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2025
R
Yorgos Lanthimos
Bugonia
R
Lee Sang-il
Kokuhō
R
Alex Russell
DGA
Lurker
R
Park Chan-wook
No Other Choice
R
Richard Linklater
Nouvelle Vague
Guillermo del Toro
Globe
DGA
Frankenstein
Chloé Zhao
Oscar
Globe
DGA
Hamnet
Mary Bronstein
Spirit
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
Jafar Panahi
Globe
It Was Just an Accident
Lloyd Lee Choi
Spirit
Lucky Lu
Josh Safdie
Oscar
DGA
Marty Supreme
Paul Thomas Anderson
Oscar
Globe
NBR
DGA
One Battle after Another
Ira Sachs
Spirit
Peter Hujar's Day
Harry Lighton
DGA
Pillion
Joachim Trier
Oscar
Globe
Sentimental Value
Ryan Coogler
Oscar
Globe
DGA
Sinners
Eva Victor
NBR
Spirit
DGA
Sorry, Baby
Charlie Polinger
DGA
The Plague
Hasan Hadi
DGA
The President's Cake
Clint Bentley
Spirit
Train Dreams
2024
R
Brady Corbet
Oscar
Globe
Spirit
DGA
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 Mangold
Oscar
DGA
A Complete Unknown
Payal Kapadia
Globe
DGA
All We Imagine as Light
Sean Baker
Oscar
Globe
Spirit
DGA
Anora
Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
DGA
Armand
Edward Berger
Globe
DGA
Conclave
Sean Wang
DGA
Didi
Jacques Audiard
Oscar
Globe
DGA
Emilia Pérez
India Donaldson
NBR
Good One
Jane Schoenbrun
Spirit
I Saw the TV Glow
Alonso Ruizpalacios
Spirit
La cocina
Megan Park
DGA
My Old Ass
RaMell Ross
DGA
Nickel Boys
Ali Abbasi
Spirit
The Apprentice
Coralie Fargeat
Oscar
Globe
The Substance
Jon M. Chu
NBR
Wicked
2023
R
Jonathan Glazer
Oscar
The Zone of Interest
R
Greta Gerwig
Globe
DGA
Barbie
R
Emerald Fennell
Saltburn
R
Ava DuVernay
Origin
R
Wes Anderson
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
A. V. Rockwell
DGA
A Thousand and One
Andrew Haigh
Spirit
All of Us Strangers
Cord Jefferson
DGA
American Fiction
Justine Triet
Oscar
Anatomy of a Fall
Manuela Martelli
DGA
Chile '76
William Oldroyd
Spirit
Eileen
Martin Scorsese
and
Martin Scorcese
Oscar
Globe
NBR
DGA
Killers of the Flower Moon
Bradley Cooper
Globe
Maestro
Todd Haynes
Spirit
May December
Christopher Nolan
Oscar
Globe
DGA
Oppenheimer
Ira Sachs
Spirit
Passages
Celine Song
Globe
NBR
Spirit
DGA
Past Lives
Yorgos Lanthimos
Oscar
Globe
DGA
Poor Things
Noora Niasari
DGA
Shayda
Alexander Payne
DGA
The Holdovers
2022
R
Todd Field
Oscar
Spirit
DGA
Tár
R
Charlotte Wells
NBR
DGA
Aftersun
R
Jordan Peele
Nope
R
Ruben Östlund
Oscar
Triangle of Sadness
R
Martin McDonagh
Oscar
Globe
DGA
The Banshees of Inisherin
Kogonada
Spirit
After Yang
James Cameron
Globe
Avatar: The Way of Water
Halina Reijn
Spirit
Bodies Bodies Bodies
Baz Luhrmann
Globe
Elvis
John Patton Ford
DGA
Emily the Criminal
Daniel Scheinert
and
Daniel Kwan
Oscar
Globe
Spirit
DGA
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Audrey Diwan
DGA
Happening
Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
DGA
Murina
Alice Diop
DGA
Saint Omer
Steven Spielberg
Oscar
Globe
NBR
DGA
The Fabelmans
Joseph Kosinski
DGA
Top Gun: Maverick
Sarah Polley
Spirit
Women Talking
2021
R
Jane Campion
Oscar
Globe
DGA
The Power of the Dog
R
Joel Coen
The Tragedy of Macbeth
R
Paul Thomas Anderson
Oscar
NBR
DGA
Licorice Pizza
R
Hamaguchi Ryûsuke
Oscar
Drive My Car
R
Denis Villeneuve
Globe
DGA
Dune
Kenneth Branagh
Oscar
Globe
DGA
Belfast
Mike Mills
Spirit
C'mon, C'mon
Rebecca Hall
DGA
Passing
Michael Sarnoski
NBR
DGA
Pig
Ninja Thyberg
Spirit
Pleasure
Tatiana Huezo
DGA
Prayers for the Stolen
Emma Seligman
DGA
Shiva Baby
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Globe
Spirit
DGA
The Lost Daughter
Lauren Hadaway
Spirit
The Novice
Lin-Manuel Miranda
DGA
tick, tick... BOOM!
