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2019 National Board of Review – Best Director
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino
2018 National Board of Review – Best Director
A Star Is Born
Bradley Cooper
2017 National Board of Review – Best Director
Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig
2016 National Board of Review – Best Director
Moonlight
Barry Jenkins
2015 National Board of Review – Best Director
The Martian
Ridley Scott
2014 National Board of Review – Best Director
American Sniper
Clint Eastwood
2013 National Board of Review – Best Director
Her
Spike Jonze
2012 National Board of Review – Best Director
Zero Dark Thirty
Kathryn Bigelow
2011 National Board of Review – Best Director
Hugo
Martin Scorsese
2010 National Board of Review – Best Director
The Social Network
David Fincher
2009 National Board of Review – Best Director
Invictus
Clint Eastwood
2008 National Board of Review – Best Director
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
David Fincher
2007 National Board of Review – Best Director
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tim Burton
2006 National Board of Review – Best Director
The Departed
Martin Scorsese
2005 National Board of Review – Best Director
Brokeback Mountain
Ang Lee
2004 National Board of Review – Best Director
Collateral
Michael Mann
2003 National Board of Review – Best Director
The Last Samurai
Edward Zwick
2002 National Board of Review – Best Director
The Quiet American
Phillip Noyce
2001 National Board of Review – Best Director
In the Bedroom
Todd Field
2000 National Board of Review – Best Director
Erin Brockovich
Steven Soderbergh
1999 National Board of Review – Best Director
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Anthony Minghella
1998 National Board of Review – Best Director
Elizabeth
Shekhar Kapur
1997 National Board of Review – Best Director
L.A. Confidential
Curtis Hanson
1996 National Board of Review – Best Director
Fargo
Joel Coen
1995 National Board of Review – Best Director
Sense and Sensibility
Ang Lee
1994 National Board of Review – Best Director
Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino
1993 National Board of Review – Best Director
The Age of Innocence
Martin Scorsese
1992 National Board of Review – Best Director
Howards End
James Ivory
1991 National Board of Review – Best Director
The Silence of the Lambs
Jonathan Demme
1990 National Board of Review – Best Director
Dances with Wolves
Kevin Costner
1989 National Board of Review – Best Director
Henry V
Kenneth Branagh
1988 National Board of Review – Best Director
Mississippi Burning
Alan Parker
1987 National Board of Review – Best Director
Empire of the Sun
Steven Spielberg
1986 National Board of Review – Best Director
Hannah and Her Sisters
Woody Allen
1985 National Board of Review – Best Director
Ran
Akira Kurosawa
1984 National Board of Review – Best Director
A Passage to India
David Lean
1983 National Board of Review – Best Director
Terms of Endearment
James L. Brooks
1982 National Board of Review – Best Director
The Verdict
Sidney Lumet
1981 National Board of Review – Best Director
Reds
Warren Beatty
1980 National Board of Review – Best Director
Ordinary People
Robert Redford
1979 National Board of Review – Best Director
Yanks
John Schlesinger
1978 National Board of Review – Best Director
Autumn Sonata
Ingmar Bergman
1977 National Board of Review – Best Director
That Obscure Object of Desire
Luis Buñuel
1976 National Board of Review – Best Director
All the President’s Men
Alan J. Pakula
1975 National Board of Review – Best Director
Barry Lyndon
Stanley Kubrick
1975 National Board of Review – Best Director
Nashville
Robert Altman
1974 National Board of Review – Best Director
The Conversation
Francis Ford Coppola
1973 National Board of Review – Best Director
Cries & Whispers
Ingmar Bergman
1972 National Board of Review – Best Director
Cabaret
Bob Fosse
1972 National Board of Review – Best Director
The Devils
Ken Russell
1971 National Board of Review – Best Director
The Wild Child
François Truffaut
1970 National Board of Review – Best Director
Topaz
Alfred Hitchcock
1969 National Board of Review – Best Director
Romeo and Juliet
Franco Zeffirelli
1968 National Board of Review – Best Director
In Cold Blood
Richard Brooks
1967 National Board of Review – Best Director
A Man for All Seasons
Fred Zinnemann
1966 National Board of Review – Best Director
Darling
John Schlesinger
1964 National Board of Review – Best Director
Girl with Green Eyes
Desmond Davis
1963 National Board of Review – Best Director
Tom Jones
Tony Richardson
1962 National Board of Review – Best Director
Lawrence of Arabia
David Lean
1961 National Board of Review – Best Director
The Innocents
Jack Clayton
1960 National Board of Review – Best Director
Sons and Lovers
Jack Cardiff
1959 National Board of Review – Best Director
The Nun’s Story
Fred Zinnemann
1958 National Board of Review – Best Director
The Last Hurrah
John Ford
1957 National Board of Review – Best Director
The Bridge on the River Kwai
David Lean
1956 National Board of Review – Best Director
Moby Dick
John Huston
1955 National Board of Review – Best Director
The Desperate Hours
William Wyler
1954 National Board of Review – Best Director
Romeo and Juliet
Renato Castellani
1953 National Board of Review – Best Director
Shane
George Stevens
1952 National Board of Review – Best Director
The Sound Barrier
David Lean
1951 National Board of Review – Best Director
Rashomon
Akira Kurosawa
1950 National Board of Review – Best Director
The Asphalt Jungle
John Huston
1949 National Board of Review – Best Director
Bicycle Thieves
Vittorio De Sica
1948 National Board of Review – Best Director
Paisan
Roberto Rossellini
1947 National Board of Review – Best Director
Boomerang!
Elia Kazan
1946 National Board of Review – Best Director
The Best Years of Our Lives
William Wyler
1945 National Board of Review – Best Director
The Southerner
Jean Renoir
1943 National Board of Review – Best Director
Bataan
Tay Garnett
1943 National Board of Review – Best Director
Casablanca
Michael Curtiz
1943 National Board of Review – Best Director
