Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film

The Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures is one of the annual Directors Guild of America Awards presented by the Directors Guild of America. With 3 wins out of 13 nominations, Steven Spielberg is both the most awarded and most nominated director of this category in the history of DGA, and the first director to receive DGA nominations in six consecutive decades.^[1] Additionally, Alejandro G. Iñárritu is the only director to win twice successively; he was awarded in 2015 and 2016 for his directorial achievements for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and The Revenant, respectively.^[2] Three directing teams have shared the award: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for West Side Story (1961), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men (2007), and Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022).

Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film
The 2024 recipient: Sean Baker
Awarded for	Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
Country	United States
Presented by	Directors Guild of America
First award	1948
Currently held by	Sean Baker for Anora (2024)

Predicting the Oscar's outcome

Since its inception the award has predicted the winner of the Academy Award for Best Director on all but eight occasions:

• 1968 – Anthony Harvey (The Lion in Winter); lost to Carol Reed (Oliver!)^[3]
• 1972 – Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather); lost to Bob Fosse (Cabaret)^[4]
• 1985 – Steven Spielberg (The Color Purple); despite the film's 11 total Oscar nominations, Spielberg was not nominated for Best Director.^[5]
• 1995 – Ron Howard (Apollo 13); Howard was not nominated for the Oscar.^[6]
• 2000 – Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon); lost to Steven Soderbergh (Traffic)^[7]
• 2002 – Rob Marshall (Chicago); lost to Roman Polanski (The Pianist)^[8]
• 2012 – Ben Affleck (Argo); Affleck was not nominated for the Oscar, although the film won Best Picture.^[9]
• 2019 – Sam Mendes (1917); lost to Bong Joon-ho (Parasite)^[10]

Winners and nominees

1940s

Year	Winners and nominees	Film	Ref.
1948 (1st)	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	A Letter to Three Wives	[11]
	Howard Hawks	Red River
	Anatole Litvak	The Snake Pit
	Fred Zinnemann	The Search
1949 (2nd)	Robert Rossen	All the King's Men	[12]
	Carol Reed	The Third Man
	Mark Robson	Champion
	Alfred L. Werker	Lost Boundaries

1950s

Year	Winners and nominees	Film	Ref.
1950 (3rd)	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	All About Eve	[13]
	John Huston	The Asphalt Jungle
	Vincente Minnelli	Father's Little Dividend
	Billy Wilder	Sunset Boulevard
1951 (4th)	George Stevens	A Place in the Sun	[14]
	László Benedek	Death of a Salesman
	Michael Gordon	Cyrano de Bergerac
	Alfred Hitchcock	Strangers on a Train
	Elia Kazan	A Streetcar Named Desire
	Henry King	David and Bathsheba
	Mervyn LeRoy	Quo Vadis
	Anatole Litvak	Decision Before Dawn
	Vincente Minnelli	An American in Paris
	George Sidney	Show Boat
	Richard Thorpe	The Great Caruso
	William Wyler	Detective Story
1952 (5th)	John Ford	The Quiet Man	[15]
	Charles Crichton	The Lavender Hill Mob
	George Cukor	Pat and Mike
	Michael Curtiz	I'll See You in My Dreams
	Cecil B. DeMille	The Greatest Show on Earth
	Hugo Fregonese	My Six Convicts
	Howard Hawks	The Big Sky
	Elia Kazan	Viva Zapata!
	Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen	Singin' in the Rain
	Henry King	The Snows of Kilimanjaro
	Akira Kurosawa	Rashomon
	Albert Lewin	Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	5 Fingers
	Vincente Minnelli	The Bad and the Beautiful
	George Sidney	Scaramouche
	Richard Thorpe	Ivanhoe
	Charles Vidor	Hans Christian Andersen
	Fred Zinnemann	High Noon
1953 (6th)	Fred Zinnemann	From Here to Eternity	[16]
	Melvin Frank and Norman Panama	Above and Beyond
	Henry Koster	The Robe
	Walter Lang	Call Me Madam
	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	Julius Caesar
	Daniel Mann	Come Back, Little Sheba
	Jean Negulesco	Titanic
	George Sidney	Young Bess
	George Stevens	Shane
	Charles Walters	Lili
	Billy Wilder	Stalag 17
	William Wyler	Roman Holiday
1954 (7th)	Elia Kazan	On the Waterfront	[17]
	George Cukor	A Star Is Born
	Edward Dmytryk	The Caine Mutiny
	Stanley Donen	Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
	Melvin Frank and Norman Panama	Knock on Wood
	Samuel Fuller	Hell and High Water
	Alfred Hitchcock	Rear Window
	Henry King	King of the Khyber Rifles
	Anthony Mann	The Glenn Miller Story
	Jean Negulesco	Three Coins in the Fountain
	George Seaton	The Country Girl
	Don Siegel	Riot in Cell Block 11
	William A. Wellman	The High and the Mighty
	Robert Wise	Executive Suite
	Billy Wilder	Sabrina
1955 (8th)	Delbert Mann	Marty	[18]
	Richard Brooks	Blackboard Jungle
	John Ford	The Long Gray Line
	Elia Kazan	East of Eden
	Henry Koster	A Man Called Peter
	Joshua Logan	Picnic
	Daniel Mann	The Rose Tattoo
	Mark Robson	The Bridges at Toko-Ri
	John Sturges	Bad Day at Black Rock
	Charles Vidor	Love Me or Leave Me
	Billy Wilder	The Seven Year Itch
1956 (9th)	George Stevens	Giant	[19]
	Michael Anderson	Around the World in 80 Days
	John Huston	Moby Dick
	Joshua Logan	Bus Stop
	Daniel Mann	Teahouse of the August Moon
	King Vidor	War and Peace
	Robert Wise	Somebody Up There Likes Me
	William Wyler	Friendly Persuasion
1957 (10th)	David Lean	The Bridge on the River Kwai	[20]
	George Cukor	Les Girls
	Stanley Donen	Funny Face
	José Ferrer	The Great Man
	John Huston	Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
	Elia Kazan	A Face in the Crowd
	Stanley Kramer	The Pride and the Passion
	Anthony Mann	Men in War
	Leo McCarey	An Affair to Remember
	Robert Mulligan	Fear Strikes Out
	John Sturges	Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
	Fred Zinnemann	A Hatful of Rain
1958 (11th)	Vincente Minnelli	Gigi	[21]
	George Abbott and Stanley Donen	Damn Yankees
	Richard Brooks	The Brothers Karamazov
	Delmer Daves	Cowboy
	Edward Dmytryk	The Young Lions
	Richard Fleischer	The Vikings
	Alfred Hitchcock	Vertigo
	Martin Ritt	The Long, Hot Summer
	George Seaton	Teacher's Pet
	William Wyler	The Big Country
1959 (12th)	William Wyler	Ben-Hur	[22]
	Charles Barton	The Shaggy Dog
	Frank Capra	A Hole in the Head
	Richard Fleischer	Compulsion
	John Ford	The Horse Soldiers
	Howard Hawks	Rio Bravo
	Alfred Hitchcock	North by Northwest
	Leo McCarey	Rally Round the Flag, Boys!
	Otto Preminger	Anatomy of a Murder
	Douglas Sirk	Imitation of Life
	George Stevens	The Diary of Anne Frank
	Billy Wilder	Some Like It Hot
	Fred Zinnemann	The Nun's Story

