The Best Directing of Each Year

[Brando @$$ Fat]

Feel free to comment on this list....

2004- Alexander Payne, Sideways
2003- Clint Eastwood, Mystic River
2002- Roman Polanski, The Pianist
2001- David Lynch, Mulholland Drive
2000- Steven Soderbergh, Traffic
1999- Sam Mendes, American Beauty
1998- Steven Spielberg, Saving Private Ryan
1997- Curtis Hanson, L.A. Confidential
1996- Joel Coen, Fargo
1995- Mike Figgis, Leaving Las Vegas
1994- Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction
1993- Steven Spielberg, Schindler's List
1992- Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven
1991- Oliver Stone, JFK
1990- Martin Scorsese, GoodFellas
1989- Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing
1988- Barry Levinson, Rain Man
1987- Bernardo Bertolucci, The Last Emperor
1986- Oliver Stone, Platoon
1985- Terry Gilliam, Brazil
1984- Milos Forman, Amadeus
1983- Ingmar Bergman, Fanny and Alexander
1982- Ridley Scott, Blade Runner
1981- Warren Beatty, Reds
1980- Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull
1979- Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now
1978- Michael Cimino, The Deer Hunter
1977- Woody Allen, Annie Hall
1976- Sidney Lumet, Network
1975- Federico Fellini, Amarcord
1974- Roman Polanski, Chinatown
1973- William Friedkin, The Exorcist
1972- Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather
1971- Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange
1970- Robert Altman, M*A*S*H*
1969- John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy
1968- Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey
1967- Mike Nichols, The Graduate
1966- Sergio Leone, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
1965- David Lean, Doctor Zhivago
1964- Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove
1963- Federico Fellini, 8 1/2
1962- David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia
1961- Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise, West Side Story
1960- Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho
1959- William Wyler, Ben-Hur
1958- Alfred Hitchock, Vertigo
1957- Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal
1956- John Ford, The Searchers
1955- Nicolas Ray, Rebel Without a Cause
1954- Elia Kazan, On the Waterfront
1953- George Stevens, Shane
1952- Fred Zinnemann, High Noon
1951- George Stevens, A Place in the Sun
1950- Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard
1949- Carol Reed, The Third Man
1948- Laurence Olivier, Hamlet
1947- Jacques Tournear, Out of the Past
1946- Frank Capra, It's a Wonderful Life
1945- Jean Renoir, The Southerner
1944- Billy Wilder, Double Indemnity
1943- Michael Curtiz, Casablanca
1942- Orson Welles, The Magnificent Ambersons
1941- Orson Welles, Citizen Kane
1940- Alfred Hitchcock, Rebecca

[Tayzlor]

2004 - Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
2003 - Robert Pulcini/Shari Springer Bermab (American Splendor)
2002 - Paul Thomas Anderson (Punch-Drunk Love)
2001 - David Lynch (Mulholland Drive)
2000 - Wong Kar-Wai (In the Mood for Love)
1999 - Stanley Kubrick (Eyes Wide Shut)
1998 - Todd Solondz (Happiness)
1997 - Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry)
1996 - Joel Coen (Fargo)
1995 - Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas)
1994 - Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)
1993 - Steven Spielberg (Schindler's List)
1992 - Robert Altman (The Player)
1991 - Oliver Stone (JFK)
1990 - Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas)
1989 - Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing)
1988 - Krzysztof Kieslowski (The Decalogue)
1987 - Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire)
1986 - Oliver Stone (Platoon)
1985 - Agnès Varda (Vagabond)
1984 - Milos Forman (Amadeus)
1983 - Philip Kaufman (The Right Stuff)
1982 - Werner Herzog (Fitzcarraldo)
1981 - Steven Spielberg (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
1980 - Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull)
1979 - Woody Allen (Manhattan)
1978 - Terrence Malick (Days of Heaven)
1977 - Robert Altman (3 Women)
1976 - Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver[/b]
1975 - Stanley Kubrick (Barry Lyndon)
1974 - Roman Polanski (Chinatown)
1973 - François Truffaut (Day for Night)
1972 - Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather)
1971 - Robert Altman (McCabe & Mrs. Miller)
1970 - Robert Altman (M*A*S*H)
1969 - Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch)
1968 - Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey)
1967 - Richard Brooks (In Cold Blood)
1966 - Michelangelo Antonioni (Blowup)
1964 - Stanley Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove)
1963 - Federico Fellini (8½)
1962 - David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia)
1961 - Ingmar Bergman (Through a Glass Darkly)
1960 - Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho)
1959 - Alain Resnais (Hiroshima Mon Amour)
1958 - Alfred Hitchcock (Vertigo)
1957 - Ingmar Bergman (Wild Strawberries)

