Henry King (1943) • Leo McCarey (1944) • Billy Wilder (1945) • Frank Capra (1946) • Elia Kazan (1947) • John Huston (1948) • Robert Rossen (1949) • Billy Wilder (1950)
László Benedek (1951) • Cecil B. DeMille (1952) • Fred Zinnemann (1953) • Elia Kazan (1954) • Joshua Logan (1955) • Elia Kazan (1956) • David Lean (1957) • Vincente Minnelli (1958) • William Wyler (1959) • Jack Cardiff (1960) • Stanley Kramer (1961) • David Lean (1962) • Elia Kazan (1963) • George Cukor (1964) • David Lean (1965) • Fred Zinnemann (1966) • Mike Nichols (1967) • Paul Newman (1968) • Charles Jarrott (1969) • Arthur Hiller (1970) • William Friedkin (1971) • Francis Ford Coppola (1972) • William Friedkin (1973) • Roman Polański (1974) • Miloš Forman (1975)
Sidney Lumet (1976) • Herbert Ross (1977) • Michael Cimino (1978) • Francis Ford Coppola (1979) • Robert Redford (1980) • Warren Beatty (1981) • Richard Attenborough (1982) • Barbra Streisandová (1983) • Miloš Forman (1984) • John Huston (1985) • Oliver Stone (1986) • Bernardo Bertolucci (1987) • Clint Eastwood (1988) • Oliver Stone (1989) • Kevin Costner (1990) • Oliver Stone (1991) • Clint Eastwood (1992) • Steven Spielberg (1993) • Robert Zemeckis (1994) • Mel Gibson (1995) • Miloš Forman (1996) • James Cameron (1997) • Steven Spielberg (1998) • Sam Mendes (1999) • Ang Lee (2000)
Robert Altman (2001) • Martin Scorsese (2002) • Peter Jackson (2003) • Clint Eastwood (2004) • Ang Lee (2005) • Martin Scorsese (2006) • Julian Schnabel (2007) • Danny Boyle (2008) • James Cameron (2009) • David Fincher (2010) • Martin Scorsese (2011) • Ben Affleck (2012) • Alfonso Cuarón (2013) • Richard Linklater (2014) • Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2015) • Damien Chazelle (2016) • Guillermo del Toro (2017) • Alfonso Cuarón (2018) • Sam Mendes (2019) • Chloé Zhaová (2020) • Jane Campionová (2021) • Steven Spielberg (2022)
