Astra Film Award for Best Director

Astra Film Award for Best Director
The 2024 recipient: Jon M. Chu
Awarded for	Best Direction of a Motion Picture
Country	United States
Presented by	Hollywood Creative Alliance
First award	Female: Greta Gerwig - Lady Bird (2017) Male: Guillermo del Toro - The Shape of Water (2017)
Currently held by	Jon M. Chu Wicked (2024)
Website	hollywoodcreative.org

The Astra Film Award for Best Director is one of the annual awards given out by the Hollywood Creative Alliance. From 2017-2020, the award was separated into male and female categories.

Winners

• † = Winner of the Academy Award for Best Director
• ‡ = Nominated of the Academy Award for Best Director

2010s

Best Female Director

Year	Winner and nominees	Film
2017 [1]	Greta Gerwig ‡	Lady Bird
	Kathryn Bigelow	Detroit
	Sofia Coppola	The Beguiled
	Patty Jenkins	Wonder Woman
	Dee Rees	Mudbound
2018 [2]	Lynne Ramsay	You Were Never Really Here
	Debra Granik	Leave No Trace
	Marielle Heller	Can You Ever Forgive Me?
	Tamara Jenkins	Private Life
	Chloé Zhao	The Rider
2019 [3]	Olivia Wilde	Booksmart
	Greta Gerwig	Little Women
	Alma Har'el	Honey Boy
	Lorene Scafaria	Hustlers
	Lulu Wang	The Farewell

Best Male Director

Year	Winner and nominees	Film
2017	Guillermo del Toro †	BlacKkKlansman
	Luca Guadagnino	Call Me by Your Name
	Christopher Nolan ‡	Dunkirk
	Jordan Peele ‡	Get Out
	Steven Spielberg	The Post
2018	Spike Lee ‡	BlacKkKlansman
	Ryan Coogler	Black Panther
	Bradley Cooper	A Star is Born
	Alfonso Cuarón †	Roma
	Yorgos Lanthimos ‡	The Favourite
2019	Noah Baumbach	Marriage Story
	Bong Joon-ho †	Parasite
	Martin Scorsese ‡	The Irishman
	Quentin Tarantino ‡	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
	Taika Waititi	Jojo Rabbit

2020s

Best Female Director

Year	Winner and nominees	Film
2020 [4]	Chloé Zhao †	Nomadland
	Sofia Coppola	On the Rocks
	Emerald Fennell ‡	Promising Young Woman
	Eliza Hittman	Never Rarely Sometimes Always
	Regina King	One Night in Miami...

Best Male Director

Year	Winner and nominees	Film
2020	Darius Marder	Sound of Metal
	Lee Isaac Chung ‡	Minari
	David Fincher ‡	Mank
	Shaka King	Judas and the Black Messiah
	Spike Lee	Da 5 Bloods

Best Director

Year	Winner and nominees	Film
2021 [5]	Jane Campion † (TIE)	The Power of the Dog
	Denis Villeneuve (TIE)	Dune
	Kenneth Branagh ‡	Belfast
	Guillermo del Toro	Nightmare Alley
	Rebecca Hall	Passing
	Siân Heder	CODA
	Lin-Manuel Miranda	tick, tick... BOOM!
	Reinaldo Marcus Green	King Richard
	Pablo Larraín	Spencer
	Steven Spielberg ‡	West Side Story
2022 [6]	Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert †	Everything Everywhere All at Once
	James Cameron	Avatar: The Way of Water
	Park Chan-wook	Decision to Leave
	Todd Field ‡	Tár
	Baz Luhrmann	Elvis
	Martin McDonagh ‡	The Banshees of Inisherin
	Sarah Polley	Women Talking
	Gina Prince-Bythewood	The Woman King
	S.S. Rajamouli	RRR
	Steven Spielberg ‡	The Fabelmans
2023 [7]	Christopher Nolan †	Oppenheimer
	Ben Affleck	Air
	Bradley Cooper	Maestro
	Emerald Fennell	Saltburn
	Greta Gerwig	Barbie
	Cord Jefferson	American Fiction
	Yorgos Lanthimos ‡	Poor Things
	Alexander Payne	The Holdovers
	Martin Scorsese ‡	Killers of the Flower Moon
	Celine Song	Past Lives
2024 [8]	Jon M. Chu	Wicked
	Jacques Audiard ‡	Emilia Pérez
	Sean Baker †	Anora
	Brady Corbet ‡	The Brutalist
	Coralie Fargeat ‡	The Substance
	Denis Villeneuve	Dune: Part Two

References

1. "2017".
2. "2018".
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