1960s

Year	Winners and nominees	Film	Ref.
1960 (13th)	Billy Wilder	The Apartment	[23]
	Richard Brooks	Elmer Gantry
	Vincent J. Donehue	Sunrise at Campobello
	Lewis Gilbert	Sink the Bismarck!
	Walter Lang	Can-Can
	Delbert Mann	The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
	Carol Reed	Our Man in Havana
	Alain Resnais	Hiroshima mon amour
	Charles Walters	Please Don't Eat the Daisies
	Alfred Hitchcock	Psycho
1961 (14th)	Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins	West Side Story	[24]
	Marlon Brando	One-Eyed Jacks
	Frank Capra	Pocketful of Miracles
	Jack Clayton	The Innocents
	Peter Glenville	Summer and Smoke
	John Huston	The Misfits
	Elia Kazan	Splendor in the Grass
	Henry Koster	Flower Drum Song
	Stanley Kramer	Judgment at Nuremberg
	Philip Leacock	Hand in Hand
	Mervyn LeRoy	A Majority of One
	Joshua Logan	Fanny
	Anthony Mann	El Cid
	Robert Mulligan	The Great Impostor
	Daniel Petrie	A Raisin in the Sun
	Robert Stevenson	The Absent-Minded Professor
	Peter Ustinov	Romanoff and Juliet
	William Wyler	The Children's Hour
1962 (15th)	David Lean	Lawrence of Arabia	[25]
	Robert Aldrich	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
	Morton DaCosta	The Music Man
	Stanley Kubrick	Lolita
	Lewis Milestone	Mutiny on the Bounty
	Robert Mulligan	To Kill a Mockingbird
	Ralph Nelson	Requiem for a Heavyweight
	Arthur Penn	The Miracle Worker
	Tony Richardson	A Taste of Honey
1963 (16th)	Tony Richardson	Tom Jones	[26]
	Federico Fellini	8½
	Elia Kazan	America America
	Ralph Nelson	Lilies of the Field
	Martin Ritt	Hud
1964 (17th)	George Cukor	My Fair Lady	[27]
	Peter Glenville	Becket
	John Huston	The Night of the Iguana
	Stanley Kubrick	Dr. Strangelove
	Robert Stevenson	Mary Poppins
1965 (18th)	Robert Wise	The Sound of Music	[28]
	Sidney J. Furie	The Ipcress File
	Sidney Lumet	The Pawnbroker
	John Schlesinger	Darling
	Elliot Silverstein	Cat Ballou
1966 (19th)	Fred Zinnemann	A Man for All Seasons	[29]
	Richard Brooks	The Professionals
	John Frankenheimer	Grand Prix
	Lewis Gilbert	Alfie
	James Hill	Born Free
	Norman Jewison	The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
	Claude Lelouch	A Man and a Woman
	Silvio Narizzano	Georgy Girl
	Mike Nichols	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
	Robert Wise	The Sand Pebbles
1967 (20th)	Mike Nichols	The Graduate	[30]
	Robert Aldrich	The Dirty Dozen
	Richard Brooks	In Cold Blood
	James Clavell	To Sir, with Love
	Stanley Donen	Two for the Road
	Norman Jewison	In the Heat of the Night
	Stanley Kramer	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
	Arthur Penn	Bonnie and Clyde
	Stuart Rosenberg	Cool Hand Luke
	Joseph Strick	Ulysses
1968 (21st)	Anthony Harvey	The Lion in Winter	[31]
	Paul Almond	Isabel
	Stanley Kubrick	2001: A Space Odyssey
	Jiří Menzel	Closely Watched Trains
	Paul Newman	Rachel, Rachel
	Roman Polanski	Rosemary's Baby
	Carol Reed	Oliver!
	Gene Saks	The Odd Couple
	William Wyler	Funny Girl
	Franco Zeffirelli	Romeo and Juliet
1969 (22nd)	John Schlesinger	Midnight Cowboy	[32]
	Richard Attenborough	Oh! What a Lovely War
	Costa-Gavras	Z
	George Roy Hill	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
	Dennis Hopper	Easy Rider
	Gene Kelly	Hello, Dolly!
	Sam Peckinpah	The Wild Bunch
	Larry Peerce	Goodbye, Columbus
	Sydney Pollack	They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
	Haskell Wexler	Medium Cool

1970s

Year	Winners and nominees	Film	Ref.
1970 (23rd)	Franklin J. Schaffner	Patton	[33]
	Robert Altman	M*A*S*H
	Arthur Hiller	Love Story
	David Lean	Ryan's Daughter
	Bob Rafelson	Five Easy Pieces
1971 (24th)	William Friedkin	The French Connection	[34]
	Peter Bogdanovich	The Last Picture Show
	Stanley Kubrick	A Clockwork Orange
	Robert Mulligan	Summer of '42
	John Schlesinger	Sunday Bloody Sunday
1972 (25th)	Francis Ford Coppola	The Godfather	[35]
	John Boorman	Deliverance
	Bob Fosse	Cabaret
	George Roy Hill	Slaughterhouse-Five
	Martin Ritt	Sounder
1973 (26th)	George Roy Hill	The Sting	[36]
	Bernardo Bertolucci	Last Tango in Paris
	William Friedkin	The Exorcist
	George Lucas	American Graffiti
	Sidney Lumet	Serpico
1974 (27th)	Francis Ford Coppola	The Godfather Part II	[37]
	Francis Ford Coppola	The Conversation
	Bob Fosse	Lenny
	Sidney Lumet	Murder on the Orient Express
	Roman Polanski	Chinatown
1975 (28th)	Miloš Forman	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	[38]
	Robert Altman	Nashville
	Stanley Kubrick	Barry Lyndon
	Sidney Lumet	Dog Day Afternoon
	Steven Spielberg	Jaws
1976 (29th)	John G. Avildsen	Rocky	[39]
	Sidney Lumet	Network
	Alan J. Pakula	All the President's Men
	Martin Scorsese	Taxi Driver
	Lina Wertmüller	Seven Beauties
1977 (30th)	Woody Allen	Annie Hall	[40]
	George Lucas	Star Wars
	Herbert Ross	The Turning Point
	Steven Spielberg	Close Encounters of the Third Kind
	Fred Zinnemann	Julia
1978 (31st)	Michael Cimino	The Deer Hunter	[41]
	Hal Ashby	Coming Home
	Warren Beatty and Buck Henry	Heaven Can Wait
	Paul Mazursky	An Unmarried Woman
	Alan Parker	Midnight Express
1979 (32nd)	Robert Benton	Kramer vs. Kramer	[42]
	Woody Allen	Manhattan
	James Bridges	The China Syndrome
	Francis Ford Coppola	Apocalypse Now
	Peter Yates	Breaking Away

