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Golden Globe Award for Best Director

{{Short description|Award}}

{{Infobox award

| name = Golden Globe for Best Director – Motion Picture

| awarded_for = Best Director of a Motion Picture

| image = Brady Corbet at Berlinale 2024.jpg

| image_upright = 0.7

| caption = The 2024 recipient: Brady Corbet

| presenter = Hollywood Foreign Press Association

| location = United States

| holder = Brady Corbet for The Brutalist (2024)

| website = {{site|http://www.goldenglobes.com/|}}

}}

The Golden Globe Award for Best Director – Motion Picture is a Golden Globe Award that has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization composed of journalists who cover the United States film industry for publications based outside North America, since 1943.

Having won all four of his nominations, Elia Kazan has been honored most often in this category. Clint Eastwood, Miloš Forman, David Lean, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Oliver Stone tie for second place with three wins each. Steven Spielberg has had the most nominations (fourteen). Barbra Streisand, Chloé Zhao and Jane Campion are the only women to have won the award.

Receiving the award in 1984 for Yentl, Barbra Streisand became the first woman to win the Golden Globe for Best Director.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1984/04/08/the-snubbing-of-streisand-did-the-academy-judge-yentl-or-her/596da4df-6782-450c-9a9f-5811bcdfd0f4/ | title=The Snubbing of Streisand: Did the Academy Judge 'Yentl' -- or Her?| newspaper=The Washington Post}}

She remained the only woman to win a Golden Globe for directing for 37 years until Chloé Zhao won the award for Nomadland in 2021 and became the second woman and the first Asian woman to do so.{{cite news|date=March 1, 2021|title=Golden Globes: 'Tears' as Chloe Zhao becomes first Asian woman to win best director|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56235404|access-date=March 1, 2021|archive-date=March 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303042046/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56235404|url-status=live}}

In the following lists, the first names, listed in bold type against a blue background, are the winners, and the following names are the remaining nominees. The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which takes place in January of the following year.

Winners and nominees

File:Henry King, film director (SAYRE 4167).jpg won for The Song of Bernadette (1943)]]

File:Gloria Swanson & Billy Wilder - ca. 1950.JPG won twice for The Lost Weekend (1945) and Sunset Boulevard (1950)]]

File:Elia Kazan.JPG won four times for Gentleman's Agreement (1947), On the Waterfront (1954), Baby Doll (1956), and America America (1963)]]

File:John Huston - publicity (cropped).JPG won twice for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and Prizzi's Honor (1985)]]

File:Demille - c1920.JPG won for The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)]]

File:Vincent Minelli - 1950s.jpg won for Gigi (1958)]]

File:Aankomst filmster Ann Todd en haar echtgenoot filmregisseur David Lean op Schiph, Bestanddeelnr 905-4605 (2).jpg won thrice The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and Doctor Zhivago (1965)]]

File:William Wyler portrait.jpg won for Ben-Hur (1959)]]

File:Stanley Kramer.JPG won for Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)]]

File:George Cukor - 1946.jpg won for My Fair Lady (1964)]]

File:Mike Nichols.jpg won for The Graduate (1967)]]

File:Paul Newman 1958.jpg won for Rachel, Rachel (1968)]]

File:William Friedkin (cropped).jpg won twice for The French Connection (1971) and The Exorcist (1973)]]

File:Francis Ford Coppola -1976 (cropping).jpg won twice for The Godfather (1972) and Apocalypse Now (1979)]]

File:Roman Polanski 2011 2.jpg won for Chinatown (1974)]]

File:Milos Forman crop.jpg won thrice for One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Amadeus (1984), and The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)]]

File:SidneyLumet07TIFF.jpg won for Network (1976)]]

File:Robert Redford (cropped).jpg won for Ordinary People (1980)]]

File:Warren Beatty.jpg won for Reds (1981)]]

File:RichardAttenborough07TIFF.jpg won for Gandhi (1982)]]

File:Barbra Streisand with Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci (27806589237) (cropped).jpg won for Yentl (1983)]]

File:Oliver Stone by Gage Skidmore.jpg won thrice for Platoon (1986), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), and JFK (1991)]]

File:Bernardo Bertolucci.jpg won for The Last Emperor (1987)]]

File:Clint Eastwood Cannes 1993.jpg won thrice for Bird (1988), Unforgiven (1992), and Million Dollar Baby (2004)]]

File:Kevin Costner Césars 2013.jpg won for Dances with Wolves (1990)]]

File:Steven Spielberg by Gage Skidmore.jpg won thrice for Schindler's List (1993), Saving Private Ryan (1998), and The Fabelmans (2022)]]

File:Robert Zemeckis "The Walk" at Opening Ceremony of the 28th Tokyo International Film Festival (21835891403) (cropped).jpg won for Forrest Gump (1994)]]

File:Mel Gibson Cannes 2016 3.jpg won for Braveheart (1995)]]

File:James Cameron October 2012.jpg won twice for Titanic (1997) and Avatar (2009)]]

File:Sam Mendes in 2022 (cropped).jpg won twice American Beauty (1999) and 1917 (2019)]]

File:Ang Lee - 66eme Festival de Venise (Mostra) 2.jpg won twice Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and Brokeback Mountain (2005)]]

File:Robert Altman 02 (cropped).jpg won for Gosford Park (2002)]]

File:Peter Jackson SDCC 2014.jpg won for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)]]

File:Martin Scorsese-68749.jpg won thrice for Gangs of New York (2002), The Departed (2006), and Hugo (2011)]]

File:Danny Boyle 2019 (cropped).jpg won for Slumdog Millionaire (2008)]]

File:David Fincher (2012) 3.jpg won for The Social Network (2010)]]

File:Ben Affleck by Gage Skidmore 3.jpg won for Argo (2012)]]

File:Alfonso Cuarón 2013 (cropped).jpg won twice for Gravity (2013) and Roma (2018)]]

File:Richard Linklater at Berlinale 2025.jpg won for Boyhood (2014)]]

File:Alejandro González Iñárritu with a camera in production Cropped.jpg won for The Revenant (2015)]]

File:Damien Chazelle (cropped).jpg won for La La Land (2016)]]

File:Guillermo del Toro in 2017.jpg won for The Shape of Water (2017)]]

File:Chloe Zhao by Gage Skidmore.jpg won for Nomadland (2020)]]

File:Jane Campion DNZM (cropped).jpg won for The Power of the Dog (2021)]]

File:Christopher Nolan Cannes 2018.jpg won for Oppenheimer (2023)]]

=1940s=

class="wikitable sortable"

!scope="col" style="width:8%;"| Year

!scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Name

!scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Film

!scope="col" style="width:2%;" class="unsortable"|{{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}

rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 1943

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Henry King || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Song of Bernadette || {{cite web|url=http://www.hfpa.org/browse/year/1943 |title=HFPS Golden Globes 1943 |access-date=2007-06-26 |publisher=Hollywood Foreign Press Association |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607223036/http://www1.hfpa.org/browse/year/1943 |archive-date=2007-06-07}} Nominations for 1943 are not available.

rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 1944

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Leo McCarey || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Going My Way || {{cite web|url=http://www.hfpa.org/browse/year/1944 |title=HFPS Golden Globes 1944 |access-date=2007-06-26 |publisher=Hollywood Foreign Press Association |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607220629/http://www1.hfpa.org/browse/year/1944 |archive-date=2007-06-07}} Nominations for 1944 are not available.

rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 1945

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Billy Wilder || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Lost Weekend || {{cite web|url=http://www.hfpa.org/browse/year/1945 |title=HFPS Golden Globes 1945 |access-date=2007-06-26 |publisher=Hollywood Foreign Press Association |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070608004346/http://www1.hfpa.org/browse/year/1945 |archive-date=2007-06-08}} Nominations for 1945 are not available.

rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 1946

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Frank Capra || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | It's a Wonderful Life || {{cite web|url=http://www.hfpa.org/browse/year/1946 |title=HFPS Golden Globes 1946 |access-date=2007-06-26 |publisher=Hollywood Foreign Press Association |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607222933/http://www1.hfpa.org/browse/year/1946 |archive-date=2007-06-07}} Nominations for 1946 are not available.

rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 1947

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Elia Kazan || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Gentleman's Agreement || {{cite web|url=http://www.hfpa.org/browse/year/1947 |title=HFPS Golden Globes 1947 |access-date=2007-06-26 |publisher=Hollywood Foreign Press Association |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607223818/http://www1.hfpa.org/browse/year/1947 |archive-date=2007-06-07}} Nominations for 1947 are not available.

rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 1948

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | John Huston || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre || {{cite web|url=http://www.hfpa.org/browse/year/1948 |title=HFPS Golden Globes 1948 |access-date=2007-06-26 |publisher=Hollywood Foreign Press Association |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070608000234/http://www1.hfpa.org/browse/year/1948 |archive-date=2007-06-08}} Nominations for 1948 are not available.

rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 1949

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Robert Rossen || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | All the King's Men ||

=1950s=

class="wikitable sortable"

!scope="col" style="width:8%;"| Year

!scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Name

!scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Film

!scope="col" style="width:2%;" class="unsortable"|{{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}

rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;" | 1950

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Billy Wilder || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Sunset Boulevard || rowspan=4|

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

| All About Eve

John Huston

| The Asphalt Jungle

George Cukor

| Born Yesterday

rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" | 1951

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | László Benedek || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Death of a Salesman || rowspan=3|

Vincente Minnelli

| An American in Paris

George Stevens

| A Place in the Sun

rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" | 1952

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Cecil B. DeMille || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Greatest Show on Earth || rowspan=3|

Richard Fleischer

| The Happy Time

John Ford

| The Quiet Man

rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 1953

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Fred Zinnemann || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | From Here to Eternity || {{cite web |title=HFPS Golden Globes 1953 |url=http://www.hfpa.org/browse/year/1953 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070706215113/http://www.hfpa.org/browse/year/1953 |archive-date=2007-07-06 |access-date=2007-06-26 |publisher=Hollywood Foreign Press Association}} Nominations for 1953 are not available.

rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 1954

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Elia Kazan || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | On the Waterfront || {{cite web |title=HFPS Golden Globes 1954 |url=http://www.hfpa.org/browse/year/1954 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070411181559/http://www1.hfpa.org/browse/year/1954 |archive-date=2007-04-11 |access-date=2007-06-26 |publisher=Hollywood Foreign Press Association}} Nominations for 1954 are not available.

rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 1955

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Joshua Logan || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Picnic || {{cite web |title=HFPS Golden Globes 1955 |url=http://www.hfpa.org/browse/year/1955 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607225609/http://www1.hfpa.org/browse/year/1955 |archive-date=2007-06-07 |access-date=2007-06-26 |publisher=Hollywood Foreign Press Association}} Nominations for 1955 are not available.

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1956

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Elia Kazan || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Baby Doll || rowspan=5|

Michael Anderson

| Around the World in 80 Days

George Stevens

| Giant

Vincente Minnelli

| Lust for Life

King Vidor

| War and Peace

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1957

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | David Lean || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Bridge on the River Kwai || rowspan=5|

Sidney Lumet

| 12 Angry Men

Fred Zinnemann

| A Hatful of Rain

Joshua Logan

| Sayonara

Billy Wilder

| Witness for the Prosecution

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1958

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Vincente Minnelli || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Gigi || rowspan=5|

Richard Brooks

| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Stanley Kramer

| The Defiant Ones

Robert Wise

| I Want to Live!

Delbert Mann

| Separate Tables

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1959

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | William Wyler || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Ben-Hur || rowspan=5|

Otto Preminger

| Anatomy of a Murder

George Stevens

| The Diary of Anne Frank

Fred Zinnemann

| The Nun's Story

Stanley Kramer

| On the Beach

=1960s=

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!scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Film

!scope="col" style="width:2%;" class="unsortable"|{{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1960

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Jack Cardiff || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Sons and Lovers || rowspan=5|

Billy Wilder

| The Apartment

Richard Brooks

| Elmer Gantry

Stanley Kubrick

| Spartacus

Fred Zinnemann

| The Sundowners

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1961

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Stanley Kramer || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Judgment at Nuremberg || rowspan=5|

William Wyler

| The Children's Hour

Anthony Mann

| El Cid

J. Lee Thompson

| The Guns of Navarone

Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise

| West Side Story

rowspan="11" style="text-align:center;" | 1962

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | David Lean || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Lawrence of Arabia || rowspan=11|

George Cukor

| The Chapman Report

Blake Edwards

| Days of Wine and Roses

John Huston

| Freud: The Secret Passion

Mervyn LeRoy

| Gypsy

Martin Ritt

| Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man

Stanley Kubrick

| Lolita

John Frankenheimer

| The Manchurian Candidate

Morton DaCosta

| The Music Man

Ismael Rodríguez

| My Son, the Hero (Los Hermanos Del Hierro)

