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2019 The Satellite Awards – Best Director
![Ford v Ferrari James Mangold](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ford-v-ferrari-james-mangold-image.jpg)
Ford v Ferrari
James Mangold
2018 The Satellite Awards – Best Director
![Roma Alfonso Cuarón](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/roma-image.jpg)
Roma
Alfonso Cuarón
2017 The Satellite Awards – Best Director
![Get Out Jordan Peele](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/get-out-jordan-peele-image.jpg)
Get Out
Jordan Peele
2016 The Satellite Awards – Best Director
![Manchester by the Sea Kenneth Lonergan](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/manchester-by-the-sea-kenneth-lonergan-image.jpg)
Manchester by the Sea
Kenneth Lonergan
2015 The Satellite Awards – Best Director
![Spotlight Tom McCarthy](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/spotlight-tom-mccarthy-image.jpg)
Spotlight
Tom McCarthy
2014 The Satellite Awards – Best Director
![Boyhood Richard Linklater](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/boyhood-richard-linklater-image.jpg)
Boyhood
Richard Linklater
2013 The Satellite Awards – Best Director
![12 Years a Slave Steve McQueen](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/12-years-a-slave-steve-mcqueen-image.jpg)
12 Years a Slave
Steve McQueen
2012 The Satellite Awards – Best Director
![Silver Linings Playbook David O. Russell](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/silver-linings-playbook-david-o.-russell-image.jpg)
Silver Linings Playbook
David O. Russell
2011 The Satellite Awards – Best Director
![Drive Nicolas Winding Refn](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/drive-nicolas-winding-refn-image.jpg)
Drive
Nicolas Winding Refn
2010 The Satellite Awards – Best Director
![The Social Network David Fincher](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-social-network-david-fincher-image.jpg)
The Social Network
David Fincher
2009 The Satellite Awards – Best Director
![The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-hurt-locker-kathryn-bigelow-image.jpg)
The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow
2008 The Satellite Awards – Best Director
![Slumdog Millionaire Danny Boyle](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/slumdog-millionaire-danny-boyle-loveleen-tandanco-director-image.jpg)
Slumdog Millionaire
Danny Boyle
2007 The Satellite Awards – Best Director
![No Country for Old Men Ethan Coen](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-country-for-old-men-ethan-coen-joel-coen-image.jpg)
No Country for Old Men
Ethan Coen
2006 The Satellite Awards – Best Director
![Dreamgirls Bill Condon](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/dreamgirls-image.jpg)
Dreamgirls
Bill Condon
2006 The Satellite Awards – Best Director
![Flags of Our Fathers Clint Eastwood](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/flags-of-our-fathers-clint-eastwood-image.jpg)
Flags of Our Fathers
Clint Eastwood
2005 The Satellite Awards – Best Director
![Brokeback Mountain Ang Lee](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/brokeback-mountain-image.jpg)
Brokeback Mountain
Ang Lee
2004 The Satellite Awards – Best Director
![The Passion of the Christ Mel Gibson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-passion-of-the-christ-mel-gibson-image.jpg)
The Passion of the Christ
Mel Gibson
2003 The Satellite Awards – Best Director
![In America Jim Sheridan](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/in-america-jim-sheridan-image.jpg)
In America
Jim Sheridan
2002 The Satellite Awards – Best Director
![Far from Heaven Todd Haynes](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/far-from-heaven-todd-haynes-image.jpg)
Far from Heaven
Todd Haynes
2001 The Satellite Awards – Best Director
![Moulin Rouge! Baz Luhrmann](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/moulin-rouge-image.jpg)
Moulin Rouge!
Baz Luhrmann
2000 The Satellite Awards – Best Director
![Traffic Steven Soderbergh](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/traffic-steven-soderbergh-image.jpg)
Traffic
Steven Soderbergh
1999 The Satellite Awards – Best Director
![The Insider Michael Mann](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-insider-michael-mann-image.jpg)
The Insider
Michael Mann
1998 The Satellite Awards – Best Director
![The Thin Red Line Terrence Malick](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-thin-red-line-terrence-malick-image.jpg)
The Thin Red Line
Terrence Malick
1997 The Satellite Awards – Best Director
![Titanic James Cameron](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/titanic-james-cameron-image.jpg)
Titanic
James Cameron
1996 The Satellite Awards – Best Director
![Fargo Joel Coen](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/fargo-joel-coen-ethan-coen-image.jpg)