Rich Picks

Directing

Outstanding achievement in directing

2025
R
Yorgos Lanthimos
Bugonia
R
Lee Sang-il
Kokuhō
R
Alex RussellDGA
Lurker
R
Park Chan-wook
No Other Choice
R
Richard Linklater
Nouvelle Vague
Guillermo del ToroGlobeDGA
Frankenstein
Chloé ZhaoOscarGlobeDGA
Hamnet
Mary BronsteinSpirit
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
Jafar PanahiGlobe
It Was Just an Accident
Lloyd Lee ChoiSpirit
Lucky Lu
Josh SafdieOscarDGA
Marty Supreme
Paul Thomas AndersonOscarGlobeNBRDGA
One Battle after Another
Ira SachsSpirit
Peter Hujar's Day
Harry LightonDGA
Pillion
Joachim TrierOscarGlobe
Sentimental Value
Ryan CooglerOscarGlobeDGA
Sinners
Eva VictorNBRSpiritDGA
Sorry, Baby
Charlie PolingerDGA
The Plague
Hasan HadiDGA
The President's Cake
Clint BentleySpirit
Train Dreams
2024
R
Brady CorbetOscarGlobeSpiritDGA
The Brutalist
R
Mohammad Rasoulof
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
R
Halina Reijn
Babygirl
R
Robert Eggers
Nosferatu
R
Mike Leigh
Hard Truths
James MangoldOscarDGA
A Complete Unknown
Payal KapadiaGlobeDGA
All We Imagine as Light
Sean BakerOscarGlobeSpiritDGA
Anora
Halfdan Ullmann TøndelDGA
Armand
Edward BergerGlobeDGA
Conclave
Sean WangDGA
Didi
Jacques AudiardOscarGlobeDGA
Emilia Pérez
India DonaldsonNBR
Good One
Jane SchoenbrunSpirit
I Saw the TV Glow
Alonso RuizpalaciosSpirit
La cocina
Megan ParkDGA
My Old Ass
RaMell RossDGA
Nickel Boys
Ali AbbasiSpirit
The Apprentice
Coralie FargeatOscarGlobe
The Substance
Jon M. ChuNBR
Wicked
2023
R
Jonathan GlazerOscar
The Zone of Interest
R
Greta GerwigGlobeDGA
Barbie
R
Emerald Fennell
Saltburn
R
Ava DuVernay
Origin
R
Wes Anderson
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
A. V. RockwellDGA
A Thousand and One
Andrew HaighSpirit
All of Us Strangers
Cord JeffersonDGA
American Fiction
Justine TrietOscar
Anatomy of a Fall
Manuela MartelliDGA
Chile '76
William OldroydSpirit
Eileen
Martin Scorsese and Martin ScorceseOscarGlobeNBRDGA
Killers of the Flower Moon
Bradley CooperGlobe
Maestro
Todd HaynesSpirit
May December
Christopher NolanOscarGlobeDGA
Oppenheimer
Ira SachsSpirit
Passages
Celine SongGlobeNBRSpiritDGA
Past Lives
Yorgos LanthimosOscarGlobeDGA
Poor Things
Noora NiasariDGA
Shayda
Alexander PayneDGA
The Holdovers
2022
R
Todd FieldOscarSpiritDGA
Tár
R
Charlotte WellsNBRDGA
Aftersun
R
Jordan Peele
Nope
R
Ruben ÖstlundOscar
Triangle of Sadness
R
Martin McDonaghOscarGlobeDGA
The Banshees of Inisherin
KogonadaSpirit
After Yang
James CameronGlobe
Avatar: The Way of Water
Halina ReijnSpirit
Bodies Bodies Bodies
Baz LuhrmannGlobe
Elvis
John Patton FordDGA
Emily the Criminal
Daniel Scheinert and Daniel KwanOscarGlobeSpiritDGA
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Audrey DiwanDGA
Happening