Steven Spielberg
Oscar
Globe
DGA
West Side Story
Janicza Bravo
Spirit
Zola
2020
R
Emerald Fennell
Oscar
Globe
Spirit
DGA
Promising Young Woman
R
Florian Zeller
DGA
The Father
R
Aaron Schneider
Greyhound
R
Spike Lee
NBR
Da 5 Bloods
R
Lee Isaac Chung
Oscar
Spirit
DGA
Minari
Thomas Vinterberg
Oscar
Another Round
Kelly Reichardt
Spirit
First Cow
Fernando Frías de la Parra
DGA
I'm No Longer Here
David Fincher
Oscar
Globe
DGA
Mank
Channing Godfrey Peoples
NBR
Miss Juneteenth
Eliza Hittman
Spirit
Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always
Chloé Zhao
Oscar
Globe
Spirit
DGA
Nomadland
Regina King
Globe
DGA
One Night in Miami...
Darius Marder
DGA
Sound of Metal
Radha Blank
DGA
The 40-Year-Old Version
Aaron Sorkin
Globe
DGA
The Trial of the Chicago 7
2019
R
Bong Joon-ho
Oscar
Globe
DGA
Parasite
R
Noah Baumbach
Marriage Story
R
Greta Gerwig
Little Women
R
Sam Mendes
Oscar
Globe
DGA
1917
R
Todd Phillips
Oscar
Globe
Joker
Mati Diop
DGA
Atlantics
Alma Har'el
Spirit
DGA
Honey Boy
Lorene Scafaria
Spirit
Hustlers
Taika Waititi
DGA
Jojo Rabbit
Julius Onah
Spirit
Luce
Quentin Tarantino
Oscar
Globe
NBR
DGA
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Melina Matsoukas
NBR
DGA
Queen & Slim
Martin Scorsese
Oscar
Globe
DGA
The Irishman
Joe Talbot
DGA
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Robert Eggers
Spirit
The Lighthouse
Tyler Nilson
and
Michael Schwartz
DGA
The Peanut Butter Falcon
Josh Safdie
and
Benny Safdie
Spirit
Uncut Gems
2018
R
Alfonso Cuarón
Oscar
Globe
DGA
Roma
R
Peter Farrelly
Globe
DGA
Green Book
R
Paweł Pawlikowski
Oscar
Cold War
R
Bradley Cooper
Globe
NBR
DGA
A Star Is Born
R
Yorgos Lanthimos
Oscar
The Favourite
Tamara Jenkins
Spirit
A Private Life
Matthew Heineman
DGA
A Private War
Spike Lee
Oscar
Globe
DGA
BlacKkKlansman
Carlos López Estrada
DGA
Blindspotting
Bo Burnham
NBR
DGA
Eighth Grade
Paul Schrader
Spirit
First Reformed
Barry Jenkins
Spirit
If Beale Street Could Talk
Debra Granik
Spirit
Leave No Trace
Boots Riley
DGA
Sorry to Bother You
Adam McKay
Oscar
Globe
DGA
Vice
Lynne Ramsay
Spirit
You Were Never Really Here
2017
R
Luca Guadagnino
Spirit
Call Me by Your Name
R
Greta Gerwig
Oscar
NBR
DGA
Lady Bird
R
Guillermo del Toro
Oscar
Globe
DGA
The Shape of Water
R
Martin McDonagh
Globe
DGA
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
R
Jordan Peele
Oscar
NBR
Spirit
DGA
Get Out
Jonas Carpignano
Spirit
A Ciambra
Ridley Scott
Globe
All the Money in the World
Christopher Nolan
Oscar
Globe
DGA
Dunkirk
Safdie brothers
Spirit
Good Time
William Oldroyd
DGA
Lady Macbeth
Aaron Sorkin
DGA
Molly's Game
Geremy Jasper
DGA
Patti Cake$
Paul Thomas Anderson
Oscar
Phantom Thread
Sean Baker
Spirit
The Florida Project
