Sutradara Terbaik (National Board of Review Award)

Pemenang

• † = Pemenang Sutradara Terbaik (Oscar)
• ‡ = Nominasi Sutradara Terbaik (Oscar)
• § = Bukan nominasi Sutradara Terbaik (Oscar)

1940-an

Tahun	Pemenang	Film
1945	Jean Renoir ‡	The Southerner
1946	William Wyler †	The Best Years of Our Lives
1947	Elia Kazan	Boomerang! §
		Gentleman's Agreement †
1948	Roberto Rossellini §	Paisan (Paisà)
1949	Vittorio De Sica §	Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette)

1950-an

Tahun	Pemenang	Film
1950	John Huston ‡	The Asphalt Jungle
1951	Akira Kurosawa §	Rashōmon
1952	David Lean §	The Sound Barrier
1953	George Stevens ‡	Shane
1954	Renato Castellani §	Romeo and Juliet
1955	William Wyler	The Desperate Hours
1956	John Huston §	Moby Dick
1957	David Lean †	The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958	John Ford §	The Last Hurrah
1959	Fred Zinnemann ‡	The Nun's Story

1960-an

Tahun	Pemenang	Film
1960	Jack Cardiff ‡	Sons and Lovers
1961	Jack Clayton §	The Innocents
1962	David Lean †	Lawrence of Arabia
1963	Tony Richardson †	Tom Jones
1964	Desmond Davis §	Girl with Green Eyes
1965	John Schlesinger ‡	Darling
1966	Fred Zinnemann †	A Man for All Seasons
1967	Richard Brooks ‡	In Cold Blood
1968	Franco Zeffirelli ‡	Romeo and Juliet
1969	Alfred Hitchcock §	Topaz

1970-an

Tahun	Pemenang	Film
1970	François Truffaut §	The Wild Child (L'enfant sauvage)
1971	Ken Russell	The Boy Friend §
		The Devils §
1972	Bob Fosse †	Cabaret
1973	Ingmar Bergman ‡	Cries and Whispers
1974	Francis Ford Coppola §	The Conversation
1975	Robert Altman ‡	Nashville
	Stanley Kubrick ‡	Barry Lyndon
1976	Alan J. Pakula ‡	All the President's Men
1977	Luis Buñuel §	That Obscure Object of Desire (Cet obscur objet du désir)
1978	Ingmar Bergman §	Autumn Sonata
1979	John Schlesinger §	Yanks

1980-an

Tahun	Pemenang	Film
1980	Robert Redford †	Ordinary People
1981	Warren Beatty †	Reds
1982	Sidney Lumet ‡	The Verdict
1983	James L. Brooks †	Terms of Endearment
1984	David Lean ‡	A Passage to India
1985	Akira Kurosawa ‡	Ran
1986	Woody Allen ‡	Hannah and Her Sisters
1987	Steven Spielberg §	Empire of the Sun
1988	Alan Parker ‡	Mississippi Burning
1989	Kenneth Branagh ‡	Henry V

1990-an

Tahun	Pemenang	Film
1990	Kevin Costner †	Dances with Wolves
1991	Jonathan Demme †	The Silence of the Lambs
1992	James Ivory ‡	Howards End
1993	Martin Scorsese §	The Age of Innocence
1994	Quentin Tarantino ‡	Pulp Fiction
1995	Ang Lee §	Sense and Sensibility
1996	Joel Coen ‡	Fargo
1997	Curtis Hanson ‡	L.A. Confidential
1998	Shekhar Kapur §	Elizabeth
1999	Anthony Minghella §	The Talented Mr. Ripley

2000-an

Tahun	Pemenang	Film
2000	Steven Soderbergh	Erin Brockovich ‡
		Traffic †
2001	Todd Field §	In the Bedroom
2002	Phillip Noyce	The Quiet American §
		Rabbit-Proof Fence §
2003	Edward Zwick §	The Last Samurai
2004	Michael Mann §	Collateral
2005	Ang Lee †	Brokeback Mountain
2006	Martin Scorsese †	The Departed
2007	Tim Burton §	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2008	David Fincher ‡	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2009	Clint Eastwood §	Invictus

2010-an

Tahun	Pemenang	Film
2010	David Fincher ‡	The Social Network
2011	Martin Scorsese ‡	Hugo
2012	Kathryn Bigelow §	Zero Dark Thirty
2013	Spike Jonze §	Her
2014	Clint Eastwood §	American Sniper
2015	Ridley Scott §	The Martian
2016	Barry Jenkins ‡	Moonlight
2017	Greta Gerwig ‡	Lady Bird
2018	Bradley Cooper §	A Star Is Born