* 2022 - Jane Campion - The Power of the Dog
* 2021 - Chloé Zhao - Nomadland
* 2020 - Bong Joon-ho - Parazit
* 2019 - Sam Mendes - 1917
* 2018 - Alfonso Cuarón - Roma
* 2017 - Guillermo del Toro - Oblika vode
* 2016 - Damien Chazelle - La La Land
* 2015 - Alejandro González Iñárritu - Povratnik
* 2014 - Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel
* 2013 - Alfonso Cuarón - Gravitacija
* 2012 - Ang Lee - Pijevo življenje
* 2011 - Michel Hazanavicius - Umetnik
* 2010 - Tom Hooper - Kraljev govor
* 2009 - Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
* 2008 - Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
* 2007 - Joel Coen in Ethan Coen - Ni države za starce
* 2006 - Martin Scorsese - The Departed
* 2005 - Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
* 2004 - Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby
* 2003 - Peter Jackson - Gospodar prstanov:Kraljeva vrnitev
* 2002 - Roman Polanski - Pianist
* 2001 - Ron Howard - Lepi um
* 2000 - Steven Soderbergh - Promet