[ilovemovies]

2005 (so far): Ron Howard, Cinderella Man
2004: Luke Greenfield, The Girl Next Door
2003: Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2002: Sam Mendes, Road to Perdition
2001: Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2000: Cameron Crowe, Almost Famous
1999: Sam Mendes, American Beauty
1998: Steven Spielberg, Saving Private Ryan
1997: Robert Zemeckis, Contact
1996: Ed Zwick, Courage Under Fire
1995: David Fincher, Se7en
1994: Robert Zemeckis, Forrest Gump
1993: Steven Spielberg, Schindler's List
1992: Spike Lee, Malcolm X
1991: Oliver Stone, JFK
1990: Martin Scorsese, Goodfellas
1989: Ed Zwick, Glory
1988: Woody Allen, Another Woman
1987: Brian De Palma, The Untouchables
1986: Oliver Stone, Platoon
1985: Peter Weir, Witness
1984: Ivan Reitman, Ghostbusters
1983: John Badham, Wargames
1982: Nicholas Meyer, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
1981: Steven Spielberg, Raiders of the Lost Ark
1980: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Airplane!
1978: Richard Donner, Superman
1977: George Lucas, Star Wars
1976: John G. Avildsen, Rocky
1975: Steven Spielberg, Jaws
1974: Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II
1973: William Friedkin, The Exorcist
1972: Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather

[morricone]

2004: Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby)
2003: Clint Eastwood (Mystic River)
2002: Paul Thomas Anderson (Punch-Drunk Love)
2001: David Lynch (Muholland Drive)
2000: David Gordon Green (George Washington)
1999: Stanley Kubrick (Eyes Wide Shut)
1998: Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line)
1997: Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights)
1996: Joel Coen (Fargo)
1995: Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas)
1994: Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)
1993: Steven Spielberg (Schindler's List)
1992: Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven)
1991: Oliver Stone (JFK)
1990: Akira Kurosawa (Dreams)
1989: Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing)
1988: Martin Scorsese (The Last Temptation of Christ)
1987: Stanley Kubrick (Full Metal Jacket)
1986: Oliver Stone (Platoon)
1985: Akira Kurosawa (Ran)
1984: Milos Forman (Amadeus)
1983: Phillip Kaufman (The Right Stuff)
1982: Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot)
1981: Steven Spielberg (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
1980: Akira Kurosawa (Kagemusha)
1979: Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now)
1978: Terrence Malick (Days of Heaven)
1977: Steven Spielberg (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
1976: Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver)
1975: Stanley Kubrick (Barry Lyndon)
1974: Roman Polanski (Chinatown)
1973: Ingmar Bergman (Cries and Whispers)
1972: Werner Herzog (Aguirre, The Wrath of God)
1971: Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange)
1970: Bob Rafelson (Five Easy Pieces)
1969: Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch)
1968: Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey)
1967: Mike Nichols (The Graduate)
1966: Sergio Leone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)
1965: Akira Kurosawa (Red Beard)
1964: Stanley Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove)
1963: Federico Fellini (8½)
1962: David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia)
1961: Akira Kurosawa (Yojimbo)
1960: Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita)
1959: François Truffaut (The 400 Blows)
1958: Akira Kurosawa (The Hidden Fortress)
1957: Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal)
1956: Hiroshi Inagaki (Samurai III - Duel at Ganryu Island)
1954: Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai)
1953: Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Story)
1952: Akira Kurosawa (Ikiru)

