Jonathan Demme

Jonathan Demme
Demme at the 2015 Montclair Film Festival
Born	Robert Jonathan Demme (1944-02-22)February 22, 1944 Baldwin, New York, U.S.
Died	April 26, 2017(2017-04-26) (aged 73) Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Florida
Occupation	Film director, film producer, screenwriter
Years active	1968–2017
Spouse(s)	Joanne Howard Evelyn Purcell
Children	3
Relatives	Ted Demme (nephew)

Robert Jonathan Demme (/ˈdɛmi/ DEM-ee;^[1] February 22, 1944 – April 26, 2017) was an American director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the psychological horror The Silence of the Lambs (1991), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director. He also directed Melvin and Howard (1980), Swing Shift (1984), Something Wild (1986), Married to the Mob (1988), the concert film Stop Making Sense (1984), Philadelphia (1993) and Rachel Getting Married (2008).

Contents

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  1 Early life
  


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  2 Career
  
  
  
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    2.1 Early films
    
  
  
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    2.2 Later films
    
  
  
  
  


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  3 Style
  


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  4 Political activism
  


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  5 Personal life
  


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  6 Death
  


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  7 Works
  
  
  
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    7.1 Feature film
    
  
  
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    7.2 Documentary
    
  
  
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    7.3 Television
    
  
  
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    7.4 Other
    
  
  
  
  


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  8 Awards and nominations
  


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  9 References
  


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  10 External links
  

Early life

Demme was born on February 22, 1944 in Baldwin, New York, the son of Dorothy Louise (née Rogers)^[2] and Robert Eugene Demme, a public relations executive.^[3][4] He graduated from Southwest Miami High School^[5] and the University of Florida.^[6]

Career

Early films

Demme broke into feature film working for exploitation film producer Roger Corman early in his career, co-writing and producing Angels Hard as They Come (1971), a motorcycle movie very loosely based on Rashomon,^[7] and The Hot Box (1972). He then moved on to directing three films for Corman's studio New World Pictures: Caged Heat (1974), Crazy Mama (1975), and Fighting Mad (1976). After Fighting Mad, Demme directed the comedy film Handle with Care (originally titled Citizens Band, 1977) for Paramount Pictures. The film was well received by critics,^[8] but received little promotion,^[9] and performed poorly at the box office.^[10]

Demme's next film, Melvin and Howard (1980), did not get a wide release, but received a groundswell of critical acclaim, and led to the signing of Demme to direct the Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell star vehicle Swing Shift (1984). Intended as a prestige picture for Warner Bros.^[11] as well as a major commercial vehicle for Demme,^[12] it instead became a troubled production due to the conflicting visions of Demme and star Hawn. Demme ended up renouncing the finished product, and when the film was released in May 1984, it was generally panned by critics and neglected by moviegoers.^[11] After Swing Shift, Demme stepped back from Hollywood to make the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense (also 1984) which won the National Society of Film Critics Award for best documentary;^[13] the eclectic screwball action-romantic comedy Something Wild (1986); a film-version of the stage production Swimming to Cambodia (1987), by monologist Spalding Gray; and the New York Mafia-by-way-of Downtown comedy Married to the Mob.^a[›]

Demme formed his production company, Clinica Estetico, with producers Edward Saxon and Peter Saraf in 1987.^[14][15] They were based out of New York City for fifteen years.^[16][17]

Later films

Demme won the Academy Award for The Silence of the Lambs (1991)—one of only three films to win all the major categories (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Actress).^[18] Inspired by his friend Juan Suárez Botas's illness with AIDS^[19] and fueled by his own moral convictions,^[7] Demme then used his influence to make Philadelphia (1993),^[20] one of the first major films to address the AIDS crisis^[20] and which garnered star Tom Hanks his first Best Actor Oscar.^[20] He also co-directed (with his nephew Ted) the music video for Bruce Springsteen's Best Song Oscar-winning "Streets of Philadelphia" from the film's soundtrack.^[21]

Subsequently, his films included an adaptation of Toni Morrison's Beloved (1998), and remakes of two films from the 1960s: The Truth About Charlie (2002), based on Charade, that starred Mark Wahlberg in the Cary Grant role; and The Manchurian Candidate (2004), with Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep. Demme's documentary film Man from Plains (2007), a documentary about former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's promotional tour publicizing his book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, had its premiere at the Venice Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival.

