Goya Award for Best Director
The Goya Award for Best Director (Spanish: Premio Goya a la mejor dirección) is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards.
In the list below the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees.
Winners and nominees
1980s
| Year | Director | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 (1st) |
Fernando Fernán Gómez | Voyage to Nowhere | El viaje a ninguna parte |
| Emilio Martínez Lázaro | Lulu by Night | Lulú de noche | |
| Pilar Miró | Werther | ||
| 1987 (2nd) |
José Luis Garci | Course Completed | Asignatura aprobada |
| Bigas Luna | Anguish | Angustia | |
| Vicente Aranda | El Lute: Run for Your Life | El Lute: camina o revienta | |
| 1988 (3rd) |
Gonzalo Suárez | Rowing with the Wind | Remando al viento |
| Pedro Almodóvar | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios | |
| Ricardo Franco | Berlin Blues | Berlín Blues | |
| Antonio Mercero | Wait for Me in Heaven | Espérame en el cielo | |
| Francisco Regueiro | Winter Diary | Diario de invierno | |
| 1989 (4th) |
Fernando Trueba | Twisted Obsession | El sueño del mono loco |
| Vicente Aranda | If They Tell You I Fell | Si te dicen que caí | |
| Fernando Fernán Gómez | The Sea and the Weather | El mar y el tiempo | |
| Josefina Molina | Esquilache | ||
| Agustí Villaronga | Moon Child | El niño de la luna | |
1990s
2000s
2010s
Multiple nominations
The following 26 directors have received multiple Best Director nominations.
| Name | Awards | Nominations |
|---|---|---|
| Pedro Almodóvar | 2 | 8 |
| Fernando Trueba | 2 | 5 |
| Alejandro Amenábar | 2 | 4 |
| Fernando León de Aranoa | 2 | 3 |
| Vicente Aranda | 1 | 6 |
| José Luis Garci | 1 | 4 |
| Álex de la Iglesia | 1 | 4 |
| Icíar Bollaín | 1 | 3 |
| Pilar Miró | 1 | 3 |
| Imanol Uribe | 1 | 3 |
| Alberto Rodríguez | 1 | 3 |
| Isabel Coixet | 1 | 3 |
| Fernando Fernán Gómez | 1 | 2 |
| Ricardo Franco | 1 | 2 |
| Carlos Saura | 1 | 2 |
| David Trueba | 1 | 2 |
| Agustí Villaronga | 1 | 2 |
| Daniel Monzón | 1 | 2 |
| Cesc Gay | 1 | 2 |
| Montxo Armendáriz | 0 | 3 |
| Agustín Díaz Yanes | 0 | 3 |
| Emilio Martínez Lázaro | 0 | 3 |
| Gracia Querejeta | 0 | 3 |
| Benito Zambrano | 0 | 3 |
| Adolfo Aristarain | 0 | 2 |
| José Luis Cuerda | 0 | 2 |
| Bigas Luna | 0 | 2 |
| Julio Medem | 0 | 2 |