[Hannibal21]

2007: Tim Burton - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2006: Guillermo Del Toro - Pan's Labyrinth
2005: Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
2004: Wong Kar-Wai - 2046
2003: Peter Jackson - LOTR: ROTK
2002: Todd Haynes - Far From Heaven
2001: David Lynch - Mulholland Drive
2000: Wong Kar-Wai - In the Mood for Love
1999: Stanley Kubrick - Eyes Wide Shut
1998: Wes Anderson - Rushmore
1997: Ang Lee - The Ice Storm
1996: The Coen Bros. - Fargo
1995: Mike Figgis - Leaving Las Vegas
1994: Frank Darabont - The Shawshank Redemption
1993: Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List
1992: Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
1991: Zhang Yimou - Raise the Red Lantern
1990: Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas
1989: Krzysztof Kieslowski - The Decalogue
1988: Hayao Miyazaki - My Neighbor Totoro
1987: Louis Malle - Au Revoir, Les Enfants
1986: David Lynch - Blue Velvet
1985: Lasse Hallstrom - My Life as a Dog
1984: Wim Wenders - Paris, Texas
1983: Ingmar Bergman - Fanny and Alexander
1982: Ridley Scott - Blade Runner
1981: Brian De Palma - Blow-Out
1980: Martin Scorsese - Raging Bull
1979: Woody Allen - Manhattan
1978: John Carpenter - Halloween
1977: Robert Altman - 3 Women
1976: Martin Scorsese - Taxi Driver
1975: Milos Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1974: Roman Polanski - Chinatown
1973: Ingmar Bergman - Cries and Whispers
1972: Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather
1971: Peter Bogdanovich - The Last Picture Show
1970: Franklin J. Schaffner - Patton
1969: John Schlessinger - Midnight Cowboy
1968: Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey
1967: Jean Pierre-Melville - Le Samourai
1966: Ingmar Bergman - Persona
1965: Roman Polanski - Repulsion
1964: Stanley Kubrick - Dr. Strangelove
1963: Jean-Luc Godard - Contempt
1962: David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia
1961: Alain Resnais - Last Year at Marienbed
1960: Alfred Hitchcock - Psycho
1959: Satyajit Ray - The World of Apu
1958: Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo
1957: Ingmar Bergman - Wild Strawberries
1956: Douglas Sirk - Written on the Wind
1955: Douglas Sirk - All That Heaven Allows
1954: Kenji Mizoguchi - Sansho the Bailiff
1953: Yasujiro Ozu - Tokyo Story
1952: Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen - Singin' in the Rain
1951: Alfred Hitchcock - Strangers on a Train
1950: Billy Wilder - Sunset Boulevard
1948: Max Ophuls - Letter From an Unknown Woman
1947: Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger - Black Narcissus
1946: Alfred Hitchcock - Notorious
1945: David Lean - Brief Encounter
1944: Billy Wilder - Double Indemnity
1943: Alfred Hitchcock - Shadow of a Doubt
1942: Michael Curtiz - Casablanca
1941: Orson Welles - Citizen Kane
1940: Alfred Hitchcock - Rebecca
1939: Victor Fleming - Gone with the Wind
1938: Marcel Carne - Port of Shadows
1937: Gregory La Cava - Stage Door

[Jake_Vig]

04: Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
03: Fernando Meirelles, City of God
02: Pedro Almodóvar, Talk to Her
01: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Amélie
00: Darren Aronofsky, Requiem for a Dream
99: David Fincher, Fight Club
98: Erick Zonca, The Dreamlife of Angels
97: Curtis Hanson, L.A. Confidential
96: Danny Boyle, Trainspotting
95: Larry Clark, Kids
94: Quentin Tarantion, Pulp Fiction
93: Mike Leigh, Naked
92: Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven
91: Oliver Stone, JFK
90: Martin Scorsese, Goodfellas
89: Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing
88: Philip Kaufman, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
87: Louis Malle, Au revoir les enfants
86: Woody Allen, Hannah and Her Sisters
85: Akira Kurosawa, Ran
84: Milos Forman, Amadeus
83: Bob Clark, A Christmas Story
82: Costa-Gavras, Missing
81: Warren Beatty, Reds
80: Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull
79: Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now
78: Michael Cimino, The Deer Hunter
77: Woody Allen, Annie Hall
76: Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver
75: Robert Altman, Nashville
74: Roman Polanski, Chinatown
73: Peter Bogdanovich, Paper Moon
72: Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather
71: Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange
70: Bob Rafelson, Five Easy Pieces
69: George Roy Hill, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
68: Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey
67: Mike Nichols, The Graduate
66: Lewis Gilbert, Alfie
65: Richard Lester, The Knack
64: Jean-Luc Godard, Band of Outsiders
63: Stanley Donen, Charade
62: David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia
61: Jean-Luc Godard, Breathless
60: Billy Wilder, The Apartment
59: François Truffaut, The 400 Blows
58: Orson Welles, Touch of Evil
57: Ingmar Bergman, Wild Strawberries
56: Federico Fellini, La Strada
55: Henri-Georges Clouzot, Les Diaboliques
54: Alfred Hitchcock, Rear Window
53: William Wyler, Roman Holiday
52: Akira Kurosawa, Rashômon
51: George Stevens, A Place in the Sun
50: Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard
49: Vittorio De Sica, The Bicycle Thief
48: Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, The Red Shoes
47: David Lean, Great Expectations
46: Alfred Hitchcock, Notorious
45: Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
44: Billy Wilder, Double Indemnity
43: Michael Curtiz, Casablanca
42: Orson Welles, The Magnificent Ambersons
41: Orson Welles, Citizen Kane
40: Alfred Hitchcock, Foreign Correspondent
39: Ernst Lubitsch, Ninotchka
38: Jean Renoir, Grand Illusion
37: David Hand, Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs
36: Fritz Lang, Fury
35: Alfred Hitchcock, The 39 Steps
34: Frank Capra, It Happened One Night
33: Fritz Lang, M
32: Jean Renoir, Boudu Saved from Drowning
31: Charlie Chaplin, City Lights
30: Vsevolod “V.I.” Pudovkin, Storm Over Asia
29: Carl Theodore Dreyer, The Passion of Joan of Arc
28: King Vidor, The Crowd
27: Fritz Lang, Metropolis
26: Sergei Eisenstein, Battleship Potemkin
25: F.W. Murnau, The Last Laugh

[Katsumoto]

1968 - Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey
1969 - John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy
1970 - Bob Rafelson, Five Easy Pieces
1971 - Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange
1972 - Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather
1973 - Terrence Malick, Badlands
1974 - Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather II
1975 - Milos Forman, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
1976 - Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver
1977 - Woody Allen, Annie Hall
1978 - Terrence Malick, Days Of Heaven
1979 - Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now
1980 - Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull
1981 - Steven Spielberg, Raiders Of The Lost Ark
1982 - Sidney Lumet, The Verdict
1983 - Ingmar Bergman, Fanny And Alexander
1984 - Wim Wenders, Paris, Texas
1985 - Martin Scorsese, After Hours
1986 - Woody Allen, Hannah And Her Sisters
1987 - Bruce Robinson, Withnail & I
1988 - Martin Scorsese, The Last Temptation Of Christ
1989 - Spike Lee, Do The Right Thing
1990 - Martin Scorsese, Goodfellas
1991 - Oliver Stone, JFK
1992 - Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven
1993 - Robert Altman, Short Cuts
1994 - Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction
1995 - Michael Mann, Heat
1996 - Lars Von Trier, Breaking The Waves
1997 - Paul Thomas Anderson, Boogie Nights
1998 - Terrence Malick, The Thin Red Line
1999 - Paul Thomas Anderson, Magnolia
2000 - Alejandro González Iñárritu, Amores Perros
2001 - Wes Anderson, The Royal Tenenbaums
2002 - Fernando Meirelles, City Of God
2003 - Sofia Coppola, Lost In Translation
2004 - Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
2005 - Christopher Nolan, Batman Begins

