Golden Space Needle Award – Best Director

2007 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director WinnerSex and Death 101Daniel WatersA guy's life is turned around by an email, which includes the names of everyone he's had sex with and ever will have sex with. His situation gets worse when he encounters a femme fatale (Ryder) who targets men guilty of sex crime.Amazon

2008 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director WinnerCaptain Abu RaedAmin MatalqaWhen an old airport janitor finds a captain's hat in the trash, he gets pulled into the lives of children in his poor neighborhood. He weaves imaginary stories of his world adventures to offer hope in the face of their harsh reality.Amazon

2009 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director WinnerThe Hurt LockerKathryn BigelowDuring the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.Amazon

2011 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director WinnerThe WhistleblowerLarysa KondrackiA drama based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex trafficking scandal.Amazon

2012 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director WinnerBeasts of the Southern WildBenh ZeitlinFaced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.Amazon2012 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director NomineesEdenMegan GriffithsAmazon

2013 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director WinnerHorses of GodNabil AyouchA fictional account of the lives of the men responsible for the suicide bombings in Casablanca in 2003.Amazon2013 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director Nominees7 BoxesJuan Carlos ManegliaAmazonIn the ShadowDavid OndrícekAmazonJînReha ErdemAmazonMuch Ado About NothingJoss WhedonAmazonOut in the DarkMichael MayerAmazonScrapperBrady HallAmazonShort Term 12Destin Daniel CrettonAmazonStories We TellSarah PolleyAmazonThe Forgotten KingdomAndrew MudgeAmazonThe HuntThomas VinterbergAmazon

2014 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director WinnerBoyhoodRichard LinklaterThe life of Mason, from early childhood to his arrival at college.Amazon2014 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director NomineesIdaPawel PawlikowskiAmazonLife Feels GoodMaciej PieprzycaAmazonLittle AccidentsSara ColangeloAmazonTangerinesZaza UrushadzeAmazon

2015 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director WinnerMe and Earl and the Dying GirlAlfonso Gomez-RejonHigh schooler Greg, who spends most of his time making parodies of classic movies with his co-worker Earl, finds his outlook forever altered after befriending a classmate who has just been diagnosed with cancer.Amazon2015 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director NomineesA Second ChanceSusanne BierAmazonCorn IslandGeorge OvashviliAmazonEisenstein in GuanajuatoPeter GreenawayAmazonLambRoss PartridgeAmazon

2016 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director WinnerSpy TimeJavier Ruiz CalderaAdolfo, a thirty something security guard, is going through a bad patch. Not only his lifetime girlfriend has just to finished with him to be a guy with no ambition but, moreover, he ...Amazon2016 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director NomineesSand StormElite ZexerAmazonThe InnocentsAnne FontaineAmazonThe Night StalkerMegan GriffithsAmazonThe Olive TreeIcíar BollaínAmazonÞrestirRúnar RúnarssonAmazon