Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Direction (General Theatre)

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| style="background:#FAEB86" | Guy Sprung

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Balconville and Paper Wheat

| Ray Conlogue, "Dora Mavor Moore Awards suffer from stage fright". The Globe and Mail, January 27, 1981.

| Staller's Farm

| rowspan=3 | Gina Mallet, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-toronto-star/133692221/ "Controversial Bent set for Toronto run"]. Toronto Star, January 23, 1981.

| American Buffalo

| Ain't Lookin{{'}}

| style="background:#FAEB86" | George F. Walker

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Theatre of the Film Noir

| Carole Corbeil, "Just like Oscars: lots of no-shows Carver, Maxwell win theatre awards". The Globe and Mail, January 26, 1982.

| Loose Ends

| rowspan=3 | [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-toronto-star/133692384/ "And the nominees are..."]. Toronto Star, January 16, 1982.

| The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia

| Arms and the Man

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Richard Rose

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Tamara

| Carole Corbeil, "An outstanding night for Tamara". The Globe and Mail, November 16, 1982.

| Cold Comfort

| rowspan=3 | "Dora Mavor Moore awards Tamara paces the nominees". The Globe and Mail, October 1, 1982.

| Night and Day

| Straight Ahead/Blind Dancers

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Guy Sprung

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Translations

| rowspan=4 | Ray Conlogue, "Thomson, Phipps take Doras for outstanding acting". The Globe and Mail, October 11, 1983.

| Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You and Identity Crisis

| The Prisoner of Zenda

| Dream in High Park

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Bill Glassco

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Cloud Nine

| Stephen Godfrey, "Jungle of Cities wins four Doras". The Globe and Mail, October 23, 1984.

| Delicatessen

| rowspan=3 | Stephen Godfrey, "Team aims to make this award show different". The Globe and Mail, October 13, 1984.

| Trafford Tanzi

| The Dining Room

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Derek Goldby

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Uncle Vanya

| "Cats takes lion's share of Dora awards". Montreal Gazette, October 9, 1985.

| Salt-Water Moon

| rowspan=4 | Henry Mietkiewicz, "Cats leads pack of Dora nominees". Toronto Star, September 5, 1985.

| 'night, Mother

| New World

| Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Richard Greenblatt

| style="background:#FAEB86" | The Miracle Worker

| Sid Adilman, "A night for families at Dora Awards show". Toronto Star, June 20, 1986.

| Ghetto

| rowspan=4 | Deirdre Kelly, "Dora smiles on Tarragon with record 17 nominations". The Globe and Mail, May 15, 1986.

| Other Places

| The Wedding Script

| Hosanna

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Bob Baker

| style="background:#FAEB86" | B-Movie: The Play

| Ray Conlogue, "Mikado, B-Movie big Dora winners". The Globe and Mail, June 23, 1987.

| Bedtimes and Bullies

| rowspan=4 | "Dora Award nominees". Toronto Star, May 27, 1987.

| The Bloodknot

| Aunt Dan and Lemon

| Bonjour, La, Bonjour

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Larry Lillo

| style="background:#FAEB86" | A Lie of the Mind

| Ray Conlogue, "Walker's Nothing Sacred collects four Dora awards". The Globe and Mail, June 15, 1988.

| Nothing Sacred

| rowspan=4 | Robert Crew, "CentreStage play tops Dora Award nominees". Toronto Star, May 11, 1988.

| I Am Yours

| Detaining Mr. Trotsky

| Something in the Air

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Robert Lepage

| style="background:#FAEB86" | The Dragons Trilogy

| "Highway sweeps Dora awards". Edmonton Journal, June 27, 1989.

| Les Fridolinades

| rowspan=4 | Isabel Vincent, "And the Dora nominees are...". The Globe and Mail, May 13, 1989.

| Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing

| The Possibilities

| Under the Skin

!Year

!width="45%"|Director

!width="45%"|Play

!Ref

| style="background:#FAEB86" | JoAnn McIntyre

| style="background:#FAEB86" | The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

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| Breaking the Code

| rowspan=4 | Ray Conlogue, "Dora nominations harvested from sparse crop of new plays". The Globe and Mail, May 15, 1990.

| The Father

| Echo

| The Europeans

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Richard Monette

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Saint Joan

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| Mirror Game

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| Possible Worlds

| Lilies

| La Maison Suspendue

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Neil Munro

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Hamlet

|

| Elvire Jouvet 40

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| Naomi's Road

| Three Sisters

| Under the Influence

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Harold Prince

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Kiss of the Spider Woman

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| Whale

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| Fallen Angels

| Le Bal

| Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Mike Ockrent

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Crazy for You

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| A Christmas Carol

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| The Taming of the Shrew

| Abundance

| Miss Saigon

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Des McAnuff

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Tommy

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| Into the Woods

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| Six Degrees of Separation

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Robert Lepage

| style="background:#FAEB86" | The Seven Streams of the River Ota

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| Two Weeks with the Queen

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| The Diary of Anne Frank

| Elsinore

| The Dead Souls

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Frank Galati

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Ragtime

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| Jolson

| rowspan=4 |

| Jane Eyre

| Don Giovanni

| Elektra

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Ian Prinsloo

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Patience

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| The Designated Mourner

| rowspan=6 | "Dora Award nominees". Toronto Star, May 27, 1998.