His art-house hit Rachel Getting Married (2008) was compared by many critics to Demme's films of the late 1970s and 1980s.^[22][23][24] It was included in many 2008 "best of" lists, and received numerous awards and nominations, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress by lead Anne Hathaway. In 2010, Demme made his first foray into theater, directing Family Week, a play by Beth Henley. The play was produced by MCC Theater and co-starred Rosemarie DeWitt and Kathleen Chalfant.^[25]

At one time, Demme was signed on to direct, produce, and write an adaptation of Stephen King's sci-fi novel 11/22/63, but later left due to disagreements with King on what should be included in the script.^[26]

He returned to the concert documentary format with Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids (2016), which he described as a "performance film, but also a portrait of an artist at a certain moment in the arc of his career",^[19] and his last project was a history of rock & roll for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame compiled from footage from Hall of Fame induction ceremonies set to debut in summer 2017.^[19]

Demme directed music videos for artists such as Suburban Lawns, New Order, KRS-One's H.E.A.L. project and Bruce Springsteen. He also produced a compilation of Haitian music called Konbit: Burning Rhythms of Haiti that was released in 1989. (Lou Reed selected Konbit... as one of his 'picks of 1989').^[27]

Demme was on the board of directors at Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, New York. In addition to his role on the board, he curated and hosted a monthly series called "Rarely Seen Cinema".^[28]

Style

Throughout 1986–2004, Demme was known for his dramatic close-ups in films. This style of close-ups involves the character looking directly into the camera during crucial moments, particularly in the "Quid pro quo" scene in Silence of the Lambs. According to Demme, this was done to put the viewer into the character's shoes. Beginning with Rachel Getting Married (2008), Demme adopted a documentary style of filmmaking.^[29][30]

Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson has paid homage to Demme in his films and has cited him as a major influence in his work. In an interview, Anderson jokingly stated that the three filmmakers who inspired him the most are "Jonathan Demme, Jonathan Demme and Jonathan Demme."^[31][32] Other directors such as Alexander Payne and Wes Anderson have been known to copy his close-ups in their own work.^[33][34]

Political activism

Demme was involved in various political projects. In 1981, he directed a series of commercials for the liberal advocacy group People for the American Way. The spots, titled "Eggs",^[35] "Music",^[36][37] and "Sports",^[38] were produced by Norman Lear and featured Muhammad Ali, Carol Burnett, and Goldie Hawn celebrating Freedom of Expression.^[39] In 1985, he directed a video for Artists United Against Apartheid. The short, featured various international musicians including Afrika Bambaataa, Rubén Blades, Jimmy Cliff, Herbie Hancock, Little Steven, Run–D.M.C., and Bruce Springsteen, calling for a boycott of the South African luxury resort Sun City during Apartheid. His documentary Haiti Dreams of Democracy (1988) captured Haiti's era of democratic rebuilding after dictatorship, while his documentary The Agronomist (2008) profiled Haitian journalist and human rights activist Jean Dominique. Demme spent six years on the documentary I'm Carolyn Parker (2011), which highlighted rebuilding efforts in New Orleans Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina.

Personal life

Demme was married twice, first to Evelyn Purcell and then Joanne Howard, with whom he had three children: Ramona, Brooklyn, and Jos.^[40] He was the uncle of film director Ted Demme, who died in 2002.^[41] Demme's cousin was the Rev. Robert Wilkinson Castle Jr., an Episcopal priest who appeared in some of Demme's films.

Demme was a member of the steering committee of the Friends of the Apollo Theater, Oberlin, Ohio, along with Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman.^[42] In 2013, he returned to Oberlin as part of an alumni reunion during the class of 2013 graduation ceremony and received the award for Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts.^{[citation needed]}

Demme was an avid collector and devotee of Haitian art; in particular of Hector Hyppolite; so much so that he called it "an addiction". In 2014, he held an auction in Philadelphia selling thousands from his collection, much of which was donated to a cultural center in Port-au-Prince.^[43]

Death

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“I am heart-broken to lose a friend, a mentor, a guy so singular and dynamic you’d have to design a hurricane to contain him,” she said in the statement. “Jonathan was as quirky as his comedies and as deep as his dramas. He was pure energy, the unstoppable cheerleader for anyone creative. Just as passionate about music as he was about art, he was and will always be a champion of the soul. JD, most beloved, something wild, brother of love, director of the lambs. Love that guy. Love him so much.”