Robert Mulligan

| To Kill a Mockingbird

rowspan="8" style="text-align:center;" | 1963

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Elia Kazan || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | America America || rowspan=8|

Otto Preminger

| The Cardinal

Hall Bartlett

| The Caretakers

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

| Cleopatra

Robert Wise

| The Haunting

Martin Ritt

| Hud

Tony Richardson

| Tom Jones

George Englund

| The Ugly American

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1964

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | George Cukor || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | My Fair Lady || rowspan=5|

Peter Glenville

| Becket

John Huston

| The Night of the Iguana

John Frankenheimer

| Seven Days in May

Michael Cacoyannis

| Zorba the Greek

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1965

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | David Lean || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Doctor Zhivago || rowspan=5|

William Wyler

| The Collector

John Schlesinger

| Darling

Guy Green

| A Patch of Blue

Robert Wise

| The Sound of Music

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1966

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Fred Zinnemann || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | A Man for All Seasons || rowspan=5|

Lewis Gilbert

| Alfie

Claude Lelouch

| A Man and a Woman

Robert Wise

| The Sand Pebbles

Mike Nichols

| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1967

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Mike Nichols || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Graduate || rowspan=5|

Arthur Penn

| Bonnie and Clyde

Mark Rydell

| The Fox

Stanley Kramer

| Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Norman Jewison

| In the Heat of the Night

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1968

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Paul Newman || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Rachel, Rachel || rowspan=5|

William Wyler

| Funny Girl

Anthony Harvey

| The Lion in Winter

Carol Reed

| Oliver!

Franco Zeffirelli

| Romeo and Juliet

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1969

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Charles Jarrott || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Anne of the Thousand Days || rowspan=5|

Gene Kelly

| Hello, Dolly!

John Schlesinger

| Midnight Cowboy

Stanley Kramer

| The Secret of Santa Vittoria

Sydney Pollack

| They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

=1970s=

class="wikitable sortable"

!scope="col" style="width:8%;"| Year

!scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Name

!scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Film

!scope="col" style="width:2%;" class="unsortable"|{{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1970

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Arthur Hiller || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Love Story || rowspan=5|

Bob Rafelson

| Five Easy Pieces

Robert Altman

| M*A*S*H

Franklin J. Schaffner

| Patton

Ken Russell

| Women in Love

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1971

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | William Friedkin || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The French Connection || rowspan=5|

Stanley Kubrick

| A Clockwork Orange

Norman Jewison

| Fiddler on the Roof

Peter Bogdanovich

| The Last Picture Show

Robert Mulligan

| Summer of '42

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1972

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Francis Ford Coppola || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Godfather || rowspan=5|

Billy Wilder

| Avanti!

Bob Fosse

| Cabaret

John Boorman

| Deliverance

Alfred Hitchcock

| Frenzy

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1973

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | William Friedkin || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Exorcist || rowspan=5|

George Lucas

| American Graffiti

Fred Zinnemann

| The Day of the Jackal

Bernardo Bertolucci

| Last Tango in Paris

Peter Bogdanovich

| Paper Moon

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1974

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Roman Polanski || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Chinatown || rowspan=5|

rowspan="2" | Francis Ford Coppola

| The Conversation

The Godfather Part II
Bob Fosse

| Lenny

John Cassavetes

| A Woman Under the Influence

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1975

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Miloš Forman || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest || rowspan=5|

Stanley Kubrick

| Barry Lyndon

Sidney Lumet

| Dog Day Afternoon

Steven Spielberg

| Jaws

Robert Altman

| Nashville

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1976

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Sidney Lumet || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Network || rowspan=5|

Alan J. Pakula

| All the President's Men

Hal Ashby

| Bound for Glory

John Schlesinger

| Marathon Man

John G. Avildsen

| Rocky

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1977

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Herbert Ross || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Turning Point || rowspan=5|

Woody Allen

| Annie Hall

Steven Spielberg

| Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Fred Zinnemann

| Julia

George Lucas

| Star Wars

rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;" | 1978

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Michael Cimino || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Deer Hunter || rowspan=6|

Hal Ashby

| Coming Home

Terrence Malick

| Days of Heaven

Woody Allen

| Interiors

Alan Parker

| Midnight Express

Paul Mazursky

| An Unmarried Woman

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1979

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Francis Ford Coppola || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Apocalypse Now || rowspan=5|

Hal Ashby

| Being There

Peter Yates

| Breaking Away

James Bridges

| The China Syndrome

Robert Benton

| Kramer vs. Kramer

=1980s=

class="wikitable sortable"

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!scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Name

!scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Film

!scope="col" style="width:2%;" class="unsortable"|{{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1980

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Robert Redford || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Ordinary People || rowspan=5|

David Lynch

| The Elephant Man

Martin Scorsese

| Raging Bull

Richard Rush

| The Stunt Man

Roman Polanski

| Tess

rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;" | 1981

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Warren Beatty || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Reds || rowspan=6|

Louis Malle

| Atlantic City

Mark Rydell

| On Golden Pond

Sidney Lumet

| Prince of the City

Miloš Forman

| Ragtime

Steven Spielberg

| Raiders of the Lost Ark

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1982

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Richard Attenborough || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Gandhi || rowspan=5|

Steven Spielberg

| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Constantin Costa-Gavras

| Missing

Sydney Pollack

| Tootsie

Sidney Lumet

| The Verdict

rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;" | 1983

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Barbra Streisand || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Yentl || rowspan=6|

Peter Yates

| The Dresser

Ingmar Bergman

| Fanny and Alexander

Mike Nichols

| Silkwood

Bruce Beresford

| Tender Mercies

James L. Brooks

| Terms of Endearment

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1984

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Miloš Forman || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Amadeus || rowspan=5|

Francis Ford Coppola

| The Cotton Club

Roland Joffé

| The Killing Fields

Sergio Leone

| Once Upon a Time in America

David Lean

| A Passage to India

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1985

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | John Huston || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Prizzi's Honor || rowspan=5|

Richard Attenborough

| A Chorus Line

Steven Spielberg

| The Color Purple

Sydney Pollack

| Out of Africa

Peter Weir

| Witness

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1986

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Oliver Stone || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Platoon || rowspan=5|

Woody Allen

| Hannah and Her Sisters

Roland Joffé

| The Mission

James Ivory

| A Room with a View

Rob Reiner

| Stand by Me

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1987

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Bernardo Bertolucci || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Last Emperor || rowspan=5|

James L. Brooks

| Broadcast News

Richard Attenborough

| Cry Freedom

Adrian Lyne

| Fatal Attraction

John Boorman

| Hope and Glory

rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;" | 1988

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Clint Eastwood || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Bird || rowspan=6|

Fred Schepisi

| A Cry in the Dark

Alan Parker

| Mississippi Burning

Barry Levinson

| Rain Man

Sidney Lumet

| Running on Empty

Mike Nichols

| Working Girl

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1989

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Oliver Stone || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Born on the Fourth of July || rowspan=5|

Peter Weir

| Dead Poets Society

Spike Lee

| Do the Right Thing

Edward Zwick

| Glory

Rob Reiner

| When Harry Met Sally...

=1990s=

class="wikitable sortable"

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!scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Name

!scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Film

!scope="col" style="width:2%;" class="unsortable"|{{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1990

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Kevin Costner || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Dances with Wolves || rowspan=5|

Francis Ford Coppola

| The Godfather Part III

Martin Scorsese

| Goodfellas

Barbet Schroeder

| Reversal of Fortune

Bernardo Bertolucci

| The Sheltering Sky

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1991

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Oliver Stone || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | JFK || rowspan=5|

Barry Levinson

| Bugsy

Terry Gilliam

| The Fisher King

Barbra Streisand

| The Prince of Tides

Jonathan Demme

| The Silence of the Lambs

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1992

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Clint Eastwood || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Unforgiven || rowspan=5|

Rob Reiner

| A Few Good Men

James Ivory

| Howards End

Robert Altman

| The Player

Robert Redford

| A River Runs Through It

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1993

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Steven Spielberg || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Schindler's List || rowspan=5|

Martin Scorsese

| The Age of Innocence

Andrew Davis

| The Fugitive

Jane Campion

| The Piano

James Ivory

| The Remains of the Day

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1994

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Robert Zemeckis || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Forrest Gump || rowspan=5|

