GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR - MOTION PICTURE

This page lists the winners and nominees for the 'Golden Globe Award for Best Director', HFPS Golden Globes Page since its institution in 1943. The organizer, Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), is an organization comprised of journalists who cover the United States film industry, but are affiliated with publications outside North America. The award is presented every year. The nominations are not always available.
Elia Kazan is the biggest winner—4 wins in 4 nominations. Clint Eastwood, David Lean, Miloš Forman and Oliver Stone come right behind with 3 wins each. Steven Spielberg had the most nominations (10) but received the award only twice.
In the following lists, the first titles listed are winners, these are also in 'bold' and in blue background; those not in bold are nominees. The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which always takes place the following year.

Contents

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

References

1940s

Year	Film	Nominees
1943 HFPS Golden Globes 1943 Nominations for 1943 are not available.	'''The Song of Bernadette'''	'Henry King'
1944 HFPS Golden Globes 1944 Nominations for 1944 are not available.	'''Going My Way'''	'Leo McCarey'
1945 HFPS Golden Globes 1945 Nominations for 1945 are not available.	'''The Lost Weekend'''	'Billy Wilder'
1946 HFPS Golden Globes 1946 Nominations for 1946 are not available.	'''It's a Wonderful Life'''	'Frank Capra'
1947 HFPS Golden Globes 1947 Nominations for 1947 are not available.	'''Gentleman's Agreement'''	'Elia Kazan'
1948 HFPS Golden Globes 1948 Nominations for 1948 are not available.	'''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'''	'John Huston'
1949	'''All the King's Men'''	'Robert Rossen'
	''The Heiress''	William Wyler

1950s

Year	Film	Nominees
1950	'''Sunset Boulevard'''	'Billy Wilder'
	''All About Eve''	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
	''The Asphalt Jungle''	John Huston
	''Born Yesterday''	George Cukor
1951	'''Death of a Salesman'''	'László Benedek'
	''An American in Paris''	Vincente Minnelli
	''A Place in the Sun''	George Stevens
1952	'''The Greatest Show on Earth'''	'Cecil B. DeMille'
	''The Narrow Margin''	Richard Fleischer
	''The Quiet Man''	John Ford
1953 HFPS Golden Globes 1953 Nominations for 1953 are not available.	'''From Here to Eternity'''	'Fred Zinnemann'
1954 HFPS Golden Globes 1954 Nominations for 1954 are not available.	'''On the Waterfront'''	'Elia Kazan'
1955 HFPS Golden Globes 1955 Nominations for 1955 are not available.	'''Picnic'''	'Joshua Logan'
1956	'''Baby Doll'''	'Elia Kazan'
	''Around the World in Eighty Days''	Michael Anderson
	''Giant''	George Stevens
	''Lust for Life''	Vincente Minnelli
	''War and Peace''	King Vidor
1957	'''The Bridge on the River Kwai'''	'David Lean'
	''12 Angry Men''	Sidney Lumet
	''A Hatful of Rain''	Fred Zinnemann
	''Sayonara''	Joshua Logan
	''Witness for the Prosecution''	Billy Wilder
1958	'''Gigi'''	'Vincente Minnelli'
	''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof''	Richard Brooks
	''The Defiant Ones''	Stanley Kramer
	''I Want to Live!''	Robert Wise
	''Separate Tables''	Delbert Mann
1959	'''Ben-Hur'''	'William Wyler'
	''Anatomy of a Murder''	Otto Preminger
	''The Diary of Anne Frank''	George Stevens
	''The Nun's Story''	Fred Zinnemann
	''On the Beach''	Stanley Kramer