— Jodie Foster's statement following Demme's demise.^[44]

On the morning of April 26, 2017, Demme died at the age of 73 in Manhattan, New York due to complications from esophageal cancer and heart disease.^[45][40]

Works

Feature film

Title	Year	Credited as				Notes
		Director	Writer	Producer	Other
Angels Hard as They Come	1971		Yes	Yes[46]
The Hot Box	1972		Yes	Yes[46]		Second unit director
Black Mama White Mama	1973				Story[46]
Caged Heat	1974	Yes	Yes[46]
Crazy Mama	1975	Yes[46]
Fighting Mad	1976	Yes	Yes[46]
Handle with Care	1977	Yes[46]				A.K.A. Citizen's Band
Last Embrace	1979	Yes[46]			Actor	Role: Man on Train
Melvin and Howard	1980	Yes[46]
Swing Shift	1984	Yes[46]
Something Wild	1986	Yes		Yes[46]
Swimming to Cambodia	1987	Yes[46]
Married to the Mob	1988	Yes[46]
The Silence of the Lambs	1991	Yes[46]
Philadelphia	1993	Yes		Yes[46]
Beloved	1998	Yes[46]
Adaptation.	2002			Yes[46]
The Truth About Charlie		Yes	Yes	Yes[46]
The Manchurian Candidate	2004	Yes		Yes[46]
Rachel Getting Married	2008	Yes		Yes[46]
A Master Builder	2013	Yes[20]
Ricki and the Flash	2015	Yes[46]				Final directorial movie

Documentary

Title	Year	Credited as			Notes
		Director	Writer	Producer
Stop Making Sense	1984	Yes	Yes[46]
Haiti: Dreams of Democracy	1987	Yes	Yes	Yes[46]
Cousin Bobby	1992	Yes[46]
The Complex Sessions	1994	Yes[46]
Storefront Hitchcock	1998	Yes[46]
The Agronomist	2003	Yes	Yes	Yes[46]	Cinematographer
Neil Young: Heart of Gold	2006	Yes[46]
Man from Plains	2007	Yes		Yes[46]
Right to Return: New Home Movies From the Lower 9th Ward		Yes[47]
Neil Young Trunk Show	2009	Yes[46]
I'm Carolyn Parker	2011	Yes[48]		Yes	Cinematographer
Neil Young Journeys	2012	Yes		Yes[46]
Enzo Avitabile Music Life		Yes[49]		Yes
What's Motivating Hayes	2015	Yes[50]			Short
Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids	2016	Yes[20]

Television

Title	Year	Credited as			Notes
		Director	Writer	Producer
Columbo	1978	Yes[46]			Episode: "Murder Under Glass"
Saturday Night Live	1980–86	Yes	Yes[51]		3 episodes
American Playhouse	1982	Yes[46]			Episode: "Who Am I This Time?"
Trying Times	1987	Yes[46]			Episode: "A Family Tree"
Subway Stories	1997	Yes[46]			Segment: "Subway Car from Hell"
Enlightened	2011	Yes[52]			2 episodes
A Gifted Man		Yes[52]		Yes	Episode: "Pilot"
The Killing	2013–14	Yes[53]			2 episodes
Shots Fired	2017	Yes[20]			Episode: "Hour Six: The Fire This Time"
Seven Seconds	2018	Yes			Episode: "Brenton's Breath", Posthumous release

