| Michael Anderson | *Around the World in 80 Days* |
| George Stevens | *Giant* |
| Vincente Minnelli | *Lust for Life* |
| King Vidor | *War and Peace* |
| 1957 | **David Lean** | The Bridge on the River Kwai |
| Sidney Lumet | *12 Angry Men* |
| Fred Zinnemann | *A Hatful of Rain* |
| Joshua Logan | *Sayonara* |
| Billy Wilder | *Witness for the Prosecution* |
| 1958 | **Vincente Minnelli** | Gigi |
| Richard Brooks | *Cat on a Hot Tin Roof* |
| Stanley Kramer | *The Defiant Ones* |
| Robert Wise | *I Want to Live!* |
| Delbert Mann | *Separate Tables* |
| 1959 | **William Wyler** | Ben-Hur |
| Otto Preminger | *Anatomy of a Murder* |
| George Stevens | *The Diary of Anne Frank* |
| Fred Zinnemann | *The Nun's Story* |
| Stanley Kramer | *On the Beach* |

### 1960s

| Year | Nominees | Film |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1960 | **Jack Cardiff** | Sons and Lovers |
| Billy Wilder | *The Apartment* |
| Richard Brooks | *Elmer Gantry* |
| Stanley Kubrick | *Spartacus* |
| Fred Zinnemann | *The Sundowners* |
| 1961 | **Stanley Kramer** | Judgment at Nuremberg |
| William Wyler | *The Children's Hour* |
| Anthony Mann | *El Cid* |
| J. Lee Thompson | *The Guns of Navarone* |
| Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise | *West Side Story* |
| 1962 | **David Lean** | Lawrence of Arabia |
| George Cukor | *The Chapman Report* |
| Blake Edwards | *Days of Wine and Roses* |
| John Huston | *Freud: The Secret Passion* |
| Mervyn LeRoy | *Gypsy* |
| Martin Ritt | *Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man* |
| Stanley Kubrick | *Lolita* |
| John Frankenheimer | *The Manchurian Candidate* |
| Morton DaCosta | *The Music Man* |
| Ismael Rodríguez | *My Son, the Hero (Los Hermanos Del Hierro)* |
| Robert Mulligan | *To Kill a Mockingbird* |
| 1963 | **Elia Kazan** | America America |
| Otto Preminger | *The Cardinal* |
| Hall Bartlett | *The Caretakers* |
| Joseph L. Mankiewicz | *Cleopatra* |
| Robert Wise | *The Haunting* |
| Martin Ritt | *Hud* |
| Tony Richardson | *Tom Jones* |
| George Englund | *The Ugly American* |
| 1964 | **George Cukor** | My Fair Lady |
| Peter Glenville | *Becket* |
| John Huston | *The Night of the Iguana* |
| John Frankenheimer | *Seven Days in May* |
| Michael Cacoyannis | *Zorba the Greek* |
| 1965 | **David Lean** | Doctor Zhivago |
| William Wyler | *The Collector* |
| John Schlesinger | *Darling* |
| Guy Green | *A Patch of Blue* |
| Robert Wise | *The Sound of Music* |
| 1966 | **Fred Zinnemann** | A Man for All Seasons |
| Lewis Gilbert | *Alfie* |
| Claude Lelouch | *A Man and a Woman* |
| Robert Wise | *The Sand Pebbles* |
| Mike Nichols | *Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?* |
| 1967 | **Mike Nichols** | The Graduate |
| Arthur Penn | *Bonnie and Clyde* |
| Mark Rydell | *The Fox* |
| Stanley Kramer | *Guess Who's Coming to Dinner* |
| Norman Jewison | *In the Heat of the Night* |
| 1968 | **Paul Newman** | Rachel, Rachel |
| William Wyler | *Funny Girl* |
| Anthony Harvey | *The Lion in Winter* |
| Carol Reed | *Oliver!* |
| Franco Zeffirelli | *Romeo and Juliet* |
| 1969 | **Charles Jarrott** | Anne of the Thousand Days |
| Gene Kelly | *Hello, Dolly!* |
| John Schlesinger | *Midnight Cowboy* |
| Stanley Kramer | *The Secret of Santa Vittoria* |
| Sydney Pollack | *They Shoot Horses, Don't They?* |

