Best Director

1. Quentin Tarantino – Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood
2. James Mangold – Ford v. Ferrari   (UP 1)
3. Destin Daniel Cretton – Just Mercy  (*NEW)
4. Noah Baumbach – Marriage Story  (*NEW)
5. Scott Z. Burns – The Report  (DOWN 1)
   

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6. Greta Gerwig – Little Women   (UP 4)
7. Martin Scorsese – The Irishman   (DOWN 1)
8. Pedro Almodovar – Pain and Glory
9. Lulu Wang – The Farewell   (UP 2)
10. Taika Waititi – Jojo Rabbit   (UP 10)
11. Jennifer Kent – The Nightingale   (DOWN 6)
12. Melina Matsoukas – Queen+Slim   (DOWN 5)
13. Ang Lee – Gemini Man   (DOWN 5)
14. Sam Mendes – 1917
15. Marielle Heller – A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
16. Steven Soderbergh – The Laundromat
17. Bong Joon-Ho – Parasite
18. Jon Favreau – The Lion King
19. Terrence Malick – A Hidden Life
20. Rian Johnson – Knives Out
21. Josh Trank – Fonzo
22. John Crowley – The Goldfinch
23. Kasi Lemmons – Harriet
24. Céline Sciamma – Portrait of a Lady On Fire
25. Dexter Fletcher – Rocketman
26. Bill Condon – The Good Liar
27. Fernando Meirelles – The Two Popes
28. Jordan Peele – Us
29. Tom Hooper – Cats
30. The Dardenne Brothers – Young Ahmed
31. Richard Linklater – Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
32. J.C. Chandor – Triple Frontier
33. Michael Engler – Downton Abbey
34. Jay Roach – Fair and Balanced
35. Danny Boyle – Yesterday   (DOWN 32)
36. Todd Haynes – Dry Run  (DOWN 36) *
37. Dee Rees – The Last Thing He Wanted  (DOWN 19) *

* = Currently In Production, May Be 2020