| Year & Director | Movie | Star |
|---|
| 2009: James Cameron | |
| 2008: Christopher Nolan | |
| 2007: The Coen Brothers | |
| 2006: Martin Scorsese | |
| 2005: Robert Rodriguez | |
| 2004: Michel Gondry | |
| 2003: Peter Jackson | |
| 2002: Fernando Meirelles | |
| 2001: Peter Jackson | |
| 2000: Christopher Nolan | |
| 1999: David Fincher | |
| 1998: Tony Kaye | |
| 1997: Curtis Hanson | |
| 1996: The Coen Brothers | |
| 1995: Bryan Singer | |
| 1994: Frank Darabont | |
| 1993: Steven Spielberg | |
| 1992: Quentin Tarantino | |
| 1991: Jonathan Demme | |
| 1990: Martin Scorsese | |
| 1989: Steven Spielberg | |
| 1988: Giuseppe Tornatore | |
| 1987: Stanley Kubrick | |
| 1986: James Cameron | |
| 1985: Robert Zemeckis | |
| 1984: Milos Forman | |
| 1983: Richard Marquand | |
| 1982: Ridley Scott | |
| 1981: Steven Spielberg | |
| 1980: Irvin Kershner | |
| 1979: Francis Coppola | |
| 1978: Michael Cimino | |
| | Year & Director | Movie | Star |
|---|
| 1977: George Lucas | |
| 1976: Martin Scorsese | |
| 1975: Milos Forman | |
| 1974: Francis Ford Coppola | |
| 1973: George Roy Hill | |
| 1972: Francis Ford Coppola | |
| 1971: Stanley Kubrick | |
| 1970: Franklin Schaffner | |
| 1969: George Roy Hill | |
| 1968: Sergio Leone | |
| 1967: Stuart Rosenberg | |
| 1966: Sergio Leone | |
| 1965: Sergio Leone | |
| 1964: Stanley Kubrick | |
| 1963: John Sturges | |
| 1962: David Lean | |
| 1961: Akira Kurosawa | |
| 1960: Alfred Hitchcock | |
| 1959: Alfred Hitchcock | |
| 1958: Alfred Hitchcock | |
| 1957: Sidney Lumet | |
| 1956: Stanley Kubrick | |
| 1955: Henri-Georges Clouzet | |
| 1954: Akira Kurosawa | |
| 1953: Henri-Georges Clouzet | |
| 1952: Stanley Donen | |
| 1951: Alfred Hitchcock | |
| 1950: Billy Wilder | |
| 1949: Carol Reed | |
| 1948: John Huston | |
| 1947: Michael Powell | |
| 1946: Frank Capra | |
| | Year & Director | Movie | Star |
|---|
| 1945: David Lean | |
| 1944: Billy Wilder | |
| 1943: Alfred Hitchcock | |
| 1942: Michael Curtiz | |
| 1941: Orson Welles | |
| 1940: Alfred Hitchcock | |
| 1939: Frank Capra | |
| 1938: Michael Curtiz | |
| 1937: Leo McCarey | |
| 1936: Charlie Chaplin | |
| 1935: James Whale | |
| 1934: Frank Capra | |
| 1933: Merian Cooper | |
| 1932: Ernst Lubitsch | |
| 1931: Fritz Lang | |
| 1930: Lewis Milestone | |
| 1929: Erich Von Stroheim | |
| 1928: Victor Sjöström | |
| 1927: Fritz Lang | |
| 1926: Clyde Bruckman | |
| 1925: Charlie Chaplin | |
| 1924: Buster Keaton | |
| 1923: Fred Newmeyer | |
| 1922: F.W. Murnau | |
| 1921: Charlie Chaplin | |
| 1920: D.W. Griffith | |
| 1919: Cecil B. Demille | |
| 1918: Marshall Neilan | |
| 1917: Marshall Neilan | |
| 1916: D.W. Griffith | |
| 1915: D.W. Griffith | |
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