BAFTA Award for Best Direction
| BAFTA Award for Best Direction | |
|---|---|
 The 2020 recipient: Chloé Zhao | |
| Awarded for | Excellence in film directing |
| Location | London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
| First awarded | 1968 |
| Currently held by | Chloé Zhao for Nomadland (2020) |
| Website | http://www.bafta.org/ |
The BAFTA Award for Best Direction is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).
History[]
It was previously known as David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction. John Schlesinger, Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, Alan Parker, Louis Malle, Joel Coen, Peter Weir, Ang Lee, and Alfonso Cuarón tie for the most wins in this category, with two each. Martin Scorsese holds the record for most nominations, with ten.
There are no records showing any nominations, or a winner, for this award at the 39th British Academy Film Awards, presented in 1986 for films released in 1985.[1]
Winners and nominees[]
1960s[]
| Year | Director | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 22nd | ||
| Mike Nichols | The Graduate | |
| Lindsay Anderson | if.... | |
| Carol Reed | Oliver! | |
| Franco Zeffirelli | Romeo and Juliet | |
| 1969 23rd | ||
| John Schlesinger | Midnight Cowboy | |
| Richard Attenborough | Oh! What a Lovely War | |
| Ken Russell | Women in Love | |
| Peter Yates | Bullitt |
1970s[]
| Year | Director | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 24th | ||
| George Roy Hill | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | |
| Robert Altman | M*A*S*H | |
| David Lean | Ryan's Daughter | |
| Ken Loach | Kes | |
| 1971 25th | ||
| John Schlesinger | Sunday Bloody Sunday | |
| Miloš Forman | Taking Off | |
| Joseph Losey | The Go-Between | |
| Luchino Visconti | Death in Venice | |
| 1972 26th | ||
| Bob Fosse | Cabaret | |
| Peter Bogdanovich | The Last Picture Show | |
| William Friedkin | The French Connection | |
| Stanley Kubrick | A Clockwork Orange | |
| 1973 27th | ||
| François Truffaut | Day for Night | |
| Luis Buñuel | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | |
| Nicolas Roeg | Don't Look Now | |
| Fred Zinnemann | The Day of the Jackal | |
| 1974 28th | ||
| Roman Polanski | Chinatown | |
| Francis Ford Coppola | The Conversation | |
| Sidney Lumet | Murder on the Orient Express / Serpico | |
| Louis Malle | Lacombe Lucien | |
| 1975 29th | ||
| Stanley Kubrick | Barry Lyndon | |
| Sidney Lumet | Dog Day Afternoon | |
| Martin Scorsese | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | |
| Steven Spielberg | Jaws | |
| 1976 30th | ||
| Miloš Forman | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | |
| Alan J. Pakula | All the President's Men | |
| Alan Parker | Bugsy Malone | |
| Martin Scorsese | Taxi Driver | |
| 1977 31st | ||
| Woody Allen | Annie Hall | |
| Richard Attenborough | A Bridge Too Far | |
| John G. Avildsen | Rocky | |
| Sidney Lumet | Network | |
| 1978 32nd | ||
| Alan Parker | Midnight Express | |
| Robert Altman | A Wedding | |
| Steven Spielberg | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | |
| Fred Zinnemann | Julia | |
| 1979 33rd | ||
| Francis Ford Coppola | Apocalypse Now | |
| Woody Allen | Manhattan | |
| Michael Cimino | The Deer Hunter | |
| John Schlesinger | Yanks |
1980s[]
| Year | Director | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 34th | ||
| Akira Kurosawa | Kagemusha | |
| Robert Benton | Kramer vs. Kramer | |
| David Lynch | The Elephant Man | |
| Alan Parker | Fame | |
| 1981 35th | ||
| Louis Malle | Atlantic City | |
| Bill Forsyth | Gregory's Girl | |
| Hugh Hudson | Chariots of Fire | |
| Karel Reisz | The French Lieutenant's Woman | |
| 1982 36th | ||
| Richard Attenborough | Gandhi | |
| Costa-Gavras | Missing | |
| Mark Rydell | On Golden Pond | |
| Steven Spielberg | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | |
| 1983 37th | ||
| Bill Forsyth | Local Hero | |
| James Ivory | Heat and Dust | |
| Sydney Pollack | Tootsie | |
| Martin Scorsese | The King of Comedy | |
| 1984 38th | ||
| Wim Wenders | Paris, Texas | |
| Roland Joffé | The Killing Fields | |
| Sergio Leone | Once Upon a Time in America | |
| Peter Yates | The Dresser | |
| 1985 38th |
