Frank Borzage (1927/1928, drama) • Lewis Milestone (1927/1928, komedie) • Frank Lloyd (1928/1929) • Lewis Milestone (1929/1930) • Norman Taurog (1930/1931) • Frank Borzage (1931/1932) • Frank Lloyd (1932/1933) • Frank Capra (1934) • John Ford (1935) • Frank Capra (1936) • Leo McCarey (1937) • Frank Capra (1938) • Victor Fleming (1939) • John Ford (1940) • John Ford (1941) • William Wyler (1942) • Michael Curtiz (1943) • Leo McCarey (1944) • Billy Wilder (1945) • William Wyler (1946) • Elia Kazan (1947) • John Huston (1948) • Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949) • Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950)
George Stevens (1951) • John Ford (1952) • Fred Zinnemann (1953) • Elia Kazan (1954) • Delbert Mann (1955) • George Stevens (1956) • David Lean (1957) • Vincente Minnelli (1958) • William Wyler (1959) • Billy Wilder (1960) • Jerome Robbins a Robert Wise (1961) • David Lean (1962) • Tony Richardson (1963) • George Cukor (1964) • Robert Wise (1965) • Fred Zinnemann (1966) • Mike Nichols (1967) • Carol Reed (1968) • John Schlesinger (1969) • Franklin J. Schaffner (1970) • William Friedkin (1971) • Bob Fosse (1972) • George Roy Hill (1973) • Francis Ford Coppola (1974) • Miloš Forman (1975)
John G. Avildsen (1976) • Woody Allen (1977) • Michael Cimino (1978) • Robert Benton (1979) • Robert Redford (1980) • Warren Beatty (1981) • Richard Attenborough (1982) • James L. Brooks (1983) • Miloš Forman (1984) • Sydney Pollack (1985) • Oliver Stone (1986) • Bernardo Bertolucci (1987) • Barry Levinson (1988) • Oliver Stone (1989) • Kevin Costner (1990) • Jonathan Demme (1991) • Clint Eastwood (1992) • Steven Spielberg (1993) • Robert Zemeckis (1994) • Mel Gibson (1995) • Anthony Minghella (1996) • James Cameron (1997) • Steven Spielberg (1998) • Sam Mendes (1999) • Steven Soderbergh (2000)
Ron Howard (2001) • Roman Polański (2002) • Peter Jackson (2003) • Clint Eastwood (2004) • Ang Lee (2005) • Martin Scorsese (2006) • Joel Coen a Ethan Coen (2007) • Danny Boyle (2008) • Kathryn Bigelowová (2009) • Tom Hooper (2010) • Michel Hazanavicius (2011) • Ang Lee (2012) • Alfonso Cuarón (2013) • Alejandro González Iñárritu (2014) • Alejandro González Iñárritu (2015) • Damien Chazelle (2016) • Guillermo del Toro (2017) • Alfonso Cuarón (2018) • Pong Čun-ho (2019) • Chloé Zhaová (2020) • Jane Campionová (2021) • Daniel Kwan a Daniel Scheinert (2022) • Christopher Nolan (2023)
