Gold Derby Award for Best Director

The Gold Derby Award for Best Director is one of the annual awards at the Gold Derby Film Awards.

Winners and nominees[edit]

2000s[edit]

Year	Director(s)	Film
2003	Peter Jackson	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
	Stephen Daldry	The Hours
	Todd Haynes	Far from Heaven
	Rob Marshall	Chicago
	Martin Scorsese	Gangs of New York
2004	Peter Jackson	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
	Sofia Coppola	Lost in Translation
	Clint Eastwood	Mystic River
	Quentin Tarantino	Kill Bill: Volume 1
	Peter Weir	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2005	Michel Gondry	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
	Clint Eastwood	Million Dollar Baby
	Mike Nichols	Closer
	Alexander Payne	Sideways
	Martin Scorsese	The Aviator
2006	Ang Lee	Brokeback Mountain
	George Clooney	Good Night, and Good Luck
	David Cronenberg	A History of Violence
	Peter Jackson	King Kong
	Fernando Meirelles	The Constant Gardener
2007	Martin Scorsese	The Departed
	Alfonso Cuarón	Children of Men
	Guillermo del Toro	Pan's Labyrinth
	Clint Eastwood	Letters from Iwo Jima
	Paul Greengrass	United 93
2008	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	No Country for Old Men
	Paul Thomas Anderson	There Will Be Blood
	Tim Burton	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
	Sean Penn	Into the Wild
	Joe Wright	Atonement
2009	Christopher Nolan	The Dark Knight
	Danny Boyle	Slumdog Millionaire
	David Fincher	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
	Andrew Stanton	WALL-E
	Gus Van Sant	Milk

2010s[edit]

Year	Director	Film
2001–10	Best Director of the Decade
	Peter Jackson	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
	Paul Thomas Anderson	There Will Be Blood
	Kathryn Bigelow	The Hurt Locker
	Guillermo del Toro	Pan's Labyrinth
	Clint Eastwood	Million Dollar Baby
	Paul Greengrass	United 93
	Ang Lee	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
	Baz Luhrmann	Moulin Rouge!
	David Lynch	Mulholland Drive
	Christopher Nolan	The Dark Knight
2010	Best Director
	Kathryn Bigelow	The Hurt Locker
	Neill Blomkamp	District 9
	James Cameron	Avatar
	Jason Reitman	Up in the Air
	Quentin Tarantino	Inglourious Basterds
2011	David Fincher	The Social Network
	Darren Aronofsky	Black Swan
	Danny Boyle	127 Hours
	Christopher Nolan	Inception
	Roman Polanski	The Ghost Writer
2012	Terrence Malick	The Tree of Life
	Woody Allen	Midnight in Paris
	Michel Hazanavicius	The Artist
	Nicolas Winding Refn	Drive
	Martin Scorsese	Hugo
2013	Ben Affleck	Argo
	Kathryn Bigelow	Zero Dark Thirty
	Ang Lee	Life of Pi
	Steven Spielberg	Lincoln
	Quentin Tarantino	Django Unchained
2014	Alfonso Cuarón	Gravity
	Spike Jonze	Her
	Steve McQueen	12 Years a Slave
	David O. Russell	American Hustle
	Martin Scorsese	The Wolf of Wall Street
2015	Richard Linklater	Boyhood
	Wes Anderson	The Grand Budapest Hotel
	Ava DuVernay	Selma
	David Fincher	Gone Girl
	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Birdman
2016	George Miller	Mad Max: Fury Road
	Todd Haynes	Carol
	Alejandro González Iñárritu	The Revenant
	Tom McCarthy	Spotlight
	Ridley Scott	The Martian
2017	Damien Chazelle	La La Land
	Barry Jenkins	Moonlight
	Pablo Larraín	Jackie
	Kenneth Lonergan	Manchester by the Sea
	Denis Villeneuve	Arrival
2018	Guillermo del Toro	The Shape of Water
	Greta Gerwig	Lady Bird
	Luca Guadagnino	Call Me by Your Name
	Christopher Nolan	Dunkirk
	Jordan Peele	Get Out
2019	Alfonso Cuarón	Roma
	Bradley Cooper	A Star Is Born
	John Krasinski	A Quiet Place
	Yorgos Lanthimos	The Favourite
	Spike Lee	BlacKkKlansman

2020s[edit]

Year	Director	Film
2011–20	Best Director of the Decade
	Bong Joon-ho	Parasite
	Damien Chazelle	La La Land
	Christopher Nolan	Inception
	Alfonso Cuarón	Gravity
	Alfonso Cuarón	Roma
	David Fincher	The Social Network
	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Birdman
	Barry Jenkins	Moonlight
	Sam Mendes	1917
	George Miller	Mad Max: Fury Road
2020	Best Director
	Bong Joon-ho	Parasite
	Greta Gerwig	Little Women
	Sam Mendes	1917
	Martin Scorsese	The Irishman
	Quentin Tarantino	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Multiple awards[edit]

3 awards

Peter Jackson (2 consecutive)

2 awards

Alfonso Cuarón
Bong Joon-ho (consecutive)

Multiple nominations[edit]

6 nominations

Martin Scorsese

5 nominations

Alfonso Cuarón
Christopher Nolan

4 nominations

Clint Eastwood
David Fincher
Peter Jackson
Quentin Tarantino

3 nominations

Kathryn Bigelow
Guillermo del Toro
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Ang Lee

2 nominations

Paul Thomas Anderson
Danny Boyle
Damien Chazelle
Greta Gerwig
Paul Greengrass
Todd Haynes
Barry Jenkins
Bong Joon-ho
Sam Mendes
George Miller

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