Antoneta Alamat KusijanovićDGA
Murina
Alice DiopDGA
Saint Omer
Steven SpielbergOscarGlobeNBRDGA
The Fabelmans
Joseph KosinskiDGA
Top Gun: Maverick
Sarah PolleySpirit
Women Talking
2021
R
Jane CampionOscarGlobeDGA
The Power of the Dog
R
Joel Coen
The Tragedy of Macbeth
R
Paul Thomas AndersonOscarNBRDGA
Licorice Pizza
R
Hamaguchi RyûsukeOscar
Drive My Car
R
Denis VilleneuveGlobeDGA
Dune
Kenneth BranaghOscarGlobeDGA
Belfast
Mike MillsSpirit
C'mon, C'mon
Rebecca HallDGA
Passing
Michael SarnoskiNBRDGA
Pig
Ninja ThybergSpirit
Pleasure
Tatiana HuezoDGA
Prayers for the Stolen
Emma SeligmanDGA
Shiva Baby
Maggie GyllenhaalGlobeSpiritDGA
The Lost Daughter
Lauren HadawaySpirit
The Novice
Lin-Manuel MirandaDGA
tick, tick... BOOM!
Steven SpielbergOscarGlobeDGA
West Side Story
Janicza BravoSpirit
Zola
2020
R
Emerald FennellOscarGlobeSpiritDGA
Promising Young Woman
R
Florian ZellerDGA
The Father
R
Aaron Schneider
Greyhound
R
Spike LeeNBR
Da 5 Bloods
R
Lee Isaac ChungOscarSpiritDGA
Minari
Thomas VinterbergOscar
Another Round
Kelly ReichardtSpirit
First Cow
Fernando Frías de la ParraDGA
I'm No Longer Here
David FincherOscarGlobeDGA
Mank
Channing Godfrey PeoplesNBR
Miss Juneteenth
Eliza HittmanSpirit
Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always
Chloé ZhaoOscarGlobeSpiritDGA
Nomadland
Regina KingGlobeDGA
One Night in Miami...
Darius MarderDGA
Sound of Metal
Radha BlankDGA
The 40-Year-Old Version
Aaron SorkinGlobeDGA
The Trial of the Chicago 7
2019
R
Bong Joon-hoOscarGlobeDGA
Parasite
R
Noah Baumbach
Marriage Story
R
Greta Gerwig
Little Women
R
Sam MendesOscarGlobeDGA
1917
R
Todd PhillipsOscarGlobe
Joker
Mati DiopDGA
Atlantics
Alma Har'elSpiritDGA
Honey Boy
Lorene ScafariaSpirit
Hustlers
Taika WaititiDGA
Jojo Rabbit
Julius OnahSpirit
Luce
Quentin TarantinoOscarGlobeNBRDGA
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Melina MatsoukasNBRDGA
Queen & Slim
Martin ScorseseOscarGlobeDGA
The Irishman
Joe TalbotDGA
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Robert EggersSpirit
The Lighthouse
Tyler Nilson and Michael SchwartzDGA
The Peanut Butter Falcon
Josh Safdie and Benny SafdieSpirit
Uncut Gems
2018
R
Alfonso CuarónOscarGlobeDGA
Roma
R
Peter FarrellyGlobeDGA
Green Book
R
Paweł PawlikowskiOscar
Cold War
R
Bradley CooperGlobeNBRDGA
A Star Is Born
R
Yorgos LanthimosOscar
The Favourite
Tamara JenkinsSpirit
A Private Life
Matthew HeinemanDGA
A Private War
Spike LeeOscarGlobeDGA
BlacKkKlansman
Carlos López EstradaDGA
Blindspotting
Bo BurnhamNBRDGA
Eighth Grade
Paul SchraderSpirit
First Reformed
Barry JenkinsSpirit
If Beale Street Could Talk
Debra GranikSpirit
Leave No Trace
Boots RileyDGA
Sorry to Bother You
Adam McKayOscarGlobeDGA
Vice
Lynne RamsaySpirit
You Were Never Really Here
2017
R
