Directors’ Guild of America: Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film

Directors’ Guild of America: Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film, 1948-2024

The Directors Guild of America offers annual awards recognizing directorial achievements in feature films, documentaries, television, and commercials. The 77th awards (honoring 2024 nominees) were held on February 8, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. Below are the annual winners since 1948 for feature films. 2024: Anora 2023: Oppenheimer 2022: Everything Everywhere All at Once 2021: The Power of the Dog 2020: Nomadland 2019: 1917 2018: Roma 2017: The Shape of Water 2016: La La Land 2015: The Revenant 2014: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 2013: Gravity 2012: Argo 2011: The Artist 2010: The King’s Speech 2009: The Hurt Locker 2008: Slumdog Millionaire 2007: No Country for Old Men 2006: The Departed 2005: Brokeback Mountain 2004: Million Dollar Baby 2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2002: Chicago 2001: A Beautiful Mind 2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo Hu Cang Long) 1999: American Beauty 1998: Saving Private Ryan 1997: Titanic 1996: The English Patient 1995: Apollo 13 1994: Forrest Gump 1993: Schindler’s List 1992: Unforgiven 1991: The Silence of the Lambs 1990: Dances with Wolves 1989: Born on the Fourth of July 1988: Rain Man 1987: The Last Emperor 1986: Platoon 1985: The Color Purple 1984: Amadeus 1983: Terms of Endearment 1982: Gandhi 1981: Reds 1980: Ordinary People 1979: Kramer vs. Kramer 1978: The Deer Hunter 1977: Annie Hall 1976: Rocky 1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1974: The Godfather Part II 1973: The Sting 1972: The Godfather 1971: The French Connection 1970: Patton 1969: Midnight Cowboy 1968: The Lion in Winter 1967: The Graduate 1966: A Man for All Seasons 1965: The Sound of Music 1964: My Fair Lady 1963: Tom Jones 1962: Lawrence of Arabia 1961: West Side Story 1960: The Apartment 1959: Ben-Hur 1958: Gigi 1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai 1956: Giant 1955: Marty 1954: On the Waterfront 1953: From Here to Eternity 1952: The Quiet Man 1951: A Place in the Sun 1950: All About Eve 1949: All the King’s Men 1948: A Letter to Three Wives Resources: Dave’s Movie Database: Other Year-End Awards Directors Guild of America Wikipedia.org (1948-2022). “Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film” First posted 2/2/2019; last updated 2/8/2025.