[zeppelin]

2005 (so far)- Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller, & Quentin Tarantino, Sin City
2004- Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill: Volume 2
2003- Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2002- Roman Polanski, The Pianist
2001- Joel Coen, The Man Who Wasn't There
2000- Lars von Trier, Dancer in the Dark
1999- Stanley Kubrick, Eyes Wide Shut
1998- Gary Ross, Pleasantville
1997- Hayao Miyazaki, Princess Mononoke
1996- Billy Bob Thornton, Sling Blade
1995- Mike Figgis, Leaving Las Vegas
1994- Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction
1993- Steven Spielberg, Schindler's List
1992- Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven
1991- Oliver Stone, JFK
1990- Martin Scorsese, Goodfellas
1989- Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing
1988- Isao Takahata, Grave of the Fireflies
1987- Bernardo Bertolucci, The Last Emperor
1986- David Lynch, Blue Velvet
1985- Akira Kurosawa, Ran
1984- Milos Forman, Amadeus
1983- David Cronenberg, Videodrome
1982- Ingmar Bergman, Fanny and Alexander
1981- Steven Spielberg, Raiders of the Lost Ark
1980- Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull
1979- Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now
1978- Michael Cimino, The Deer Hunter
1977- Steven Spielberg, Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1976- Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver
1975- Robert Altman, Nashville
1974- Roman Polanski, Chinatown
1973- William Friedkin, The Exorcist
1972- Ingmar Bergman, Cries and Whispers
1971- Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange
1970- Franklin J. Schaffner, Patton
1969- John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy
1968- Sergio Leone, Once Upon a Time in the West
1967- Arthur Penn, Bonnie and Clyde
1966- Ingmar Bergman, Persona
1965- Sergio Leone, For a Few Dollars More
1964- Jean-Luc Godard, Band of Outsiders
1963- Federico Fellini, 8 1/2
1962- David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia
1961- Akira Kurosawa, Yojimbo
1960- Michael Powell, Peeping Tom
1959- Alfred Hitchcock, North by Northwest
1958- Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo
1957- Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal
1956- Alfred Hitchcock, The Wrong Man
1955- Henri-Georges Clouzot, Diabolique
1954- Akira Kurosawa, Seven Samurai
1953- Henri-Georges Clouzot, Wages of Fear
1952- Akira Kurosawa, Ikiru
1951- Alfred Hitchcock, Strangers on a Train
1950- Akira Kurosawa, Rashomon
1949- Carol Reed, The Third Man
1948- Vittorio De Sica, The Bicycle Thief
1947- Charles Chaplin, Monsier Verdoux
1946- Jean Cocteau, Beauty and the Beast
1945- David Lean, Brief Encounter
1944- Billy Wilder, Double Indemnity
1943- Alfred Hitchcock, Shadow of a Doubt
1942- Michael Curtiz, Casablanca
1941- Orson Welles, Citizen Kane
1940- Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske, James Algar, etc., Fantasia
1939- Victor Fleming, The Wizard of Oz
1938- Alfred Hitchcock, The Lady Vanishes
1937- Walt Disney, etc., Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1936- Charles Chaplin, Modern Times
1935- Alfred Hitchcock, The 39 Steps
1934- W.S. Van Dyke, The Thin Man
1933- Leo McCarey, Duck Soup
1932- Karl Freund, The Mummy
1931- Fritz Lang, M
1930- Victor Heerman, Animal Crackers
1929- n/a
1928- Carl Theodor Dreyer, The Passion of Joan of Arc
1927- Fritz Lang, Metropolis
1926- n/a
1925- Rupet Julian & Lon Chaney, The Phantom of the Opera
1924- n/a
1923- n/a
1922- F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu
1921- Charles Chaplin, The Kid

[QUENTIN]

Great choices so far.