Other

Title	Year	Credited as			Notes
		Director	Producer	Other
Fly Me	1972			Second unit director[46]
The Incredible Melting Man	1977			Actor	Role: Matt Winters[46]
"The Perfect Kiss"	1985	Yes[46]			Music video for New Order
Into the Night				Actor[46]	Role: Federal Agent
"Away"	1988	Yes			Music video for The Feelies[54]
Miami Blues	1990		Yes[46]
Women & Men 2	1991		Yes[46]
Amos & Andrew	1993			Executive producer[52]	Uncredited
Household Saints				Executive producer[46]
One Foot on a Banana Peel, the Other Foot in the Grave: Secrets from the Dolly Madison Room 1994	1994		Yes[52]		Documentary
"Murder Incorporated"	1995	Yes[46]			Music video for Bruce Springsteen
Devil in a Blue Dress				Executive producer[52]
That Thing You Do!	1996		Yes[46]	Actor	Role: Producer of That Thing You Do! Director of Weekend At Party Pier
Mandela			Yes[46]
Shadrach	1998			Executive producer[46]
Oz	2000			Actor	Role: Commercial Director[52]
The Opportunists				Executive producer[46]
Maangamizi: The Ancient One	2001			Executive producer[52]
Adaptation.	2002		Yes[46]
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks	2003		Yes[46]
Crude Independence	2009			Executive producer[52]
Gimme the Loot	2012		Yes[55]
Song One	2014		Yes[52]
The Center	2015			Executive producer[56]
Deep Time				Executive producer[57]

Awards and nominations

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  Academy Award
  
  • 1991: The Silence of the Lambs (won – Best Director)^[18]
    
  
  


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  Golden Globe Award
  
  • 1991: The Silence of the Lambs (nomination – Best Director)^[58]
    
  
  


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  BAFTA Award
  
  
  
  • 1991: The Silence of the Lambs (nomination – Best Film)
  
  
  • 1991: The Silence of the Lambs (nomination – Best Director)
  
  
  
  


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  Saturn Award
  
  • 1991: The Silence of the Lambs (won – Best Horror Film)^[59]
    
  
  


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  Berlin International Film Festival
  
  
  
  • 1991: The Silence of the Lambs (won – Silver Bear for Best Director)^[60]
    
  
  
  • 1991: The Silence of the Lambs (nomination – Golden Bear)^[61]
    
  
  
  • 1994: Philadelphia (nomination – Golden Bear)^[62]
    
  
  
  
  

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v t e Films directed by Jonathan Demme

Caged Heat (1974) Crazy Mama (1975) Fighting Mad (1976) Handle with Care (1977) Last Embrace (1979) Melvin and Howard (1980) Who Am I This Time? (1982) Swing Shift (1984) Stop Making Sense (1984) Something Wild (1986) Swimming to Cambodia (1987) Married to the Mob (1988) The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Cousin Bobby (1992) Philadelphia (1993) Storefront Hitchcock (1998) Beloved (1998) The Truth About Charlie (2002) The Agronomist (2003) The Manchurian Candidate (2004) Neil Young: Heart of Gold (2006) Man from Plains (2007) Rachel Getting Married (2008) Neil Young Trunk Show (2009) Neil Young Journeys (2011) A Master Builder (2013) Ricki and the Flash (2015) Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids (2016)

