The Godfather
- Year:
- 1972
- Director:
- Francis Ford Coppola
Best Director - Motion Picture
Sub-categories
Schindler's List
- Year:
- 1993
- Director:
- Steven Spielberg
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Year:
- 1975
- Director:
- Miloš Forman
Forrest Gump
- Year:
- 1994
- Director:
- Robert Zemeckis
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- Year:
- 2003
- Director:
- Peter Jackson
American Beauty
- Year:
- 1999
- Director:
- Sam Mendes
Apocalypse Now
- Year:
- 1979
- Director:
- Francis Ford Coppola
Braveheart
- Year:
- 1995
- Director:
- Mel Gibson
Amadeus
- Year:
- 1984
- Director:
- Miloš Forman
Chinatown
- Year:
- 1974
- Director:
- Roman Polanski
Network
- Year:
- 1976
- Director:
- Sidney Lumet
The Brutalist
- Year:
- 2024
- Director:
- Brady Corbet
The Deer Hunter
- Year:
- 1978
- Director:
- Michael Cimino
The Departed
- Year:
- 2006
- Director:
- Martin Scorsese
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Year:
- 2007
- Director:
- Julian Schnabel
Dances with Wolves
- Year:
- 1990
- Director:
- Kevin Costner
Gandhi
- Year:
- 1982
- Director:
- Richard Attenborough
Roma
- Year:
- 2018
- Director:
- Alfonso Cuarón
1917
- Year:
- 2019
- Director:
- Sam Mendes
Boyhood
- Year:
- 2014
- Director:
- Richard Linklater
The Exorcist
- Year:
- 1973
- Director:
- William Friedkin
La La Land
- Year:
- 2016
- Director:
- Damien Chazelle
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Year:
- 2000
- Director:
- Ang Lee
Brokeback Mountain
- Year:
- 2005
- Director:
- Ang Lee
Million Dollar Baby
- Year:
- 2004
- Director:
- Clint Eastwood
The French Connection
- Year:
- 1971
- Director:
- William Friedkin
The Revenant
- Year:
- 2015
- Director:
- Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Gosford Park
- Year:
- 2001
- Director:
- Robert Altman
Bird
- Year:
- 1988
- Director:
- Clint Eastwood
The Fabelmans
- Year:
- 2022
- Director:
- Steven Spielberg
Argo
- Year:
- 2012
- Director:
- Ben Affleck
Oppenheimer
- Year:
- 2023
- Director:
- Christopher Nolan
Avatar
- Year:
- 2009
- Director:
- James Cameron
The Last Emperor
- Year:
- 1987
- Director:
- Bernardo Bertolucci
Saving Private Ryan
- Year:
- 1998
- Director:
- Steven Spielberg
JFK
- Year:
- 1991
- Director:
- Oliver Stone
Ordinary People
- Year:
- 1980
- Director:
- Robert Redford
Born on the Fourth of July
- Year:
- 1989
- Director:
- Oliver Stone
Gangs of New York
- Year:
- 2002
- Director:
- Martin Scorsese
Platoon
- Year:
- 1986
- Director:
- Oliver Stone
Nomadland
- Year:
- 2020
- Director:
- Chloé Zhao
Gravity
- Year:
- 2013
- Director:
- Alfonso Cuarón
Unforgiven
- Year:
- 1992
- Director:
- Clint Eastwood
Hugo
- Year:
- 2011
- Director:
- Martin Scorsese
The Power of the Dog
- Year:
- 2021
- Director:
- Jane Campion
One Battle After Another
- Year:
- 2025
- Director:
- Paul Thomas Anderson
Slumdog Millionaire
- Year:
- 2008
- Director:
- Danny Boyle,Loveleen Tandan
Reds
- Year:
- 1981
- Director:
- Warren Beatty
The People vs. Larry Flynt
- Year:
- 1996
- Director:
- Miloš Forman
The Social Network
- Year:
- 2010
- Director:
- David Fincher
The Shape of Water
- Year:
- 2017
- Director:
- Guillermo del Toro
Prizzi's Honor
- Year:
- 1985
- Director:
- John Huston
The Turning Point
- Year:
- 1977
- Director:
- Herbert Ross
Titanic
- Year:
- 1997
- Director:
- James Cameron
Yentl
- Year:
- 1983
- Director:
- Barbra Streisand