Golden Globe Award for Best Director
Every winner and nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Director since 1944, newest first.
2026🏆 Winner
Paul Thomas Anderson
One Battle After Another
2025🏆 Winner
Brady Corbet
The Brutalist
2024🏆 Winner
Christopher Nolan
Oppenheimer
2023🏆 Winner
Steven Spielberg
The Fabelmans4 nominees
Nominees (4)
Baz LuhrmannElvisNominee
2021🏆 Winner
Chloé Zhao
Nomadland
2020🏆 Winner
Sam Mendes
19171 nominee
Nominees (1)
Bong Joon HoParasiteNominee2018🏆 Winner
Guillermo del Toro
The Shape of Water
2017
Barry Jenkins
Moonlight1 nominee
2015🏆 Winner
Richard Linklater
Boyhood
2014🏆 Winner
Alfonso Cuarón
Gravity
2011🏆 Winner
Martin Scorsese
Hugo1 nominee
Nominees (1)
The Ides of MarchNominee2010🏆 Winner
Jason Reitman
Up in the Air
2009🏆 Winner
James Cameron
Avatar
2008
Ron Howard
Frost/Nixon2 nominees
2007
Joel Coen
No Country for Old Men1 nominee
Nominees (1)
2006🏆 WinnerMartin Scorsese
The Departed1 nominee
Nominees (1)
The QueenNominee2005🏆 Winner
Ang Lee
Brokeback Mountain
🏆 WinnerClint Eastwood
2003
Lost in Translation2 nominees
2001Ron Howard
A Beautiful Mind1 nominee
2000
Steven Soderbergh
Traffic2 nominees
Nominees (2)
Steven SoderberghTrafficNominee
1999
The End of the Affair1 nominee
1998🏆 WinnerSteven Spielberg
Saving Private Ryan
1997🏆 WinnerJames Cameron
Titanic
1996🏆 Winner
Mel Gibson
Braveheart1 nominee
Nominees (1)
1995🏆 Winner
Robert Zemeckis
Forrest Gump1 nominee
Nominees (1)
Ron HowardApollo 13Nominee1994🏆 WinnerSteven Spielberg
Schindler's List1 nominee
Nominees (1)
Pulp FictionNominee1993🏆 Winner
Clint Eastwood2 nominees
1992🏆 WinnerClint Eastwood
Unforgiven1 nominee
Nominees (1)
A Few Good MenNominee1991
Bernardo Bertolucci
The Sheltering Sky1 nominee
1989
Dead Poets Society2 nominees
Nominees (2)
Dead Poets SocietyNominee
Do the Right ThingNominee1987🏆 WinnerBernardo Bertolucci
The Last Emperor1 nominee
Nominees (1)
John BoormanHope and GloryNominee1986🏆 Winner
Oliver Stone
Platoon
1984🏆 Winner
Miloš Forman
Amadeus
1983🏆 Winner
Richard Attenborough
Gandhi2 nominees
Nominees (2)
Tender MerciesNominee
E.T. the Extra-TerrestrialNominee1982
Costa-Gavras
Missing1 nominee
1981🏆 Winner
Warren Beatty
Reds1 nominee
Nominees (1)
Louis MalleAtlantic CityNominee1979🏆 Winner
Michael Cimino
The Deer Hunter
1978
Coming Home1 nominee
1977🏆 Winner
Herbert Ross
The Turning Point1 nominee
Nominees (1)
JuliaNominee1975🏆 Winner
Roman Polanski
Chinatown
1974🏆 Winner
William Friedkin
The Exorcist1 nominee
Nominees (1)
The ConversationNominee1973🏆 WinnerWilliam FriedkinThe Exorcist1 nominee
Nominees (1)
1972John Boorman
Deliverance1 nominee
1971🏆 WinnerWilliam Friedkin
The French Connection1 nominee
Nominees (1)
The Last Picture ShowNominee1970🏆 Winner
Arthur Hiller
Love Story1 nominee
Nominees (1)
Five Easy PiecesNominee1969
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?2 nominees
Nominees (2)
1968🏆 Winner
Mike Nichols
The Graduate
1967🏆 Winner
Fred Zinnemann
A Man for All Seasons
1965🏆 Winner
Doctor Zhivago1 nominee
1963🏆 Winner
Rod Serling
The Twilight Zone
1962🏆 Winner
Stanley Kramer
Judgment at Nuremberg1 nominee
Nominees (1)
Mervyn LeRoyGypsyNominee1961🏆 Winner
Jack Cardiff
Sons and Lovers1 nominee
Nominees (1)
1960🏆 Winner
William Wyler
Ben-Hur1 nominee
Nominees (1)
SpartacusNominee1959🏆 Winner
Vincente Minnelli
Gigi
1958
The Defiant Ones2 nominees
Nominees (2)
The Defiant OnesNominee
Sidney Lumet12 Angry MenNominee1957🏆 Winner
David Lean
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1954🏆 WinnerFred Zinnemann
From Here to Eternity
1951🏆 Winner
Billy Wilder
Sunset Boulevard
1949🏆 Winner
Robert Rossen
All the King's Men1 nominee
Nominees (1)
The HeiressNominee