2005 (so far): Robert Rodriguez -Sin City
2004: Quentin Tarantino -Kill Bill: Volume II
2003: Quentin Tarantino -Kill Bill
2002: Martin Scorsese -Gangs of New York
2001: David Lynch -Mulholland Drive & Tom Twyker -Princess and The Warrior & Kwak Kyung-Taek -Friend (3-way-tie)
2000: Steven Soderbergh -Traffic
1999: Paul Thomas Anderson -Magnolia
1998: Alex Proyas -Dark City
1997: Paul Thomas Anderson -Boogie Nights & Quentin Tarantino -Jackie Brown (tie)
1996: Joel Coen -Fargo
1995: David Fincher -Se7en
1994: Quentin Tarantino -Pulp Fiction
1993: Brian De Palma -Carlito's Way
1992: Spike Lee -Malcolm X
1991: Oliver Stone -JFK
1990: Martin Scorsese -GoodFellas
1989: Spike Lee -Do The Right Thing
1988: Wim Wenders -Wings of Desire
1987: Bernardo Bertolucci -The Last Emperor
1986: Oliver Stone -Platoon
1985: Akira Kurosawa -Ran
1984: Sergio Leone -Once Upon A Time in America
1983: Philip Kaufman -The Right Stuff
1982: Jean-Jacques Beneix -Diva
1981: Steven Spielberg -Raiders of The Lost Ark
1980: Martin Scorsese -Raging Bull
1979: Francis Ford Copolla -Apocalypse Now
1978: Terence Malick -Days of Heaven
1977: Luis Bunuel -That Obscure Object of Desire
1976: Martin Scorsese -Taxi Driver
1975: Robert Altman -Nashville
1974: Roman Polanski -Chinatown
1973: Martin Scorsese -Mean Streets
1972: Werner Herzog -Aguirre: Der Zorn Gottes
1971: Peter Bogdanovich -The Last Picture Show
1970: Bernardo Bertolucci -The Conformist
1969: Sam Peckinpah -The Wild Bunch
1968: Stanley Kubrick -2001: A Space Odyssey
1967: Jean-Pierre Melville -Le Samourai
1966: Ingmar Bergman -Persona
1965: Jean-Luc Godard -Pierrot Le Fou
1964: Stanley Kubrick -Dr. Strangelove
1963: Luchino Visconti -The Leopard & Federico Fellini -8 1/2 (tie)
1962: David Lean -Lawrence of Arabia
1961: Robert Bresson -The Hustler
1960: Federico Fellini -La Dolce Vita
1959: Francois Truffaut -The 400 Blows
1958: Alfred Hitchcock -Vertigo
1957: Ingmar Bergman -Wild Strawberries & The Seventh Seal
1956: John Ford -The Searchers
1955: Charles Laughton -Night of The Hunter
1954: Elia Kazan -On The Waterfront
1953: Yasujiro Ozu -Tokyo Story
1952: Vittorio De Sica -Umberto D
1951: Elia Kazan -A Streetcar Named Desire
1950: Akira Kurosawa -Rashomon
1949: Carol Reed -The Third Man
1948: Powell & Pressburger -The Red Shoes
1947: Jacques Tourneur -Out of The Past
1946: Jean Cocteau -Beauty and The Beast
1945: Marcel Carne -Children of Paradise
1944: Billy Wilder -Double Indemnity
1943: Carl Theodor Dreyer -Day of Wrath
1942: Jacques Tourner -Cat People
1941: Orson Welles -Citizen Kane
1940: John Ford -The Grapes of Wrath
1939: Jean Renoir -La Regle Du Jeu
1938: Sergei Eisenstein -Alexandr Nevsky
1937: Jean Renoir -La Grande Illusion
1936: Charlie Chaplin -Modern Times
1935: James Whale -Bride of Frankenstein
1934: Jean Vigo -L'Atalante
1933: Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Shoedsack -King Kong
1932: Tod Browning -Freaks
1931: Fritz Lang -M
1930: Lewis Milestone -All Quiet on The Western Front
1929: Luis Bunuel -Un Chien Andalou & G.W. Pabst -Pandora's Box & Dziga Vertov -The Man With The Movie Camera (3-way tie)
1928: Carl Theodor Dreyer -The Passion of Joan or Arc
1927: F.W. Murnau -Sunrise
1926: F.W. Murnau -Faust
1925: Erich Von Stroheim -Greed & Sergei Eisenstein -Battleship Potemkin (tie)
1924: Buster Keaton -Sherlock Jr.
1923: Cecil B. DeMille -The Ten Commandments
1922: F.W. Murnau -Nosferatu
1921: Fritz Lang -Between Two Worlds
1920: Robert Weine -The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1919: D.W. Griffith -Broken Blossoms
1918: Victor Sjostrom -Eyvand of The Hills
1917: John Ford -Straight Shooting
1916: D.W. Griffith -Intolerance
1915: Louis Feuillade -Les Vampires
1914: Giovanni Pastrone -Cabiria
1913: Mario Caserini & Eleuterio Rodolfi -The Last Days of Pompei
1912: D.W. Griffith -The Musketeers of Pig Alley (short)

