Best Director winners
The latest Best Director winner is Paul Thomas Anderson for One Battle After Another, at the 2026 ceremony.
Winners
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all years
Latest
2026
Paul Thomas Anderson
| 2026 | Paul Thomas Anderson |  One Battle After Another | Won |
| 2025 | Sean Baker |  Anora | Won |
| 2024 | Christopher Nolan |  Oppenheimer | Won |
| 2023 | Daniel Kwan |  Everything Everywhere All at Once | Won |
| 2022 | Jane Campion |  The Power of the Dog | Won |
| 2021 | Chloé Zhao |  Nomadland | Won |
| 2020 | Bong Joon Ho |  Parasite | Won |
| 2019 | Alfonso Cuarón |  Roma | Won |
| 2018 | Guillermo del Toro |  The Shape of Water | Won |
| 2017 | Damien Chazelle |  La La Land | Won |
| 2016 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu |  The Revenant | Won |
| 2015 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu |  Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | Won |
| 2014 | Alfonso Cuarón |  Gravity | Won |
| 2013 | Ang Lee |  Life of Pi | Won |
| 2012 | Michel Hazanavicius |  The Artist | Won |
| 2011 | Tom Hooper |  The King's Speech | Won |
| 2010 | Kathryn Bigelow |  The Hurt Locker | Won |
| 2009 | Danny Boyle |  Slumdog Millionaire | Won |
| 2008 | Joel Coen |  No Country for Old Men | Won |
| 2007 | Martin Scorsese |  The Departed | Won |
| 2006 | Ang Lee |  Brokeback Mountain | Won |
| 2005 | Clint Eastwood |  Million Dollar Baby | Won |
| 2004 | Peter Jackson |  The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Won |
| 2003 | Roman Polanski |  The Pianist | Won |
| 2002 | Ron Howard |  A Beautiful Mind | Won |
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