Satellite Award for Best Director

The Satellite Award for Best Director is one of the annual Satellite Awards given by the International Press Academy.

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Winners and nominees	Film
1996	Joel Coen	Fargo
	Scott Hicks	Shine
	Mike Leigh	Secrets & Lies
	Anthony Minghella	The English Patient
	Lars von Trier	Breaking the Waves
1997	James Cameron	Titanic
	Paul Thomas Anderson	Boogie Nights
	Curtis Hanson	L.A. Confidential
	Steven Spielberg	Amistad
	Gus Van Sant	Good Will Hunting
1998	Terrence Malick	The Thin Red Line
	John Boorman	The General
	Shekhar Kapur	Elizabeth
	Gary Ross	Pleasantville
	Steven Spielberg	Saving Private Ryan
1999	Michael Mann	The Insider
	Paul Thomas Anderson	Magnolia
	Sam Mendes	American Beauty
	Anthony Minghella	The Talented Mr. Ripley
	Kimberly Peirce	Boys Don't Cry

2000s

Year	Winners and nominees	Film
2000	Steven Soderbergh	Traffic
	Cameron Crowe	Almost Famous
	Philip Kaufman	Quills
	Ang Lee	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)
	Ridley Scott	Gladiator
	Steven Soderbergh	Erin Brockovich
2001	Baz Luhrmann	Moulin Rouge!
	Jonathan Glazer	Sexy Beast
	Scott McGehee and David Siegel	The Deep End
	John Cameron Mitchell	Hedwig and the Angry Inch
	Christopher Nolan	Memento
2002	Todd Haynes	Far from Heaven
	Stephen Daldry	The Hours
	Peter Jackson	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
	Phillip Noyce	The Quiet American
	Denzel Washington	Antwone Fisher
2003	Jim Sheridan	In America
	Niki Caro	Whale Rider
	Sofia Coppola	Lost in Translation
	Clint Eastwood	Mystic River
	Catherine Hardwicke	Thirteen
2004	Mel Gibson	The Passion of the Christ
	Taylor Hackford	Ray
	Joshua Marston	Maria Full of Grace (María llena eres de gracia)
	Alexander Payne	Sideways
	Martin Scorsese	The Aviator
2005	Ang Lee	Brokeback Mountain
	George Clooney	Good Night, and Good Luck
	James Mangold	Walk the Line
	Rob Marshall	Memoirs of a Geisha
	Bennett Miller	Capote
2006	Bill Condon	Dreamgirls
	Clint Eastwood	Flags of Our Fathers
	Pedro Almodóvar	Volver
	Stephen Frears	The Queen
	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Babel
	Martin Scorsese	The Departed
2007	Joel and Ethan Coen	No Country for Old Men
	David Cronenberg	Eastern Promises
	Ang Lee	Lust, Caution
	Sidney Lumet	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
	Sarah Polley	Away from Her
2008	Danny Boyle	Slumdog Millionaire
	Stephen Daldry	The Reader
	Ron Howard	Frost/Nixon
	Tom McCarthy	The Visitor
	Christopher Nolan	The Dark Knight
	Gus Van Sant	Milk
2009	Kathryn Bigelow	The Hurt Locker
	Neill Blomkamp	District 9
	Jane Campion	Bright Star
	Lee Daniels	Precious
	Rob Marshall	Nine
	Lone Scherfig	An Education

2010s

Year	Winners and nominees	Film
2010	David Fincher	The Social Network
	Ben Affleck	The Town
	Darren Aronofsky	Black Swan
	Danny Boyle	127 Hours
	Lisa Cholodenko	The Kids Are All Right
	Debra Granik	Winter's Bone
	Tom Hooper	The King's Speech
	David Michôd	Animal Kingdom
	Christopher Nolan	Inception
	Roman Polanski	The Ghost Writer
2011	Nicolas Winding Refn	Drive
	Woody Allen	Midnight in Paris
	Tomas Alfredson	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
	Michel Hazanavicius	The Artist
	John Michael McDonagh	The Guard
	Steve McQueen	Shame
	Alexander Payne	The Descendants
	Martin Scorsese	Hugo
	Steven Spielberg	War Horse
	Tate Taylor	The Help
2012	David O. Russell	Silver Linings Playbook
	Ben Affleck	Argo
	Kathryn Bigelow	Zero Dark Thirty
	Kim Ki-duk	Pietà
	Ben Lewin	The Sessions
	Steven Spielberg	Lincoln
2013	Steve McQueen	12 Years a Slave
	Woody Allen	Blue Jasmine
	Joel and Ethan Coen	Inside Llewyn Davis
	Alfonso Cuarón	Gravity
	Paul Greengrass	Captain Phillips
	Ron Howard	Rush
	David O. Russell	American Hustle
	Martin Scorsese	The Wolf of Wall Street
2014	Richard Linklater	Boyhood
	Damien Chazelle	Whiplash
	Ava DuVernay	Selma
	David Fincher	Gone Girl
	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	Birdman
	Morten Tyldum	The Imitation Game
2015	Tom McCarthy	Spotlight
	Lenny Abrahamson	Room
	Tom Hooper	The Danish Girl
	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	The Revenant
	Ridley Scott	The Martian
	Steven Spielberg	Bridge of Spies