Edward Zwick

| Legends of the Fall

Oliver Stone

| Natural Born Killers

Quentin Tarantino

| Pulp Fiction

Robert Redford

| Quiz Show

rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;" | 1995

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Mel Gibson || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Braveheart || rowspan=6|

Rob Reiner

| The American President

Ron Howard

| Apollo 13

Martin Scorsese

| Casino

Mike Figgis

| Leaving Las Vegas

Ang Lee

| Sense and Sensibility

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1996

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Miloš Forman || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The People vs. Larry Flynt || rowspan=5|

Anthony Minghella

| The English Patient

Alan Parker

| Evita

Joel Coen

| Fargo

Scott Hicks

| Shine

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1997

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | James Cameron || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Titanic || rowspan=5|

Steven Spielberg

| Amistad

James L. Brooks

| As Good as It Gets

Jim Sheridan

| The Boxer

Curtis Hanson

| L.A. Confidential

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1998

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Steven Spielberg || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Saving Private Ryan || rowspan=5|

Shekhar Kapur

| Elizabeth

Robert Redford

| The Horse Whisperer

John Madden

| Shakespeare in Love

Peter Weir

| The Truman Show

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 1999

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Sam Mendes || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | American Beauty || rowspan=5|

Neil Jordan

| The End of the Affair

Norman Jewison

| The Hurricane

Michael Mann

| The Insider

Anthony Minghella

| The Talented Mr. Ripley

=2000s=

class="wikitable sortable"

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!scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Name

!scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Film

!scope="col" style="width:2%;" class="unsortable"|{{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2000

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Ang Lee || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon || rowspan=5|

Steven Soderbergh

| Erin Brockovich

Ridley Scott

| Gladiator

István Szabó

| Sunshine

Steven Soderbergh

| Traffic

rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;" | 2001

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Robert Altman || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Gosford Park || rowspan=6|

Steven Spielberg

| A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Ron Howard

| A Beautiful Mind

Peter Jackson

| The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Baz Luhrmann

| Moulin Rouge!

David Lynch

| Mulholland Drive

rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;" | 2002

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Martin Scorsese || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Gangs of New York || rowspan=6|

Alexander Payne

| About Schmidt

Spike Jonze

| Adaptation.

Rob Marshall

| Chicago

Stephen Daldry

| The Hours

Peter Jackson

| The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2003

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Peter Jackson || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King || rowspan=5|

Anthony Minghella

| Cold Mountain

Sofia Coppola

| Lost in Translation

Peter Weir

| Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Clint Eastwood

| Mystic River

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2004

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Clint Eastwood || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Million Dollar Baby || rowspan=5|

Martin Scorsese

| The Aviator

Mike Nichols

| Closer

Marc Forster

| Finding Neverland

Alexander Payne

| Sideways

rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;" | 2005

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Ang Lee || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Brokeback Mountain || rowspan=6|

Fernando Meirelles

| The Constant Gardener

George Clooney

| Good Night, and Good Luck.

Peter Jackson

| King Kong

Woody Allen

| Match Point

Steven Spielberg

| Munich

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2006

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Martin Scorsese || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Departed || rowspan=5|

Alejandro González Iñárritu

| Babel

rowspan="2" | Clint Eastwood

| Flags of Our Fathers

Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears

| The Queen

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2007

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Julian Schnabel || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly || rowspan=5|

Ridley Scott

| American Gangster

Joe Wright

| Atonement

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

| No Country for Old Men

Tim Burton

| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2008

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Danny Boyle || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Slumdog Millionaire || rowspan=5|

David Fincher

| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Ron Howard

| Frost/Nixon

Stephen Daldry

| The Reader

Sam Mendes

| Revolutionary Road

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2009

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | James Cameron || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Avatar || rowspan=5|

Kathryn Bigelow

| The Hurt Locker

Quentin Tarantino

| Inglourious Basterds

Clint Eastwood

| Invictus

Jason Reitman

| Up in the Air

=2010s=

class="wikitable sortable"

!scope="col" style="width:8%;"| Year

!scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Name

!scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Film

!scope="col" style="width:2%;" class="unsortable"|{{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2010

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | David Fincher || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Social Network || rowspan=5|

Darren Aronofsky

| Black Swan

David O. Russell

| The Fighter

Christopher Nolan

| Inception

Tom Hooper

| The King's Speech

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2011

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Martin Scorsese || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Hugo || rowspan=5|