Luca GuadagninoSpirit
Call Me by Your Name
R
Greta GerwigOscarNBRDGA
Lady Bird
R
Guillermo del ToroOscarGlobeDGA
The Shape of Water
R
Martin McDonaghGlobeDGA
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
R
Jordan PeeleOscarNBRSpiritDGA
Get Out
Jonas CarpignanoSpirit
A Ciambra
Ridley ScottGlobe
All the Money in the World
Christopher NolanOscarGlobeDGA
Dunkirk
Safdie brothersSpirit
Good Time
William OldroydDGA
Lady Macbeth
Aaron SorkinDGA
Molly's Game
Geremy JasperDGA
Patti Cake$
Paul Thomas AndersonOscar
Phantom Thread
Sean BakerSpirit
The Florida Project
Steven SpielbergGlobe
The Post
Chloé ZhaoSpirit
The Rider
Taylor SheridanDGA
Wind River
2016
R
Kenneth LonerganOscarGlobeDGA
Manchester by the Sea
R
John Carney
Sing Street
R
Andrew Ahn
Spa Night
R
Barry JenkinsOscarGlobeNBRSpiritDGA
Moonlight
R
Mel GibsonOscarGlobe
Hacksaw Ridge
Dan TrachtenbergDGA
10 Cloverfield Lane
Andrea ArnoldSpirit
American Honey
Denis VilleneuveOscarDGA
Arrival
Kelly ReichardtSpirit
Certain Women
Tim MillerDGA
Deadpool
Pablo LarraínSpirit
Jackie
Trey Edward ShultsNBR
Krisha
Damien ChazelleOscarGlobeDGA
La La Land
Garth DavisDGA
Lion
Jeff NicholsSpirit
Loving
Tom FordGlobe
Nocturnal Animals
Nate ParkerDGA
The Birth of a Nation
Kelly Fremon CraigDGA
The Edge of Seventeen
2015
R
Alejandro González IñárrituOscarGlobeDGA
The Revenant
R
Tom McCarthyOscarGlobeSpiritDGA
Spotlight
R
George MillerOscarGlobeDGA
Mad Max: Fury Road
R
Todd HaynesGlobeSpirit
Carol
R
John Crowley
Brooklyn
Fernando CoimbraDGA
A Wolf at the Door
Charlie Kaufman and Duke JohnsonSpirit
Anomalisa
Cary Joji FukunagaSpirit
Beasts of No Nation
Alex GarlandDGA
Ex Machina
David Robert MitchellSpirit
It Follows
Jonas Carpignano, MediterraneaNBR
Lenny AbrahamsonOscar
Room
László NemesDGA
Son of Saul
Sean BakerSpirit
Tangerine
Adam McKayOscarDGA
The Big Short
Marielle HellerDGA
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Joel EdgertonDGA
The Gift
Ridley ScottGlobeNBRDGA
The Martian
2014
R
Wes AndersonOscarGlobeDGA
The Grand Budapest Hotel
R
Damien ChazelleSpirit
Whiplash
R
Alejandro González IñárrituOscarGlobeSpiritDGA
Birdman
R
Jonathan Glazer
Under the Skin
R
Lasse Hallström
The Hundred-Foot Journey
DGA
Clint EastwoodNBRDGA
American Sniper
Richard LinklaterOscarGlobeSpiritDGA
Boyhood
Bennett MillerOscar
Foxcatcher
David FincherGlobe
Gone Girl
David ZellnerSpirit
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Gillian RobespierreNBR
Obvious Child
Ava DuVernayGlobeSpirit
Selma
Morten TyldumOscarDGA
The Imitation Game
2013
R
Abdellatif Kechiche
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
R
Spike JonzeNBR
Her
R
Woody Allen
Blue Jasmine
R
Stephen Frears
Philomena
R
Paul GreengrassGlobeDGA
Captain Phillips
DGA
Steve McQueenOscarGlobeSpiritDGA
