Best Director Oscar winners of the 2010s
The top 3 according to 138 votes from people: Michel Hazanavicius — The Artist · Tom Hooper — The King's Speech · Alfonso Cuarón — Gravity. (Updated Mar 24, 2026.)
The directors who won the Academy Award for Best Director for films from 2010 to 2019, with two wins each for Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Alfonso Cuarón.
Top 10
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Michel Hazanavicius — The Artist
2011 film. A silent, black-and-white tribute to early Hollywood.
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Tom Hooper — The King's Speech
2010 film. George VI and his speech therapist.
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Alfonso Cuarón — Gravity
2013 film. An astronaut adrift in orbit.
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Alejandro G. Iñárritu — The Revenant
2015 film. Leonardo DiCaprio left for dead in the frontier wilderness.
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Ang Lee — Life of Pi
2012 film. A boy and a tiger in a lifeboat.
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Guillermo del Toro — The Shape of Water
2017 film. A mute cleaner and an amphibian man.
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Bong Joon-ho — Parasite
2019 film. The first non-English-language Best Picture winner too.
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Damien Chazelle — La La Land
2016 film. At 32, the youngest Best Director winner.
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Alfonso Cuarón — Roma
2018 film. A domestic worker in 1970s Mexico City.
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Alejandro G. Iñárritu — Birdman
2014 film. A faded superhero actor stages a Broadway play.
How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.
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Comments (5)
Cuarón's Gravity win, a technical masterpiece.
Bong Joon-ho closing out the decade with Parasite, perfect.
Chazelle youngest ever Best Director winner.
The three amigos dominated the decade: Cuarón, Iñárritu, del Toro.
Iñárritu winning back to back, rare feat.