no record of nominations nor winner in 1986 for director of a film released in 1985 | [1] |
| 1986 40th | ||
| Woody Allen | Hannah and Her Sisters | |
| Roland Joffé | The Mission | |
| Neil Jordan | Mona Lisa | |
| James Ivory | A Room with a View | |
| 1987 41st | ||
| Oliver Stone | Platoon | |
| Richard Attenborough | Cry Freedom | |
| Claude Berri | Jean de Florette | |
| John Boorman | Hope and Glory | |
| 1988 42nd | ||
| Louis Malle | Au revoir les enfants | |
| Gabriel Axel | Babette's Feast | |
| Bernardo Bertolucci | The Last Emperor | |
| Charles Crichton | A Fish Called Wanda | |
| 1989 43rd | ||
| Kenneth Branagh | Henry V | |
| Stephen Frears | Dangerous Liaisons | |
| Alan Parker | Mississippi Burning | |
| Peter Weir | Dead Poets Society |
1990s[]
| Year | Director | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 44th | ||
| Martin Scorsese | Goodfellas | |
| Woody Allen | Crimes and Misdemeanors | |
| Bruce Beresford | Driving Miss Daisy | |
| Giuseppe Tornatore | Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo cinema Paradiso) | |
| 1991 45th | ||
| Alan Parker | The Commitments | |
| Kevin Costner | Dances with Wolves | |
| Jonathan Demme | The Silence of the Lambs | |
| Ridley Scott | Thelma & Louise | |
| 1992 46th | ||
| Robert Altman | The Player | |
| Clint Eastwood | Unforgiven | |
| James Ivory | Howards End | |
| Neil Jordan | The Crying Game | |
| 1993 47th | ||
| Steven Spielberg | Schindler's List | |
| Richard Attenborough | Shadowlands | |
| Jane Campion | The Piano | |
| James Ivory | The Remains of the Day | |
| 1994 48th | ||
| Mike Newell | Four Weddings and a Funeral | |
| Krzysztof Kieślowski | Three Colours: Red (Trois couleurs : Rouge) | |
| Quentin Tarantino | Pulp Fiction | |
| Robert Zemeckis | Forrest Gump | |
| 1995 49th | ||
| Michael Radford | Il Postino: The Postman | |
| Mel Gibson | Braveheart | |
| Nicholas Hytner | The Madness of King George | |
| Ang Lee | Sense and Sensibility | |
| 1996 50th | ||
| Joel Coen | Fargo | |
| Scott Hicks | Shine | |
| Mike Leigh | Secrets & Lies | |
| Anthony Minghella | The English Patient | |
| 1997 51st | ||
| Baz Luhrmann | Romeo + Juliet | |
| James Cameron | Titanic | |
| Peter Cattaneo | The Full Monty | |
| Curtis Hanson | L.A. Confidential | |
| 1998 52nd | ||
| Peter Weir | The Truman Show | |
| Shekhar Kapur | Elizabeth | |
| John Madden | Shakespeare in Love | |
| Steven Spielberg | Saving Private Ryan | |
| 1999 53rd [2] | ||
| Pedro Almodóvar | All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre) | |
| Neil Jordan | The End of the Affair | |
| Sam Mendes | American Beauty | |
| Anthony Minghella | The Talented Mr. Ripley | |
| M. Night Shyamalan | The Sixth Sense |
2000s[]
| Year | Director | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 54th [3][4] | ||
| Ang Lee | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long) | |
| Stephen Daldry | Billy Elliot | |
| Ridley Scott | Gladiator | |
| Steven Soderbergh | Traffic | |
| Steven Soderbergh | Erin Brockovich | |
| 2001 55th [5] | ||
| Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | |
| Robert Altman | Gosford Park | |
| Ron Howard | A Beautiful Mind | |
| Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Amélie (Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) | |
| Baz Luhrmann | Moulin Rouge! | |
| 2002 56th [6] | ||
| Roman Polanski | The Pianist | |
| Stephen Daldry | The Hours | |
| Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | |
| Rob Marshall | Chicago | |
| Martin Scorsese | Gangs of New York | |
| 2003 57th [7] | ||
| Peter Weir | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | |
| Tim Burton | Big Fish | |
| Sofia Coppola | Lost in Translation | |
| Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | |
| Anthony Minghella | Cold Mountain | |
| 2004 58th [8] | ||
| Mike Leigh | Vera Drake | |
| Marc Forster | Finding Neverland | |
| Michel Gondry | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | |
| Michael Mann | Collateral | |
| Martin Scorsese | The Aviator | |
| 2005 59th [9] | ||
| Ang Lee | Brokeback Mountain | |
| George Clooney | Good Night, and Good Luck. | |
| Paul Haggis | Crash | |
| Fernando Meirelles | The Constant Gardener | |
| Bennett Miller | Capote | |
| 2006 60th [10] | ||
| Paul Greengrass | United 93 | |
| Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris | Little Miss Sunshine | |
| Stephen Frears | The Queen | |
| Alejandro González Iñárritu | Babel | |
| Martin Scorsese | The Departed | |
| 2007 61st [11] | ||
| Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | No Country for Old Men | |
| Paul Thomas Anderson | There Will Be Blood | |
| Paul Greengrass | The Bourne Ultimatum | |
| Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) | |
| Joe Wright | Atonement | |
| 2008 62nd [12] | ||
| Danny Boyle | Slumdog Millionaire | |
| Stephen Daldry | The Reader | |
| Clint Eastwood | Changeling | |
| David Fincher | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | |
| Ron Howard | Frost/Nixon | |
| 2009 63rd [13] | ||
| Kathryn Bigelow | The Hurt Locker | |
| Neill Blomkamp | District 9 | |
| James Cameron | Avatar | |
| Lone Scherfig | An Education | |
| Quentin Tarantino | Inglourious Basterds |
2010s[]
| Year | Director | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 64th [14] | ||
| David Fincher | The Social Network | |
| Darren Aronofsky | Black Swan | |
| Danny Boyle | 127 Hours | |
| Tom Hooper | The King's Speech | |
| Christopher Nolan | Inception | |
| 2011 65th [15] | ||
| Michel Hazanavicius | The Artist | |
| Tomas Alfredson | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | |
| Lynne Ramsay | We Need to Talk About Kevin | |
| Nicolas Winding Refn | Drive | |
| Martin Scorsese | Hugo | |
| 2012 66th [16] | ||
| Ben Affleck | Argo | |
| Kathryn Bigelow | Zero Dark Thirty | |
| Michael Haneke | Amour | |
| Ang Lee | Life of Pi | |
| Quentin Tarantino | Django Unchained | |
| 2013 67th [17] | ||
| Alfonso Cuarón | Gravity | |
| Paul Greengrass | Captain Phillips | |
| Steve McQueen | 12 Years a Slave | |
| David O. Russell | American Hustle | |
| Martin Scorsese | The Wolf of Wall Street | |
| 2014 68th [18] | ||
| Richard Linklater | Boyhood[19] | |
| Wes Anderson | The Grand Budapest Hotel | |
| Damien Chazelle | Whiplash | |
| Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Birdman | |
| James Marsh | The Theory of Everything | |
| 2015 69th [20] | ||
| Alejandro G. Iñárritu | The Revenant[21] | |
| Todd Haynes | Carol | |
| Adam McKay | The Big Short | |
| Ridley Scott | The Martian | |
| Steven Spielberg | Bridge of Spies | |
| 2016 70th [22] | ||
| Damien Chazelle | La La Land[23] | |
| Tom Ford | Nocturnal Animals | |
| Ken Loach | I, Daniel Blake | |
| Kenneth Lonergan | Manchester by the Sea | |
| Denis Villeneuve | Arrival | |
| 2017 71st [24] | ||
| Guillermo del Toro | The Shape of Water[25] | |
| Luca Guadagnino | Call Me by Your Name | |
| Martin McDonagh | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | |
| Christopher Nolan | Dunkirk | |
| Denis Villeneuve | Blade Runner 2049 | |
| 2018 72nd [26] | ||
| Alfonso Cuarón | Roma[27] | |
| Bradley Cooper | A Star Is Born | |
| Yorgos Lanthimos | The Favourite | |
| Spike Lee | BlacKkKlansman | |
| Paweł Pawlikowski | Cold War | |
| 2019 73rd [28] | ||
| Sam Mendes | 1917[29] | |
| Bong Joon-ho | Parasite | |
| Todd Phillips | Joker | |
| Martin Scorsese | The Irishman | |
| Quentin Tarantino | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood |
2020s[]
| Year | Director | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 74th [30] | ||
| Chloé Zhao | Nomadland | |
| Lee Isaac Chung | Minari | |
| Sarah Gavron | Rocks | |
| Shannon Murphy | Babyteeth | |
| Thomas Vinterberg | Another Round | |
| Jasmila Žbanić | Quo Vadis, Aida? | |
| 2021 75th [31] |
Paul Thomas Anderson | Licorice Pizza |
| Jane Campion | The Power of the Dog | |
| Audrey Diwan | Happening | |
| Julia Ducournau | Titane | |
| Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Drive My Car | |
| After Love |
Multiple wins (2 or more)[]
- Woody Allen
- Alan Parker
- John Schlesinger
- Louis Malle
- Peter Weir
- Ang Lee
- Roman Polanski
- Joel Coen
- Alfonso Cuarón
Multiple nominations[]
- Martin Scorsese - 10 Nominations
See also[]
- Academy Award for Best Director
- Independent Spirit Award for Best Director
- Golden Globe Award for Best Director
- Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director
- Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film
References[]
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