Best Director

2007 The Satellite Awards - Best Director WinnerNo Country for Old MenEthan CoenViolence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.Amazon2007 The Satellite Awards - Best Director NomineesAway from HerSarah PolleyAmazonBefore the Devil Knows You're DeadSidney LumetAmazonEastern PromisesDavid CronenbergAmazonLa Vie En RoseOlivier DahanAmazonLust, CautionAng LeeAmazon

1996 The Satellite Awards - Best Director WinnerFargoJoel CoenJerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.Amazon1996 The Satellite Awards - Best Director NomineesBreaking the WavesLars von TrierAmazonSecrets & LiesMike LeighAmazonShineScott HicksAmazonThe English PatientAnthony MinghellaAmazon

1997 The Satellite Awards - Best Director WinnerTitanicJames CameronA seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.Amazon1997 The Satellite Awards - Best Director NomineesAmistadSteven SpielbergAmazonBoogie NightsPaul Thomas AndersonAmazonGood Will HuntingGus Van SantAmazonL.A. ConfidentialCurtis HansonAmazon

1998 The Satellite Awards - Best Director WinnerThe Thin Red LineTerrence MalickAdaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.Amazon1998 The Satellite Awards - Best Director NomineesElizabethShekhar KapurAmazonPleasantvilleGary RossAmazonSaving Private RyanSteven SpielbergAmazonThe GeneralJohn BoormanAmazon

1999 The Satellite Awards - Best Director WinnerThe InsiderMichael MannA research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes (1968) exposé on Big Tobacco.Amazon1999 The Satellite Awards - Best Director NomineesAmerican BeautySam MendesAmazonBoys Don't CryKimberly PeirceAmazonMagnoliaPaul Thomas AndersonAmazonSnow Falling on CedarsScott HicksAmazonThe Talented Mr. RipleyAnthony MinghellaAmazon

2000 The Satellite Awards - Best Director WinnerTrafficSteven SoderberghA conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the fAmazon2000 The Satellite Awards - Best Director NomineesAlmost FamousCameron CroweAmazonCrouching Tiger, Hidden DragonAng LeeAmazonErin BrockovichSteven SoderberghAmazonGladiatorRidley ScottAmazonQuillsPhilip KaufmanAmazon

2001 The Satellite Awards - Best Director WinnerMoulin Rouge!Baz LuhrmannA poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets.Amazon2001 The Satellite Awards - Best Director NomineesHedwig and the Angry InchJohn Cameron MitchellAmazonMementoChristopher NolanAmazonSexy BeastJonathan GlazerAmazonThe Deep EndScott McGeheeAmazon

2002 The Satellite Awards - Best Director WinnerFar from HeavenTodd HaynesIn 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.Amazon2002 The Satellite Awards - Best Director NomineesAntwone FisherDenzel WashingtonAmazonTalk to HerPedro AlmodóvarAmazonThe HoursStephen DaldryAmazonThe Lord of the Rings: The Two TowersPeter JacksonAmazonThe Quiet AmericanPhillip NoyceAmazon

2003 The Satellite Awards - Best Director WinnerIn AmericaJim SheridanA family of Irish immigrants adjust to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.Amazon2003 The Satellite Awards - Best Director NomineesAmerican SplendorRobert PulciniAmazonLost in TranslationSofia CoppolaAmazonMystic RiverClint EastwoodAmazonThirteenCatherine HardwickeAmazonWhale RiderNiki CaroAmazon

2004 The Satellite Awards - Best Director WinnerThe Passion of the ChristMel GibsonDepicts the final twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, on the day of his crucifixion in Jerusalem.Amazon2004 The Satellite Awards - Best Director NomineesKinseyBill CondonAmazonMaria Full of GraceJoshua MarstonAmazonRayTaylor HackfordAmazonSidewaysAlexander PayneAmazonThe AviatorMartin ScorseseAmazon