Silver Shell for Best Director

The Silver Shell for Best Director (Template:Lang-es; Template:Lang-eu) is one of the main awards presented at the San Sebastián Film Festival to the director of a competing film.

Award winners

Year	Film	Director
1953	La guerra de Dios	Rafael Gil
1954	La patrulla	Pedro Lazaga
1956	Il ferroviere	Pietro Germi
1957	Dedécek automobil	Alfréd Radok
	Ich suche Dich	O. W. Fischer
1958	Vertigo	Alfred Hitchcock
1959	North by Northwest	Alfred Hitchcock
	Dagli Appennini alle Ande	Folco Quilici
1960	The Fugitive Kind	Sidney Lumet
1961	L'imprevisto	Alberto Lattuada
1962	Senilità	Mauro Bolognini
1963	Au coeur de la vie	Robert Enrico
1964	La Tía Tula	Miguel Picazo
1965	Casanova 70	Mario Monicelli
1966	Madamigella di Maupin	Mauro Bolognini
1967	Yowita	Janusz Morgenstern
1968	The Long Day’s Dying	Peter Collinson
1969-1977	No Award	N/A
1977	de	Alf Brustellin
		Bernhard Sinkel
1978	Sonámbulos	Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
1979	Angi Vera	Pál Gábor
1980-1983	No Award	N/A
1984	Notre mariage	Valeria Sarmiento
1985	La ciudad y los perros	Francisco Lombardi
1986	Welcome in Vienna	Axel Corti
1987	Crazy Love	Dominique Deruddere
1988	Remando al viento	Gonzalo Suárez
1989	Konsul	Miroslaw Bork
1990	Miller's Crossing	Joel Coen
1991	Highway 61	Bruce McDonald
1992	Tito i ja	Goran Markovic
1993	Tombés du ciel	Philippe Lioret
1994	Shallow Grave	Danny Boyle
1995	Leaving Las Vegas	Mike Figgis
1996	Bajo la piel	Francisco Lombardi
1997	Rien ne va plus	Claude Chabrol
1998	Barrio	Fernando León de Aranoa
1999	Shower	Zhang Yang
	La Maladie de Sachs	Michel Deville (ex aequo)
2000	Före Stormen (Before the storm)	Reza Parsa
2001	C'est la vie	Jean-Pierre Améris
2002	Together	Chen Kaige
2003	Sa-lin-eui chu-eok (Memories of murder)	Bong Joon-ho
2004	Letter from an Unknown Woman	Xu Jinglei
2005	Sunflower	Zhang Yang
2006	Delirious	Tom DiCillo
2007	Battle for Haditha	Nick Broomfield
2008	Genova	Michael Winterbottom
2009	La mujer sin piano (Woman Without Piano)	Javier Rebollo
2010	Mistérios de Lisboa (Mysteries of Lisbon)	Raúl Ruiz
2011	Adikos Kosmos	Filippos Tsitos
2012	The Artist and the Model	Fernando Trueba
2013	Club Sandwich	Fernando Eimbcke
2014	Magical Girl	Carlos Vermut
2015	The White Knights (Les Chevaliers Blancs)	Joachim Lafosse