BAFTA Award for Best Direction

Winners of the BAFTA Award for Best Direction presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Martin Scorsese has had the most nominations (Eight).

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 - 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 - 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

See also

• Academy Award for Best Director
• Golden Globe Award for Best Director
• Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film