BAFTA Award for Best Direction

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_