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2020 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

1917
Sam Mendes
2019 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Roma
Alfonso Cuarón
2018 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro
2017 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

La La Land
Damien Chazelle
2016 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

The Revenant
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
2015 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Boyhood
Richard Linklater
2014 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón
2013 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Argo
Ben Affleck
2012 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Hugo
Martin Scorsese
2011 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

The Social Network
David Fincher
2010 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Avatar
James Cameron
2009 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Slumdog Millionaire
Danny Boyle
2008 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Julian Schnabel
2007 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

The Departed
Martin Scorsese
2006 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Brokeback Mountain
Ang Lee
2005 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood
2004 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Peter Jackson
2003 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Gangs of New York
Martin Scorsese
2002 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Gosford Park
Robert Altman
2001 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Ang Lee
2000 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

American Beauty
Sam Mendes
1999 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Saving Private Ryan
Steven Spielberg
1998 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Titanic
James Cameron
1997 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

The People vs. Larry Flynt
Milos Forman
1996 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Braveheart
Mel Gibson
1995 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Forrest Gump
Robert Zemeckis
1994 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Schindler’s List
Steven Spielberg
1993 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Unforgiven
Clint Eastwood
1992 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

JFK
Oliver Stone
1991 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Dances with Wolves
Kevin Costner
1990 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Born on the Fourth of July
Oliver Stone
1989 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Bird
Clint Eastwood
1988 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

The Last Emperor
Bernardo Bertolucci
1987 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Platoon
Oliver Stone
1986 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Prizzi’s Honor
John Huston
1985 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Amadeus
Milos Forman
1984 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Yentl
Barbra Streisand
1983 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Gandhi
Richard Attenborough
1982 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Reds
Warren Beatty
1981 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Ordinary People
Robert Redford
1980 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola
1979 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

The Deer Hunter
Michael Cimino
1978 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

The Turning Point
Herbert Ross
1977 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Network
Sidney Lumet
1976 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Milos Forman
1975 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Chinatown
Roman Polanski
1974 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

The Exorcist
William Friedkin
1973 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

The Godfather
Francis Ford Coppola
1972 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

The French Connection
William Friedkin
1971 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Love Story
Arthur Hiller
1970 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Anne of the Thousand Days
Charles Jarrott
1969 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Rachel, Rachel
Paul Newman
1968 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

The Graduate
Mike Nichols
1967 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

A Man for All Seasons
Fred Zinnemann
1966 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Doctor Zhivago
David Lean
1965 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

My Fair Lady
George Cukor
1964 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

America America
Elia Kazan
1963 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Lawrence of Arabia
David Lean
1962 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Judgment at Nuremberg
Stanley Kramer
1961 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Sons and Lovers
Jack Cardiff
1960 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Ben-Hur
William Wyler
1959 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Gigi
Vincente Minnelli
1958 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

The Bridge on the River Kwai
David Lean
1957 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Baby Doll
Elia Kazan
1956 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Picnic
Joshua Logan
1955 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

On the Waterfront
Elia Kazan
1954 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

From Here to Eternity
Fred Zinnemann
1953 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

The Greatest Show on Earth
Cecil B. DeMille
1952 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Death of a Salesman
Laslo Benedek
1951 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Sunset Blvd.
Billy Wilder
1950 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

All the King’s Men
Robert Rossen
1949 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
John Huston
1948 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Gentleman’s Agreement
Elia Kazan
1947 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

It’s a Wonderful Life
Frank Capra
1946 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

The Lost Weekend
Billy Wilder
1945 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director

Going My Way
Leo McCarey
1944 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
