İlker Çatak
Cristian Mungiu
Paul Thomas Anderson
Joachim Trier
May el-Toukhy
Dag Johan Haugerud
Jafar Panahi
Sean Baker
Walter Salles
Jim Jarmusch
Mati Diop
Christopher Nolan
Jonathan Glazer
Pedro Almodóvar
Nicolas Philibert
Justine Triet
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Edward Berger
Yorgos Lanthimos
Carla Simón
Ruben Östlund
Sian Heder
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Laura Poitras
Radu Jude
Julia Ducournau
Chloé Zhao
Thomas Vinterberg
Audrey Diwan
Mohammad Rasoulof
Bong Joon-ho
Nadav Lapid
Peter Farrelly
Alfonso Cuarón
Todd Phillips
Adina Pintilie
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Guillermo del Toro
Sebastián Lelio
Ildikó Enyedi
Barry Jenkins
Asghar Farhadi
Gianfranco Rosi
Ken Loach
Tom McCarthy
László Nemes
Lav Diaz
Jacques Audiard
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Paweł Pawlikowski
Lorenzo Vigas
Diao Yinan
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Steve McQueen
Paolo Sorrentino
Roy Andersson
Călin Peter Netzer
Abdellatif Kechiche
Ben Affleck
Michael Haneke
Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Michel Hazanavicius
Kim Ki-duk
Terrence Malick
Tom Hooper
Susanne Bier
Alexander Sokurov
Semih Kaplanoğlu
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Kathryn Bigelow
Juan José Campanella
Sofia Coppola
Claudia Llosa
Danny Boyle
Yōjirō Takita
Samuel Maoz
José Padilha
Laurent Cantet
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Stefan Ruzowitzky
Darren Aronofsky
Wang Quan'an
Martin Scorsese
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Ang Lee
Jasmila Žbanić
Paul Haggis
Gavin Hood
Jia Zhangke
Mark Dornford-May
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Clint Eastwood
Alejandro Amenábar
Fatih Akın
Michael Moore
Peter Jackson
Denys Arcand
Mike Leigh
Michael Winterbottom
Gus Van Sant
Rob Marshall
Caroline Link
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Paul Greengrass
Hayao Miyazaki
Roman Polanski
Ron Howard
Danis Tanović
Peter Mullan
Patrice Chéreau
Nanni Moretti
Ridley Scott
Mira Nair
Lars von Trier
Sam Mendes
John Madden
Roberto Benigni
Zhang Yimou
Theo Angelopoulos
James Cameron
Mike van Diem
Gianni Amelio
Miloš Forman
Abbas Kiarostami
Shōhei Imamura
Anthony Minghella
Jan Svěrák
Takeshi Kitano
Mel Gibson
Marleen Gorris
Neil Jordan
Bertrand Tavernier
Emir Kusturica
Robert Zemeckis
Nikita Mikhalkov
Trần Anh Hùng
Jim Sheridan
Quentin Tarantino
Steven Spielberg
Fernando Trueba
Milcho Manchevski
Tsai Ming-liang
Xie Fei
Chen Kaige
Jane Campion
Régis Wargnier
Robert Altman
Krzysztof Kieślowski
Lawrence Kasdan
Bille August
Jonathan Demme
Gabriele Salvatores
Marco Ferreri
Joel Coen
Kevin Costner
Xavier Koller
Jiří Menzel
Costa-Gavras
David Lynch
Bruce Beresford
Giuseppe Tornatore
Tom Stoppard
Barry Levinson
Steven Soderbergh
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Bernardo Bertolucci
Gabriel Axel
Ermanno Olmi
Gleb Panfilov
Maurice Pialat
Oliver Stone
Fons Rademakers
Louis Malle
Reinhard Hauff
Roland Joffé
Sydney Pollack
Luis Puenzo
Éric Rohmer
Rainer Simon
David Hare
Richard Dembo
Agnès Varda
John Cassavetes
Wim Wenders
James L. Brooks
Ingmar Bergman
Krzysztof Zanussi
Edward Bennett
Mario Camus
Richard Attenborough
José Luis Garci
Jean-Luc Godard
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Yılmaz Güney, Şerif Gören
Hugh Hudson
István Szabó
Carlos Saura
Andrzej Wajda
Robert Redford
Vladimir Menshov
Margarethe von Trotta
Richard Pearce
Werner Schroeter
Bob Fosse
Akira Kurosawa
Robert Benton
Volker Schlöndorff
Peter Lilienthal
Francis Ford Coppola
Michael Cimino
Bertrand Blier
Tomás Muñoz
José Luis García Sánchez
Emilio Martínez Lázaro
Woody Allen
Moshé Mizrahi
Larisa Shepitko
John G. Avildsen
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Márta Mészáros
Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
Federico Fellini
Ted Kotcheff
George Roy Hill
François Truffaut
Satyajit Ray
Jerry Schatzberg
Alan Bridges
Luis Buñuel
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Francesco Rosi
Elio Petri
William Friedkin
Vittorio De Sica
Joseph Losey
Franklin J. Schaffner
John Schlesinger
Želimir Žilnik
Lindsay Anderson
Carol Reed
Sergei Bondarchuk
Jan Troell
Norman Jewison
Alexander Kluge
Jerzy Skolimowski
Michelangelo Antonioni
Fred Zinnemann
Claude Lelouch
Pietro Germi
Robert Wise
Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos
Gillo Pontecorvo
Richard Lester
George Cukor
Luchino Visconti
Metin Erksan
Jacques Demy
Tony Richardson
Tadashi Imai
Gian Luigi Polidoro
David Lean
Serge Bourguignon
Anselmo Duarte
Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
Valerio Zurlini
Andrei Tarkovsky
Henri Colpi
Billy Wilder
Alain Resnais
César Fernández Ardavín
William Wyler
Marcel Camus
André Cayatte
Claude Chabrol
Vincente Minnelli
Jacques Tati
Roberto Rossellini
Mario Monicelli
Mikhail Kalatozov
Hiroshi Inagaki
Sidney Lumet
Michael Anderson
Gene Kelly
Jacques Cousteau, Louis Malle
Delbert Mann
Robert Siodmak
Elia Kazan
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Renato Castellani
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Cecil B. DeMille
Arne Mattsson
Orson Welles
René Clément
Leopold Lindtberg, Elizabeth Montagu
Alf Sjöberg
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Robert Rossen
Laurence Olivier
Emilio Fernández
František Čáp
Chetan Anand
Jean Delannoy
Leopold Lindtberg
Bodil Ipsen, Lau Lauritzen Jr.
Fridrikh Ermler
Leo McCarey
Michael Curtiz
John Ford
Alfred Hitchcock
Victor Fleming
Frank Capra
William Dieterle
Robert Z. Leonard
Frank Lloyd
No award recorded for this year.
Edmund Goulding
Wesley Ruggles
Lewis Milestone
Harry Beaumont
William A. Wellman