Steven Spielberg
Globe
The Post
Chloé Zhao
Spirit
The Rider
Taylor Sheridan
DGA
Wind River
2016
R
Kenneth Lonergan
Oscar
Globe
DGA
Manchester by the Sea
R
John Carney
Sing Street
R
Andrew Ahn
Spa Night
R
Barry Jenkins
Oscar
Globe
NBR
Spirit
DGA
Moonlight
R
Mel Gibson
Oscar
Globe
Hacksaw Ridge
Dan Trachtenberg
DGA
10 Cloverfield Lane
Andrea Arnold
Spirit
American Honey
Denis Villeneuve
Oscar
DGA
Arrival
Kelly Reichardt
Spirit
Certain Women
Tim Miller
DGA
Deadpool
Pablo Larraín
Spirit
Jackie
Trey Edward Shults
NBR
Krisha
Damien Chazelle
Oscar
Globe
DGA
La La Land
Garth Davis
DGA
Lion
Jeff Nichols
Spirit
Loving
Tom Ford
Globe
Nocturnal Animals
Nate Parker
DGA
The Birth of a Nation
Kelly Fremon Craig
DGA
The Edge of Seventeen
2015
R
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Oscar
Globe
DGA
The Revenant
R
Tom McCarthy
Oscar
Globe
Spirit
DGA
Spotlight
R
George Miller
Oscar
Globe
DGA
Mad Max: Fury Road
R
Todd Haynes
Globe
Spirit
Carol
R
John Crowley
Brooklyn
Fernando Coimbra
DGA
A Wolf at the Door
Charlie Kaufman
and
Duke Johnson
Spirit
Anomalisa
Cary Joji Fukunaga
Spirit
Beasts of No Nation
Alex Garland
DGA
Ex Machina
David Robert Mitchell
Spirit
It Follows
Jonas Carpignano, Mediterranea
NBR
Lenny Abrahamson
Oscar
Room
László Nemes
DGA
Son of Saul
Sean Baker
Spirit
Tangerine
Adam McKay
Oscar
DGA
The Big Short
Marielle Heller
DGA
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Joel Edgerton
DGA
The Gift
Ridley Scott
Globe
NBR
DGA
The Martian
2014
R
Wes Anderson
Oscar
Globe
DGA
The Grand Budapest Hotel
R
Damien Chazelle
Spirit
Whiplash
R
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Oscar
Globe
Spirit
DGA
Birdman
R
Jonathan Glazer
Under the Skin
R
Lasse Hallström
The Hundred-Foot Journey
DGA
Clint Eastwood
NBR
DGA
American Sniper
Richard Linklater
Oscar
Globe
Spirit
DGA
Boyhood
Bennett Miller
Oscar
Foxcatcher
David Fincher
Globe
Gone Girl
David Zellner
Spirit
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Gillian Robespierre
NBR
Obvious Child
Ava DuVernay
Globe
Spirit
Selma
Morten Tyldum
Oscar
DGA
The Imitation Game
2013
R
Abdellatif Kechiche
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
R
Spike Jonze
NBR
Her
R
Woody Allen
Blue Jasmine
R
Stephen Frears
Philomena
R
Paul Greengrass
Globe
DGA
Captain Phillips
DGA
Steve McQueen
Oscar
Globe
Spirit
DGA
12 Years a Slave
J. C. Chandor
Spirit
All Is Lost
David O. Russell
Oscar
Globe
DGA
American Hustle
Ryan Coogler
NBR
Fruitvale Station
Alfonso Cuarón
Oscar
Globe
DGA
Gravity
Jeff Nichols
Spirit
Mud
Alexander Payne
Oscar
Globe
Spirit
Nebraska
Martin Scorsese
Oscar
DGA
The Wolf of Wall Street
Shane Carruth
Spirit
Upstream Color
2012
R
Paul Thomas Anderson
The Master
R
