Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture
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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 - Milos 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 - Milos 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