HONORS

1929/28	Lewis Milestone	(for Two Arabian Knights)
1930/29	Frank Lloyd	(for The Divine Lady)
1931/30	Lewis Milestone	(for All Quiet on the Western Front)
1932/31	Norman Taurog	(for Skippy)
1933/32	Frank Borzage	(for Bad Girl)
1934/33	Frank Lloyd	(for Cavalcade)
1935	Frank Capra	(for It Happened One Night)
1936	John Ford	(for The Informer)
1937	Frank Capra	(for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town)
1938	Leo McCarey	(for The Awful Truth)
1939	Frank Capra	(for You Can't Take It with You)
1940	Victor Fleming	(for Gone with the Wind)
1941	John Ford	(for The Grapes of Wrath)
1942	John Ford	(for How Green Was My Valley)
1943	William Wyler	(for Mrs. Miniver)
1944	Michael Curtiz	(for Casablanca)
1945	Leo McCarey	(for Going My Way)
1946	Billy Wilder	(for The Lost Weekend)
1947	William Wyler	(for The Best Years of Our Lives)
1948	Elia Kazan	(for Gentleman's Agreement)
1949	John Huston	(for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
1950	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	(for A Letter to Three Wives)
1951	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	(for All About Eve)
1952	George Stevens	(for A Place in the Sun)
1953	John Ford	(for The Quiet Man)
1954	Fred Zinnemann	(for From Here to Eternity)
1955	Elia Kazan	(for On the Waterfront)
1956	Delbert Mann	(for Marty)
1957	George Stevens	(for Giant)
1958	David Lean	(for The Bridge on the River Kwai)
1959	Vincente Minnelli	(for Gigi)
1960	William Wyler	(for Ben-Hur)
1961	Billy Wilder	(for The Apartment)
1962	Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins	(for West Side Story)
1963	David Lean	(for Lawrence of Arabia)
1964	Tony Richardson	(for Tom Jones)
1965	George Cukor	(for My Fair Lady)
1966	Robert Wise	(for The Sound of Music)
1967	Fred Zinnemann	(for A Man for All Seasons)
1968	Mike Nichols	(for The Graduate)
1969	Carol Reed	(for Oliver!)
1970	John Schlesinger	(for Midnight Cowboy)
1971	Franklin J. Schaffner	(for Patton)
1972	William Friedkin	(for The French Connection)
1973	Bob Fosse	(for Cabaret)
1974	George Roy Hill	(for The Sting)
1975	Francis Ford Coppola	(for The Godfather Part II)
1976	Milos Forman	(for One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1977	John G. Avildsen	(for Rocky)
1978	Woody Allen	(for Annie Hall)
1979	Michael Cimino	(for The Deer Hunter)
1980	Robert Benton	(for Kramer vs. Kramer)
1981	Robert Redford	(for Ordinary People)
1982	Warren Beatty	(for Reds)
1983	Richard Attenborough	(for Gandhi)
1984	James L. Brooks	(for Terms of Endearment)
1985	Milos Forman	(for Amadeus)
1986	Sydney Pollack	(for Out of Africa)
1987	Oliver Stone	(for Platoon)
1988	Bernardo Bertolucci	(for The Last Emperor)
1989	Barry Levinson	(for Rain Man)
1990	Oliver Stone	(for Born on the Fourth of July)
1991	Kevin Costner	(for Dances with Wolves)
1992	Jonathan Demme	(for The Silence of the Lambs)
1993	Clint Eastwood	(for Unforgiven)
1994	Steven Spielberg	(for Schindler's List)
1995	Robert Zemeckis	(for Forrest Gump)
1996	Mel Gibson	(for Braveheart)
1997	Anthony Minghella	(for The English Patient)
1998	James Cameron	(for Titanic)
1999	Steven Spielberg	(for Saving Private Ryan)
2000	Sam Mendes	(for American Beauty)
2001	Steven Soderbergh	(for Traffic)
2002	Ron Howard	(for A Beautiful Mind)
2003	Roman Polanski	(for The Pianist)
2004	Peter Jackson	(for The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King)
2005	Clint Eastwood	(for Million Dollar Baby)
2006	Ang Lee	(for Brokeback Mountain)
2007	Martin Scorsese	(for The Departed)
2008	Ethan Coen and Joel Coen	(for No Country for Old Men)
2009	Danny Boyle	(for Slumdog Millionaire)
2010	Kathryn Bigelow	(for The Hurt Locker)
2011	Tom Hooper	(for The King's Speech)
2012	Michel Hazanavicius	(for The Artist)
2013	Ang Lee	(for Life of Pi)
2014	Alfonso Cuarón	(for Gravity)
2015	Alejandro González Iñárritu	(for Birdman)
2016	Alejandro González Iñárritu	(for The Revenant)

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