1980s

Year	Winners and nominees	Film	Ref.
1980 (33rd)	Robert Redford	Ordinary People	[43]
	Michael Apted	Coal Miner's Daughter
	David Lynch	The Elephant Man
	Richard Rush	The Stunt Man
	Martin Scorsese	Raging Bull
1981 (34th)	Warren Beatty	Reds	[44]
	Hugh Hudson	Chariots of Fire
	Louis Malle	Atlantic City
	Mark Rydell	On Golden Pond
	Steven Spielberg	Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 (35th)	Richard Attenborough	Gandhi	[45]
	Taylor Hackford	An Officer and a Gentleman
	Wolfgang Petersen	Das Boot
	Sydney Pollack	Tootsie
	Steven Spielberg	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1983 (36th)	James L. Brooks	Terms of Endearment	[46]
	Bruce Beresford	Tender Mercies
	Ingmar Bergman	Fanny and Alexander
	Lawrence Kasdan	The Big Chill
	Philip Kaufman	The Right Stuff
1984 (37th)	Miloš Forman	Amadeus	[47]
	Robert Benton	Places in the Heart
	Norman Jewison	A Soldier's Story
	Roland Joffé	The Killing Fields
	David Lean	A Passage to India
1985 (38th)	Steven Spielberg	The Color Purple	[48]
	Ron Howard	Cocoon
	John Huston	Prizzi's Honor
	Sydney Pollack	Out of Africa
	Peter Weir	Witness
1986 (39th)	Oliver Stone	Platoon	[49]
	Woody Allen	Hannah and Her Sisters
	Randa Haines	Children of a Lesser God
	James Ivory	A Room with a View
	Rob Reiner	Stand by Me
1987 (40th)	Bernardo Bertolucci	The Last Emperor	[50]
	James L. Brooks	Broadcast News
	Lasse Hallström	My Life as a Dog
	Adrian Lyne	Fatal Attraction
	Steven Spielberg	Empire of the Sun
1988 (41st)	Barry Levinson	Rain Man	[51]
	Charles Crichton	A Fish Called Wanda
	Mike Nichols	Working Girl
	Alan Parker	Mississippi Burning
	Robert Zemeckis	Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989 (42nd)	Oliver Stone	Born on the Fourth of July	[52]
	Woody Allen	Crimes and Misdemeanors
	Rob Reiner	When Harry Met Sally...
	Phil Alden Robinson	Field of Dreams
	Peter Weir	Dead Poets Society

