National Board of Review Award for Best Director

An incomplete list of the winners of the National Board of Review Award for Best Director made by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures:

Winners

1940s

• 1945: Jean Renoir

for directing The Southerner

• 1946: William Wyler

for directing The Best Years of Our Lives

• 1947: Elia Kazan

for directing Boomerang and

for directing Gentleman's Agreement

• 1948: Roberto Rossellini

for directing Paisan

• 1949: Vittorio De Sica

for directing Bicycle Thieves

1950s

• 1950: John Huston

for directing The Asphalt Jungle

• 1951: Akira Kurosawa

for directing Rashomon

• 1952: David Lean

for directing The Sound Barrier

• 1953: George Stevens

for directing Shane

• 1954: Renato Castellani

for directing Romeo & Juliet

• 1955: William Wyler

for directing The Desperate Hours

• 1956: John Huston

for directing Moby Dick

• 1957: David Lean

for directing The Bridge on the River Kwai

• 1958: John Ford

for directing The Last Hurrah

• 1959: Fred Zinnemann

for directing The Nun's Story

1970's

• 1971: Ken Russell

for directing The Devils and The Boy Friend

1980s

• 1980: Robert Redford

for directing Ordinary People

• 1981: Warren Beatty

for directing Reds

• 1982: Sidney Lumet

for directing The Verdict

• 1983: James L. Brooks

for directing Terms of Endearment

• 1984: David Lean

for directing A Passage to India

• 1985: Akira Kurosawa

for directing Ran

• 1986: Woody Allen

for directing Hannah and Her Sisters

• 1987: Steven Spielberg

for directing Empire of the Sun

• 1988: Alan Parker

for directing Mississippi Burning

• 1989: Kenneth Branagh

for directing Henry V

1990s

• 1990: Kevin Costner

for directing Dances with Wolves

• 1991: Jonathan Demme

for directing The Silence of the Lambs

• 1992: James Ivory

for directing Howards End

• 1993: Martin Scorsese

for directing The Age of Innocence

• 1994: Quentin Tarantino

for directing Pulp Fiction

• 1995: Ang Lee

for directing Sense and Sensibility

• 1996: Joel Coen

for directing Fargo

• 1997: Curtis Hanson

for directing L.A. Confidential

• 1998: Shekhar Kapur

for directing Elizabeth

• 1999: Anthony Minghella

for directing The Talented Mr. Ripley

2000s

• 2000: Steven Soderbergh

for directing Erin Brockovich and

for directing Traffic

• 2001: Todd Field

for directing In the Bedroom

• 2002: Phillip Noyce

for directing The Quiet American and

for directing Rabbit-Proof Fence

• 2003: Edward Zwick

for directing The Last Samurai

• 2004: Michael Mann

for directing Collateral

• 2005: Ang Lee

for directing Brokeback Mountain

• 2006: Martin Scorsese

for directing The Departed

• 2007: Tim Burton

for directing Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

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