Awards for Jonathan Demme

v t e Academy Award for Best Director 1927–1950 Frank Borzage (1927) Lewis Milestone (1928) Frank Lloyd (1929) Lewis Milestone (1930) Norman Taurog (1931) Frank Borzage (1932) Frank Lloyd (1933) Frank Capra (1934) John Ford (1935) Frank Capra (1936) Leo McCarey (1937) Frank Capra (1938) Victor Fleming (1939) John Ford (1940) John Ford (1941) William Wyler (1942) Michael Curtiz (1943) Leo McCarey (1944) Billy Wilder (1945) William Wyler (1946) Elia Kazan (1947) John Huston (1948) Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949) Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950) 1951–1975 George Stevens (1951) John Ford (1952) Fred Zinnemann (1953) Elia Kazan (1954) Delbert Mann (1955) George Stevens (1956) David Lean (1957) Vincente Minnelli (1958) William Wyler (1959) Billy Wilder (1960) Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise (1961) David Lean (1962) Tony Richardson (1963) George Cukor (1964) Robert Wise (1965) Fred Zinnemann (1966) Mike Nichols (1967) Carol Reed (1968) John Schlesinger (1969) Franklin J. Schaffner (1970) William Friedkin (1971) Bob Fosse (1972) George Roy Hill (1973) Francis Ford Coppola (1974) Miloš Forman (1975) 1976–2000 John G. Avildsen (1976) Woody Allen (1977) Michael Cimino (1978) Robert Benton (1979) Robert Redford (1980) Warren Beatty (1981) Richard Attenborough (1982) James L. Brooks (1983) Miloš Forman (1984) Sydney Pollack (1985) Oliver Stone (1986) Bernardo Bertolucci (1987) Barry Levinson (1988) Oliver Stone (1989) Kevin Costner (1990) Jonathan Demme (1991) Clint Eastwood (1992) Steven Spielberg (1993) Robert Zemeckis (1994) Mel Gibson (1995) Anthony Minghella (1996) James Cameron (1997) Steven Spielberg (1998) Sam Mendes (1999) Steven Soderbergh (2000) 2001–present Ron Howard (2001) Roman Polanski (2002) Peter Jackson (2003) Clint Eastwood (2004) Ang Lee (2005) Martin Scorsese (2006) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007) Danny Boyle (2008) Kathryn Bigelow (2009) Tom Hooper (2010) Michel Hazanavicius (2011) Ang Lee (2012) Alfonso Cuarón (2013) Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2014) Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2015) Damien Chazelle (2016) Guillermo del Toro (2017) v t e Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film 1948–1975 Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1948) Robert Rossen (1949) Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950) George Stevens (1951) John Ford (1952) Fred Zinnemann (1953) Elia Kazan (1954) Delbert Mann (1955) George Stevens (1956) David Lean (1957) Vincente Minnelli (1958) William Wyler (1959) Billy Wilder (1960) Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise (1961) David Lean (1962) Tony Richardson (1963) George Cukor (1964) Robert Wise (1965) Fred Zinnemann (1966) Mike Nichols (1967) Anthony Harvey (1968) John Schlesinger (1969) Franklin J. Schaffner (1970) William Friedkin (1971) Francis Ford Coppola (1972) George Roy Hill (1973) Francis Ford Coppola (1974) Miloš Forman (1975) 1976–2000 John G. Avildsen (1976) Woody Allen (1977) Michael Cimino (1978) Robert Benton (1979) Robert Redford (1980) Warren Beatty (1981) Richard Attenborough (1982) James L. Brooks (1983) Miloš Forman (1984) Steven Spielberg (1985) Oliver Stone (1986) Bernardo Bertolucci (1987) Barry Levinson (1988) Oliver Stone (1989) Kevin Costner (1990) Jonathan Demme (1991) Clint Eastwood (1992) Steven Spielberg (1993) Robert Zemeckis (1994) Ron Howard (1995) Anthony Minghella (1996) James Cameron (1997) Steven Spielberg (1998) Sam Mendes (1999) Ang Lee (2000) 2001–present Ron Howard (2001) Rob Marshall (2002) Peter Jackson (2003) Clint Eastwood (2004) Ang Lee (2005) Martin Scorsese (2006) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007) Danny Boyle (2008) Kathryn Bigelow (2009) Tom Hooper (2010) Michel Hazanavicius (2011) Ben Affleck (2012) Alfonso Cuarón (2013) Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2014) Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2015) Damien Chazelle (2016) Guillermo del Toro (2017) v t e National Board of Review Award for Best Director Jean Renoir (1945) William Wyler (1946) Elia Kazan (1947) Roberto Rossellini (1948) Vittorio De Sica (1949) John Huston (1950) Akira Kurosawa (1951) David Lean (1952) George