Title: BAFTA Award for Best Direction Content: This is a list of the winners of the BAFTA Award for Best Direction. They are presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Italian-American director Martin Scorsese has had the most nominations, eight so far. ==2010s== * 2011 - Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist ** Tomas Alfredson – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ** Lynne Ramsay – We Need to Talk About Kevin ** Nicolas Winding Refn – Drive ** Martin Scorsese – Hugo * 2010 - David Fincher - The Social Network ** Tom Hooper - The King's Speech ** Danny Boyle - 127 Hours ** Darren Aronofsky - Black Swan ** Christopher Nolan - Inception ==2000s== * 2009 - Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker ** James Cameron - Avatar ** Neill Blomkamp - District 9 ** Lone Scherfig - An Education ** Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds * 2008 - Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire ** Clint Eastwood - Changeling ** David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ** Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon ** Stephen Daldry - The Reader * 2007 - Ethan and Joel Coen - No Country For Old Men ** Joe Wright - Atonement ** Paul Greengrass - The Bourne Ultimatum ** Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck - The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) ** Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood * 2006 - Paul Greengrass - United 93 ** Martin Scorsese - The Departed ** Stephen Frears - The Queen ** Alejandro González Iñárritu - Babel ** Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris - Little Miss Sunshine * 2005 - Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain ** George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck ** Paul Haggis - Crash ** Fernando Meirelles - The Constant Gardener ** Bennett Miller - Capote * 2004 - Mike Leigh - Vera Drake ** Martin Scorsese - The Aviator ** Marc Forster - Finding Neverland ** Michael Mann - Collateral ** Michel Gondry - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind * 2003 - Peter Weir - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ** Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ** Sofia Coppola - Lost in Translation ** Anthony Minghella - Cold Mountain ** Tim Burton - Big Fish * 2002 - Roman Polanski - The Pianist ** Rob Marshall - Chicago ** Stephen Daldry - The Hours ** Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ** Martin Scorsese - Gangs of New York * 2001 - Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ** Ron Howard - A Beautiful Mind ** Baz Luhrmann - Moulin Rouge! ** Robert Altman - Gosford Park ** Jean-Pierre Jeunet - Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain * 2000 - Ang Lee - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ** Steven Soderbergh - Traffic ** Steven Soderbergh - Erin Brockovich ** Ridley Scott - Gladiator ** Stephen Daldry - Billy Elliot ==1990s== * 1999 - Pedro Almodóvar - Todo sobre mi madre ** Sam Mendes - American Beauty ** M. Night Shyamalan - The Sixth Sense ** Anthony Minghella - The Talented Mr. Ripley ** Neil Jordan - The End of the Affair * 1998 - Peter Weir - The Truman Show ** John Madden - Shakespeare in Love ** Shekhar Kapur - Elizabeth ** Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan * 1997 - Baz Luhrmann - Romeo + Juliet ** James Cameron - Titanic ** Curtis Hanson - L.A. Confidential ** Peter Cattaneo - The Full Monty * 1996 - Joel Coen - Fargo ** Anthony Minghella - The English Patient ** Scott Hicks - Shine ** Mike Leigh - Secrets & Lies * 1995 - Michael Radford - Il Postino ** Mel Gibson - Braveheart ** Ang Lee - Sense and Sensibility ** Nicholas Hytner - The Madness of King George * 1994 - Mike Newell - Four Weddings and a Funeral ** Robert Zemeckis - Forrest Gump ** Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction ** Krzysztof Kieslowski - Trois couleurs: Rouge * 1993 - Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List ** Jane Campion - The Piano ** James Ivory - The Remains of the Day ** Richard Attenborough - Shadowlands * 1992 - Robert Altman - The Player ** Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven ** Neil Jordan - The Crying Game ** James Ivory - Howards End * 1991 - Alan Parker - The Commitments ** Jonathan Demme - The Silence of the Lambs ** Ridley Scott - Thelma & Louise ** Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves * 1990 - Martin Scorsese - GoodFellas ** Woody Allen - Crimes and Misdemeanors ** Bruce Beresford - Driving Miss Daisy ** Giuseppe Tornatore - Nuovo cinema Paradiso ==1980s== * 1989 - Kenneth Branagh - Henry V ** Stephen Frears - Dangerous Liaisons ** Peter Weir - Dead Poets Society ** Alan Parker - Mississippi Burning * 1988 - Louis Malle - Au revoir les enfants ** Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor ** Charles Crichton - A Fish Called Wanda ** Gabriel Axel - Babettes gæstebud * 1987 - Oliver Stone - Platoon ** Claude Berri - Jean de Florette ** John Boorman - Hope and Glory ** Richard Attenborough - Cry Freedom * 1986 - Woody Allen - Hannah and Her Sisters ** Roland Joffé - The Mission ** Neil Jordan - Mona Lisa ** James Ivory - A Room with a View * 1985 - - * 1984 - Wim Wenders - Paris, Texas ** Sergio Leone - Once Upon a Time in America ** Roland Joffé - The Killing Fields ** Peter Yates - The Dresser * 1983 - Bill Forsyth - Local Hero ** Sydney Pollack - Tootsie ** Martin Scorsese - The King of Comedy ** James Ivory - Heat and Dust * 1982 - Richard Attenborough - Gandhi ** Steven Spielberg - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ** Costa-Gavras - Missing ** Mark Rydell - On Golden Pond * 1981 - Louis Malle - Atlantic City ** Hugh Hudson - Chariots of Fire ** Karel Reisz - The French Lieutenant's Woman ** Bill Forsyth - Gregory's Girl * 1980 - Akira Kurosawa - Kagemusha ** David Lynch - The Elephant Man ** Alan Parker - Fame ** Robert Benton - Kramer vs. Kramer ==1970s== * 1979 - Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now ** Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter ** Woody Allen - Manhattan ** John Schlesinger - Yanks * 1978 - Alan Parker - Midnight Express ** Steven Spielberg - Close Encounters of the Third Kind ** Fred Zinnemann - Julia ** Robert Altman - A Wedding * 1977 - Woody Allen - Annie Hall ** John G. Avildsen - Rocky ** Sidney Lumet - Network ** Richard Attenborough - A Bridge Too Far * 1976 - Miloš Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ** Alan J. Pakula - All the President's Men ** Martin Scorsese - Taxi Driver ** Alan Parker - Bugsy Malone * 1975 - Stanley Kubrick - Barry Lyndon ** Steven Spielberg - Jaws ** Sidney Lumet - Dog Day Afternoon ** Martin Scorsese - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore * 1974 - Roman Polanski - Chinatown ** Francis Ford Coppola - The Conversation ** Louis Malle - Lacombe Lucien ** Sidney Lumet - Murder on the Orient Express ** Sidney Lumet - Serpico * 1973 - François Truffaut - Day for Night ** Luis Buñuel - The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie ** Fred Zinnemann - The Day of the Jackal ** Nicolas Roeg - Don't Look Now * 1972 - Bob Fosse - Cabaret ** Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange ** William Friedkin - The French Connection ** Peter Bogdanovich - The Last Picture Show * 1971 - John Schlesinger - Sunday Bloody Sunday ** Joseph Losey - The Go-Between ** Luchino Visconti - Death in Venice ** Milos Forman - Taking Off * 1970 - George Roy Hill - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ** Ken Loach - Kes ** Robert Altman - MASH ** David Lean - Ryan's Daughter ==1960s== * 1969 - John Schlesinger - Midnight Cowboy ** Peter Yates - Bullitt ** Richard Attenborough - Oh! What a Lovely War ** Ken Russell - Women in Love * 1968 - Mike Nichols - The Graduate ** Carol Reed - Oliver! ** Lindsay Anderson - If.... ** Franco Zeffirelli - Romeo and Juliet Category:BAFTA Awards