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Best Director
Last Update: December 27 , 2006
 
 
RANK
NOMINEE
 SCORE CHANGE

1
Martin Scorsese
The Departed
 94 =

2
Clint Eastwood
Letters From Iwo Jima
 80 +3
3
Bill Condon
Dreamgirls
 77 -1
4
Stephen Frears
The Queen
 74 -1

5 Alejandro González Iñárritu
Babel
 63 -1
6 Paul Greengrass
United 93
 61 +1

7 Clint Eastwood
Flags of Our Fathers
 43 -1
8 Pedro Almodovar
Volver
 42 =
9 Todd Field
Little Children
 40 +4
10 Alfonso Cuaron
Children of Men
 34 +2
11 Daynton & Farris
Little Miss Sunshine
 32 +5
 
12 Robert Altman
A Prairie Home Companion
 32 +2
13 Robert De Niro
The Good Shepherd
 32 -3

14 Oliver Stone
World Trade Center
 29 -3
15 Mel Gibson
Apocalypto
 28 =
16 Guillermo Del Toro
Pan's Labyrynth
 27 +5
17 Edward Zwick
Blood Diamond
 25 +1
18 Steven Soderbergh
The Good German
 25 -9
 
19 Kevin Macdonald
The Last King of Scottland
 22 +3
20 Emilio Estevez
Bobby
 20 -1
21 Zhang Yimou
Curse of the Golden Flower
 19 -4
22 Chris Noonan
Miss Potter
 18 +3
23 Anthony Minghella
Breaking and Entering
 18 -3
 
24 Roger Mitchell
Venus
 17 +11
25 Gabriele Muccino
The Pursuit of Happyness
 17 -1
26 Jason Reitman
Thank You For Smoking
 17 +33
27 Christopher Nolan
The Prestige
 16 -4
28 Darren Aronofsky
The Fountain
 16 +8
 
29 Sofia Coppola
Marie-Antoinette
 16 +8
30 Spike Lee
Inside Man
 16 -2
31 Ryan Fleck
Half Nelson
 16 -5
32 Richard Eyre
Notes on a Scandal
 15 +7
33 Richard Linklater
A Scanner Darkly
 15 +1
 
34 David Lynch
Inland Empire
 15 +10
35 Michel Gondry
The Science of Sleep
 15 -2
36 David Ayer
Harsh Times
 15 -4
37 Allen Coulter
Hollywoodland
 15 -6
38 Mary Harron
The Notorious Bettie Page
 15 -8
 
39 John Hillcoat
The Proposition
 15 -10
40 John Cameron Mitchell
Shortbus
 15 -13
41 John Curran
The Painted Veil
 14 -3
42 Floria Henckel-Donnersmarck
The Lives of Others
 13 +15
43 Dito Montel
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
 13 -3
 
44 Karen Moncrieff
The Dead Girl
 13 -4
45 Ryan Murphy
Running with Scissors
 13 =
46 Deepha Mehta
Water
 13 NEW!
47

Ken Loach
The Wind that Shakes the Barley

 13 -4
48 Steven Soderbergh
Bubble
 13 -6
 
49 Nicholas Hytner
The History Boys
 12 +6

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