1960s

Year	Film	Nominees
1960	'''Sons and Lovers'''	'Jack Cardiff'
	''The Apartment''	Billy Wilder
	''Elmer Gantry''	Richard Brooks
	''Spartacus''	Stanley Kubrick
	''The Sundowners''	Fred Zinnemann
1961	'''Judgment at Nuremberg'''	'Stanley Kramer'
	''The Children's Hour''	William Wyler
	''El Cid''	Anthony Mann
	''The Guns of Navarone''	J. Lee Thompson
	''West Side Story''	Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
1962	'''Lawrence of Arabia'''	'David Lean'
	''	Martin Ritt
	''The Brothers''	Ismael Rodríguez
	''The Chapman Report''	George Cukor
	''Days of Wine and Roses''	Blake Edwards
	''Freud''	John Huston
	''Gypsy''	Mervyn LeRoy
	''Lolita''	Stanley Kubrick
	''The Manchurian Candidate''	John Frankenheimer
	''The Music Man''	Morton da Costa
	''To Kill a Mockingbird''	Robert Mulligan
1963	'''America, America'''	'Elia Kazan'
	''The Cardinal''	Otto Preminger
	''The Caretakers''	Hall Bartlett
	''Cleopatra''	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
	''The Haunting''	Robert Wise
	''Hud''	Martin Ritt
	''This Ugly American''	George Englund
	''Tom Jones''	Tony Richardson
1964	'''My Fair Lady'''	'George Cukor'
	''Becket''	Peter Glenville
	''The Night of the Iguana''	John Huston
	''Seven Days in May''	John Frankenheimer
	''Zorba the Greek''	Michael Cacoyannis
1965	'''Doctor Zhivago'''	'David Lean'
	''The Collector''	William Wyler
	''Darling''	John Schlesinger
	''A Patch of Blue''	Guy Green
	''The Sound of Music''	Robert Wise
1966	'''A Man for All Seasons'''	'Fred Zinnemann'
	''Alfie''	Lewis Gilbert
	''A Man and a Woman''	Claude Lelouch
	''The Sand Pebbles''	Robert Wise
	''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?''	Mike Nichols
1967	'''The Graduate'''	'Mike Nichols'
	''Bonnie and Clyde''	Arthur Penn
	''The Fox''	Mark Rydell
	''Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?''	Stanley Kramer
	''In the Heat of the Night''	Norman Jewison
1968	'''Rachel, Rachel'''	'Paul Newman'
	''The Lion in Winter''	Anthony Harvey
	''Oliver!''	Carol Reed
	''Funny Girl''	William Wyler
	''Romeo and Juliet''	Franco Zeffirelli
1969	'''Anne of the Thousand Days'''	'Charles Jarrott'
	''Hello, Dolly!''	Gene Kelly
	''Midnight Cowboy''	John Schlesinger
	''The Secret of Santa Vittoria''	Stanley Kramer
	''They Shoot Horses, Don't They?''	Sydney Pollack

1970s

Year	Film	Nominees
1970	'''Love Story'''	'Arthur Hiller'
	''Five Easy Pieces''	Bob Rafelson
	''MASH''	Robert Altman
	''Patton''	Franklin J. Schaffner
	''Women in Love''	Ken Russell
1971	'''The French Connection'''	'William Friedkin'
	''A Clockwork Orange''	Stanley Kubrick
	''Fiddler on the Roof''	Norman Jewison
	''The Last Picture Show''	Peter Bogdanovich
	''Summer of '42''	Robert Mulligan
1972	'''The Godfather'''	'Francis Ford Coppola'
	''Avanti!''	Billy Wilder
	''Cabaret''	Bob Fosse
	''Deliverance''	John Boorman
	''Frenzy''	Alfred Hitchcock
1973	'''The Exorcist'''	'William Friedkin'
	''American Graffiti''	George Lucas
	''The Day of the Jackal''	Fred Zinnemann
	''Last Tango in Paris''	Bernardo Bertolucci
	''Paper Moon''	Peter Bogdanovich
1974	'''Chinatown'''	'Roman Polanski'
	''The Conversation''	Francis Ford Coppola
	''The Godfather Part II''	Francis Ford Coppola
	''Lenny''	Bob Fosse
	''A Woman Under the Influence''	John Cassavetes
1975	'''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'''	'Miloš Forman'
	''Barry Lyndon''	Stanley Kubrick
	''Dog Day Afternoon''	Sidney Lumet
	''Jaws''	Steven Spielberg
	''Nashville''	Robert Altman
1976	'''Network'''	'Sidney Lumet'
	''All the President's Men''	Alan J. Pakula
	''Bound for Glory''	Hal Ashby
	''Marathon Man''	John Schlesinger
	''Rocky''	John G. Avildsen
1977	'''The Turning Point'''	'Herbert Ross'
	''Annie Hall''	Woody Allen
	''Close Encounters of the Third Kind''	Steven Spielberg
	''Julia''	Fred Zinnemann
	''	George Lucas
1978	'''The Deer Hunter'''	'Michael Cimino'
	''An Unmarried Woman''	Paul Mazursky
	''Coming Home''	Hal Ashby
	''Days of Heaven''	Terrence Malick
	''Interiors''	Woody Allen
	''Midnight Express''	Alan Parker
1979	'''Apocalypse Now'''	'Francis Ford Coppola'
	''Being There''	Hal Ashby
	''Breaking Away''	Peter Yates
	''The China Syndrome''	James Bridges
	''Kramer vs. Kramer''	Robert Benton

1980s

Year	Film	Nominees
1980	'''Ordinary People'''	'Robert Redford'
	''The Elephant Man''	David Lynch
	''Raging Bull''	Martin Scorsese
	''The Stunt Man''	Richard Rush
	''Tess''	Roman Polanski
1981	'''Reds'''	'Warren Beatty'
	''Atlantic City''	Louis Malle
	''On Golden Pond''	Mark Rydell
	''Prince of the City''	Sidney Lumet
	''Ragtime''	Miloš Forman
	''Raiders of the Lost Ark''	Steven Spielberg
1982	'''Gandhi'''	'Richard Attenborough'
	''	Steven Spielberg
	''Missing''	Constantin Costa-Gavras
	''Tootsie''	Sydney Pollack
	''The Verdict''	Sidney Lumet
1983	'''Yentl'''	'Barbra Streisand'
	''The Dresser''	Peter Yates
	''Fanny & Alexander''	Ingmar Bergman
	''Silkwood''	Mike Nichols
	''Tender Mercies''	Bruce Beresford
	''Terms of Endearment''	James L. Brooks
1984	'''Amadeus'''	'Miloš Forman'
	''The Cotton Club''	Francis Ford Coppola
	''The Killing Fields''	Roland Joffé
	''Once Upon a Time in America''	Sergio Leone
	''A Passage to India''	David Lean
1985	'''Prizzi's Honor'''	'John Huston'
	''A Chorus Line''	Richard Attenborough
	''The Color Purple''	Steven Spielberg
	''Out of Africa''	Sydney Pollack
	''Witness''	Peter Weir
1986	'''Platoon'''	'Oliver Stone'
	''Hannah and Her Sisters''	Woody Allen
	''The Mission''	Roland Joffé
	''A Room with a View''	James Ivory
	''Stand by Me''	Rob Reiner
1987	'''The Last Emperor'''	'Bernardo Bertolucci'
	''Broadcast News''	James L. Brooks
	''Cry Freedom''	Richard Attenborough
	''Fatal Attraction''	Adrian Lyne
	''Hope and Glory''	John Boorman
1988	'''Bird'''	'Clint Eastwood'
	''A Cry in the Dark''	Fred Schepisi
	''Mississippi Burning''	Alan Parker
	''Rain Man''	Barry Levinson
	''Running On Empty''	Sidney Lumet
	''Working Girl''	Mike Nichols
1989	'''Born on the Fourth of July'''	'Oliver Stone'
	''Dead Poets Society''	Peter Weir
	''Do the Right Thing''	Spike Lee
	''Glory''	Edward Zwick
	''When Harry Met Sally''	Rob Reiner

