* 2022 – Jane Campion – Sila psa
* 2021 – Chloé Zhao – Nomadland
* 2020 - Bong Joon-ho - Parazit
* 2019 – Sam Mendes – 1917
* 2018 - Alfonso Cuarón - Róm
* 2017 – Guillermo del Toro – Podoba vody
* 2016 - Damien Chazelle - La La Land
* 2015 - Alejandro González Iñárritu - The Revenant
* 2014 - Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel
* 2013 - Alfonso Cuarón - Gravitácia
* 2012 - Ang Lee - Life of Pi
* 2011 – Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
* 2010 – Tom Hooper – Kráľova reč
* 2009 - Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
* 2008 – Danny Boyle – Milionár z chatrče
* 2007 – Joel Coen a Ethan Coen – Žiadna krajina pre starých
* 2006 - Martin Scorsese - The Departed
* 2005 - Ang Lee - Skrotená hora
* 2004 - Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby
* 2003 – Peter Jackson – Pán prsteňov:Návrat kráľa
* 2002 – Roman Polanski – Pianista
* 2001 – Ron Howard – Krásna myseľ
* 2000 - Steven Soderbergh - Doprava