Silver Bear for Best Director winners

Japanese filmmaker (1910–1998)

Indian filmmaker and writer (1921–1992)

French-Polish filmmaker (born 1933)

French and Swiss film director (1930–2022)

Czech American director, screenwriter, and professor (1932–2018)

American film director, screenwriter, and producer (born 1946)

Polish film director and screenwriter (1941–1996)

South Korean film director (1960–2020)

American filmmaker (1944–2017)

American filmmaker (born 1969)

Iranian screenwriter and film director

Finnish film director (born 1957)

Spanish photographer and film director (1932–2023)

Paul Thomas Anderson, also known by his initials PTA, is an American filmmaker. Often described as one of the preeminent filmmakers of his generation, he is the recipient of three Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, four BAFTAs, three Critics Choice Awards, and nominations for a Grammy. He is the only person to have won the Academy Award for Best Director and directorial prizes at Europe's three major film festivals: Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, and the Berlin International Film Festival. In addition to those accolades, he won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.

French film director (1920-2010)

American director and screenwriter (born 1960)

Canadian film director, producer and actor (1926–2024)

Italian film director and screenwriter (1915–2010)

Italian film director (1922–2015)

British film director and producer (born 1941)

American screenwriter and film director (1932–2025)

French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor and producer (1944-2013)

Italian screenwriter and film director (1931–2016)

French film director (born 1946)

American film director, screenwriter and producer (1918–1983)

Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and opera director (born 1938)

Georgian film director (1934-2023)

Irish filmmaker and fiction writer

British film director (born 1961)

Swedish film director, cinematographer, screenwriter and film editor

French film director, screenwriter, and actress (born 1981)

filmmaker (1941-2011)

Austrian actor and film director (1919–2000)

French director, cinematographer, screenwriter, film editor, and producer (b. 1948)

Dutch filmmaker, actor and producer (1920-2007)

German film director (born 1960)

Romanian film director

Polish film director, screenwriter

festival award

Japanese film director (1912–1991)

South Korean film director (born 1960)

Soviet and Russian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor (1944—2021)

American filmmaker (born 1975)

German actress, film director and screenwriter

German film director, screenwriter and actor (1938–2024)

Israeli film director (born 1968)

British screenwriter and director

Greek film director (1926–2017)

Georgian film director (1937–2020)

Spanish screenwriter and film director

Italian actor and film director (born 1955)

film director (1942–2004)

German film director

Serbian writer and filmmaker (1933-1998)

film director, screenwriter (1914-2002)

British film director

British film and television director

Hungarian film director

Greek film director

German film director