Kathryn Bigelow
Globe
NBR
DGA
Zero Dark Thirty
R
David O. Russell
Oscar
Spirit
Silver Linings Playbook
R
Ang Lee
Oscar
Globe
DGA
Life of Pi
R
Steven Spielberg
Oscar
Globe
DGA
Lincoln
DGA
Michael Haneke
Oscar
Amour
Ben Affleck
Globe
DGA
Argo
Benh Zeitlin
Oscar
NBR
Spirit
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Quentin Tarantino
Globe
Django Unchained
Ira Sachs
Spirit
Keep the Lights On
Tom Hooper
DGA
Les Misérables
Wes Anderson
Spirit
Moonrise Kingdom
Julia Loktev
Spirit
The Loneliest Planet
2011
R
Gavin O'Connor
Warrior
R
Lynne Ramsay
We Need to Talk about Kevin
R
Andrew Haigh
Weekend
R
Woody Allen
Oscar
Globe
DGA
Midnight in Paris
R
Lars von Trier
Melancholia
DGA
Mike Mills
Spirit
Beginners
Nicolas Winding Refn
Spirit
Drive
Martin Scorsese
Oscar
Globe
NBR
DGA
Hugo
J. C. Chandor
NBR
Margin Call
Jeff Nichols
Spirit
Take Shelter
Michel Hazanavicius
Oscar
Globe
Spirit
DGA
The Artist
Alexander Payne
Oscar
Globe
Spirit
DGA
The Descendants
David Fincher
DGA
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
George Clooney
Globe
The Ides of March
Terrence Malick
Oscar
The Tree of Life
2010
R
Darren Aronofsky
Oscar
Globe
Spirit
DGA
Black Swan
R
John Cameron Mitchell
Spirit
Rabbit Hole
R
Olivier Assayas
Carlos
R
David Fincher
Oscar
Globe
NBR
DGA
The Social Network
R
David Michôd
Animal Kingdom
DGA
Danny Boyle
Spirit
127 Hours
Christopher Nolan
Globe
DGA
Inception
Sebastian Junger
and
Tim Hetherington
NBR
Restrepo
David O. Russell
Oscar
Globe
DGA
The Fighter
Lisa Cholodenko
Spirit
The Kids Are All Right
Tom Hooper
Oscar
Globe
DGA
The King's Speech
Joel Coen
and
Ethan Coen
Oscar
True Grit
Debra Granik
Spirit
Winter's Bone
2009
R
Kore•eda Hirokazu
Still Walking
R
Kathryn Bigelow
Oscar
Globe
DGA
The Hurt Locker
R
James Cameron
Oscar
Globe
DGA
Avatar
R
Quentin Tarantino
Oscar
Globe
DGA
Inglourious Basterds
R
Jason Reitman
Oscar
Globe
DGA
Up in the Air
DGA
Marc Webb
NBR
(500) Days of Summer
Joel Coen
and
Ethan Coen
Spirit
A Serious Man
Clint Eastwood
Globe
NBR
Invictus
Duncan Jones
NBR
Moon
Lee Daniels
Oscar
Spirit
DGA
Precious
Cary Joji Fukunaga
Spirit
Sin nombre
Michael Hoffman
Spirit
The Last Station
Oren Moverman
NBR
The Messenger
James Gray
Spirit
Two Lovers
2008
R
Jonathan Demme
Spirit
Rachel Getting Married
R
John Patrick Shanley
Doubt
R
Courtney Hunt
NBR
Spirit
Frozen River
R
Danny Boyle
Oscar
Globe
DGA
Slumdog Millionaire
R
Tomas Alfredson
Let the Right One In
DGA
Lance Hammer
Spirit
Ballast
Ramin Bahrani
Spirit
Chop Shop
Ron Howard
Oscar
Globe
DGA
Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant
Oscar
DGA
Milk
Sam Mendes
Globe
Revolutionary Road
David Fincher
Oscar
Globe
NBR
DGA
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Christopher Nolan