### 1970s

| Year | Nominees | Film |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1970 | **Arthur Hiller** | Love Story |
| Bob Rafelson | *Five Easy Pieces* |
| Robert Altman | *M\*A\*S\*H* |
| Franklin J. Schaffner | *Patton* |
| Ken Russell | *Women in Love* |
| 1971 | **William Friedkin** | The French Connection |
| Stanley Kubrick | *A Clockwork Orange* |
| Norman Jewison | *Fiddler on the Roof* |
| Peter Bogdanovich | *The Last Picture Show* |
| Robert Mulligan | *Summer of '42* |
| 1972 | **Francis Ford Coppola** | The Godfather |
| Billy Wilder | *Avanti!* |
| Bob Fosse | *Cabaret* |
| John Boorman | *Deliverance* |
| Alfred Hitchcock | *Frenzy* |
| 1973 | **William Friedkin** | The Exorcist |
| George Lucas | *American Graffiti* |
| Fred Zinnemann | *The Day of the Jackal* |
| Bernardo Bertolucci | *Last Tango in Paris* |
| Peter Bogdanovich | *Paper Moon* |
| 1974 | **Roman Polanski** | Chinatown |
| Francis Ford Coppola | *The Conversation* |
| *The Godfather Part II* |
| Bob Fosse | *Lenny* |
| John Cassavetes | *A Woman Under the Influence* |
| 1975 | **Miloš Forman** | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| Stanley Kubrick | *Barry Lyndon* |
| Sidney Lumet | *Dog Day Afternoon* |
| Steven Spielberg | *Jaws* |
| Robert Altman | *Nashville* |
| 1976 | **Sidney Lumet** | Network |
| Alan J. Pakula | *All the President's Men* |
| Hal Ashby | *Bound for Glory* |
| John Schlesinger | *Marathon Man* |
| John G. Avildsen | *Rocky* |
| 1977 | **Herbert Ross** | The Turning Point |
| Woody Allen | *Annie Hall* |
| Steven Spielberg | *Close Encounters of the Third Kind* |
| Fred Zinnemann | *Julia* |
| George Lucas | *Star Wars* |
| 1978 | **Michael Cimino** | The Deer Hunter |
| Hal Ashby | *Coming Home* |
| Terrence Malick | *Days of Heaven* |
| Woody Allen | *Interiors* |
| Alan Parker | *Midnight Express* |
| Paul Mazursky | *An Unmarried Woman* |
| 1979 | **Francis Ford Coppola** | Apocalypse Now |
| Hal Ashby | *Being There* |
| Peter Yates | *Breaking Away* |
| James Bridges | *The China Syndrome* |
| Robert Benton | *Kramer vs. Kramer* |

### 1980s

| Year | Nominees | Film |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1980 | **Robert Redford** | Ordinary People |
| David Lynch | *The Elephant Man* |
| Martin Scorsese | *Raging Bull* |
| Richard Rush | *The Stunt Man* |
| Roman Polanski | *Tess* |
| 1981 | **Warren Beatty** | Reds |
| Louis Malle | *Atlantic City* |
| Mark Rydell | *On Golden Pond* |
| Sidney Lumet | *Prince of the City* |
| Miloš Forman | *Ragtime* |
| Steven Spielberg | *Raiders of the Lost Ark* |
| 1982 | **Richard Attenborough** | Gandhi |
| Steven Spielberg | *E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial* |
| Constantin Costa-Gavras | *Missing* |
| Sydney Pollack | *Tootsie* |
| Sidney Lumet | *The Verdict* |
| 1983 | **Barbra Streisand** | Yentl |
| Peter Yates | *The Dresser* |
| Ingmar Bergman | *Fanny and Alexander* |
| Mike Nichols | *Silkwood* |
| Bruce Beresford | *Tender Mercies* |
| James L. Brooks | *Terms of Endearment* |
| 1984 | **Miloš Forman** | Amadeus |
| Francis Ford Coppola | *The Cotton Club* |
| Roland Joffé | *The Killing Fields* |
| Sergio Leone | *Once Upon a Time in America* |
| David Lean | *A Passage to India* |
| 1985 | **John Huston** | Prizzi's Honor |
| Richard Attenborough | *A Chorus Line* |
| Steven Spielberg | *The Color Purple* |
| Sydney Pollack | *Out of Africa* |
| Peter Weir | *Witness* |
| 1986 | **Oliver Stone** | Platoon |
| Woody Allen | *Hannah and Her Sisters* |
| Roland Joffé | *The Mission* |
| James Ivory | *A Room with a View* |
| Rob Reiner | *Stand by Me* |
| 1987 | **Bernardo Bertolucci** | The Last Emperor |
| James L. Brooks | *Broadcast News* |
| Richard Attenborough | *Cry Freedom* |
| Adrian Lyne | *Fatal Attraction* |
| John Boorman | *Hope and Glory* |
| 1988 | **Clint Eastwood** | Bird |
| Fred Schepisi | *A Cry in the Dark* |
| Alan Parker | *Mississippi Burning* |
| Barry Levinson | *Rain Man* |
| Sidney Lumet | *Running on Empty* |
| Mike Nichols | *Working Girl* |
| 1989 | **Oliver Stone** | Born on the Fourth of July |
| Peter Weir | *Dead Poets Society* |
| Spike Lee | *Do the Right Thing* |
| Edward Zwick | *Glory* |
| Rob Reiner | *When Harry Met Sally...* |

### 1990s

| Year | Nominees | Film |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1990 | **Kevin Costner** | Dances with Wolves |
| Francis Ford Coppola | *The Godfather Part III* |
| Martin Scorsese | *Goodfellas* |
| Barbet Schroeder | *Reversal of Fortune* |
| Bernardo Bertolucci | *The Sheltering Sky* |
| 1991 | **Oliver Stone** | JFK |
| Barry Levinson | *Bugsy* |
| Terry Gilliam | *The Fisher King* |
| Barbra Streisand | *The Prince of Tides* |
| Jonathan Demme | *The Silence of the Lambs* |
| 1992 | **Clint Eastwood** | Unforgiven |
| Rob Reiner | *A Few Good Men* |
| James Ivory | *Howards End* |
| Robert Altman | *The Player* |
| Robert Redford | *A River Runs Through It* |
| 1993 | **Steven Spielberg** | Schindler's List |
| Martin Scorsese | *The Age of Innocence* |
| Andrew Davis | *The Fugitive* |
| Jane Campion | *The Piano* |
| James Ivory | *The Remains of the Day* |
| 1994 | **Robert Zemeckis** | Forrest Gump |
| Edward Zwick | *Legends of the Fall* |
| Oliver Stone | *Natural Born Killers* |
| Quentin Tarantino | *Pulp Fiction* |
| Robert Redford | *Quiz Show* |
| 1995 | **Mel Gibson** | Braveheart |
| Rob Reiner | *The American President* |
| Ron Howard | *Apollo 13* |
| Martin Scorsese | *Casino* |
| Mike Figgis | *Leaving Las Vegas* |
| Ang Lee | *Sense and Sensibility* |
| 1996 | **Miloš Forman** | The People vs. Larry Flynt |
| Anthony Minghella | *The English Patient* |
| Alan Parker | *Evita* |
| Joel Coen | *Fargo* |
| Scott Hicks | *Shine* |
| 1997 | **James Cameron** | Titanic |
| Steven Spielberg | *Amistad* |
| James L. Brooks | *As Good as It Gets* |
| Jim Sheridan | *The Boxer* |
| Curtis Hanson | *L.A. Confidential* |
| 1998 | **Steven Spielberg** | Saving Private Ryan |
| Shekhar Kapur | *Elizabeth* |
| Robert Redford | *The Horse Whisperer* |
| John Madden | *Shakespeare in Love* |
| Peter Weir | *The Truman Show* |
| 1999 | **Sam Mendes** | American Beauty |
| Neil Jordan | *The End of the Affair* |
| Norman Jewison | *The Hurricane* |
| Michael Mann | *The Insider* |
| Anthony Minghella | *The Talented Mr. Ripley* |

