BAFTA Award for Best Direction
Every winner and nominee of the BAFTA Award for Best Direction since 1960, newest first.
2026🏆 Winner
Paul Thomas Anderson
One Battle After Another
2025🏆 Winner
Brady Corbet
The Brutalist
2024🏆 Winner
Christopher Nolan
Oppenheimer
2023🏆 Winner
Edward Berger
All Quiet on the Western Front
2022🏆 Winner
Jane Campion
The Power of the Dog
2021🏆 Winner
Chloé Zhao
Nomadland1 nominee
Nominees (1)
2020🏆 Winner
Sam Mendes
19171 nominee
Nominees (1)
Bong Joon HoParasiteNominee2019🏆 Winner
Alfonso Cuarón
Roma
2018🏆 Winner
Guillermo del Toro
The Shape of Water
2017🏆 Winner
Damien Chazelle
La La Land
2016🏆 Winner
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
The Revenant
2015🏆 Winner
Richard Linklater
Boyhood
2014🏆 WinnerAlfonso Cuarón
Gravity
2013🏆 Winner
Ben Affleck
Argo
2012🏆 Winner
Michel Hazanavicius
The Artist1 nominee
Nominees (1)
2011🏆 Winner
David Fincher
The Social Network
2010🏆 Winner
Kathryn Bigelow
The Hurt Locker
2009🏆 Winner
Danny Boyle
Slumdog Millionaire2 nominees
Nominees (2)
Ron HowardFrost/NixonNominee
The ReaderNominee2008🏆 Winner
Joel Coen
No Country for Old Men1 nominee
Nominees (1)
The Bourne UltimatumNominee2007🏆 Winner
Paul Greengrass
United 932 nominees
Nominees (2)
The QueenNominee2006🏆 Winner
Ang Lee
Brokeback Mountain
2005🏆 Winner
Mike Leigh
Vera Drake1 nominee
Nominees (1)
CollateralNominee2004🏆 Winner
Peter Weir
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World1 nominee
Nominees (1)
Lost in TranslationNominee2003🏆 Winner
Roman Polanski
The Pianist
2002🏆 Winner
Peter Jackson
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring1 nominee
2001🏆 WinnerAng Lee
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon2 nominees
Nominees (2)
Steven SoderberghTrafficNominee
2000🏆 Winner
Pedro Almodóvar
All About My Mother1 nominee
Nominees (1)
The End of the AffairNominee1999🏆 WinnerPeter Weir
The Truman Show
1998🏆 Winner
Baz Luhrmann
Romeo + Juliet
1997🏆 WinnerJoel Coen
Fargo
1996🏆 Winner
Michael Radford
The Postman
1995🏆 Winner
Mike Newell
Four Weddings and a Funeral1 nominee
Nominees (1)
Pulp FictionNominee1994🏆 Winner
Steven Spielberg
Schindler's List1 nominee
Nominees (1)
The PianoNominee1993🏆 Winner
Robert Altman
The Player1 nominee
Nominees (1)
UnforgivenNominee1992🏆 Winner
Alan Parker
The Commitments
1991🏆 Winner
Martin Scorsese
GoodFellas
1990🏆 Winner
Kenneth Branagh
Henry V1 nominee
Nominees (1)
Dead Poets SocietyNominee1989🏆 Winner
Louis Malle
Au Revoir les Enfants1 nominee
Nominees (1)
1988🏆 Winner
Oliver Stone
Platoon1 nominee
Nominees (1)
John BoormanHope and GloryNominee1987🏆 WinnerOliver StonePlatoon
1985🏆 Winner
Wim Wenders
Paris, Texas
1984🏆 Winner
Bill Forsyth
Local Hero1 nominee
Nominees (1)
The King of ComedyNominee1983🏆 Winner
Richard Attenborough
Gandhi2 nominees
Nominees (2)
E.T. the Extra-TerrestrialNominee
Costa-GavrasMissingNominee1982🏆 WinnerLouis Malle
Atlantic City
1981🏆 Winner
Akira Kurosawa
Kagemusha
1980🏆 Winner
Francis Ford Coppola
Apocalypse Now
1979🏆 WinnerAlan Parker
Midnight Express1 nominee
Nominees (1)
JuliaNominee1978🏆 Winner
Woody Allen
Annie Hall
1977🏆 Winner
Miloš Forman
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1976🏆 Winner
Stanley Kubrick
Barry Lyndon
1975🏆 WinnerRoman Polanski
Chinatown2 nominees
Nominees (2)
The ConversationNominee
Louis MalleLacombe, LucienNominee1974🏆 Winner
François Truffaut
Day for Night
1973🏆 Winner
Bob Fosse
Cabaret1 nominee
Nominees (1)
The Last Picture ShowNominee1972🏆 Winner
John Schlesinger
Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971🏆 Winner
George Roy Hill
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1970🏆 WinnerJohn Schlesinger
Midnight Cowboy
1969🏆 Winner
Mike Nichols
The Graduate
1960🏆 Winner
William Wyler
Ben-Hur
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Peaky Blinders
🏆 WinnerPeaky Blinders
