BAFTA Award for Best Direction

Winners of the BAFTA Award for Best Direction presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Italian-American director Martin Scorsese has had the most nominations, eight so far.

2010s

Year	Director	Film
2012 66th
	Ben Affleck	Argo
	Kathryn Bigelow	Zero Dark Thirty
	Michael Haneke	Amour
	Ang Lee	Life of Pi
	Quentin Tarantino	Django Unchained
2011 65th
	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 64th
	David Fincher	The Social Network
	Darren Aronofsky	Black Swan
	Danny Boyle	127 Hours
	Tom Hooper	The King's Speech
	Christopher Nolan	Inception

2000s

Year	Director	Film
2009 63rd
	Kathryn Bigelow	The Hurt Locker
	James Cameron	Avatar
	Neill Blomkamp	District 9
	Lone Scherfig	An Education
	Quentin Tarantino	Inglourious Basterds
2008 62nd
	Danny Boyle	Slumdog Millionaire
	Clint Eastwood	Changeling
	David Fincher	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
	Ron Howard	Frost/Nixon
	Stephen Daldry	The Reader
2007 61st
	Ethan & 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 60th
	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 59th
	Ang Lee	Brokeback Mountain
	George Clooney	Good Night, and Good Luck
	Paul Haggis	Crash
	Fernando Meirelles	The Constant Gardener
	Bennett Miller	Capote
2004 58th
	Mike Leigh	Vera Drake
	Martin Scorsese	The Aviator
	Marc Forster	Finding Neverland
	Michael Mann	Collateral
	Michel Gondry	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2003 57th
	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 56th
	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 55th
	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 54th
	Ang Lee	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
	Steven Soderbergh	Traffic
	Steven Soderbergh	Erin Brockovich
	Ridley Scott	Gladiator
	Stephen Daldry	Billy Elliot

1990s

Year	Director	Film
1999 53rd
	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 52nd
	Peter Weir	The Truman Show
	John Madden	Shakespeare in Love
	Shekhar Kapur	Elizabeth
	Steven Spielberg	Saving Private Ryan
1997 51st
	Baz Luhrmann	Romeo + Juliet
	James Cameron	Titanic
	Curtis Hanson	L.A. Confidential
	Peter Cattaneo	The Full Monty
1996 50th
	Joel Coen	Fargo
	Anthony Minghella	The English Patient
	Scott Hicks	Shine
	Mike Leigh	Secrets & Lies
1995 49th
	Michael Radford	Il Postino
	Mel Gibson	Braveheart
	Ang Lee	Sense and Sensibility
	Nicholas Hytner	The Madness of King George
1994 48th
	Mike Newell	Four Weddings and a Funeral
	Robert Zemeckis	Forrest Gump
	Quentin Tarantino	Pulp Fiction
	Krzysztof Kieslowski	Trois couleurs: Rouge
1993 47th
	Steven Spielberg	Schindler's List
	Jane Campion	The Piano
	James Ivory	The Remains of the Day
	Richard Attenborough	Shadowlands
1992 46th
	Robert Altman	The Player
	Clint Eastwood	Unforgiven
	Neil Jordan	The Crying Game
	James Ivory	Howards End
1991 45th
	Alan Parker	The Commitments
	Jonathan Demme	The Silence of the Lambs
	Ridley Scott	Thelma & Louise
	Kevin Costner	Dances with Wolves
1990 44th
	Martin Scorsese	GoodFellas
	Woody Allen	Crimes and Misdemeanors
	Bruce Beresford	Driving Miss Daisy
	Giuseppe Tornatore	Nuovo cinema Paradiso

1980s

Year	Director	Film
1989 43rd
	Kenneth Branagh	Henry V
	Stephen Frears	Dangerous Liaisons
	Peter Weir	Dead Poets Society
	Alan Parker	Mississippi Burning
1988 42nd
	Louis Malle	Au revoir, les enfants
	Bernardo Bertolucci	The Last Emperor
	Charles Crichton	A Fish Called Wanda
	Gabriel Axel	Babettes gæstebud
1987 41st
	Oliver Stone	Platoon
	Claude Berri	Jean de Florette
	John Boorman	Hope and Glory
	Richard Attenborough	Cry Freedom
1986 40th
	Woody Allen	Hannah and Her Sisters
	Roland Joffé	The Mission
	Neil Jordan	Mona Lisa
	James Ivory	A Room with a View
1984 38th
	Wim Wenders	Paris, Texas
	Sergio Leone	Once Upon a Time in America
	Roland Joffé	The Killing Fields
	Peter Yates	The Dresser
1983 37th
	Bill Forsyth	Local Hero
	Sydney Pollack	Tootsie
	Martin Scorsese	The King of Comedy
	James Ivory	Heat and Dust
1982 36th
	Richard Attenborough	Gandhi
	Steven Spielberg	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
	Costa-Gavras	Missing
	Mark Rydell	On Golden Pond
1981 35th
	Louis Malle	Atlantic City
	Hugh Hudson	Chariots of Fire
	Karel Reisz	The French Lieutenant's Woman
	Bill Forsyth	Gregory's Girl
1980 34th
	Akira Kurosawa	Kagemusha
	David Lynch	The Elephant Man
	Alan Parker	Fame
	Robert Benton	Kramer vs. Kramer

1970s

Year	Director	Film
1979 33rd
	Francis Ford Coppola	Apocalypse Now
	Michael Cimino	The Deer Hunter
	Woody Allen	Manhattan
	John Schlesinger	Yanks
1978 32nd
	Alan Parker	Midnight Express
	Steven Spielberg	Close Encounters of the Third Kind
	Fred Zinnemann	Julia
	Robert Altman	A Wedding
1977 31st
	Woody Allen	Annie Hall
	John G. Avildsen	Rocky
	Sidney Lumet	Network
	Richard Attenborough	A Bridge Too Far
1976 30th
	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 29th
	Stanley Kubrick	Barry Lyndon
	Steven Spielberg	Jaws
	Sidney Lumet	Dog Day Afternoon
	Martin Scorsese	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1974 28th
	Roman Polanski	Chinatown
	Francis Ford Coppola	The Conversation
	Louis Malle	Lacombe Lucien
	Sidney Lumet	Murder on the Orient Express
	Sidney Lumet	Serpico
1973 27th
	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 26th
	Bob Fosse	Cabaret
	Stanley Kubrick	A Clockwork Orange
	William Friedkin	The French Connection
	Peter Bogdanovich	The Last Picture Show
1971 25th
	John Schlesinger	Sunday Bloody Sunday
	Joseph Losey	The Go-Between
	Luchino Visconti	Death in Venice
	Milos Forman	Taking Off
1970 24th
	George Roy Hill	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
	Ken Loach	Kes
	Robert Altman	MASH
	David Lean	Ryan's Daughter

1960s

Year	Director	Film
1969 23rd
	John Schlesinger	Midnight Cowboy
	Peter Yates	Bullitt
	Richard Attenborough	Oh! What a Lovely War
	Ken Russell	Women in Love
1968 22nd
	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