2018
Alfonso Cuaron, Roma
Bradley Cooper, A Star is Born
Peter Farrelly, Green Book
Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman
Adam McKay, Vice

2017
Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Jordan Peele, Get Out

2016
Damien Chazelle, La La Land
Garth Davis, Lion
Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea
Denis Villeneuve, Arrival

2015
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, The Revenant
Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
Adam McKay, The Big Short
George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
Ridley Scott, The Martian

2014
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Birdman
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Clint Eastwood, American Sniper
Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Morten Tyldum, The Imitation Game

2013
Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity
Paul Greengrass, Captain Phillips
Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
David O. Russell, American Hustle
Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street

2012
Ben Affleck, Argo
Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
Tom Hooper, Les Misérables
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln

2011
Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris
David Fincher, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Alexander Payne, The Descendants
Martin Scorsese, Hugo

2010
Tom Hooper, The King's Speech
Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
David Fincher, The Social Network
Christopher Nolan, Inception
David O. Russell, The Fighter