The Astra Film Award for Best Director is one of the annual awards given out by the Hollywood Creative Alliance. From 2017 to 2020, the award was separated into two categories: Astra Film Award for Best Female Director and Astra Film Award for Best Male Director.
Winners † = Winner of the Academy Award for Best Director ‡ = Nominated of the Academy Award for Best Director
2010s YearCategoryWinner and nomineesFilm2017FemaleGreta Gerwig ‡Lady Bird Kathryn Bigelow Detroit Sofia Coppola The Beguiled Patty Jenkins Wonder Woman Dee Rees MudboundMaleGuillermo del Toro †The Shape of Water Luca Guadagnino Call Me by Your Name Christopher Nolan ‡ Dunkirk Jordan Peele ‡ Get Out Steven Spielberg The Post2018FemaleLynne RamsayYou Were Never Really Here Debra Granik Leave No Trace Marielle Heller Can You Ever Forgive Me? Tamara Jenkins Private Life Chloé Zhao The RiderMaleSpike Lee ‡BlacKkKlansman Ryan Coogler Black Panther Bradley Cooper A Star is Born Alfonso Cuarón † Roma Yorgos Lanthimos ‡ The Favourite2019FemaleOlivia WildeBooksmart Greta Gerwig Little Women Alma Har'el Honey Boy Lorene Scafaria Hustlers Lulu Wang The FarewellMaleNoah BaumbachMarriage Story Bong Joon-ho † Parasite Martin Scorsese ‡ The Irishman Quentin Tarantino ‡ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Taika Waititi Jojo Rabbit
2020s YearCategoryWinner and nomineesFilm2020FemaleChloé Zhao † Nomadland Sofia Coppola On the Rocks Emerald Fennell ‡ Promising Young Woman Eliza Hittman Never Rarely Sometimes Always Regina King One Night in Miami...MaleDarius Marder Sound of Metal Lee Isaac Chung ‡ Minari David Fincher ‡ Mank Shaka King Judas and the Black Messiah Spike Lee Da 5 Bloods2021Jane Campion † (TIE) The Power of the DogDenis Villeneuve (TIE) Dune Kenneth Branagh ‡ Belfast Guillermo del Toro Nightmare Alley Rebecca Hall Passing Siân Heder CODA Lin-Manuel Miranda tick, tick... BOOM! Reinaldo Marcus Green King Richard Pablo Larraín Spencer Steven Spielberg ‡ West Side Story2022Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert †Everything Everywhere All at Once James Cameron Avatar: The Way of Water Park Chan-wook Decision to Leave Todd Field ‡ Tár Baz Luhrmann Elvis Martin McDonagh ‡ The Banshees of Inisherin Sarah Polley Women Talking Gina Prince-Bythewood The Woman King S.S. Rajamouli RRR Steven Spielberg ‡ The Fabelmans2023Christopher Nolan †Oppenheimer Ben Affleck Air Bradley Cooper Maestro Emerald Fennell Saltburn Greta Gerwig Barbie Cord Jefferson American Fiction Yorgos Lanthimos ‡ Poor Things Alexander Payne The Holdovers Martin Scorsese ‡ Killers of the Flower Moon Celine Song Past Lives2024Jon M. ChuWicked Jacques Audiard ‡ Emilia Pérez Sean Baker † Anora Brady Corbet ‡ The Brutalist Coralie Fargeat ‡ The Substance Denis Villeneuve Dune: Part Two2025 Ryan Coogler ‡ Sinners Paul Thomas Anderson † One Battle After Another Guillermo del Toro Frankenstein Josh Safdie ‡ Marty Supreme Joachim Trier ‡ Sentimental Value Chloé Zhao ‡ Hamnet
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