British film industry award
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
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
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
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Multiple wins and nominations
Multiple nominations
10 nominations
6 nominations
5 nominations
4 nominations
3 nominations
2 nominations
Multiple wins
See also
Notes
A 1 : According to the BAFTAs database, Sidney Lumet received a single joint nomination for two different films.[ 35]
References
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