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2020 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
1917
Sam Mendes
2019 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Roma
Alfonso Cuarón
2018 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro
2017 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
La La Land
Damien Chazelle
2016 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
The Revenant
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
2015 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Boyhood
Richard Linklater
2014 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón
2013 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Argo
Ben Affleck
2012 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Hugo
Martin Scorsese
2011 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
The Social Network
David Fincher
2010 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Avatar
James Cameron
2009 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Slumdog Millionaire
Danny Boyle
2008 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Julian Schnabel
2007 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
The Departed
Martin Scorsese
2006 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Brokeback Mountain
Ang Lee
2005 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood
2004 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Peter Jackson
2003 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Gangs of New York
Martin Scorsese
2002 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Gosford Park
Robert Altman
2001 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Ang Lee
2000 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
American Beauty
Sam Mendes
1999 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Saving Private Ryan
Steven Spielberg
1998 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Titanic
James Cameron
1997 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
The People vs. Larry Flynt
Milos Forman
1996 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Braveheart
Mel Gibson
1995 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Forrest Gump
Robert Zemeckis
1994 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Schindler’s List
Steven Spielberg
1993 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Unforgiven
Clint Eastwood
1992 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
JFK
Oliver Stone
1991 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Dances with Wolves
Kevin Costner
1990 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Born on the Fourth of July
Oliver Stone
1989 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Bird
Clint Eastwood
1988 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
The Last Emperor
Bernardo Bertolucci
1987 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Platoon
Oliver Stone
1986 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Prizzi’s Honor
John Huston
1985 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Amadeus
Milos Forman
1984 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Yentl
Barbra Streisand
1983 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Gandhi
Richard Attenborough
1982 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Reds
Warren Beatty
1981 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Ordinary People
Robert Redford
1980 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola
1979 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
The Deer Hunter
Michael Cimino
1978 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
The Turning Point
Herbert Ross
1977 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Network
Sidney Lumet
1976 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Milos Forman
1975 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Chinatown
Roman Polanski
1974 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
The Exorcist
William Friedkin
1973 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
The Godfather
Francis Ford Coppola
1972 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
The French Connection
William Friedkin
1971 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Love Story
Arthur Hiller
1970 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Anne of the Thousand Days
Charles Jarrott
1969 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Rachel, Rachel
Paul Newman
1968 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
The Graduate
Mike Nichols
1967 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
A Man for All Seasons
Fred Zinnemann
1966 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Doctor Zhivago
David Lean
1965 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
My Fair Lady
George Cukor
1964 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
America America
Elia Kazan
1963 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Lawrence of Arabia
David Lean
1962 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Judgment at Nuremberg
Stanley Kramer
1961 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Sons and Lovers
Jack Cardiff
1960 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Ben-Hur
William Wyler
1959 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Gigi
Vincente Minnelli
1958 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
The Bridge on the River Kwai
David Lean
1957 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Baby Doll
Elia Kazan
1956 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Picnic
Joshua Logan
1955 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
On the Waterfront
Elia Kazan
1954 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
From Here to Eternity
Fred Zinnemann
1953 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
The Greatest Show on Earth
Cecil B. DeMille
1952 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Death of a Salesman
Laslo Benedek
1951 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Sunset Blvd.
Billy Wilder
1950 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
All the King’s Men
Robert Rossen
1949 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
John Huston
1948 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Gentleman’s Agreement
Elia Kazan
1947 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
It’s a Wonderful Life
Frank Capra
1946 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
The Lost Weekend
Billy Wilder
1945 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
Going My Way
Leo McCarey
1944 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director