1990s

Year	Film	Nominees
1990	'''Dances with Wolves'''	'Kevin Costner'
	''The Godfather Part III''	Francis Ford Coppola
	''Goodfellas''	Martin Scorsese
	''Reversal of Fortune''	Barbet Schroeder
	''The Sheltering Sky''	Bernardo Bertolucci
1991	'''JFK'''	'Oliver Stone'
	''Bugsy''	Barry Levinson
	''The Fisher King''	Terry Gilliam
	''The Prince of Tides''	Barbra Streisand
	''The Silence of the Lambs''	Jonathan Demme
1992	'''Unforgiven'''	'Clint Eastwood'
	''A Few Good Men''	Rob Reiner
	''Howards End''	James Ivory
	''The Player''	Robert Altman
	''A River Runs Through It''	Robert Redford
1993	'''Schindler's List'''	'Steven Spielberg'
	''The Age of Innocence''	Martin Scorsese
	''The Fugitive''	Andrew Davis
	''The Piano''	Jane Campion
	''The Remains of the Day''	James Ivory
1994	'''Forrest Gump'''	'Robert Zemeckis'
	''Legends of the Fall''	Edward Zwick
	''Natural Born Killers''	Oliver Stone
	''Pulp Fiction''	Quentin Tarantino
	''Quiz Show''	Robert Redford
1995	'''Braveheart'''	'Mel Gibson'
	''The American President''	Rob Reiner
	''Apollo 13''	Ron Howard
	''Casino''	Martin Scorsese
	''Leaving Las Vegas''	Mike Figgis
	''Sense and Sensibility''	Ang Lee
1996	'''The People vs. Larry Flynt'''	'Miloš Forman'
	''The English Patient''	Anthony Minghella
	''Evita''	Alan Parker
	''Fargo''	Joel Coen
	''Shine''	Scott Hicks
1997	'''Titanic'''	'James Cameron'
	''Amistad''	Steven Spielberg
	''As Good as It Gets''	James L. Brooks
	''The Boxer''	Jim Sheridan
	''L.A. Confidential''	Curtis Hanson
1998	'''Saving Private Ryan'''	'Steven Spielberg'
	''Elizabeth''	Shekhar Kapur
	''The Horse Whisperer''	Robert Redford
	''Shakespeare in Love''	John Madden
	''The Truman Show''	Peter Weir
1999	'''American Beauty'''	'Sam Mendes'
	''The End of the Affair''	Neil Jordan
	''The Hurricane''	Norman Jewison
	''The Insider''	Michael Mann
	''The Talented Mr. Ripley''	Anthony Minghella

2000s

Year	Film	Nominees
2000	'''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'''	'Ang Lee'
	''Erin Brockovich''	Steven Soderbergh
	''Gladiator''	Ridley Scott
	''Sunshine''	István Szabó
	''Traffic''	Steven Soderbergh
2001	'''Gosford Park'''	'Robert Altman'
	''	Steven Spielberg
	''A Beautiful Mind''	Ron Howard
	''	Peter Jackson
	''Moulin Rouge!''	Baz Luhrmann
	''Mulholland Drive''	David Lynch
2002	'''Gangs of New York'''	'Martin Scorsese'
	''About Schmidt''	Alexander Payne
	''Adaptation.''	Spike Jonze
	''Chicago''	Rob Marshall
	''The Hours''	Stephen Daldry
	''	Peter Jackson
2003	''''	'Peter Jackson'
	''Cold Mountain''	Anthony Minghella
	''Lost in Translation''	Sofia Coppola
	''	Peter Weir
	''Mystic River''	Clint Eastwood
2004	'''Million Dollar Baby'''	'Clint Eastwood'
	''The Aviator''	Martin Scorsese
	''Closer''	Mike Nichols
	''Finding Neverland''	Marc Forster
	''Sideways''	Alexander Payne
2005	'''Brokeback Mountain'''	'Ang Lee'
	''The Constant Gardener''	Fernando Meirelles
	''Good Night, and Good Luck.''	George Clooney
	''King Kong''	Peter Jackson
	''Match Point''	Woody Allen
	''Munich''	Steven Spielberg
2006	'''The Departed'''	'Martin Scorsese'
	''Babel''	Alejandro González Iñárritu
	''Flags of Our Fathers''	Clint Eastwood
	''Letters from Iwo Jima''	Clint Eastwood
	''The Queen''	Stephen Frears

References

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★ HFPS Golden Globes Page

★ IMDb Golden Globes Page