- 2000 Steven Soderbergh - Traffic?
- 1999 [Sam Mendes]? - [American Beauty]?
- 1998 Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan
- 1997 James Cameron - Titanic
- 1996 [Anthony Minghella]? - [The English Patient]?
- 1995 [Mel Gibson]? - Braveheart
- 1994 [Robert Zemeckis]? - [Forrest Gump]?
- 1993 Steven Spielberg - [Schindlers List]?
- 1992 [Clint Eastwood]? - Unforgiven?
- 1991 Jonathan Demme - The Silence of the Lambs
- 1990 [Kevin Costner]? - [Dances with Wolves]?
- 1989 Oliver Stone - [Born on the Fourth of July]?
- 1988 [Barry Levinson]? - [Rain Man]?
- 1987 [Bernardo Bertolucci]? - [The Last Emperor]?
- 1986 Oliver Stone - Platoon?
- 1985 [Sydney Pollack]? - [Out of Africa]?
- 1984 [Milos Forman]? - Amadeus?
- 1983 [James L. Brooks]? - [Terms of Endearment]?
- 1982 [Richard Attenborough]? - Gandhi
- 1981 [Warren Beatty]? - Reds?
- 1980 [Robert Redford]? - [Ordinary People]?
- 1979 [Robert Benton]? - [Kramer vs. Kramer]?
- 1978 [Michael Cimino]? - [The Deer Hunter]?
- 1977 Woody Allen - [Annie Hall]?
- 1976 [John G. Avildsen]? - Rocky?
- 1975 [Milos Forman]? - One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
- 1974 Francis Ford Coppola - [The Godfather, Part 2]?
- 1973 [George Roy Hill]? - [The Sting]?
- 1972 [Bob Fosse]? - Cabaret?
- 1971 [William Friedkin]? - [The French Connection]?
- 1970 [Franklin J. Schaffner]? - Patton?
- 1969 [John Schlesinger]? - [Midnight Cowboy]?
- 1968 [Carol Reed]? - Oliver!?
- 1967 [Mike Nichols]? - The Graduate
- 1966 [Fred Zinnemann]? - A Man for All Seasons
- 1965 [Robert Wise]? - The Sound of Music
- 1964 George Cukor - My Fair Lady
- 1963 [Tony Richardson]? - [Tom Jones]?
- 1962 [David Lean]? - [Lawrence of Arabia]?
- 1961 [Robert Wise]? - West Side Story
- 1960 [Billy Wilder]? - [The Apartment]?
- 1959 [William Wyler]? - Ben-Hur?
- 1958 [Wincente Minnelli]? - Gigi?
- 1957 [David Lean]? - [The Bridge on the River Kwai]?
- 1956 [George Stevens]? - Giant?
- 1955 [Delbert Mann]? - Marty?
- 1954 [Elia Kazan]? - [On the Waterfront]?
- 1953 [Fred Zinnemann]? - [From Here to Eternity]?
- 1952 John Ford - [The Quiet Man]?
- 1951 [George Stevens]? - [A Place in the Sun]?
- 1950 [Joseph L. Mankiewicz]? - [All About Eve]?
- 1949 [Joseph L. Mankiewicz]? - [A Letter to Three Wives]?
- 1948 [John Huston]? - [Treasure of the Sierra Madre]?
- 1947 [Elia Kazan]? - [Gentleman's Agreement]?
- 1946 [William Wyler]? - [The Best Years of Our Lives]?
- 1945 [Billy Wilder]? - [The Lost Weekend]?
- 1944 [Leo McCarey]? - [Going My Way]?
- 1943 [Michael Curtiz]? - Casablanca
- 1942 [William Wyler]? - [Mrs. Miniver]?
- 1941 John Ford - [How Green Was My Valley]?
- 1940 John Ford - [The Grapes of Wrath]?
- 1939 [Victor Fleming]? - [Gone with the Wind]?
- 1938 Frank Capra - [You Can't Take It with You]?
- 1937 [Leo McCarey]? - [The Awful Truth]?
- 1936 Frank Capra - [Mr. Deeds Goes to Town]?
- 1935 John Ford - [The Informer]?
- 1934 Frank Capra - [It Happened One Night]?
- 1933 [Frank Lloyd]? - Cavalcade?
- 1932 none given
- 1931 none given
- 1930 [Lewis Milestone]? - All Quiet on the Western Front
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