BAFTA Award for Best Direction
The BAFTA Award for Best Direction, formerly known as David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction, is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts to a film director for a specific feature film.
BAFTA is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, and video games. Since 1968, selected films have been awarded with the BAFTA award for Best Direction at an annual ceremony.
In the following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the remaining nominees. The winner is also the first name listed in each category.
History
The award was originally known as David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction, in honour of British director David Lean.There are no records showing any nominations, or a winner, for this award at the 39th British Academy Film Awards, presented in 1986 for films released in 1985.
Multiple wins and nominations
Multiple nominations
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- Stephen Daldry
- Alejandro González Iñárritu
- Paul Greengrass
- Peter Jackson
- Neil Jordan
- Yorgos Lanthimos
- Sidney Lumet
- Louis Malle
- Anthony Minghella
- Christopher Nolan
- John Schlesinger
- Ridley Scott
- Denis Villeneuve
- Peter Weir
- Chloe Zhao
- Edward Berger
- Kathryn Bigelow
- Danny Boyle
- James Cameron
- Jane Campion
- Damien Chazelle
- Joel Coen
- Bradley Cooper
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Alfonso Cuarón
- Clint Eastwood
- David Fincher
- Miloš Forman
- Bill Forsyth
- Stephen Frears
- Ron Howard
- Roland Joffé
- Stanley Kubrick
- Mike Leigh
- Ken Loach
- Baz Luhrmann
- Martin McDonagh
- Sam Mendes
- Roman Polanski
- Steven Soderbergh
- Peter Yates
- Fred Zinnemann