AACTA International Award for Best Direction

The AACTA International Award for Best Direction is an award that is presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), to a director of a film made outside Australia. It was first handed out by the Academy after its establishment in 2011 by the Australian Film Institute (AFI).^[1] The winners and nominees for 2011 were determined by a jury.^[2][3]

Best Direction AACTA International Award
The 2024 recipient: Michael Gracey
Country	Australia
Presented by	Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA)
First award	Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist (2011)
Currently held by	Michael Gracey, Better Man (2024)
Website	http://www.aacta.org

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the winner is marked in a separate colour, and highlighted in boldface; the nominees are those that are not highlighted or in boldface.^[3]

2010s

Year	Director	Film title
2011 (1st)
	Michel Hazanavicius	The Artist
	Nicolas Winding Refn	Drive
	Martin Scorsese	Hugo
	J. C. Chandor	Margin Call
	Lars von Trier	Melancholia
	Woody Allen	Midnight in Paris
	Terrence Malick	The Tree of Life
	Lynne Ramsay	We Need to Talk About Kevin
2012 (2nd)
	David O. Russell	Silver Linings Playbook
	Ben Affleck	Argo
	Ang Lee	Life of Pi
	Steven Spielberg	Lincoln
	Ben Lewin	The Sessions
	Kathryn Bigelow	Zero Dark Thirty
2013 (3rd)
	Alfonso Cuarón	Gravity
	Steve McQueen	12 Years a Slave
	David O. Russell	American Hustle
	Paul Greengrass	Captain Phillips
	Baz Luhrmann	The Great Gatsby
2014 (4th)
	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
	Richard Linklater	Boyhood
	Wes Anderson	The Grand Budapest Hotel
	Morten Tyldum	The Imitation Game
	Damien Chazelle	Whiplash
2015 (5th)
	George Miller	Mad Max: Fury Road
	Adam McKay	The Big Short
	Todd Haynes	Carol
	Ridley Scott	The Martian
	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	The Revenant
2016 (6th)
	Mel Gibson	Hacksaw Ridge
	Denis Villeneuve	Arrival
	Damien Chazelle	La La Land
	Garth Davis	Lion
	Kenneth Lonergan	Manchester by the Sea
2017 (7th)
	Christopher Nolan	Dunkirk
	Luca Guadagnino	Call Me by Your Name
	Craig Gillespie	I, Tonya
	Greta Gerwig	Lady Bird
	Guillermo del Toro	The Shape of Water
2018 (8th)
	Alfonso Cuarón	Roma
	Bradley Cooper	A Star Is Born
	Spike Lee	BlacKkKlansman
	Yorgos Lanthimos	The Favourite
	Warwick Thornton	Sweet Country
2019 (9th)
	Quentin Tarantino	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
	Sam Mendes	1917
	Martin Scorsese	The Irishman
	Todd Phillips	Joker
	Bong Joon-ho	Parasite

2020s

Year	Director	Film title
2020 (10th)
	Chloé Zhao	Nomadland
	David Fincher	Mank
	Emerald Fennell	Promising Young Woman
	Pete Docter	Soul
	Aaron Sorkin	The Trial of the Chicago 7
2021 (11th)
	Denis Villeneuve	Dune
	Kenneth Branagh	Belfast
	Paul Thomas Anderson	Licorice Pizza
	Justin Kurzel	Nitram
	Jane Campion	The Power of the Dog
2022 (12th)
	Baz Luhrmann	Elvis
	James Cameron	Avatar: The Way of Water
	Martin McDonagh	The Banshees of Inisherin
	Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert	Everything Everywhere All at Once
	Steven Spielberg	The Fabelmans
2023 (13th)
	Christopher Nolan	Oppenheimer
	Bradley Cooper	Maestro
	Greta Gerwig	Barbie
	Yorgos Lanthimos	Poor Things
	Martin Scorsese	Killers of the Flower Moon
2024 (14th)
	Michael Gracey	Better Man
	Jacques Audiard	Emilia Pérez
	Brady Corbet	The Brutalist
	George Miller	Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
	Denis Villeneuve	Dune: Part Two

See also

• AACTA Awards
• AACTA Award for Best Direction