1990s

Year	Winners and nominees	Film	Ref.
1990 (43rd)	Kevin Costner	Dances with Wolves	[53]
	Francis Ford Coppola	The Godfather Part III
	Barry Levinson	Avalon
	Martin Scorsese	Goodfellas
	Giuseppe Tornatore	Cinema Paradiso
1991 (44th)	Jonathan Demme	The Silence of the Lambs	[54]
	Barry Levinson	Bugsy
	Ridley Scott	Thelma and Louise
	Oliver Stone	JFK
	Barbra Streisand	The Prince of Tides
1992 (45th)	Clint Eastwood	Unforgiven	[55]
	Robert Altman	The Player
	James Ivory	Howards End
	Neil Jordan	The Crying Game
	Rob Reiner	A Few Good Men
1993 (46th)	Steven Spielberg	Schindler's List	[56]
	Jane Campion	The Piano
	Andrew Davis	The Fugitive
	James Ivory	The Remains of the Day
	Martin Scorsese	The Age of Innocence
1994 (47th)	Robert Zemeckis	Forrest Gump	[57]
	Frank Darabont	The Shawshank Redemption
	Mike Newell	Four Weddings and a Funeral
	Robert Redford	Quiz Show
	Quentin Tarantino	Pulp Fiction
1995 (48th)	Ron Howard	Apollo 13	[58]
	Mike Figgis	Leaving Las Vegas
	Mel Gibson	Braveheart
	Ang Lee	Sense and Sensibility
	Michael Radford	Il Postino: The Postman
1996 (49th)	Anthony Minghella	The English Patient	[59]
	Joel Coen	Fargo
	Cameron Crowe	Jerry Maguire
	Scott Hicks	Shine
	Mike Leigh	Secrets and Lies
1997 (50th)	James Cameron	Titanic	[60]
	James L. Brooks	As Good as It Gets
	Curtis Hanson	L.A. Confidential
	Steven Spielberg	Amistad
	Gus Van Sant	Good Will Hunting
1998 (51st)	Steven Spielberg	Saving Private Ryan	[61]
	Roberto Benigni	Life Is Beautiful
	John Madden	Shakespeare in Love
	Terrence Malick	The Thin Red Line
	Peter Weir	The Truman Show
1999 (52nd)	Sam Mendes	American Beauty	[62]
	Frank Darabont	The Green Mile
	Spike Jonze	Being John Malkovich
	Michael Mann	The Insider
	M. Night Shyamalan	The Sixth Sense

2000s

Year	Winners and nominees	Film	Ref.
2000 (53rd)	Ang Lee	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	[63]
	Cameron Crowe	Almost Famous
	Ridley Scott	Gladiator
	Steven Soderbergh	Erin Brockovich
		Traffic
2001 (54th)	Ron Howard	A Beautiful Mind	[64]
	Peter Jackson	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
	Baz Luhrmann	Moulin Rouge!
	Christopher Nolan	Memento
	Ridley Scott	Black Hawk Down
2002 (55th)	Rob Marshall	Chicago	[65]
	Stephen Daldry	The Hours
	Peter Jackson	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
	Roman Polanski	The Pianist
	Martin Scorsese	Gangs of New York
2003 (56th)	Peter Jackson	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	[66]
	Sofia Coppola	Lost in Translation
	Clint Eastwood	Mystic River
	Gary Ross	Seabiscuit
	Peter Weir	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2004 (57th)	Clint Eastwood	Million Dollar Baby	[67]
	Marc Forster	Finding Neverland
	Taylor Hackford	Ray
	Alexander Payne	Sideways
	Martin Scorsese	The Aviator
2005 (58th)	Ang Lee	Brokeback Mountain	[68]
	George Clooney	Good Night, and Good Luck
	Paul Haggis	Crash
	Bennett Miller	Capote
	Steven Spielberg	Munich
2006 (59th)	Martin Scorsese	The Departed	[69]
	Bill Condon	Dreamgirls
	Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris	Little Miss Sunshine
	Stephen Frears	The Queen
	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Babel
2007 (60th)	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	No Country for Old Men	[70]
	Paul Thomas Anderson	There Will Be Blood
	Tony Gilroy	Michael Clayton
	Sean Penn	Into the Wild
	Julian Schnabel	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2008 (61st)	Danny Boyle	Slumdog Millionaire	[71]
	David Fincher	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
	Ron Howard	Frost/Nixon
	Christopher Nolan	The Dark Knight
	Gus Van Sant	Milk
2009 (62nd)	Kathryn Bigelow	The Hurt Locker	[72]
	James Cameron	Avatar
	Lee Daniels	Precious
	Jason Reitman	Up in the Air
	Quentin Tarantino	Inglourious Basterds

2010s

Year	Winners and nominees	Film	Ref.
2010 (63rd)	Tom Hooper	The King's Speech	[73][74]
	Darren Aronofsky	Black Swan
	David Fincher	The Social Network
	Christopher Nolan	Inception
	David O. Russell	The Fighter
2011 (64th)	Michel Hazanavicius	The Artist	[75][76]
	Woody Allen	Midnight in Paris
	David Fincher	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
	Alexander Payne	The Descendants
	Martin Scorsese	Hugo
2012 (65th)	Ben Affleck	Argo	[77][78]
	Kathryn Bigelow	Zero Dark Thirty
	Tom Hooper	Les Misérables
	Ang Lee	Life of Pi
	Steven Spielberg	Lincoln
2013 (66th)	Alfonso Cuarón	Gravity	[79][80]
	Paul Greengrass	Captain Phillips
	Steve McQueen	12 Years a Slave
	David O. Russell	American Hustle
	Martin Scorsese	The Wolf of Wall Street
2014 (67th)	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	[81][82]
	Wes Anderson	The Grand Budapest Hotel
	Clint Eastwood	American Sniper
	Richard Linklater	Boyhood
	Morten Tyldum	The Imitation Game
2015 (68th)	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	The Revenant	[83][84]
	Tom McCarthy	Spotlight
	Adam McKay	The Big Short
	George Miller	Mad Max: Fury Road
	Ridley Scott	The Martian
2016 (69th)	Damien Chazelle	La La Land	[85][86]
	Garth Davis	Lion
	Barry Jenkins	Moonlight
	Kenneth Lonergan	Manchester by the Sea
	Denis Villeneuve	Arrival
2017 (70th)	Guillermo del Toro	The Shape of Water	[87][88]
	Greta Gerwig	Lady Bird
	Martin McDonagh	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
	Christopher Nolan	Dunkirk
	Jordan Peele	Get Out
2018 (71st)	Alfonso Cuarón	Roma	[89][90]
	Bradley Cooper	A Star Is Born
	Peter Farrelly	Green Book
	Spike Lee	BlacKkKlansman
	Adam McKay	Vice
2019 (72nd)	Sam Mendes	1917	[91][92]
	Bong Joon-ho	Parasite
	Martin Scorsese	The Irishman
	Quentin Tarantino	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
	Taika Waititi	Jojo Rabbit

2020s

Year	Winners and nominees	Film	Ref.
2020 (73rd)	Chloé Zhao	Nomadland	[93][94]
	Lee Isaac Chung	Minari
	Emerald Fennell	Promising Young Woman
	David Fincher	Mank
	Aaron Sorkin	The Trial of the Chicago 7
2021 (74th)	Jane Campion	The Power of the Dog	[95][96]
	Paul Thomas Anderson	Licorice Pizza
	Kenneth Branagh	Belfast
	Steven Spielberg	West Side Story
	Denis Villeneuve	Dune
2022 (75th)	Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert	Everything Everywhere All at Once	[97][98]
	Todd Field	Tár
	Joseph Kosinski	Top Gun: Maverick
	Martin McDonagh	The Banshees of Inisherin
	Steven Spielberg	The Fabelmans
2023 (76th)	Christopher Nolan	Oppenheimer	[99][100]
	Greta Gerwig	Barbie
	Yorgos Lanthimos	Poor Things
	Alexander Payne	The Holdovers
	Martin Scorsese	Killers of the Flower Moon
2024 (77th)	Sean Baker	Anora	[101][102][103]
	Jacques Audiard	Emilia Pérez
	Edward Berger	Conclave
	Brady Corbet	The Brutalist
	James Mangold	A Complete Unknown

Directors with multiple wins

3 wins

• Steven Spielberg

2 wins

• Francis Ford Coppola
• Alfonso Cuarón
• Clint Eastwood
• Miloš Forman
• Ron Howard
• Alejandro González Iñárritu (consecutive)
• David Lean
• Ang Lee
• Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• Sam Mendes
• George Stevens
• Oliver Stone
• Robert Wise
• Fred Zinnemann

Directors with multiple nominations

The following directors have received four or more nominations:

13 nominations Steven Spielberg 11 nominations Martin Scorsese 7 nominations Elia Kazan William Wyler Fred Zinnemann 6 nominations John Huston Billy Wilder

5 nominations Woody Allen Richard Brooks Francis Ford Coppola Stanley Donen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick Sidney Lumet Christopher Nolan Robert Wise 4 nominations George Cukor Clint Eastwood David Fincher Ron Howard David Lean Ang Lee Joseph L. Mankiewicz Vincente Minnelli Robert Mulligan Ridley Scott George Stevens Peter Weir

See also

• Academy Award for Best Director
• BAFTA Award for Best Direction
• Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director
• Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director
• Golden Globe Award for Best Director
• Independent Spirit Award for Best Director
• Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture
• Silver Bear for Best Director
• Silver Lion for Best Direction