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 Gonzalez Inarritu - 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'Amelie 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 Almodovar - 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 gaestebud
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 Joffe - 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 Joffe - 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 - Milos 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 - Francois Truffaut - Day for Night
Luis Bunuel - 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....