| The Betrayal

| The Quartet

| Molly Sweeney

| Inexpressible Island

| Problem Child

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Soheil Parsa. Aurash Miles Potter

| style="background:#FAEB86" | The Drawer Boy

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| Billy Bishop Goes to War

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| The Life and Times of Brian Mulroney

| Kilt

| The Drawer Boy

| Insomnia

!Year

!width="45%"|Director

!width="45%"|Play

!Ref

| style="background:#FAEB86" | László Marton

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Platonov

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| Endgame

| rowspan=4 |

| Faust

| The Overcoat

| Beaver

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Ian McElhinney

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Stones in His Pockets

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| Thunderstruck

| rowspan=4 |

| Betrayal

| Slavs!

| Ghost Train

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Jim Warren

| style="background:#FAEB86" | The Bald Soprano

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| The Good Life

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| Fighting Words

| Skylight

| In On It

| This Hotel

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Morris Panych

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Girl in the Goldfish Bowl

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| Russell Hill

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| The Miracle Worker

| Through the Eyes

| A Chorus of Disapproval

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Richard Rose

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Remnants

| Kamal Al-Solaylee, "The Producers lost at box office but wins big at Dora awards". The Globe and Mail, June 29, 2004.

| Le Visiteur

| rowspan=4 | Robert Cushman, "The Doras: and the winner is ...: Odd nominees make predictions difficult". National Post, June 26, 2004.

| The Syringa Tree

| {{notatypo|Simpl}}

| Restitution: An Irish-Canadian Rhapsody

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Ken Gass

| style="background:#FAEB86" | The Leisure Society

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| Bigger Than Jesus

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| Half-Life

| Blue Planet

| Hamlet

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Nigel Shawn Williams

| style="background:#FAEB86" | The Monument

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| A Beautiful View

| rowspan=4 | Robert Cushman, "Some nods are inexplicable: A desperate season, a desperate slate of Dora nominees". National Post, June 24, 2006.

| blood.claat - one womban story

| Leo

| Our Town

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Richard Rose

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Scorched

| Guy Dixon, "Scorched wins best play at Dora Awards". The Globe and Mail, June 25, 2007.

| Insomnia

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| Here Lies Henry

| Leaving Home

| Crave

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Alisa Palmer

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Top Girls

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| Intimate Apparel

| rowspan=4 |

| The December Man

| Rose

| The Misanthrope

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Ed Roy

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Agokwe

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| I, Claudia

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| Festen

| Radio Play

| A Raisin in the Sun

!Year

!width="45%"|Playwright

!width="45%"|Title

!Ref

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Morris Panych

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Parfumerie

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|Assassins

| rowspan=4 | Robert Cushman, "Navigating the nominations; Our critic predicts Dora winners and laments overlooked performances". National Post, June 26, 2010.

| If We Were Birds

| Hamlet

| Courageous

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Brendan Healy

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Blasted

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| Ruined

| rowspan=4 |

| A Year With Frog and Toad

| Wide Awake Hearts

| Brothel #9

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Philip Akin

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Topdog/Underdog

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| Crash

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| The Golden Dragon

| Caroline, or Change

| The Penelopiad

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Chris Abraham

| style="background:#FAEB86" | The Little Years

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| Someone Else

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| Arigato, Tokyo

| Obaaberima

| The Crucible

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Albert Schultz

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Of Human Bondage

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| Pig

| rowspan=4 | Robert Cushman, "Best in shows; The Doras have a weak field to choose from this year, but they've chosen well". National Post, June 21, 2014.

| Lungs

| The Double

| A God in Need of Help

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Eda Holmes

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Tom at the Farm

| {{Cite news|last=Nestruck|first=J. Kelly|authorlink=J. Kelly Nestruck|date=June 22, 2015 |title=Movie-turned-musical Once a surprise winner at Toronto's Dora Awards|work=The Globe and Mail|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance/for-once-a-rare-surprise-at-torontos-dora-awards/article25062601/|access-date=August 6, 2020}}

| Twelve Angry Men

| rowspan=4 | J. Kelly Nestruck, "Soulpepper leads in Dora Award nods". The Globe and Mail, June 2, 2015.

| The Heart of Robin Hood

| Accidental Death of an Anarchist

| An Enemy of the People

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Ravi Jain

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Salt-Water Moon

| {{Cite web|last=Maga|first=Carly|date=June 27, 2016|title=2016 Dora Awards spread the wealth|url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/2016/06/27/2016-dora-awards-spread-the-wealth.html|access-date=August 6, 2020|website=Toronto Star|language=en}}

| Mustard

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| Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom

| Bombay Black

| We Are Proud to Present...

