Golden Globe Award for Best Director

Golden Globe Award: Best Director

Winners and nominees in the category Best Director ( Best Director - Motion Picture ), which honors the most outstanding achievements of the past calendar year Director. The category was created in 1944 to life.

In 37 of 71 cases, the best director was later awarded the Oscar, last done in 2014, with the award to the Mexican Alfonso Cuaron ( Gravity ). The rare honor to be in a year nominated for two different directing, was in each case the Americans Francis Ford Coppola (1975 for Dialogue and The Godfather - Part II), Steven Soderbergh (2001 for Erin Brockovich and Traffic - power of the cartel ) and Clint Eastwood ( 2007 flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima ) given.

57 times were American filmmaker the directing prize win ( including emigrated to the U.S. directors like the Hungarian László Benedek, the Czech Miloš Forman and the Austrians Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann ), followed by their colleagues from the United Kingdom ( 7 wins ) and the double success the Taiwaners Ang Lee. A director of the German-speaking countries competed in the past, once in vain for the award: 2005 Marc Forster for Finding Neverland. Likewise remained victories female filmmakers, similar to the Academy Awards, that exceptions. As the only director in 1984 was Barbra Streisand for Yentl triumph. Another nomination received Streisand 1991 The Prince of Tides, while in 2003, Sofia Coppola ( Lost in Translation ) could enter into the list of nominees.

The films listed below are indicated ( determined if any) with its German release title, followed in brackets in italics of the original foreign-language titles. The mention of the original title does not apply if German and foreign film titles are identical. The winners are highlighted in the first place.

1940s

1944

Henry King - The Song of Bernadette ( The Song of Bernadette )

1945

Leo McCarey - The Road to Happiness ( Going My Way )

1946

1947

Frank Capra - Is not life beautiful? ( It's a Wonderful Life)

1948

Elia Kazan - Gentleman's Agreement ( Gentleman's Agreement )

1949

John Huston - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre )

1950s

1950

Robert Rossen - The man who wanted to rule ( All the King's Men)

1951

Billy Wilder - Sunset Boulevard (Sunset Boulevard)

1952

László Benedek - The Death of a Salesman ( Death of a Salesman )

1953

Cecil B. DeMille - The Greatest Show on Earth ( The Greatest Show on Earth )

1954

Fred Zinnemann - From Here to Eternity ( From Here to Eternity )

1955

Elia Kazan - On the Waterfront ( On the Waterfront )

1956

Joshua Logan - Picnic ( Picnic )

1957

Elia Kazan - Baby Doll - Do not covet the other woman (Baby Doll)

1958

David Lean - The Bridge on the River Kwai ( The Bridge on the River Kwai )

1959

Vincente Minnelli - Gigi

1960s

1960

William Wyler - Ben Hur ( Ben- Hur )

1961

Jack Cardiff - Sons and Lovers ( Sons and Lovers )

1962

Stanley Kramer - Judgment at Nuremberg ( Judgement at Nuremberg )

1963

David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia (Lawrence of Arabia )

1964

Elia Kazan - The Unbreakable ( America, America )

1965

George Cukor - My Fair Lady

1966

David Lean - Doctor Zhivago (Doctor Zhivago )

1967

Fred Zinnemann - A Man for All Seasons (A Man for All Seasons )

1968

Mike Nichols - The Graduate ( The Graduate )

1969

Paul Newman - The love of a Summer ( Rachel, Rachel )

1970s

1970

Charles Jarrott - Anne of the Thousand days ( Anne of the Thousand Days )

1971

Arthur Hiller - Love Story

1972

William Friedkin - French Connection - focus Brooklyn ( French Connection )

1973

Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather ( The Godfather )

1974

William Friedkin - The Exorcist ( The Exorcist )

1975

Roman Polanski - Chinatown

1976

Milos Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ( One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)

1977

Sidney Lumet - Network

1978

Herbert Ross - The Turning Point ( The Turning Point)

1979

Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter ( The Deer Hunter)

1980s

1980

Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now

1981

Robert Redford - Ordinary People ( Ordinary People )

1982

Warren Beatty - Reds

1983

Richard Attenborough - Gandhi

1984

Barbra Streisand - Yentl

1985

Miloš Forman - Amadeus

1986

John Huston - Prizzi's Honor ( Prizzi 's Honor )

1987

Oliver Stone - Platoon

1988

Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor ( The Last Emperor )

1989

Clint Eastwood - Bird

1990s

1990

Oliver Stone - Born on July 4 (Born on the Fourth of July )

1991

Kevin Costner - The Dances With Wolves ( Dances with Wolves )

1992

Oliver Stone - JFK - Tatort Dallas ( JFK)

1993

Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven ( Unforgiven )

1994

Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List ( Schindler 's List )

1995

Robert Zemeckis - Forrest Gump

1996

Mel Gibson - Braveheart

1997

Miloš Forman - Larry Flynt - The Ugly Truth ( The People vs. Larry Flynt. )

1998

James Cameron - Titanic

1999

Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan ( Saving Private Ryan )

2000s

2000

Sam Mendes - American Beauty

2001

Ang Lee - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (卧虎藏龙( Wòhǔ Canglong ) )

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 ( The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)

2005

Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby

2006

Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain

2007

Martin Scorsese - The Departed - The Departed ( The Departed )

2008

Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le et le papillon scaphandre )

2009

Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire ( Slumdog Millionaire )

2010s

2010

James Cameron - Avatar - Pandora ( Avatar )

2011

David Fincher - The Social Network

2012

Martin Scorsese - Hugo Cabret ( Hugo)

2013

Ben Affleck - Argo

2014

Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity

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