BAFTA - Best Director Winners

Entertainment: Movies Awards: BAFTA

First presented in 1969 to award films of 1968. Note: No award was presented in 1985. Coen Brothers represents Joel Coen who was credited with the direction of 'Fargo' MISSING: * 1983 Bill Forsyth * 1994 Mike Newell * 1995 Michael Radford * 2022 Edward Berger

This Category is Ranked. Sort by Ranking Based on Votes by clicking on Vote Ranking. Sort by the Collection's Ranking by clicking on List Ranking.

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8

1968

Mike Nichols

Filmmaker

100% (2 of 2 votes)

34

1969

John Schlesinger

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 1 votes)

35

1970

George Roy Hill

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 2 votes)

36

1971

John Schlesinger

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 1 votes)

37

1972

Bob Fosse

Choreographer

0% (0 of 1 votes)

10

1973

Francois Truffaut

Filmmaker

83.33% (5 of 6 votes)

19

1974

Roman Polanski

Filmmaker

33.58% (45 of 134 votes)

11

1975

Stanley Kubrick

Filmmaker

66.67% (2 of 3 votes)

30

1976

Milos Forman

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 0 votes)

23

1977

Woody Allen

Comedian

28.35% (74 of 261 votes)

29

1978

Alan Parker

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 1 votes)

27

1979

Francis Ford Coppola

Filmmaker

5.71% (2 of 35 votes)

26

1980

Akira Kurosawa

Filmmaker

5.88% (1 of 17 votes)

38

1981

Louis Malle

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 0 votes)

13

1982

Richard Attenborough

Actor

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

39

1984

Wim Wenders

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 0 votes)

24

1986

Woody Allen

Comedian

28.35% (74 of 261 votes)

25

1987

Oliver Stone

Filmmaker

5.88% (1 of 17 votes)

40

1988

Louis Malle

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 0 votes)

41

1989

Kenneth Branagh

Actor

0% (0 of 1 votes)

18

1990

Martin Scorsese

Filmmaker

37.50% (3 of 8 votes)

42

1991

Alan Parker

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 1 votes)

5

1992

Robert Altman

Filmmaker

100% (2 of 2 votes)

16

1993

Steven Spielberg

Filmmaker

45.83% (44 of 96 votes)

43

1996

Coen Brothers

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 0 votes)

6

1997

Baz Luhrmann

Filmmaker

100% (1 of 1 votes)

12

1998

Peter Weir

Filmmaker

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

7

1999

Pedro Almodovar

Filmmaker

100% (1 of 1 votes)

44

2000

Ang Lee

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 1 votes)

14

2001

Peter Jackson

Filmmaker

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

20

2002

Roman Polanski

Filmmaker

33.58% (45 of 134 votes)

15

2003

Peter Weir

Filmmaker

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

48

2004

Mike Leigh

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 2 votes)

49

2005

Ang Lee

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 1 votes)

4

2006

Paul Greengrass

Filmmaker

100% (1 of 1 votes)

50

2007

Coen Brothers

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 0 votes)

51

2008

Danny Boyle (Director)

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 0 votes)

33

2009

Kathryn Bigelow

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 0 votes)

32

2010

David Fincher

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 1 votes)

31

2011

Michel Hazanavicius

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 1 votes)

17

2012

Ben Affleck

Actor

40.68% (24 of 59 votes)

3

2013

Alfonso Cuaron

Filmmaker

100% (1 of 1 votes)

28

2014

Richard Linklater

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 0 votes)

47

2015

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 0 votes)

46

2016

Damien Chazelle

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 0 votes)

1

2017

Guillermo Del Toro

Filmmaker

100% (1 of 1 votes)

2

2018

Alfonso Cuaron

Filmmaker

100% (1 of 1 votes)

45

2019

Sam Mendes

Filmmaker

0% (0 of 1 votes)

22

2020

Chloe Zhao

Filmmaker

30.91% (17 of 55 votes)

9

2021

Jane Campion

Filmmaker

100% (1 of 1 votes)

21

2023

Christopher Nolan

Filmmaker

31.11% (42 of 135 votes)