12 Years a Slave
J. C. ChandorSpirit
All Is Lost
David O. RussellOscarGlobeDGA
American Hustle
Ryan CooglerNBR
Fruitvale Station
Alfonso CuarónOscarGlobeDGA
Gravity
Jeff NicholsSpirit
Mud
Alexander PayneOscarGlobeSpirit
Nebraska
Martin ScorseseOscarDGA
The Wolf of Wall Street
Shane CarruthSpirit
Upstream Color
2012
R
Paul Thomas Anderson
The Master
R
Kathryn BigelowGlobeNBRDGA
Zero Dark Thirty
R
David O. RussellOscarSpirit
Silver Linings Playbook
R
Ang LeeOscarGlobeDGA
Life of Pi
R
Steven SpielbergOscarGlobeDGA
Lincoln
DGA
Michael HanekeOscar
Amour
Ben AffleckGlobeDGA
Argo
Benh ZeitlinOscarNBRSpirit
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Quentin TarantinoGlobe
Django Unchained
Ira SachsSpirit
Keep the Lights On
Tom HooperDGA
Les Misérables
Wes AndersonSpirit
Moonrise Kingdom
Julia LoktevSpirit
The Loneliest Planet
2011
R
Gavin O'Connor
Warrior
R
Lynne Ramsay
We Need to Talk about Kevin
R
Andrew Haigh
Weekend
R
Woody AllenOscarGlobeDGA
Midnight in Paris
R
Lars von Trier
Melancholia
DGA
Mike MillsSpirit
Beginners
Nicolas Winding RefnSpirit
Drive
Martin ScorseseOscarGlobeNBRDGA
Hugo
J. C. ChandorNBR
Margin Call
Jeff NicholsSpirit
Take Shelter
Michel HazanaviciusOscarGlobeSpiritDGA
The Artist
Alexander PayneOscarGlobeSpiritDGA
The Descendants
David FincherDGA
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
George ClooneyGlobe
The Ides of March
Terrence MalickOscar
The Tree of Life
2010
R
Darren AronofskyOscarGlobeSpiritDGA
Black Swan
R
John Cameron MitchellSpirit
Rabbit Hole
R
Olivier Assayas
Carlos
R
David FincherOscarGlobeNBRDGA
The Social Network
R
David Michôd
Animal Kingdom
DGA
Danny BoyleSpirit
127 Hours
Christopher NolanGlobeDGA
Inception
Sebastian Junger and Tim HetheringtonNBR
Restrepo
David O. RussellOscarGlobeDGA
The Fighter
Lisa CholodenkoSpirit
The Kids Are All Right
Tom HooperOscarGlobeDGA
The King's Speech
Joel Coen and Ethan CoenOscar
True Grit
Debra GranikSpirit
Winter's Bone
2009
R
Kore•eda Hirokazu
Still Walking
R
Kathryn BigelowOscarGlobeDGA
The Hurt Locker
R
James CameronOscarGlobeDGA
Avatar
R
Quentin TarantinoOscarGlobeDGA
Inglourious Basterds
R
Jason ReitmanOscarGlobeDGA
Up in the Air
DGA
Marc WebbNBR
(500) Days of Summer
Joel Coen and Ethan CoenSpirit
A Serious Man
Clint EastwoodGlobeNBR
Invictus
Duncan JonesNBR
Moon
Lee DanielsOscarSpiritDGA
Precious
Cary Joji FukunagaSpirit
Sin nombre
Michael HoffmanSpirit
The Last Station
Oren MovermanNBR
The Messenger
James GraySpirit
Two Lovers
2008
R
Jonathan DemmeSpirit
Rachel Getting Married
R
John Patrick Shanley
Doubt
R
Courtney HuntNBRSpirit
Frozen River
R
Danny BoyleOscarGlobeDGA
Slumdog Millionaire
R
Tomas Alfredson
Let the Right One In
DGA
Lance HammerSpirit
Ballast
Ramin BahraniSpirit
