Best Director
390 nominations · 83 winners · 83 years
Parasite
The Irishman
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Joker
Vice
Green Book
BlacKkKlansman
Dunkirk
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
All the Money in the World
The Post
Moonlight
Manchester by the Sea
Hacksaw Ridge
Nocturnal Animals
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
Carol
Spotlight
Selma
Gone Girl
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Nebraska
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
12 Years a Slave
Life of Pi
Zero Dark Thirty
Django Unchained
Lincoln
The Descendants
The Ides of March
The Artist
Midnight in Paris
Inception
Black Swan
The Fighter
The King's Speech
Invictus
Up in the Air
Inglourious Basterds
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Revolutionary Road
The Reader
No Country for Old Men
Atonement
American Gangster
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Letters from Iwo Jima
Flags of Our Fathers
The Queen
The Constant Gardener
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Munich
Match Point
Sideways
Finding Neverland
The Aviator
Closer
Cold Mountain
Mystic River
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Lost in Translation
About Schmidt
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Chicago
Adaptation.
The Hours
Moulin Rouge!
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
A Beautiful Mind
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Gladiator
Traffic
Erin Brockovich
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Insider
The End of the Affair
The Hurricane
Shakespeare in Love
The Truman Show
The Horse Whisperer
Elizabeth
L.A. Confidential
As Good as It Gets
The Boxer
Amistad
Evita
The English Patient
Fargo
Shine
Sense and Sensibility
Casino
Leaving Las Vegas
The American President
Apollo 13
Legends of the Fall
Natural Born Killers
Pulp Fiction
Quiz Show
The Fugitive
The Remains of the Day
The Piano
The Age of Innocence
Howards End
A Few Good Men
The Player
A River Runs Through It
The Prince of Tides
Bugsy
The Silence of the Lambs
The Fisher King
Reversal of Fortune
The Sheltering Sky
The Godfather Part III
GoodFellas
Glory
Dead Poets Society
When Harry Met Sally...
Do the Right Thing
Mississippi Burning
Rain Man
Cry in the Dark, A
Working Girl
Running on Empty
Fatal Attraction
Broadcast News
Hope and Glory
Cry Freedom
A Room with a View
Stand by Me
The Mission
Hannah and Her Sisters
Witness
Chorus Line: The Movie, A
The Color Purple
Out of Africa
A Passage to India
The Cotton Club
The Killing Fields
Once Upon a Time in America
Tender Mercies
Terms of Endearment
Silkwood
The Dresser
Missing
The Verdict
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Tootsie
On Golden Pond
Ragtime
Prince of the City
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Elephant Man
Raging Bull
The Stunt Man
Being There
The China Syndrome
Breaking Away
Kramer vs. Kramer
Midnight Express
Coming Home
An Unmarried Woman
Days of Heaven
Interiors
Julia
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Annie Hall
All the President's Men
Bound for Glory
Rocky
Marathon Man
Nashville
Dog Day Afternoon
Barry Lyndon
Jaws
Lenny
The Conversation
A Woman Under the Influence
The Day of the Jackal
American Graffiti
Paper Moon
Frenzy
Avanti!
Cabaret
Deliverance
Fiddler on the Roof
The Last Picture Show
Summer of '42
A Clockwork Orange
Five Easy Pieces
Patton
M*A*S*H
Hello, Dolly!
Midnight Cowboy
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
The Lion in Winter
Oliver!
Romeo and Juliet
Funny Girl
Bonnie and Clyde
The Fox
In the Heat of the Night
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
A Man and a Woman
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Sand Pebbles
A Patch of Blue
Darling
The Sound of Music
The Collector
Seven Days in May
The Night of the Iguana
Zorba the Greek
Becket
Ugly American, The
The Caretakers
Cleopatra
Hud
The Cardinal
The Haunting
Tom Jones
The Chapman Report
The Manchurian Candidate
Freud
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
Gypsy
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lolita
El Cid
The Guns of Navarone
West Side Story
The Children's Hour
The Apartment
The Sundowners
Elmer Gantry
Spartacus
The Nun's Story
The Diary of Anne Frank
Anatomy of a Murder
On the Beach
Separate Tables
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
I Want to Live!
The Defiant Ones
Witness for the Prosecution
A Hatful of Rain
Sayonara
Giant
War and Peace
Around the World in 80 Days
Lust for Life
The Quiet Man
The Happy Time
A Place in the Sun
An American in Paris
Born Yesterday
The Asphalt Jungle
All About Eve
The Heiress
