National Board of Review Award for Best Director

The National Board of Review Award for Best Director is one of the annual film awards given (since 1945) by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.^[1]

Winners

• † = Winner of the Academy Award for Best Director
• ‡ = Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director
• § = Not nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director

1940s

Year	Winner	Film
1945	Jean Renoir ‡	The Southerner
1946	William Wyler †	The Best Years of Our Lives
1947	Elia Kazan	Boomerang! §
		Gentleman's Agreement †
1948	Roberto Rossellini §	Paisan (Paisà)
1949	Vittorio De Sica §	Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette)

1950s

Year	Winner	Film
1950	John Huston ‡	The Asphalt Jungle
1951	Akira Kurosawa §	Rashōmon
1952	David Lean §	The Sound Barrier
1953	George Stevens ‡	Shane
1954	Renato Castellani §	Romeo and Juliet
1955	William Wyler	The Desperate Hours
1956	John Huston §	Moby Dick
1957	David Lean †	The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958	John Ford §	The Last Hurrah
1959	Fred Zinnemann ‡	The Nun's Story

1960s

Year	Winner	Film
1960	Jack Cardiff ‡	Sons and Lovers
1961	Jack Clayton §	The Innocents
1962	David Lean †	Lawrence of Arabia
1963	Tony Richardson †	Tom Jones
1964	Desmond Davis §	Girl with Green Eyes
1965	John Schlesinger ‡	Darling
1966	Fred Zinnemann †	A Man for All Seasons
1967	Richard Brooks ‡	In Cold Blood
1968	Franco Zeffirelli ‡	Romeo and Juliet
1969	Alfred Hitchcock §	Topaz

1970s

Year	Winner	Film
1970	François Truffaut §	The Wild Child (L'enfant sauvage)
1971	Ken Russell	The Boy Friend §
		The Devils §
1972	Bob Fosse †	Cabaret
1973	Ingmar Bergman ‡	Cries and Whispers
1974	Francis Ford Coppola §	The Conversation
1975	Robert Altman ‡	Nashville
	Stanley Kubrick ‡	Barry Lyndon
1976	Alan J. Pakula ‡	All the President's Men
1977	Luis Buñuel §	That Obscure Object of Desire (Cet obscur objet du désir)
1978	Ingmar Bergman §	Autumn Sonata
1979	John Schlesinger §	Yanks

1980s

Year	Winner	Film
1980	Robert Redford †	Ordinary People
1981	Warren Beatty †	Reds
1982	Sidney Lumet ‡	The Verdict
1983	James L. Brooks †	Terms of Endearment
1984	David Lean ‡	A Passage to India
1985	Akira Kurosawa ‡	Ran
1986	Woody Allen ‡	Hannah and Her Sisters
1987	Steven Spielberg §	Empire of the Sun
1988	Alan Parker ‡	Mississippi Burning
1989	Kenneth Branagh ‡	Henry V

1990s

Year	Winner	Film
1990	Kevin Costner †	Dances with Wolves
1991	Jonathan Demme †	The Silence of the Lambs
1992	James Ivory ‡	Howards End
1993	Martin Scorsese §	The Age of Innocence
1994	Quentin Tarantino ‡	Pulp Fiction
1995	Ang Lee §	Sense and Sensibility
1996	Joel Coen ‡	Fargo
1997	Curtis Hanson ‡	L.A. Confidential
1998	Shekhar Kapur §	Elizabeth
1999	Anthony Minghella §	The Talented Mr. Ripley

2000s

Year	Winner	Film
2000	Steven Soderbergh	Erin Brockovich ‡
		Traffic †
2001	Todd Field §	In the Bedroom
2002	Phillip Noyce	The Quiet American §
		Rabbit-Proof Fence §
2003	Edward Zwick §	The Last Samurai
2004	Michael Mann §	Collateral
2005	Ang Lee †	Brokeback Mountain
2006	Martin Scorsese †	The Departed
2007	Tim Burton §	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2008	David Fincher ‡	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2009	Clint Eastwood §	Invictus

2010s

Year	Winner	Film
2010	David Fincher ‡	The Social Network
2011	Martin Scorsese ‡	Hugo
2012	Kathryn Bigelow §	Zero Dark Thirty
2013	Spike Jonze §	Her
2014	Clint Eastwood §	American Sniper
2015	Ridley Scott §	The Martian
2016	Barry Jenkins	Moonlight

References

1. "Best Director Archives – National Board of Review". National Board of Review. Retrieved February 2, 2015.