Chop Shop
Ron HowardOscarGlobeDGA
Frost/Nixon
Gus Van SantOscarDGA
Milk
Sam MendesGlobe
Revolutionary Road
David FincherOscarGlobeNBRDGA
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Christopher NolanDGA
The Dark Knight
Stephen DaldryOscarGlobe
The Reader
Tom McCarthySpirit
The Visitor
2007
R
Julian SchnabelOscarGlobeSpirit
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
R
Ethan Coen and Joel CoenOscarGlobeDGA
No Country for Old Men
R
Sean PennDGA
Into the Wild
R
Andrew Dominick
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
R
Jason ReitmanOscarSpirit
Juno
DGA
Ridley ScottGlobe
American Gangster
Joe WrightGlobe
Atonement
Ben AffleckNBR
Gone Baby Gone
Todd HaynesSpirit
I'm Not There
Tony GilroyOscarDGA
Michael Clayton
Gus Van SantSpirit
Paranoid Park
Tim BurtonGlobeNBR
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Julian SchnabelDGA
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)
Tamara JenkinsSpirit
The Savages
Paul Thomas AndersonOscarDGA
There Will Be Blood
2006
R
Todd Field
Little Children
R
Valerie Faris and Jonathan DaytonSpiritDGA
Little Miss Sunshine
R
Stephen FrearsOscarGlobeDGA
The Queen
R
Martin ScorseseOscarGlobeNBRDGA
The Departed
DGA
Robert AltmanSpirit
A Prairie Home Companion
Alejandro González IñárrituOscarGlobeDGA
Babel
Steven SoderberghSpirit
Bubble
Bill CondonDGA
Dreamgirls
Clint EastwoodGlobe
Flags of Our Fathers
Ryan FleckSpirit
Half Nelson
Clint EastwoodOscarGlobe
Letters from Iwo Jima
Jason ReitmanNBR
Thank You For Smoking
Karen MoncrieffSpirit
The Dead Girl
Paul GreengrassOscar
United 93
2005
R
Ang LeeOscarGlobeNBRSpiritDGA
Brokeback Mountain
DGA
Bennett MillerOscarDGA
Capote
Paul HaggisOscarDGA
Crash
George ClooneyOscarGlobeSpiritDGA
good night, and good luck.
Julian Fellowes, Separate LiesNBR
Peter JacksonGlobe
King Kong
Woody AllenGlobe
Match Point
Steven SpielbergOscarGlobeDGA
Munich
Gregg ArakiSpirit
Mysterious Skin
Rodrigo GarcíaSpirit
Nine Lives
Fernando MeirellesGlobe
The Constant Gardener
Noah BaumbachSpirit
The Squid and the Whale

Hall of Fame

All-time leading nominees & winners

Todd Field
22
Wes Anderson
12
Paul Thomas Anderson
12
Emerald Fennell
12
Jonathan Glazer
12
Alejandro González Iñárritu
12
Ang Lee
12
Greta Gerwig
03
Woody Allen
02
Kathryn Bigelow
02
Joel Coen
02
Stephen Frears
02
Yorgos Lanthimos
02
Martin McDonagh
02
Jordan Peele
02

Hall of Fame

All-time leading nominees & winners

Todd Field
22
Wes Anderson
12
Paul Thomas Anderson
12
Emerald Fennell
12
Jonathan Glazer
12
Alejandro González Iñárritu
12
Ang Lee
12
Greta Gerwig
03
Woody Allen
02
Kathryn Bigelow
02
Joel Coen
02
Stephen Frears
02
Yorgos Lanthimos
02
Martin McDonagh
02
Jordan Peele
02
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