Year	Director(s)	Film	Ref.
2010 (83rd)	Tom Hooper	The King's Speech
	Darren Aronofsky	Black Swan
	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	True Grit
	David Fincher	The Social Network
	David O. Russell	The Fighter
2011 (84th)	Michel Hazanavicius	The Artist
	Woody Allen	Midnight in Paris
	Terrence Malick	The Tree of Life
	Alexander Payne	The Descendants
	Martin Scorsese	Hugo
2012 (85th)	Ang Lee	Life of Pi
	Michael Haneke	Amour
	David O. Russell	Silver Linings Playbook
	Steven Spielberg	Lincoln
	Benh Zeitlin	Beasts of the Southern Wild
2013 (86th)	Alfonso Cuarón	Gravity
	Steve McQueen	12 Years a Slave
	Alexander Payne	Nebraska
	David O. Russell	American Hustle
	Martin Scorsese	The Wolf of Wall Street
2014 (87th)	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Birdman
	Wes Anderson	The Grand Budapest Hotel
	Richard Linklater	Boyhood
	Bennett Miller	Foxcatcher
	Morten Tyldum	The Imitation Game
2015 (88th)	Alejandro González Iñárritu	The Revenant
	Lenny Abrahamson	Room
	Tom McCarthy	Spotlight
	Adam McKay	The Big Short
	George Miller	Mad Max: Fury Road
2016 (89th)	Damien Chazelle	La La Land
	Mel Gibson	Hacksaw Ridge
	Barry Jenkins	Moonlight
	Kenneth Lonergan	Manchester by the Sea
	Denis Villeneuve	Arrival
2017 (90th)	Guillermo del Toro	The Shape of Water
	Paul Thomas Anderson	Phantom Thread
	Greta Gerwig	Lady Bird
	Christopher Nolan	Dunkirk
	Jordan Peele	Get Out
2018 (91st)	Alfonso Cuarón	Roma
	Yorgos Lanthimos	The Favourite
	Spike Lee	BlacKkKlansman
	Adam McKay	Vice
	Paweł Pawlikowski	Cold War
2019 (92nd)	Bong Joon-ho	Parasite
	Sam Mendes	1917
	Todd Phillips	Joker
	Martin Scorsese	The Irishman
	Quentin Tarantino	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood