David di Donatello for Best Foreign Director

The David di Donatello for Best Foreign Director is a category in the David di Donatello Awards, described as "Italy’s answer to the Oscars". It was awarded by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano to recognize outstanding efforts on the part of non-Italian film directors during the year preceding the ceremony. The award was given from 1966 until 1990.

Winners and nominees

Winners are indicated in bold.

1960s

1966John Huston - The Bible: In the Beginning
1967David Lean - Doctor Zhivago
1968Richard Brooks - In Cold Blood
1969Roman Polanski - ''Rosemary's Baby''

1970s

1970John Schlesinger - Midnight Cowboy
1971Claude Lelouch - Le Voyou
1972John Schlesinger - Sunday Bloody Sunday
1973Bob Fosse - Cabaret
1974Ingmar Bergman - Viskningar och rop
1975Billy Wilder - The Front Page
1976Miloš Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1977Akira Kurosawa - Dersu Uzala
1978Herbert Ross - The Goodbye Girl Ridley Scott - The Duellists
1979Miloš Forman - ''Hair''