An incomplete list of the winners of the National Board of Review Award for Best Director made by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures: The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures was founded in 1909 in New York City, just 13 years after the birth of cinema, to protest New York City Mayor George B. McClellan, Jr. ...

Winners

1980s

• 1980: Robert Redford

for directing Ordinary People

• 1981: Warren Beatty

for directing Reds

• 1982: Sidney Lumet

for directing The Verdict

• 1983: James L. Brooks

for directing Terms of Endearment

• 1984: David Lean

for directing A Passage to India

• 1985: Akira Kurosawa

for directing Ran

• 1986: Woody Allen

for directing Hannah and Her Sisters

• 1987: Steven Spielberg

for directing Empire of the Sun

• 1988: Alan Parker

for directing Mississippi Burning

• 1989: Kenneth Branagh

for directing Henry V

Robert Redford (born Charles Robert Redford, Jr. ... This article is about the film. ... Henry Warren Beatty (born March 30, 1937), better known as Warren Beatty, is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning American actor, producer, screenwriter, and director. ... See also Cincinnati Reds Reds is a 1981 movie starring Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton. ... Portrait of Sidney Lumet, May 7, 1939. ... The Verdict is a 1982 film which tells the story of a down-on-his-luck lawyer who pushes a medical malpractice case in order to improve his own situation, but discovers along the way that he is actually doing the right thing. ... James L. Brooks (born May 9, 1940) is a three-time Academy Award, nineteen-time Emmy and Golden Globe-winning American producer, writer, and film director. ... For the Drawn Together episode, see Terms of Endearment (Drawn Together episode). ... Sir David Lean, KBE (March 25, 1908 – April 16, 1991) was an English film director and producer, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and Doctor Zhivago . ... A Passage to India (1924) is a novel by E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. ... Akira Kurosawa , 23 March 1910—6 September 1998) was a prominent Japanese film director, film producer, and screenwriter. ... Ran (Japanese: , chaos, wretchedness) is a 1985 film written and directed by Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. ... Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Königsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. ... Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 romantic comedy film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family, told mostly during a year that begins and ends with a family Thanksgiving dinner. ... Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born December 18, 1946)[1] is an American film director and producer. ... Empire of the Sun is a 1987 film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Christian Bale, John Malkovich, and Miranda Richardson. ... Alan Parker on the set of Pink Floyd The Wall Sir Alan Parker (born February 14, 1944) is a British film director, producer, writer, and actor. ... Mississippi Burning is a 1988 film based on the investigation into the real-life murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964. ... Kenneth Charles Branagh (born December 10, 1960) is an Emmy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated Northern Irish-born actor and film director. ... Henry reads of the French dead after the battle of Agincourt Henry V is a 1989 film directed by Kenneth Branagh, and based upon the Shakespeare play. ...

1990s

• 1990: Kevin Costner

for directing Dances with Wolves

• 1991: Jonathan Demme

for directing The Silence of the Lambs

• 1992: James Ivory

for directing Howards End

• 1993: Martin Scorsese

for directing The Age of Innocence

• 1994: Quentin Tarantino

for directing Pulp Fiction

• 1995: Ang Lee

for directing Sense & Sensibility

• 1996: Joel Cohen

for directing Fargo

• 1997: Curtis Hanson

for directing L.A. Confidential

• 1998: Shekhar Kapur

for directing Elizabeth

• 1999: Anthony Minghella

for directing The Talented Mr. Ripley

Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American film actor and director who has often produced his own films. ... Dances with Wolves is a 1990 epic film which tells the story of a United States cavalry officer from the Civil War who travels into the Dakota Territory, near a Sioux tribe. ... Jonathan Demme (born February 22, 1944, in Baldwin, New York) is an American film director, producer and writer. ... The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 Academy Award-winning film directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins. ... James Francis Ivory (born June 7, 1928) is an award-winning American film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both Indian-born producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. ... Howards End is a novel by E. M. Forster, first published in 1910, which tells a story of class struggle in turn-of-the-century England. ... Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (IPA: AmE: ; Ita: []) (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, writer and producer and founder of the World Cinema Foundation. ... For other uses, see Age of innocence. ... Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, actor, and screenwriter. ... Pulp Fiction is an Academy Award-winning 1994 film written by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avery; and directed by Tarantino. ... Ang Lee (Chinese: ; Pinyin: ) (born October 23, 1954) is a film director from Taiwan. ... Joel Cohen, American musician, specialist in early music repertoires, born 1942. ... Fargo is a 1996 film created by brothers Joel and Ethan Coen. ... Curtis Lee Hanson (born 24 March 1945) is a film director born in Reno, Nevada, whose movies include: Losin It (1983) Bad Influence (1990) The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (1992) The River Wild (1994) L.A. Confidential (1997) Wonder Boys (2000) 8 Mile (2002) In Her Shoes (2005) Lucky... L.A. Confidential is a 1997 feature film based on the 1990 crime fiction novel of the same title by James Ellroy, the third in his L.A. Quartet novel cycle. ... Shekhar Kapur, born 6 December 1945 in British India (in an area which became part of Pakistan) is a renowned filmmaker from India. ... Elizabeth is an Academy Award winning 1998 film loosely based on the early reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England. ... Anthony Minghella (born January 6, 1954) is an Academy Award-winning British film director, playwright and screenwriter. ... The Talented Mr. ...

2000s

• 2000: Steven Soderbergh

for directing Erin Brockovich and Traffic

• 2001: Todd Field

for directing In the Bedroom

• 2002: Phillip Noyce

for directing The Quiet American and Rabbit-Proof Fence

• 2003: Edward Zwick

for directing The Last Samurai

• 2004: Michael Mann

for directing Collateral

• 2005: Ang Lee

for directing Brokeback Mountain

• 2006: Martin Scorsese

for directing The Departed