BAFTA Award for Best Direction

British film industry award

BAFTA Award for Best Direction

The 2024 recipient: Brady Corbet

Awarded for| Excellence in film directing
Location| London
Country| United Kingdom
Presented by| British Academy of Film and Television Arts
First award| 1968
Currently held by| Brady Corbet for The Brutalist (2024)
Website| http://www.bafta.org/

The BAFTA Award for Best Direction, formerly known as David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction, is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to a film director for a specific feature film.

BAFTA is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, and video games (and formerly also for children's film and television). Since 1968, selected films have been awarded with the BAFTA award for Best Direction at an annual ceremony.

In the following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the remaining nominees. The winner is also the first name listed in each category.

## History

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The award was originally known as David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction,[when?] in honour of British director David Lean.[citation needed]

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

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Mike Nichols won for The Graduate (1967)

indicates the winner

Bob Fosse won for Cabaret (1972) François Truffaut won for Day for Night (1973) Roman Polanski won twice for Chinatown (1974) and The Pianist (2002) Stanley Kubrick won for Barry Lyndon (1975) Woody Allen won twice for Annie Hall (1977) & Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Francis Ford Coppola won for Apocalypse Now (1979) Akira Kurosawa won for Kagemusha (1980) Kenneth Branagh won for Henry V (1989) Martin Scorsese won for Goodfellas (1990) Robert Altman won for The Player (1992) Steven Spielberg won for Schindler's List (1993) Joel Coen won for Fargo (1996) and No Country for Old Men (2007) Peter Weir won twice for The Truman Show (1998) and Master and Commander (2003) Pedro Almodóvar won for All About My Mother (1999) Ang Lee won twice for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) & Brokeback Mountain (2005) Peter Jackson won for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Mike Leigh won for Vera Drake (2004) Danny Boyle won for Slumdog Millionaire (2008) Kathryn Bigelow won for The Hurt Locker (2009) David Fincher won for The Social Network (2010) Alfonso Cuarón won twice for Gravity (2013) and Roma (2018) Richard Linklater won for Boyhood (2014) Alejandro G. Iñárritu won for The Revenant (2015) Damien Chazelle won for La La Land (2016) Guillermo del Toro won for The Shape of Water (2017) Sam Mendes won for 1917 (2019) Chloe Zhao won for Nomadland (2020) Jane Campion won for The Power of the Dog (2021) Edward Berger won for All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) Christopher Nolan won for Oppenheimer (2023) Brady Corbet won for The Brutalist (2024)

### 1960s

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Year  | Director(s)  | Film  | Ref.

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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

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Year  | Director(s)  | Film  | Ref.

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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 [A] | 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

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Year  | Director(s)  | Film  | Ref.

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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
(39th)

| Not awarded |

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

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Year  | Director(s)  | Film  | Ref.

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1990
(44th)

| Martin Scorsese | Goodfellas |
Woody Allen | Crimes and Misdemeanors
Bruce Beresford | Driving Miss Daisy
Giuseppe Tornatore | 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
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) | Pedro Almodóvar | All About My Mother | [2]
Neil Jordan | The End of the Affair
Sam Mendes | American Beauty
Anthony Minghella | The Talented Mr. Ripley
M. Night Shyamalan | The Sixth Sense

### 2000s

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Year  | Director(s)  | Film  | Ref.

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2000
(54th) | Ang Lee | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | [3][4]
Stephen Daldry | Billy Elliot
Ridley Scott | Gladiator
Steven Soderbergh | Erin Brockovich
Traffic
2001
(55th) | Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | [5]
Robert Altman | Gosford Park
Ron Howard | A Beautiful Mind
Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Amélie
Baz Luhrmann | Moulin Rouge!
2002
(56th) | Roman Polanski | The Pianist | [6]
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) | Peter Weir | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | [7]
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) | Mike Leigh | Vera Drake | [8]
Marc Forster | Finding Neverland
Michel Gondry | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Michael Mann | Collateral
Martin Scorsese | The Aviator
2005
(59th) | Ang Lee | Brokeback Mountain | [9]
George Clooney | Good Night, and Good Luck
Paul Haggis | Crash
Fernando Meirelles | The Constant Gardener
Bennett Miller | Capote
2006
(60th) | Paul Greengrass | United 93 | [10]
Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris | Little Miss Sunshine
Stephen Frears | The Queen
Alejandro González Iñárritu | Babel
Martin Scorsese | The Departed
2007
(61st) | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | No Country for Old Men | [11]
Paul Thomas Anderson | There Will Be Blood
Paul Greengrass | The Bourne Ultimatum
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | The Lives of Others
Joe Wright | Atonement
2008
(62nd) | Danny Boyle | Slumdog Millionaire | [12]
Stephen Daldry | The Reader
Clint Eastwood | Changeling
David Fincher | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard | Frost/Nixon
2009
(63rd) | Kathryn Bigelow | The Hurt Locker | [13]
Neill Blomkamp | District 9
James Cameron | Avatar
Lone Scherfig | An Education
Quentin Tarantino | Inglourious Basterds

### 2010s

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Year  | Director(s)  | Film  | Ref.

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2010
(64th) | David Fincher | The Social Network | [14]
Darren Aronofsky | Black Swan
Danny Boyle | 127 Hours
Tom Hooper | The King's Speech
Christopher Nolan | Inception
2011
(65th) | Michel Hazanavicius | The Artist | [15]
Tomas Alfredson | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Lynne Ramsay | We Need to Talk About Kevin
Nicolas Winding Refn | Drive
Martin Scorsese | Hugo
2012
(66th) | Ben Affleck | Argo | [16]
Kathryn Bigelow | Zero Dark Thirty
Michael Haneke | Amour
Ang Lee | Life of Pi
Quentin Tarantino | Django Unchained
2013
(67th) | Alfonso Cuarón | Gravity | [17]
Paul Greengrass | Captain Phillips
Steve McQueen | 12 Years a Slave
David O. Russell | American Hustle
Martin Scorsese | The Wolf of Wall Street
2014
(68th) | Richard Linklater | Boyhood | [18]
[19]
Wes Anderson | The Grand Budapest Hotel
Damien Chazelle | Whiplash
Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Birdman
James Marsh | The Theory of Everything
2015
(69th) | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | The Revenant | [20]
[21]
Todd Haynes | Carol
Adam McKay | The Big Short
Ridley Scott | The Martian
Steven Spielberg | Bridge of Spies
2016
(70th) | Damien Chazelle | La La Land | [22]
[23]
Tom Ford | Nocturnal Animals
Ken Loach | I, Daniel Blake
Kenneth Lonergan | Manchester by the Sea
Denis Villeneuve | Arrival
2017
(71st) | Guillermo del Toro | The Shape of Water |
Luca Guadagnino | Call Me by Your Name
Martin McDonagh | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Christopher Nolan | Dunkirk
Denis Villeneuve | Blade Runner 2049
2018
(72nd) | Alfonso Cuarón | Roma | [26]
[27]
Bradley Cooper | A Star Is Born
Yorgos Lanthimos | The Favourite
Spike Lee | BlacKkKlansman
Paweł Pawlikowski | Cold War
2019
(73rd) | Sam Mendes | 1917 | [28]
[29]
Bong Joon-ho | Parasite
Todd Phillips | Joker
Martin Scorsese | The Irishman
Quentin Tarantino | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

### 2020s

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Year  | Director(s)  | Film  | Ref.

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2020
(74th) | Chloé Zhao | Nomadland | [30]
Lee Isaac Chung | Minari
Sarah Gavron | Rocks
Shannon Murphy | Babyteeth
Thomas Vinterberg | Another Round
Jasmila Žbanić | Quo Vadis, Aida?
2021
(75th) | Jane Campion | The Power of the Dog | [31]
Paul Thomas Anderson | Licorice Pizza
Audrey Diwan | Happening
Julia Ducournau | Titane
Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Drive My Car
Aleem Khan | After Love
2022
(76th) | Edward Berger | All Quiet on the Western Front | [32]
Park Chan-wook | Decision to Leave
Todd Field | Tár
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert | Everything Everywhere All at Once
Martin McDonagh | The Banshees of Inisherin
Gina Prince-Bythewood | The Woman King
2023
(77th) | Christopher Nolan | Oppenheimer | [33]
Bradley Cooper | Maestro
Jonathan Glazer | The Zone of Interest
Andrew Haigh | All of Us Strangers
Alexander Payne | The Holdovers
Justine Triet | Anatomy of a Fall
2024
(78th) | Brady Corbet | The Brutalist | [34]
Jacques Audiard | Emilia Pérez
Sean Baker | Anora
Edward Berger | Conclave
Coralie Fargeat | The Substance
Denis Villeneuve | Dune: Part Two

## Multiple wins and nominations

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### Multiple nominations

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10 nominations

* Martin Scorsese

6 nominations

* Steven Spielberg

5 nominations

* Richard Attenborough
* Alan Parker

4 nominations

* Woody Allen
* Robert Altman
* James Ivory
* Ang Lee
* Quentin Tarantino

3 nominations

* Stephen Daldry
* Alejandro González Iñárritu
* Paul Greengrass
* Peter Jackson
* Neil Jordan
* Sidney Lumet
* Louis Malle
* Anthony Minghella
* Christopher Nolan
* John Schlesinger
* Ridley Scott
* Denis Villeneuve
* Peter Weir

2 nominations

* Paul Thomas Anderson
* Edward Berger
* Kathryn Bigelow
* Danny Boyle
* James Cameron
* Jane Campion
* Damien Chazelle
* Joel Coen
* Bradley Cooper

* Francis Ford Coppola
* Alfonso Cuarón
* Clint Eastwood
* David Fincher
* Miloš Forman
* Bill Forsyth
* Stephen Frears
* Ron Howard
* Roland Joffé
* Stanley Kubrick
* Mike Leigh
* Ken Loach
* Baz Luhrmann
* Martin McDonagh
* Sam Mendes
* Roman Polanski
* Steven Soderbergh
* Peter Yates
* Fred Zinnemann

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### Multiple wins

[edit]

2 wins

* Woody Allen
* Joel Coen
* Alfonso Cuarón
* Ang Lee

* Louis Malle
* Alan Parker
* Roman Polanski
* John Schlesinger
* Peter Weir

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## See also

[edit]

* Academy Award for Best Director
* Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director
* Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film
* Golden Globe Award for Best Director
* Independent Spirit Award for Best Director

## Notes

[edit]

A1 : According to the BAFTAs database, Sidney Lumet received a single joint nomination for two different films.[35]

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BAFTA Award for Best Direction

1968–2000|

* Mike Nichols (1968)
* John Schlesinger (1969)
* George Roy Hill (1970)
* John Schlesinger (1971)
* Bob Fosse (1972)
* François Truffaut (1973)
* Roman Polanski (1974)
* Stanley Kubrick (1975)
* Miloš Forman (1976)
* Woody Allen (1977)
* Alan Parker (1978)
* Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
* Akira Kurosawa (1980)
* Louis Malle (1981)
* Richard Attenborough (1982)
* Bill Forsyth (1983)
* Wim Wenders (1984)
* No Award (1985)
* Woody Allen (1986)
* Oliver Stone (1987)
* Louis Malle (1988)
* Kenneth Branagh (1989)
* Martin Scorsese (1990)
* Alan Parker (1991)
* Robert Altman (1992)
* Steven Spielberg (1993)
* Mike Newell (1994)
* Michael Radford (1995)
* Joel Coen (1996)
* Baz Luhrmann (1997)
* Peter Weir (1998)
* Pedro Almodóvar (1999)
* Ang Lee (2000)

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* Peter Jackson (2001)
* Roman Polanski (2002)
* Peter Weir (2003)
* Mike Leigh (2004)
* Ang Lee (2005)
* Paul Greengrass (2006)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007)
* Danny Boyle (2008)
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* Guillermo del Toro (2017)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
* Sam Mendes (2019)
* Chloé Zhao (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* Edward Berger (2022)
* Christopher Nolan (2023)
* Brady Corbet (2024)

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