### 2000s

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

### 2010s

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

### 2020s

| Year | Nominees | Film |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2020 | **Chloé Zhao** | Nomadland |
| David Fincher | *Mank* |
| Regina King | *One Night in Miami...* |
| Emerald Fennell | *Promising Young Woman* |
| Aaron Sorkin | *The Trial of the Chicago 7* |
| 2021 | **Jane Campion** | The Power of the Dog |
| Kenneth Branagh | *Belfast* |
| Denis Villeneuve | *Dune* |
| Maggie Gyllenhaal | *The Lost Daughter* |
| Steven Spielberg | *West Side Story* |

## Multiple nominations

13 nominations
* Steven Spielberg (13/2)

9 nominations
* Martin Scorsese (9/3)

7 nominations
* Clint Eastwood (7/3)
* Fred Zinnemann (7/2)

6 nominations
* Francis Ford Coppola (6/2)
* Sidney Lumet (6/1)

5 nominations

* Woody Allen (5/0)
* John Huston (5/2)
* Stanley Kramer (5/1)
* Mike Nichols (5/1)
* Billy Wilder (5/2)
* Robert Wise (5/0)

4 nominations

* Robert Altman (4/1)
* David Fincher (4/1)
* Miloš Forman (4/3)
* Peter Jackson (4/1)
* Elia Kazan (4/4)
* Stanley Kubrick (4/0)
* David Lean (4/3)
* Ang Lee (4/2)
* Alexander Payne (4/0)
* Robert Redford (4/1)
* Rob Reiner (4/0)
* Ridley Scott (4/0)
* Oliver Stone (4/3)
* Quentin Tarantino (4/0)
* Peter Weir (4/0)
* William Wyler (4/1)

3 nominations

* Hal Ashby (3/0)
* Richard Attenborough (3/1)
* Bernardo Bertolucci (3/1)
* James L. Brooks (3/0)
* George Cukor (3/1)
* Ron Howard (3/0)
* Alejandro González Iñárritu (3/1)
* James Ivory (3/0)
* Norman Jewison (3/0)
* Sam Mendes (3/2)
* Anthony Minghella (3/0)
* Vincente Minnelli (3/1)
* Alan Parker (3/0)
* Sydney Pollack (3/0)
* John Schlesinger (3/0)
* George Stevens (3/0)

2 nominations

* Kathryn Bigelow (2/0)
* Peter Bogdanovich (2/0)
* John Boorman (2/0)
* Richard Brooks (2/0)
* James Cameron (2/2)
* Jane Campion (2/1)
* George Clooney (2/0)
* Joel Coen (2/0)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2/2)
* Stephen Daldry (2/0)
* Bob Fosse (2/0)
* William Friedkin (2/2)
* John Frankenheimer (2/0)
* Mel Gibson (2/1)
* Roland Joffé (2/0)
* Spike Lee (2/0)
* Barry Levinson (2/0)
* Joshua Logan (2/1)
* George Lucas (2/0)
* David Lynch (2/0)
* Joseph L. Mankiewicz (2/0)
* Robert Mulligan (2/0)
* Christopher Nolan (2/0)
* Roman Polanski (2/1)
* Otto Preminger (2/0)
* Martin Ritt (2/0)
* David O. Russell (2/0)
* Mark Rydell (2/0)
* Steven Soderbergh (2/0)
* Barbra Streisand (2/1)
* Peter Yates (2/0)
* Edward Zwick (2/0)

## Multiple winners

4 awards
* Elia Kazan

3 awards

* Clint Eastwood
* Miloš Forman
* David Lean
* Martin Scorsese
* Oliver Stone

2 awards

* James Cameron
* Francis Ford Coppola
* Alfonso Cuarón
* William Friedkin
* John Huston
* Ang Lee
* Sam Mendes
* Steven Spielberg
* Billy Wilder
* Fred Zinnemann