I's Top 25 Directors of All Time Nominees

*Legend*
O= Oscar Winner
NBR= National Board of Review Winner
GG= Golden Globe Winner
SAG= Screen Actors Guild Winner
F= Festival Winner

Best Director
Pedro Almodavar for Destiny
Pedro Almodavar for The Lover’s Empire (O, GG, F)
Pedro Almodavar for Midnight Mass (GG)
Paul Thomas Anderson for Live From New York
Paul Thomas Anderson for Project Sin
Paul Thomas Anderson for Realm of the Bird (NBR)
Wes Anderson for Scarttenow Junction
Jean-Jacques Annaud for Darwin Discovered
Judd Apatow for Sex Advice
Darren Aronofsky for Flashes
Noah Baumbach for Wackos
Jack Bender for Fallout
Robert Benton for Broken Pieces
Bernardo Bertolucci for Cherry Blossom
Bernardo Bertolucci for Magic Latern (O, NBR, GG, F)
Kenneth Branagh for The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
James L. Brooks for E.L.
James L. Brooks for A New Agenda
Tim Burton for Dali (O, GG)
Jane Campion for The Awakening
George Clooney for Steamboat Disney
Cameron Crowe for Then
Alfonso Cuaron for La Ventana
Jonathan Demme for Bee-Bee’s Funhouse
Jonathan Demme for Bloodshed
Clint Eastwood for The Killer Eagles (NBR, GG, F)
Abel Ferra for The Informer
David Fincher for Criminal Origins (O, NBR)
David Fincher for F.E.A.R.
Milos Forman for Judas Iscariot (O, GG)
Marc Forster for Lord of the Flies
Marc Forster for Masterpiece
Marc Forster for Rivalry at 6 P.M.
Carl Franklin for The Bluest Eye
Stephen Frears for Mario Puzo’s The Family (NBR)
Antoine Fuqua for Six Days in 67
Stephen Gaghan for The Hussein Room
Stephen Gaghan for River City Blue (O)
Terry Gillam for iLife
Paul Greengrass for Foreign Affairs
Paul Greengrass for Fresh Heir Vol. III
Paul Greengrass for Ghost Recon
Paul Haggis for Photograph
Paul Haggis for The Secret Identity of the Heart (F)
Michael Heneke for Behind Closed Doors
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for Border Man
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for 11-M (O, NBR, GG)
Spike Jonze for Book (O)
Philip Kaufman for Break Before Bend
Takeshi Kitano for Owner of a Lonely Heart
Ang Lee for John Milton’s Paradise Lost
Ang Lee for The Winter Sun (GG)
Sidney Lumet for Ashes of Elmwood
Sidney Lumet for The World’s Longest Suicide
Rod Lurie for Ralph’s Food and Drug (O)
David Lynch for Quiet Room (F)
David Lynch for Sweet Black and Blue (O)
James Mangold for The 27th Victim (GG)
James Mangold for Gone Since November
Michael Mann for Rush (O)
Fernando Meirelles for The Poisonwood Bible
Sam Mendes for The Guy Who Owned the Store
Anthony Minghella for Deep Secret (O)
Hayao Miyazaki for Pride of Baghdad (GG)
Mike Nichols for The Arabic Café (O, GG)
Mike Nichols for The Dead President
Christopher Nolan for The Cabin (O, NBR, GG)
Phillip Noyce for Cartel (F)
Alexander Payne for Diary of a Sociopath
Alexander Payne for Ironic Nonfiction
Roman Polanski for The Picture of Dorian Gray
Roman Polanski for The Valley of Ashes (O, GG, F)
Robert Redford for Gray Daze (O)
Robert Redford for Recoil
Jason Reitman for Bootleg
Jason Reitman for Buzzed
Julian Schnabel for Middlesex
Martin Scorsese for The Family
Ridley Scott for To Dwell In Evil
Jim Sheridan for Lucky Clover
M. Night Shyamalan for Dominion (GG)
Bryan Singer for The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson
Bryan Singer for Norjak
John Singleton for Glass
Steven Soderberg for Oil
Steven Soderberg for Sandstorm (O, GG)
Steven Speilberg for Hostage
Steven Speilberg for Public Enemy (O, F)
Steven Speilberg for The Wall (GG)
Oliver Stone for Dear Mr. President
Quentin Tarantino for Bandito Express (O, GG)
Quentin Tarantino for Sixty Days (GG)
Tim Van Patten for POZ
Gus Van Sant for For Pay
Lars Von Trier for Revenant Dreams
Peter Weir for Jackrabbit (O, GG)
Paul Weitz for Negatives
Joe Wright for Cinematheque
Edward Zwick for The Moon and The Rain
Terry Zwigoff for The Wishbones (NBR)