Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!
2019 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
About Endlessness
Roy Andersson
2018 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
The Sisters Brothers
Jacques Audiard
2017 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Custody
Xavier Legrand
2016 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Paradise
Andrey Konchalovskiy
2016 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
The Untamed
Amat Escalante
2015 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
The Clan
Pablo Trapero
2014 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
The Postman’s White Nights
Andrey Konchalovskiy
2013 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Miss Violence
Alexandros Avranas
2012 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
The Master
Paul Thomas Anderson
2011 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
People Mountain People Sea
Shangjun Cai
2010 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
The Last Circus
Álex de la Iglesia
2009 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Women Without Men
Shirin Neshat
2008 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Paper Soldier
Aleksey German Jr.
2007 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Redacted
Brian De Palma
2006 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Private Fears In Public Places (Coeurs)
Alain Resnais
2005 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Regular Lovers
Philippe Garrel
2004 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
3-Iron
Ki-duk Kim
2003 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
Takeshi Kitano
2002 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Oasis
Chang-dong Lee
2001 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Secret Ballot
Babak Payami
2000 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
The Wrestlers
Buddhadev Dasgupta
1999 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Seventeen Years
Yuan Zhang
1998 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Black Cat, White Cat
Emir Kusturica
1994 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Heavenly Creatures
Peter Jackson
1994 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Little Odessa
James Gray
1994 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
The Bull
Carlo Mazzacurati
1993 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Kosh ba kosh
Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov
1992 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Hotel de lux
Dan Pita
1992 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Jamón, Jamón
Bigas Luna
1992 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Un coeur en hiver
Claude Sautet
1991 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
J’entends plus la guitare
Philippe Garrel
1991 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Raise the Red Lantern
Yimou Zhang
1991 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
The Fisher King
Terry Gilliam
1990 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Goodfellas
Martin Scorsese
1989 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Death of a Tea Master
Kei Kumai
1989 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Recollections of the Yellow House
João César Monteiro
1988 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Landscape in the Mist
Theodoros Angelopoulos
1987 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Long Live the Lady!
Ermanno Olmi
1987 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Maurice
James Ivory
1957 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Le notti bianche
Luchino Visconti
1955 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Ciske de Rat
Wolfgang Staudte
1955 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Le amiche
Michelangelo Antonioni
1955 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
The Big Knife
Robert Aldrich
1955 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
The Grasshopper
Samson Samsonov
1954 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
La strada
Federico Fellini
1954 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
On the Waterfront
Elia Kazan
1954 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Sansho the Bailiff
Kenji Mizoguchi
1954 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa
1953 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
I vitelloni
Federico Fellini
1953 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Little Fugitive
Ray Ashley
1953 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Moulin Rouge
John Huston
1953 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
Sadko
Aleksandr Ptushko
1953 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
The Adultress
Marcel Carné
1953 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director
