Best Director Nominees of the 21st Century

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2023
Oppenheimer	Christopher Nolan
Anatomy of a Fall	Justine Triet
Killers of the Flower Moon	Martin Scorsese
Poor Things	Yorgos Lanthimos
The Zone of Interest	Jonathan Glazer

2022
Everything Everywhere All at Once	Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
The Banshees of Inisherin	Martin McDonagh
The Fabelmans	Steven Spielberg
Tár	Todd Field
Triangle of Sadness	Ruben Östlund

2021
The Power of the Dog	Jane Campion
Belfast	Kenneth Branagh
Drive My Car	Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Licorice Pizza	Paul Thomas Anderson
West Side Story	Steven Spielberg

2020
Nomadland	Chloé Zhao
Another Round	Thomas Vinterberg
Mank	David Fincher
Minari	Lee Isaac Chung
Promising Young Woman	Emerald Fennell

2019
Parasite	Bong Joon-Ho
1917	Sam Mendes
Joker	Todd Phillips
The Irishman	Martin Scorsese
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Quentin Tarantino

2018
Roma	Alfonso Cuarón
The Favourite	Yorgos Lanthimos
BlacKkKlansman	Spike Lee
Vice	Adam McKay
Cold War	Paweł Pawlikowski

2017
The Shape of Water	Guillermo del Toro
Phantom Thread	Paul Thomas Anderson
Lady Bird	Greta Gerwig
Dunkirk	Christopher Nolan
Get Out	Jordan Peele

2016
La La Land	Damien Chazelle
Hacksaw Ridge	Mel Gibson
Moonlight	Barry Jenkins
Manchester by the Sea	Kenneth Lonergan
Arrival	Denis Villeneuve

2015
The Revenant	Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Room	Lenny Abrahamson
Spotlight	Tom McCarthy
The Big Short	Adam McKay
Mad Max: Fury Road	George Miller

2014
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	Alejandro G. Iñárritu
The Grand Budapest Hotel	Wes Anderson
Boyhood	Richard Linklater
Foxcatcher	Bennett Miller
The Imitation Game	Morten Tyldum

2013
Gravity	Alfonso Cuarón
12 Years a Slave	Steve McQueen
Nebraska	Aleander Payne
American Hustle	David O. Russell
The Wolf of Wall Street	Martin Scorsese

2012
Life of Pi	Ang Lee
Amour	Michael Haneke
Silver Linings Playbook	David O. Russell
Lincoln	Steven Spielberg
Beasts of the Southern Wild	Benh Zeitlin

2011
The Artist	Michel Hazanavicius
Midnight in Paris	Woody Allen
The Tree of Life	Terrence Malick
The Descendants	Alexander Payne
Hugo	Martin Scorsese

2010
The King's Speech	Tom Hooper
Black Swan	Darren Aronofsky
True Grit	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
The Social Network	David Fincher
The Fighter	David O. Russell

2009
The Hurt Locker	Kathryn Bigelow
Avatar	James Cameron
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire	Lee Daniels
Up in the Air	Jason Reitman
Inglourious Basterds	Quentin Tarantino

2008
Slumdog Millionaire	Danny Boyle
The Reader	Stephen Daldry
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	David Fincher
Frost/Nion	Ron Howard
Milk	Gus Van Sant

2007
No Country for Old Men	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
There Will Be Blood	Paul Thomas Anderson
Michael Clayton	Tony Gilroy
Juno	Jason Reitman
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	Julian Schnabel

2006
The Departed	Martin Scorsese
Letters from Iwo Jima	Clint Eastwood
The Queen	Stephen Frears
United 93	Paul Greengrass
Babel	Alejandro G. Iñárritu

2005
Brokeback Mountain	Ang Lee
Good Night, and Good Luck	George Clooney
Crash	Paul Haggis
Capote	Bennett Miller
Munich	Steven Spielberg

2004
Million Dollar Baby	Clint Eastwood
Ray	Taylor Hackford
Vera Drake	Mike Leigh
Sideways	Alexander Payne
The Aviator	Martin Scorsese

2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Peter Jackson
Lost in Translation	Sofia Coppola
Mystic River	Clint Eastwood
City of God	Fernando Meirelles
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Peter Weir

2002
The Pianist	Roman Polanski
Talk to Her	Pedro Almodóvar
The Hours	Stephen Daldry
Chicago	Rob Marshall
Gangs of New York	Martin Scorsese

2001
A Beautiful Mind	Ron Howard
Gosford Park	Robert Altman
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Peter Jackson
Mulholland Drive	David Lynch
Black Hawk Down	Ridley Scott

2000
Traffic	Steven Soderbergh
Billy Elliot	Stephen Daldry
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Ang Lee
Gladiator	Ridley Scott
Erin Brockovich	Steven Soderbergh

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