2024
Sean Baker, Anora
Jacques Audiard, Emilia Perez
Edward Berger, Conclave
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
James Mangold, A Complete Unknown

2023
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Greta Gerwich, Barbie
Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Alexander Payne, The Holdovers
Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon

2022
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Todd Field, Tar
Joseph Kosinski, Top Gun: Maverick
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans

2021
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
Kenneth Branagh, Belfast
Steven Spielberg, West Side Story
Denis Villeneuve, Dune

2020
Chloe Zhao, Nomadland
Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
David Fincher, Mank
Aaron Sorkin, The Trial of the Chicago 7