DGA
The Dark Knight
Stephen Daldry
Oscar
Globe
The Reader
Tom McCarthy
Spirit
The Visitor
2007
R
Julian Schnabel
Oscar
Globe
Spirit
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
R
Ethan Coen
and
Joel Coen
Oscar
Globe
DGA
No Country for Old Men
R
Sean Penn
DGA
Into the Wild
R
Andrew Dominick
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
R
Jason Reitman
Oscar
Spirit
Juno
DGA
Ridley Scott
Globe
American Gangster
Joe Wright
Globe
Atonement
Ben Affleck
NBR
Gone Baby Gone
Todd Haynes
Spirit
I'm Not There
Tony Gilroy
Oscar
DGA
Michael Clayton
Gus Van Sant
Spirit
Paranoid Park
Tim Burton
Globe
NBR
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Julian Schnabel
DGA
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)
Tamara Jenkins
Spirit
The Savages
Paul Thomas Anderson
Oscar
DGA
There Will Be Blood
2006
R
Todd Field
Little Children
R
Valerie Faris
and
Jonathan Dayton
Spirit
DGA
Little Miss Sunshine
R
Stephen Frears
Oscar
Globe
DGA
The Queen
R
Martin Scorsese
Oscar
Globe
NBR
DGA
The Departed
DGA
Robert Altman
Spirit
A Prairie Home Companion
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Oscar
Globe
DGA
Babel
Steven Soderbergh
Spirit
Bubble
Bill Condon
DGA
Dreamgirls
Clint Eastwood
Globe
Flags of Our Fathers
Ryan Fleck
Spirit
Half Nelson
Clint Eastwood
Oscar
Globe
Letters from Iwo Jima
Jason Reitman
NBR
Thank You For Smoking
Karen Moncrieff
Spirit
The Dead Girl
Paul Greengrass
Oscar
United 93
2005
R
Ang Lee
Oscar
Globe
NBR
Spirit
DGA
Brokeback Mountain
DGA
Bennett Miller
Oscar
DGA
Capote
Paul Haggis
Oscar
DGA
Crash
George Clooney
Oscar
Globe
Spirit
DGA
good night, and good luck.
Julian Fellowes, Separate Lies
NBR
Peter Jackson
Globe
King Kong
Woody Allen
Globe
Match Point
Steven Spielberg
Oscar
Globe
DGA
Munich
Gregg Araki
Spirit
Mysterious Skin
Rodrigo García
Spirit
Nine Lives
Fernando Meirelles
Globe
The Constant Gardener
Noah Baumbach
Spirit
The Squid and the Whale
Hall of Fame
All-time leading nominees & winners
Todd Field
2
2
Wes Anderson
1
2
Paul Thomas Anderson
1
2
Emerald Fennell
1
2
Jonathan Glazer
1
2
Alejandro González Iñárritu
1
2
Ang Lee
1
2
Greta Gerwig
0
3
Woody Allen
0
2
Kathryn Bigelow
0
2
Joel Coen
0
2
Stephen Frears
0
2
Yorgos Lanthimos
0
2
Martin McDonagh
0
2
Jordan Peele
0
2
Hall of Fame
All-time leading nominees & winners
Todd Field
2
2
Wes Anderson
1
2
Paul Thomas Anderson
1
2
Emerald Fennell
1
2
Jonathan Glazer
1
2
Alejandro González Iñárritu
1
2
Ang Lee
1
2
Greta Gerwig
0
3
Woody Allen
0
2
Kathryn Bigelow
0
2
Joel Coen
0
2
Stephen Frears
0
2
Yorgos Lanthimos
0
2
Martin McDonagh
0
2
Jordan Peele
0
2
21 years of recorded history
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