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Best Director
Last Update: November 8, 2006
 
 
RANK
NOMINEE
 SCORE CHANGE

1
Martin Scorsese
The Departed
 92 =

2
Bill Condon
Dreamgirls
 85 +2
3
Stephen Frears
The Queen
 73 +2
4
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Babel
 73 -2
5
Clint Eastwood
Flags of Our Fathers
 72 -2

6 Paul Greengrass
United 93
 56 +1
7 Steven Soderbergh
The Good German
 54 -1

8
Todd Field
Little Children
 46 +1
9
Pedro Almodovar
Volver
 45 +1
10
Robert De Niro
The Good Shepherd
 42 -2
11
Emilio Estevez
Bobby
 36 +2
12
Alfonso Cuaron
Children of Men
 35 =
 
13
Oliver Stone
World Trade Center
 32 -2

14
Christopher Nolan
The Prestige
 29 +2
15
Robert Altman
A Prairie Home Companion
 27 +2
16
Kevin Macdonald
The Last King of Scottland
 27 -1
17
Philip Noyce
Catch a Fire
 24 -3
18
Edward Zwick
Blood Diamond
 23 +2
 
19
Anthony Minghella
Breaking and Entering
 22 =
20
Chris Noonan
Miss Potter
 19 +1
21
Mel Gibson
Apocalypto
 19 +4
22
Sofia Coppola
Marie-Antoinette
 19 -4
23
Daynton & Farris
Little Miss Sunshine
 19 +10
 
24
Zhang Yimou
Curse of the Golden Flowe
 16 +13
25
Richard Linklater
A Scanner Darklyr
 15 +14
26
Guillermo Del Toro
Pan's Labyrynth
 15 +2
26
Roger Mitchell
Venus
 15 -2
26
Darren Aronofsky
The Fountain
 15 +3
 
26
Michel Gondry
The Science of Sleep
 15 -4
26
David Ayer
Harsh Times
 15 +13
26
Allen Coulter
Hollywoodland
 15 +13
26
Mary Harron
The Notorious Bettie Page
 15 +13
26
John Hillcoat
The Proposition
 15 +13
 
26
Spike Lee
Inside Man
 15 +13
26
John Cameron Mitchell
Shortbus
 15 +13
36
Nicholas Hytner
The History Boys
 14 +10
36
Richard Eyre
Notes on a Scandal
 14 +10
36
Ryan Murphy
Running with Scissors
 14 +10
 
39
Christopher Guest
For Your Consideration
 13 -1
40
Milos Forman
Goya's Ghosts
 13 +10
40
Ridley Scott
A Good Year
 13 +10
42
Brian De Palma
The Black Dahlia
 12 +10
42
Catherine Hardwicke
The Nativity Story
 12 NEW
 
42
Ken Loach
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
 12 +5
45
Marc Forster
Stranger Than Fiction
 11 +10
45
Larry Charles
Borat
 11 +5

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