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Best Motion Picture - Drama
Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
Best Director - Motion Picture
Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
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Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
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Best Screenplay
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Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture

Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture has been awarded annually since 1944 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Year Winnner
1944 Henry King, The Song of Bernadette
1945 Leo McCarey, Going My Way
1946 Billy Wilder, The Lost Weekend
1947 Frank Capra, It's a Wonderful Life
1948 Elia Kazan, Gentleman's Agreement
1949 John Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1950 Robert Rossen, All the King's Men
1951 Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard
1952 Laslo Benedek, Death of a Salesman
1953 Cecil B. DeMille, The Greatest Show on Earth
1954 Fred Zinnemann, From Here to Eternity
1955 Elia Kazan, On the Waterfront
1956 Joshua Logan, Picnic
1957 Elia Kazan, Baby Doll
1958 David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai
1959 Vincente Minnelli, Gigi
1960 William Wyler, Ben-Hur
1961 Jack Cardiff, Sons and Lovers
1962 Stanley Kramer, Judgment at Nuremberg
1963 David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia
1964 Elia Kazan, America, America
1965 George Cukor, My Fair Lady
1966 David Lean, Doctor Zhivago
1967 Fred Zinnemann, A Man for All Seasons
1968 Mike Nichols, The Graduate
1969 Paul Newman, Rachel, Rachel
1970 Charles Jarrott, Anne of the Thousand Days
1971 Arthur Hiller, Love Story
1972 William Friedkin, The French Connection
1973 Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather
1974 William Friedkin, The Exorcist
1975 Roman Polanski, Chinatown
1976 Milos Forman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1977 Sidney Lumet, Network
1978 Herbert Ross, The Turning Point
1979 Michael Cimino, The Deer Hunter
1980 Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now
1981 Robert Redford, Ordinary People
1982 Warren Beatty, Reds
1983 Richard Attenborough, Gandhi
1984 Barbra Streisand, Yentl
1985 Milos Forman, Amadeus
1986 John Huston, Prizzi's Honor
1987 Oliver Stone, Platoon
1988 Bernardo Bertolucci, The Last Emperor
1989 Clint Eastwood, Bird
1990 Oliver Stone, Born on the Fourth of July
1991 Kevin Costner, Dances with Wolves
1992 Oliver Stone, JFK
1993 Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven
1994 Steven Spielberg, Schindler's List
1995 Robert Zemeckis, Forrest Gump
1996 Mel Gibson, Braveheart
1997 Milos Forman, The People vs. Larry Flynt
1998 James Cameron, Titanic
1999 Steven Spielberg, Saving Private Ryan
2000 Sam Mendes, American Beauty
2001 Ang Lee, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2002 Robert Altman, Gosford Park
2003 Martin Scorsese, Gangs of New York
2004 Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2005 Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
2006 Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
2007 Martin Scorsese, The Departed