BAFTA Award for Best Direction
This is a list of the winners of the BAFTA Award for Best Direction. They are presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Italian-American director Martin Scorsese has had the most nominations, eight so far.
2010s
- 2011 - Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
2000s
- 2009 - Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
- 2008 - Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
- 2007 - Ethan and Joel Coen - No Country For Old Men
- 2006 - Paul Greengrass - United 93
- 2005 - Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
- 2004 - Mike Leigh - Vera Drake
- 2002 - Roman Polanski - The Pianist
1990s
- 1999 - Pedro Almodóvar - Todo sobre mi madre
- 1998 - Peter Weir - The Truman Show
- 1997 - Baz Luhrmann - Romeo + Juliet
- 1995 - Michael Radford - Il Postino
- 1994 - Mike Newell - Four Weddings and a Funeral
- 1993 - Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List
- 1992 - Robert Altman - The Player
- 1991 - Alan Parker - The Commitments
1980s
- 1989 - Kenneth Branagh - Henry V
- 1988 - Louis Malle - Au revoir les enfants
- 1987 - Oliver Stone - Platoon
- 1986 - Woody Allen - Hannah and Her Sisters
- 1985 - -
- 1984 - Wim Wenders - Paris, Texas
- 1983 - Bill Forsyth - Local Hero
- 1982 - Richard Attenborough - Gandhi
- 1981 - Louis Malle - Atlantic City
1970s
- 1979 - Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now
- 1978 - Alan Parker - Midnight Express
- 1977 - Woody Allen - Annie Hall
- 1975 - Stanley Kubrick - Barry Lyndon
- 1974 - Roman Polanski - Chinatown
- 1973 - François Truffaut - Day for Night
- 1971 - John Schlesinger - Sunday Bloody Sunday
1960s
- 1969 - John Schlesinger - Midnight Cowboy
- 1968 - Mike Nichols - The Graduate