BAFTA Award for Best Direction

Winners of the BAFTA Award for Best Direction presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

*"'2007 - Ethan and 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 - 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 - Ang Lee - "Brokeback Mountain"
**George Clooney - "Good Night, and Good Luck."
**Paul Haggis - "Crash"
**Fernando Meirelles - "The Constant Gardener"
**Bennett Miller - "Capote"

*2004 - Mike Leigh - "Vera Drake"
**Martin Scorsese - "The Aviator"
**Marc Forster - "Finding Neverland"
**Michael Mann - "Collateral"
**Michel Gondry - "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"

*2003 - Peter Weir - ""
**Peter Jackson - ""
**Sofia Coppola - "Lost in Translation"
**Anthony Minghella - "Cold Mountain"
**Tim Burton - "Big Fish"

*2002 - Roman Polanski - "The Pianist"
**Rob Marshall - "Chicago"
**Stephen Daldry - "The Hours"
**Peter Jackson - ""
**Martin Scorsese - "Gangs of New York"

*2001 - Peter Jackson - ""
**Ron Howard - "A Beautiful Mind"
**Baz Luhrmann - "Moulin Rouge!"
**Robert Altman - "Gosford Park"
**Jean-Pierre Jeunet - "Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain"

*2000 - Ang Lee - "Wo hu cang long"
**Steven Soderbergh - "Traffic"
**Steven Soderbergh - "Erin Brockovich"
**Ridley Scott - "Gladiator"
**Stephen Daldry - "Billy Elliot"

*1999 - 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 - Peter Weir - "The Truman Show"
**John Madden - "Shakespeare in Love"
**Shekhar Kapur - "Elizabeth"
**Steven Spielberg - "Saving Private Ryan"

*1997 - Baz Luhrmann - "Romeo + Juliet"
**James Cameron - "Titanic"
**Curtis Hanson - "L.A. Confidential"
**Peter Cattaneo - "The Full Monty"

*1996 - Joel Coen - "Fargo"
**Anthony Minghella - "The English Patient"
**Scott Hicks - "Shine"
**Mike Leigh - "Secrets & Lies"

*1995 - Michael Radford - "Il Postino"
**Mel Gibson - "Braveheart"
**Ang Lee - "Sense and Sensibility"
**Nicholas Hytner - "The Madness of King George"

*1994 - Mike Newell - "Four Weddings and a Funeral"
**Robert Zemeckis - "Forrest Gump"
**Quentin Tarantino - "Pulp Fiction"
**Krzysztof Kieslowski - ""

*1993 - Steven Spielberg - "Schindler's List"
**Jane Campion - "The Piano"
**James Ivory - "The Remains of the Day"
**Richard Attenborough - "Shadowlands"

*1992 - Robert Altman - "The Player"
**Clint Eastwood - "Unforgiven"
**Neil Jordan - "The Crying Game"
**James Ivory - "Howards End"

*1991 - Alan Parker - "The Commitments"
**Jonathan Demme - "The Silence of the Lambs"
**Ridley Scott - "Thelma & Louise"
**Kevin Costner - "Dances with Wolves"

*1990 - Martin Scorsese - "GoodFellas"
**Woody Allen - "Crimes and Misdemeanors"
**Bruce Beresford - "Driving Miss Daisy "
**Giuseppe Tornatore - "Nuovo cinema Paradiso "

*1989 - Kenneth Branagh - "Henry V"
**Stephen Frears - "Dangerous Liaisons"
**Peter Weir - "Dead Poets Society"
**Alan Parker - "Mississippi Burning"

*1988 - Louis Malle - "Au revoir, les enfants"
**Bernardo Bertolucci - "The Last Emperor"
**Charles Crichton - "A Fish Called Wanda"
**Gabriel Axel - "Babettes gæstebud"

*1987 - Oliver Stone - "Platoon"
**Claude Berri - "Jean de Florette"
**John Boorman - "Hope and Glory"
**Richard Attenborough - "Cry Freedom"

*1986 - Woody Allen - "Hannah and Her Sisters"
**Roland Joffé - "The Mission"
**Neil Jordan - "Mona Lisa"
**James Ivory - "A Room with a View"

*1985 - -

*1984 - Wim Wenders - "Paris, Texas"
**Sergio Leone - "Once Upon a Time in America"
**Roland Joffé - "The Killing Fields"
**Peter Yates - "The Dresser"

*1983 - Bill Forsyth - "Local Hero"
**Sydney Pollack - "Tootsie"
**Martin Scorsese - "The King of Comedy"
**James Ivory - "Heat and Dust"

*1982 - Richard Attenborough - "Gandhi"
**Steven Spielberg - "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"
**Costa-Gavras - "Missing"
**Mark Rydell - "On Golden Pond"

*1981 - Louis Malle - "Atlantic City"
**Hugh Hudson - "Chariots of Fire"
**Karel Reisz - "The French Lieutenant's Woman"
**Bill Forsyth - "Gregory's Girl"

*1980 - Akira Kurosawa - "Kagemusha"
**David Lynch - "The Elephant Man"
**Alan Parker - "Fame"
**Robert Benton - "Kramer vs. Kramer"

*1979 - Francis Ford Coppola - "Apocalypse Now"
**Michael Cimino - "The Deer Hunter"
**Woody Allen - "Manhattan"
**John Schlesinger - "Yanks"

*1978 - Alan Parker - "Midnight Express"
**Steven Spielberg - "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"
**Fred Zinnemann - "Julia"
**Robert Altman - "A Wedding"

*1977 - Woody Allen - "Annie Hall"
**John G. Avildsen - "Rocky"
**Sidney Lumet - "Network"
**Richard Attenborough - "A Bridge Too Far"

*1976 - 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 - Stanley Kubrick - "Barry Lyndon"
**Steven Spielberg - "Jaws"
**Sidney Lumet - "Dog Day Afternoon"
**Martin Scorsese - "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore"

*1974 - Roman Polanski - "Chinatown"
**Francis Ford Coppola - "The Conversation"
**Louis Malle - "Lacombe Lucien"
**Sidney Lumet - "Murder on the Orient Express"
**Sidney Lumet - "Serpico"

*1973 - 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 - Bob Fosse - "Cabaret"
**Stanley Kubrick - "A Clockwork Orange"
**William Friedkin - "The French Connection"
**Peter Bogdanovich - "The Last Picture Show"

*1971 - John Schlesinger - "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
**Joseph Losey - "The Go-Between"
**Luchino Visconti - "Death in Venice"
**Milos Forman - "Taking Off"

*1970 - George Roy Hill - "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"
**Ken Loach - "Kes"
**Robert Altman - "MASH"
**David Lean - "Ryan's Daughter"

*1969 - John Schlesinger - "Midnight Cowboy"
**Peter Yates - "Bullitt"
**Richard Attenborough - "Oh! What a Lovely War"
**Ken Russell - "Women in Love"

*1968 - Mike Nichols - "The Graduate"
**Carol Reed - "Oliver!"
**Lindsay Anderson - "If...."
**Franco Zeffirelli - "Romeo and Juliet"