Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture

Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture has been awarded annually since 1944 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Past winners

* 1944 - Henry King, The Song of Bernadette
* 1945 - Leo McCarey, Going My Way
* 1946 - Billy Wilder, The Lost Weekend
* 1947 - Frank Capra, It's a Wonderful Life
* 1948 - Elia Kazan, Gentleman's Agreement
* 1949 - John Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
* 1950 - Robert Rossen, All the King's Men
* 1951 - Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard
* 1952 - Laslo Benedek, Death of a Salesman
* 1953 - Cecil B. DeMille, The Greatest Show on Earth
* 1954 - Fred Zinnemann, From Here to Eternity
* 1955 - Elia Kazan, On the Waterfront
* 1956 - Joshua Logan, Picnic
* 1957 - Elia Kazan, Baby Doll
* 1958 - David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai
* 1959 - Vincente Minnelli, Gigi
* 1960 - William Wyler, Ben-Hur
* 1961 - Jack Cardiff, Sons and Lovers
* 1962 - Stanley Kramer, Judgment at Nuremberg
* 1963 - David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia
* 1964 - Elia Kazan, America, America
* 1965 - George Cukor, My Fair Lady
* 1966 - David Lean, Doctor Zhivago
* 1967 - Fred Zinnemann, A Man for All Seasons
* 1968 - Mike Nichols, The Graduate
* 1969 - Paul Newman, Rachel, Rachel
* 1970 - Charles Jarrott, Anne of the Thousand Days
* 1971 - Arthur Hiller, Love Story
* 1972 - William Friedkin, The French Connection
* 1973 - Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather
* 1974 - William Friedkin, The Exorcist
* 1975 - Roman Polanski, Chinatown
* 1976 - Miloš Forman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
* 1977 - Sidney Lumet, Network
* 1978 - Herbert Ross, The Turning Point
* 1979 - Michael Cimino, The Deer Hunter
* 1980 - Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now
* 1981 - Robert Redford, Ordinary People
* 1982 - Warren Beatty, Reds
* 1983 - Richard Attenborough, Gandhi
* 1984 - Barbra Streisand, Yentl
* 1985 - Miloš Forman, Amadeus
* 1986 - John Huston, Prizzi's Honor
* 1987 - Oliver Stone, Platoon
* 1988 - Bernardo Bertolucci, The Last Emperor
* 1989 - Clint Eastwood, Bird
* 1990 - Oliver Stone, Born on the Fourth of July
* 1991 - Kevin Costner, Dances with Wolves
* 1992 - Oliver Stone, JFK
* 1993 - Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven
* 1994 - Steven Spielberg, Schindler's List
* 1995 - Robert Zemeckis, Forrest Gump
* 1996 - Mel Gibson, Braveheart
* 1997 - Milos Forman, The People Vs. Larry Flynt
* 1998 - James Cameron, Titanic
* 1999 - Steven Spielberg, Saving Private Ryan
* 2000 - Sam Mendes, American Beauty
* 2001 - Ang Lee, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
* 2002 - Robert Altman, Gosford Park
* 2003 - Martin Scorsese, Gangs of New York
* 2004 - Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
* 2005 - Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
* 2006 - Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain