Golden Globe Award / Best Director

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Winners and nominees for the Golden Globe Award in the category Best Director (Best Director - Motion Picture) , which rewards the most outstanding directing achievements of the past calendar year. The category was launched in 1944.

The best director was later awarded an Oscar 41 times , most recently in 2019 when the award went to Alfonso Cuarón ( Roma ) . In 1952, 1957, 1969, 1970, 1984, 1989 and 2013, the Golden Globes-honored directing achievement was not nominated for an Oscar. The rare honor of being nominated for two different directorial works in one year went to the Americans Francis Ford Coppola (1975 for The Dialogue and The Godfather - Part II ), Steven Soderbergh (2001 for Erin Brockovich and Traffic - Power of the Cartel ) and Clint Eastwood (2007 for Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima ).

American filmmakers have won the directing award 59 times (including directors who emigrated to the USA such as the Hungarian László Benedek , the Czech Miloš Forman and the Austrians Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann ), followed by their colleagues from Great Britain (7 wins), Mexico ( 4) and the double success of Ang Lee from Taiwan . A director from German-speaking countries once competed in vain for the award: 2005 Marc Forster for When dreams learn to fly . Likewise, victories by female filmmakers, similar to the Academy Awards, have remained exceptional so far. In 1984, Barbra Streisand was the only female director to triumph for Yentl . Streisand ( Lord of the Tides ) received further nominations in 1991 , Sofia Coppola ( Lost in Translation ) in 2003 and Ava DuVernay ( Selma ) in 2015 .

statistics Surname number year
Most frequent awards Elia Kazan 4th 1948, 1955, 1957, 1964
Most frequent nominations
(* = victory) 		Steven Spielberg 12 1976, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1994 *, 1998, 1999 *, 2002, 2006, 2013, 2018
Most frequent nominations without a win Robert Wise 5 1959, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1967

The films listed below are given with their German distribution title (if this can be determined), followed by the foreign-language original title in brackets in italics. The original title is not mentioned if the German and foreign-language film titles are identical. The winners are highlighted first. Directors who later won the Oscar for Best Director of the Year are marked with a * .

1940s

1944

Henry King - Das Lied von Bernadette (The Song of Bernadette)


1945

Leo McCarey * - The way to happiness (Going My Way)


1946

Billy Wilder * - The Lost Weekend (The Lost Weekend)


1947

Frank Capra - Isn't Life Beautiful? (It's a Wonderful Life)


1948

Elia Kazan * - Taboo of the Righteous (Gentleman's Agreement)


1949

John Huston * - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)

1950s

1950

Robert Rossen - The man who wanted to rule (All the King's Men)


1951

Billy Wilder - Sunset Boulevard (Sunset Boulevard)


1952

László Benedek - The Death of a Salesman (Death of a Salesman)


1953

Cecil B. DeMille - The Greatest Show on Earth (The Greatest Show on Earth)


1954

Fred Zinnemann * - Damned in All Eternity (From Here to Eternity)


1955

Elia Kazan * - The Fist in the Neck (On the Waterfront)


1956

Joshua Logan - Picnic (Picnic)


1957

Elia Kazan - Baby Doll - Do not desire the other woman (Baby Doll)


1958

David Lean * - The Bridge on the River Kwai (The Bridge on the River Kwai)


1959

Vincente Minnelli * - Gigi

1960s

1960

William Wyler * - Ben Hur (Ben-Hur)


1961

Jack Cardiff - Sons and Lovers (Sons and Lovers)


1962

Stanley Kramer - The Judgment at Nuremberg


1963

David Lean * - Lawrence of Arabia (Lawrence of Arabia)


1964

Elia Kazan - The Indomitable (America, America)


1965

George Cukor * - My Fair Lady


1966

David Lean - Doctor Zhivago (Doctor Zhivago)


1967

Fred Zinnemann * - A Man for All Seasons (A Man for All Seasons)


1968

Mike Nichols * - The Graduate (The Graduate)


1969

Paul Newman - A Summer's Love (Rachel, Rachel)

1970s

1970

Charles Jarrott - Queen for a Thousand Days (Anne of the Thousand Days)


1971

Arthur Hiller - Love Story


1972

William Friedkin - Focal Point Brooklyn (French Connection)


1973

Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather (The Godfather)


1974

William Friedkin - The Exorcist (The Exorcist)


1975

Roman Polański - Chinatown


1976

Milos Forman * - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)


1977

Sidney Lumet - Network


1978

Herbert Ross - At the Turning Point


1979

Michael Cimino * - Those Who Go Through Hell (The Deer Hunter)

1980s

1980

Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now


1981

Robert Redford * - An Ordinary Family (Ordinary People)


1982

Warren Beatty * - Reds


1983

Richard Attenborough * - Gandhi


1984

Barbra Streisand - Yentl


1985

Miloš Forman * - Amadeus


1986

John Huston - Prizzi's Honor (Prizzi's Honor)


1987

Oliver Stone * - Platoon


1988

Bernardo Bertolucci * - The Last Emperor (The Last Emperor)


1989

Clint Eastwood - Bird

1990s

1990

Oliver Stone * - Born on 4 July (Born on the Fourth of July)


1991

Kevin Costner * - The Dances with Wolves (Dances with Wolves)


1992

Oliver Stone - JFK - Crime Scene Dallas (JFK)


1993

Clint Eastwood * - Merciless (Unforgiven)


1994

Steven Spielberg * - Schindler's List (Schindler's List)


1995

Robert Zemeckis * - Forrest Gump


1996

Mel Gibson * - Braveheart


1997

Miloš Forman - Larry Flynt - The Naked Truth (The People vs. Larry Flynt)


1998

James Cameron * - Titanic


1999

Steven Spielberg * - Saving Private Ryan (Saving Private Ryan)

2000s

2000

Sam Mendes * - American Beauty


2001

Ang Lee - Tiger & Dragon (臥虎藏龍 (Wòhǔ Cánglóng))


2002

Robert Altman - Gosford Park


2003

Martin Scorsese - Gangs of New York


2004

Peter Jackson * - The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)


2005

Clint Eastwood * - Million Dollar Baby


2006

Ang Lee * - Brokeback Mountain


2007

Martin Scorsese * - Departed - Unter Feinden (The Departed)


2008

Julian Schnabel - Butterfly and Diving Bell (Le scaphandre et le papillon)


2009

Danny Boyle * - Slumdog Millionaire ( Slumdog Millionaire )

2010s

2010

James Cameron - Avatar - Departure for Pandora ( Avatar )


2011

David Fincher - The Social Network


2012

Martin Scorsese - Hugo Cabret (Hugo)


2013

Ben Affleck - Argo


2014

Alfonso Cuarón * - Gravity


2015

Richard Linklater - Boyhood


2016

Alejandro González Iñárritu * - The Revenant (The Revenant)


2017

Damien Chazelle * - La La Land


2018

Guillermo del Toro * - Shape of Water - The Shape of Water


2019

Alfonso Cuarón * - Roma

2020s

2020

Sam Mendes - 1917


* = Directors who later won the Oscar for Best Director of the Year .