Nestroy Theater Prize / Best Director

Stefan Bachmann (2nd from left), 2008

Since 2000 when will Nestroy Theater Prize of the best theater director honored.

Alvis Hermanis, 2010

Simon Stone, 2015

Award winners

year	Award winners	Staging	Place of performance	Other nominees
2000	Luc Bondy	The seagull	Academy Theater	Martin Kušej for woe to him who lies! Anselm Weber for Das Blut
2001	Peter Zadek	Rosmersholm	Academy Theater	Andrea Breth for The Last Day * Dimiter Gotscheff for The Powder Keg
2002	Michael Schottenberg	The talisman	Popular theater	Andrea Breth for Maria Stuart Barrie Kosky for Medea
2003	Andrea Breth	Emilia Galotti	Burgtheater	Matthias Fontheim for Das weite Land Nicolas Stemann for Das Werk
2004	Stephan Kimmig	The golden fleece	Burgtheater	Igor Bauersima for Bérénice de Molière Sebastian Nübling for Wilde or the man with sad eyes
2005	Christoph Marthaler	Protection from the future	Wiener Festwochen	Martin Kušej for King Ottokar's luck and end Nicolas Stemann for Babel
2006	Karin Beier	Petty bourgeoisie	Academy Theater	David Bösch for Much Ado About Nothing Christiane Pohle for The Sunken Cathedral
2007	Grzegorz Jarzyna	Medea	Casino on Schwarzenbergplatz	Luc Bondy for King Lear Simon McBurney for A Disappearing Number
2008	Stefan Bachmann	Burns	Academy Theater	Christiane Pohle for Freier Fall Nicolas Stemann for The Robbers
2009	Martin Kušej	The devil	Academy Theater	Viktor Bodó for The Hour When We Didn't Know About Each Other Christoph Schlingensief for Mea Culpa. A ReadyMadeOper
2010	Alvis Hermanis	A family	Academy Theater	Lukas Bangerter for worst case Roland Schimmelpfennig for The Golden Dragon
2011	Andrea Breth	Incidents	Academy Theater	Bernd Liepold-Mosser for America Thomas Ostermeier for measure for measure
2012	Stephanie Mohr	Woyzeck & The Tiger Lillies	United Theaters Vienna / Museumsquartier	Elmar Goerden for John Gabriel Borkman Thomas Vinterberg for Die Kommune
2013	Michael Thalheimer	Elektra	Burgtheater	Martin Kušej for In Agony Georg Schmiedleitner for Casimir and Karoline
2014	Krystian Lupa	Chop wood	Schauspielhaus Graz	Antonio Latella for the well-meaning Michael Schottenberg for Woyzeck
2015	Simon Stone	John Gabriel Borkman	Akademietheater in coproduction with the Wiener Festwochen and the Theater Basel	Elmar Goerden - Kafka - Theater in the Josefstadt Sebastian Nübling - Noise - Coproduction of the Wiener Festwochen with junges theater basel
2016	Andrea Breth	This story from you	Academy Theater	Anna Bergmann - Miss Julie - Theater in the Josefstadt Jan-Christoph Gockel - Imperium - Schauspielhaus Wien
2017	Elmar Goerden	Stage version of The Damned	Theater in the Josefstadt	Jan Bosse - The world behind you - Akademietheater Mateja Koležnik - The Wild Duck - Theater in Josefstadt
2018	Dušan David Pařízek	Before sunrise	Academy Theater	Thomas Köck and Elsa-Sophie Jach - The future is not enough for us (complains, children complain!) - Schauspielhaus Wien Simon Stone - Hotel Strindberg - Akademietheater in coproduction with Theater Basel
2019	Johan Simons	Woyzeck	Coproduction Burgtheater , Schauspielhaus Bochum , Akademietheater	Kornél Mundruczó - Liliom - co-production Salzburg Festival , Thalia Theater Hamburg Dušan David Pařízek - King Ottokar's Luck and End - Volkstheater Vienna

statistics

Most awarded director	Andrea Breth (3 awards)
Most frequently nominated director	Andrea Breth (5 nominations)
Most frequently nominated director without a win	Nicolas Stemann (3 nominations)