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Thập niên 1900

• 1995 – Mel Gibson - Braveheart
• 1996 – Anthony Minghella - The English Patient
• 1997 – James Cameron - Titanic
• 1998 – Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan
• 1999 – Sam Mendes - American Beauty

Thập niên 2000

• 2000: Steven Soderbergh - Erin Brockovich & Traffic
• 2001(t): Ron Howard - A Beautiful Mind
• 2001(t): Baz Luhrmann - Moulin Rouge!
  • Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• 2002: Steven Spielberg - Catch Me If You Can
  • Roman Polanski - The Pianist
  • Martin Scorsese - Gangs of New York
• 2003: Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • Tim Burton - Big Fish
  • Sofia Coppola - Lost in Translation
  • Clint Eastwood - Mystic River
  • Jim Sheridan - In America
• 2004: Martin Scorsese - The Aviator
  • Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby
  • Marc Forster - Finding Neverland
  • Taylor Hackford - Ray
  • Alexander Payne - Sideways
• 2005: Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
  • George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck.
  • Paul Haggis - Crash
  • Ron Howard - Cinderella Man
  • Peter Jackson - King Kong
  • Steven Spielberg - Munich
• 2006: Martin Scorsese - The Departed
  • Bill Condon - Dreamgirls
  • Clint Eastwood - Letters from Iwo Jima
  • Stephen Frears - The Queen
  • Paul Greengrass - United 93
• 2007: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men
  • Tim Burton - Sweeney Todd
  • Sidney Lumet - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
  • Sean Penn - Into the Wild
  • Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  • Joe Wright - Atonement
• 2008: Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
  • David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  • Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
  • Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight
  • Gus Van Sant - Milk