Paul Greengrass "United 93"
Paul Haggis "Crash"
Martin Scorsese "The Aviator"
Peter Jackson "The Lord of the Rings: TRotK"
Rob Marshall "Chicago"
Peter Jackson "The Lord of the Rings: TFotR"
Steven Soderbergh "Traffic"
Martin Scorse "The Departed"
Ang Lee "Brokeback Mountain"
Clint Eastwood "Million Dollar Baby"
Peter Jackson "The Lord of the Rings: TRotK"
Roman Polanski "The Pianist"
Ron Howard "A Beautiful Mind"
Steven Soderbergh "Traffic"
2006
2005
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2002
2001
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1998
1997
1996
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1980
Steven Spielberg "Saving Private Ryan"
James Cameron "Titanic"
Anthony Minghella "The English Patient"
Mel Gibson "Braveheart"
Quentin Tarantino "Pulp Fiction"
Steven Spielberg "Schindler's List"
Clint Eastwood "Unforgiven"
Oliver Stone "JFK"
Martin Scorsese "GoodFellas"
Peter Weir "Dead Poets Society"
Barry Levinson "Rain Man"
Bernardo Bertolucci "The Last Emperor"
Oliver Stone "Platoon"
Akira Kurosawa "Ran"
Milos Forman "Amadeus"
Ingmar Bergman "Fanny & Alexander"
Wolfgang Petersen "Das Boot"
Steven Spielberg "Raiders of the Lost Ark"
Martin Scorsese "Raging Bull"
Steven Spielberg "Saving Private Ryan"
James Cameron "Titanic"
Anthony Minghella "The English Patient"
Mel Gibson "Braveheart"
Robert Zemeckis "Forrest Gump"
Steven Spielberg "Schindler's List"
Clint Eastwood "Unforgiven"
Jonathan Demme "The Silence of the Lambs"
Kevin Costner "Dances With Wolves"
Oliver Stone "Born on the Fourth of July"
Barry Levinson "Rain Man"
Bernardo Bertolucci "The Last Emperor"
Oliver Stone "Platoon"
Sydney Pollack "Out of Africa"
Milos Forman "Amadeus"
James L. Brooks "Terms of Endearment"
Richard Attenborough "Gandhi"
Warren Beatty "Reds"
Robert Redford "Ordinary People"
Michael Cimino "The Deer Hunter"
George Lucas "Star Wars"
Alan J. Pakula "All the President's Men"
Milos Forman "One Flew Over the CN"
Francis Ford Coppola "The Godfather II"
George Roy Hill "The Sting"
Francis Ford Coppola "The Godfather"
Norman Jewison "Fiddler on the Roof"
Robert Altman "M*A*S*H"
George Roy Hill "Butch Cassidy and the SK"
Stanley Kubrick "2001: A Space Odyssey"
Arthur Penn "Bonnie and Clyde"
Mike Nichols "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
David Lean "Doctor Zhivago"
Robert Stevenson "Mary Poppins"
Federico Fellini "Federico Fellini's 8 1/2"
David Lean "Lawrence of Arabia"
Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins "West SS"
Alfred Hitchcock "Psycho"
Michael Cimino "The Deer Hunter"
Woody Allen "Annie Hall"
John G. Avildsen "Rocky"
Milos Forman "One Flew Over the CN"
Francis Ford Coppola "The Godfather II"
George Roy Hill "The Sting"
Bob Fosse "Cabaret"
William Friedkin "The French Connection"
Franklin J. Schaffner "Patton"
John Schlesinger "Midnight Cowboy"
Carol Reed "Oliver!"
Mike Nichols "The Graduate"
Fred Zinnemann " Man for All Seasons"
Robert Wise "The Sound of Music"
George Cukor "My Fair Lady"
Tony Richardson "Tom Jones"
David Lean "Lawrence of Arabia"
Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins "West SS"
Billy Wilder "The Apartment"
1978
1977
1976
1975
1974
1973
1972
1971
1970
1969
1968
1967
1966
1965
1964
1963
1962
1961
1960
Richard Brooks "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
David Lean "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
George Stevens "Giant"
Delbert Mann "Marty"
Elia Kazan "On the Waterfront"
Fred Zinnemann "From Here to Eternity"
Fred Zinnemann "High Noon"
Elia Kazan "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Joseph L. Mankiewicz "All About Eve"
Robert Rossen "All the King's Men"
John Huston "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
Elia Kazan "Gentleman's Agreement"
William Wyler "The Best Years of Our Lives"
Billy Wilder "The Lost Weekend"
Billy Wilder "Double Indemnity"
Michael Curtiz "Casablanca"
Michael Curtiz "Yankee Doodle Dandy"
Orson Welles "Citizen Kane"
George Cukor "The Philadelphia Story"
Vincente Minnelli "Gigi"
David Lean "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
George Stevens "Giant"
Delbert Mann "Marty"
Elia Kazan "On the Waterfront"
Fred Zinnemann "From Here to Eternity"
John Ford "The Quiet Man"
George Stevens "A Place in the Sun"
Joseph L. Mankiewicz "All About Eve"
J.L. Mankiewicz "A Letter to Three Wives"
John Huston "The Treasure of the Sierra M"
Elia Kazan "Gentleman's Agreement"
William Wyler "The Best Years of Our Lives"
Billy Wilder "The Lost Weekend"
Leo McCarey "Going My Way"
Michael Curtiz "Casablanca"
William Wyler "Mrs. Miniver"
John Ford "How Green Was My Valley"
John Ford "The Grapes of Wrath"
1958
1957
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1954
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