Michel Hazanavicius

| The Artist

Alexander Payne

| The Descendants

George Clooney

| The Ides of March

Woody Allen

| Midnight in Paris

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2012

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Ben Affleck || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Argo || rowspan=5|

Quentin Tarantino

| Django Unchained

Ang Lee

| Life of Pi

Steven Spielberg

| Lincoln

Kathryn Bigelow

| Zero Dark Thirty

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2013

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Alfonso Cuarón || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Gravity || rowspan=5|

Steve McQueen

| 12 Years a Slave

David O. Russell

| American Hustle

Paul Greengrass

| Captain Phillips

Alexander Payne

| Nebraska

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2014

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Richard Linklater || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Boyhood || rowspan=5|

Alejandro González Iñárritu

| Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

David Fincher

| Gone Girl

Wes Anderson

| The Grand Budapest Hotel

Ava DuVernay

| Selma

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2015

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Alejandro González Iñárritu || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Revenant || rowspan=5|

Todd Haynes

| Carol

George Miller

| Mad Max: Fury Road

Ridley Scott

| The Martian

Tom McCarthy

| Spotlight

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2016

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Damien Chazelle || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | La La Land || rowspan=5|

Mel Gibson

| Hacksaw Ridge

Barry Jenkins

| Moonlight

Kenneth Lonergan

| Manchester by the Sea

Tom Ford

| Nocturnal Animals

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2017

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Guillermo del Toro || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Shape of Water || rowspan=5|

Ridley Scott

| All the Money in the World

Christopher Nolan

| Dunkirk

Steven Spielberg

| The Post

Martin McDonagh

| Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2018

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Alfonso Cuarón || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Roma || rowspan=5|

Spike Lee

| BlacKkKlansman

Peter Farrelly

| Green Book

Bradley Cooper

| A Star Is Born

Adam McKay

| Vice

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2019

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Sam Mendes || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | 1917 || rowspan=5|

Martin Scorsese

| The Irishman

Todd Phillips

| Joker

Quentin Tarantino

| Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Bong Joon-ho

| Parasite

=2020s=

class="wikitable sortable"

!scope="col" style="width:8%;"| Year

!scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Name

!scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Film

!scope="col" style="width:2%;" class="unsortable"|{{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2020

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Chloé Zhao || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Nomadland || rowspan=5|

David Fincher

| Mank

Regina King

| One Night in Miami...

Emerald Fennell

| Promising Young Woman

Aaron Sorkin

| The Trial of the Chicago 7

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2021

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Jane Campion || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Power of the Dog || rowspan=5|

Kenneth Branagh

|Belfast

Denis Villeneuve

| Dune

Maggie Gyllenhaal

| The Lost Daughter

Steven Spielberg

| West Side Story

rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 2022

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Steven Spielberg || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Fabelmans || rowspan=5|

James Cameron

| Avatar: The Way of Water

Martin McDonagh

| The Banshees of Inisherin

Baz Luhrmann

| Elvis

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

|Everything Everywhere All at Once

rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;" | 2023

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Christopher Nolan || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Oppenheimer || rowspan=6|

Greta Gerwig

| Barbie

Martin Scorsese

|Killers of the Flower Moon

Bradley Cooper

| Maestro

Celine Song

|Past Lives

Yorgos Lanthimos

| Poor Things

rowspan="6" |2024

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Brady Corbet || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Brutalist|| rowspan=6|[https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/05/entertainment/award-winners-list-golden-globes/index.html Award winners-list: See which Golden Globes nominees won|CNN]
[https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/golden-globes-2025-complete-winners-list-1235226073/ Golden Globes 2025: See the Complete Winners List - Rolling Stone]

Payal Kapadia

|All We Imagine as Light

Sean Baker

|Anora

Edward Berger

|Conclave

Jacques Audiard

|Emilia Pérez

Coralie Fargeat

|The Substance

Multiple nominations

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See also

References

=General=

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  • {{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Golden_Globes_USA |title=IMDb Golden Globes Page |publisher=IMDb |access-date=2007-07-02}}
  • {{cite web |url=http://www.hfpa.org/browse/years |title=HFPS Golden Globes Page |publisher=Hollywood Foreign Press Association |access-date=2007-07-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070715210543/http://www.hfpa.org/browse/years |archive-date=2007-07-15}}

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