BEST DIRECTOR

ARTISTRY AWARDS

2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000

James Cameron
Avatar

WINNER

Kathryn Bigelow
The Hurt Locker

Neill Blomkamp
District 9

Jason Reitman
Up in the Air

Quentin Tarantino
Inglourious Basterds

Danny Boyle
Slumdog Millionaire

WINNER

David Fincher
The Curious Case of
Benjamin Button

Mike Leigh
Happy-Go-Lucky

Christopher Nolan
The Dark Knight

Gus Van Sant
Milk

Joe Wright
Atonement

WINNER

Joel Coen
Ethan Coen
No Country for Old Men

Todd Haynes
I’m Not There.

Jason Reitman
Juno

Julian Schnabel
The Diving Bell and
the Butterfly

Alfonso Cuarón
Children of Men

WINNER

Jonathan Dayton
Valerie Faris
Little Miss Sunshine

Spike Lee
Inside Man

Christopher Nolan
The Prestige

Guillermo del Toro
Pan’s Labyrinth

Ang Lee
Brokeback Mountain

WINNER

David Cronenberg
A History of Violence

Peter Jackson
King Kong

Sam Mendes
Jarhead

Hayao Miyazaki
Howl’s Moving Castle

Michel Gondry
Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind

WINNER

Pedro Almodóvar
Bad Education

Oliver Hirschbiegel
Downfall

Richard Linklater
Before Sunset

Michael Mann
Collateral

Peter Jackson
The Lord of the Rings:
The Return of the King

WINNER

Tim Burton
Big Fish

Sofia Coppola
Lost in Translation

Chan-Wook Park
Oldboy

Gus Van Sant
Elephant

Rob Marshall
Chicago

WINNER

Peter Jackson
The Lord of the Rings:
The Two Towers

Fernando Meirelles
City of God

Roman Polanski
The Pianist

Steven Spielberg
Minority Report

Peter Jackson
The Lord of the Rings:
The Fellowship of the Ring

WINNER

Robert Altman
Gosford Park

Michael Haneke
The Piano Teacher

Baz Luhrmann
Moulin Rouge!

David Lynch
Mulholland Dr.

Darren Aronofsky
Requiem for a Dream

WINNER

Ang Lee
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Ridley Scott
Gladiator

Steven Soderbergh
Erin Brockovich

Kar Wai Wong
In the Mood for Love

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