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Philip Akin

| style="background:#FAEB86" | "Master Harold" ...and the Boys

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| acquiesce

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| KISS

| Incident at Vichy

| Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts I, II, III)

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Mitchell Cushman

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Jerusalem

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| Idomeneus

| rowspan=4 | J. Kelly Nestruck, "Soulpepper's 13 nominations lead general theatre division of Toronto's Dora Awards". The Globe and Mail, May 31, 2018.

| Hamlet

| For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

| LULU v.7 // aspects of a femme fatale

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Nina Lee Aquino

| style="background:#FAEB86" | School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play

| {{Cite web|last=BWW News Desk|date=June 26, 2019|title=Full List of Winners Announced For the 40th Annual Dora Awards - Soulpepper Theatre, Canadian Opera Company, and More!|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/toronto/article/Full-List-of-Winners-Announced-For-the-40th-Annual-Dora-Awards-Soulpepper-Theatre-Canadian-Opera-Company-and-More-20190626|access-date=August 5, 2020|website=Broadway World|language=en}}

| Every Brilliant Thing

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| Oraltorio: A Theatrical Mixtape

| Middletown

| The Royale

!Year

!width="45%"|Playwright

!width="45%"|Title

!Ref

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu

| style="background:#FAEB86" | The Brothers Size

| {{Cite news|last=The Canadian Press|date=June 30, 2020|title=Soulpepper's The Brothers Size racks up five wins at Dora Awards|work=CBC|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/soulpepper-s-the-brothers-size-racks-up-five-wins-at-dora-awards-1.5632695|access-date=August 5, 2020}}

| Julius Caesar

| rowspan=4 | {{Cite web|last=Smith|first=Mae|date=June 29, 2020|title=2020 Dora Mavor Moore Award Winners|url=https://www.intermissionmagazine.ca/awards/2020-dora-mavor-moore-award-winners/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809081504/https://www.intermissionmagazine.ca/awards/2020-dora-mavor-moore-award-winners/ |archive-date=2020-08-09 |access-date=August 6, 2020|website=Intermission Magazine|language=en-CA}}

| The Flick

| Almighty Voice and His Wife

| A Streetcar Named Desire

| colspan=2 | No ceremony held due to the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada on theatre production in 2020.

| "Dora Awards honour lifetime achievement in theatre as COVID-19 shuts down live shows: Dora Mavor Moore Awards celebrates lifetime contributions after COVID-19 pandemic shut down live performances". The Globe and Mail, June 16, 2021.

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Soheil Parsa

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Wildfire

| Joshua Chong, [https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/2022/09/19/sweeney-todd-italian-mime-suicide-and-wildfire-win-big-at-2022-dora-awards.html "‘Sweeney Todd,’ ‘Italian Mime Suicide’ and ‘Wildfire’ win big at 2022 Dora Awards"]. Toronto Star, September 19, 2022.

| Three Women of Swatow

| rowspan=4 | Aisling Murphy, [https://www.intermissionmagazine.ca/doras/nomination-announcements-42nd-annual-dora-mavor-moore-awards/ "Nomination Announcements: 42nd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards"]. Intermission Magazine, August 29, 2022.

| Pipeline

| Is God Is

| Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Cherissa Richards

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Red Velvet

| rowspan=5 | Hélène Crowley, [https://www.intermissionmagazine.ca/doras/2023-dora-mavor-moore-award-winners/ "Announcing the 2023 Dora Mavor Moore Award Winners"]. Intermission Magazine, June 27, 2023.

| Maanomaa, My Brother

| Fifteen Dogs

| Queen Goneril

| Fall On Your Knees, Part Two: The Diary

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Andrew Kushnir

| style="background:#FAEB86" | Bad Roads

| Glenn Sumi, [https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/dora-awards-2024-natasha-pierre-the-great-comet-of-1812-earns-four-statuettes-at-torontos/article_64ca30c6-3239-11ef-bfd9-c71e5dbd70b2.html "Dora Awards 2024: ‘Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812’ earns four statuettes at Toronto’s top theatre honours"]. Toronto Star, June 24, 2024.

| The Master Plan

| rowspan=4| Aisling Murphy, [https://www.intermissionmagazine.ca/news/dora-noms-2024/ "TAPA announces 2024 Dora Award nominees"]. Intermission Magazine, May 28, 2004.

| King Gilgamesh and the Man of the Wild

| The Inheritance, Pt. 1

| Sizwe Banzi Is Dead