[Gian-Sergio]

2005:Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller for SIN CITY
2004:Martin Scorsese for THE AVIATOR and Quentin Tarantino for KILL BILL
2003:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for 21 GRAMS
2002:Fernando Meirelles for CITY OF GOD
2001:Takashi Miike for ICHI THE KILLER
2000:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for AMORES PERROS
1999:Stanley Kubrick for EYES WIDE SHUT
1998:Steven Spielberg for SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
1997:Paul Thomas Anderson for BOOGIE NIGHTS and Wong Kar Wai for HAPPY TOGETHER
1996:Joel Coen for FARGO
1995:Michael Mann for HEAT
1994:Quentin Tarantino for PULP FICTION
1993:Steven Spielberg for SCHINDLER'S LIST
1992:John Woo for HARD-BOILED
1991:James Cameron for TERMINATOR 2:JUDGMENT DAY
1990:Martin Scorsese for GOODFELLAS
1989:Spike Lee for DO THE RIGHT THING
1988:Martin Scorsese for THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
1987:Stanley Kubrick for FULL METAL JACKET
1986:Oliver Stone for SALVADOR
1985:Akira Kurosawa for RAN
1984:Sergio Leone for ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA
1983:Brian De Palma for SCARFACE
1982:Ridley Scott for BLADE RUNNER
1981:Steven Spielberg for RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
1980:Martin Scorsese for RAGING BULL and Samuel Fuller for THE BIG RED ONE
1979:Francis Ford-Coppola for APOCALYPSE NOW
1978:George A. Romero for DAWN OF THE DEAD
1977:Martin Scorsese for NEW YORK NEW YORK
1976:Martin Scorsese for TAXI DRIVER
1975:Stanley Kubrick for BARRY LYNDON
1974:Francis Ford Coppola for THE GODFATHER PART II
1973:William Friedkin for THE EXORCIST
1972:Francis Ford Coppola for THE GODFATHER and Andrei Tarkovsky for SOLARIS
1971:Sergio Leone for A FISTFUL OF DYNAMITE
1970:Sergio Corrbucci for COMPANEROS
1969:Sam Peckinpah for THE WILD BUNCH
1968:Stanley Kubrick for 2001A SPACE ODYESSY and Sergio Leone for ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
1966:Sergio Leone for THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY
1965:Gillio Pontecorvo for THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS
1964:Stanley Kubrick for DR.STRANGELOVE OR:HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB
1963:John Sturges for THE GREAT ESCAPE
1962:Francois Traffuat for JULES ET JIM
1961:Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for WEST SIDE STORY
1960:Federico Fellini for LA DOLCE VITA
1959:Francois Truffuat for THE 400 BLOWS
1955:Nicholas Ray for REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
1954:Akira Kurosawa for THE SEVEN SAMURAI