Stevens (1953) Renato Castellani (1954) William Wyler (1955) John Huston (1956) David Lean (1957) John Ford (1958) Fred Zinnemann (1959) Jack Cardiff (1960) Jack Clayton (1961) David Lean (1962) Tony Richardson (1963) Desmond Davis (1964) John Schlesinger (1965) Fred Zinnemann (1966) Richard Brooks (1967) Franco Zeffirelli (1968) Alfred Hitchcock (1969) François Truffaut (1970) Ken Russell (1971) Bob Fosse (1972) Ingmar Bergman (1973) Francis Ford Coppola (1974) Robert Altman / Stanley Kubrick (1975) Alan J. Pakula (1976) Luis Buñuel (1977) Ingmar Bergman (1978) John Schlesinger (1979) Robert Redford (1980) Warren Beatty (1981) Sidney Lumet (1982) James L. Brooks (1983) David Lean (1984) Akira Kurosawa (1985) Woody Allen (1986) Steven Spielberg (1987) Alan Parker (1988) Kenneth Branagh (1989) Kevin Costner (1990) Jonathan Demme (1991) James Ivory (1992) Martin Scorsese (1993) Quentin Tarantino (1994) Ang Lee (1995) Joel Coen (1996) Curtis Hanson (1997) Shekhar Kapur (1998) Anthony Minghella (1999) Steven Soderbergh (2000) Todd Field (2001) Phillip Noyce (2002) Edward Zwick (2003) Michael Mann (2004) Ang Lee (2005) Martin Scorsese (2006) Tim Burton (2007) David Fincher (2008) Clint Eastwood (2009) David Fincher (2010) Martin Scorsese (2011) Kathryn Bigelow (2012) Spike Jonze (2013) Clint Eastwood (2014) Ridley Scott (2015) Barry Jenkins (2016) Greta Gerwig (2017) Bradley Cooper (2018) v t e New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director John Ford (1935) Rouben Mamoulian (1936) Gregory La Cava (1937) Alfred Hitchcock (1938) John Ford (1939) John Ford (1940) John Ford (1941) John Farrow (1942) George Stevens (1943) Leo McCarey (1944) Billy Wilder (1945) William Wyler (1946) Elia Kazan (1947) John Huston (1948) Carol Reed (1949) Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950) Elia Kazan (1951) Fred Zinnemann (1952) Fred Zinnemann (1953) Elia Kazan (1954) David Lean (1955) John Huston (1956) David Lean (1957) Stanley Kramer (1958) Fred Zinnemann (1959) Jack Cardiff / Billy Wilder (1960) Robert Rossen (1961) No award (1962) Tony Richardson (1963) Stanley Kubrick (1964) John Schlesinger (1965) Fred Zinnemann (1966) Mike Nichols (1967) Paul Newman (1968) Costa-Gavras (1969) Bob Rafelson (1970) Stanley Kubrick (1971) Ingmar Bergman (1972) François Truffaut (1973) Federico Fellini (1974) Robert Altman (1975) Alan J. Pakula (1976) Woody Allen (1977) Terrence Malick (1978) Woody Allen (1979) Jonathan Demme (1980) Sidney Lumet (1981) Sydney Pollack (1982) Ingmar Bergman (1983) David Lean (1984) John Huston (1985) Woody Allen (1986) James L. Brooks (1987) Chris Menges (1988) Paul Mazursky (1989) Martin Scorsese (1990) Jonathan Demme (1991) Robert Altman (1992) Jane Campion (1993) Quentin Tarantino (1994) Ang Lee (1995) Lars von Trier (1996) Curtis Hanson (1997) Terrence Malick (1998) Mike Leigh (1999) Steven Soderbergh (2000) Robert Altman (2001) Todd Haynes (2002) Sofia Coppola (2003) Clint Eastwood (2004) Ang Lee (2005) Martin Scorsese (2006) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007) Mike Leigh (2008) Kathryn Bigelow (2009) David Fincher (2010) Michel Hazanavicius (2011) Kathryn Bigelow (2012) Steve McQueen (2013) Richard Linklater (2014) Todd Haynes (2015) Barry Jenkins (2016) Sean Baker (2017) Alfonso Cuarón (2018) v t e Silver Bear for Best Director Robert Aldrich (1956) Mario Monicelli (1957) Tadashi Imai (1958) Akira Kurosawa (1959) Jean-Luc Godard (1960) Bernhard Wicki (1961) Francesco Rosi (1962) Nikos Koundouros (1963) Satyajit Ray (1964) Satyajit Ray (1965) Carlos Saura (1966) Živojin Pavlović (1967) Carlos Saura (1968) Jean-Pierre Blanc (1972) Sergei Solovyov (1975) Mario Monicelli (1976) Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón (1977) Georgi Djulgerov (1978) Astrid Henning-Jensen (1979) István Szabó (1980) Mario Monicelli (1982) Éric Rohmer (1983) Costas Ferris / Ettore Scola (1984) Robert Benton (1985) Georgiy Shengelaya (1986) Oliver Stone (1987) Norman Jewison (1988) Dušan Hanák (1989) Michael Verhoeven (1990) Jonathan Demme / Ricky Tognazzi (1991) Jan Troell (1992) Andrew Birkin (1993) Krzysztof Kieślowski (1994) Richard Linklater (1995) Yim Ho / Richard Loncraine (1996) Eric Heumann (1997) Neil Jordan (1998) Stephen Frears (1999) Miloš Forman (2000) Lin Cheng-sheng (2001) Otar Iosseliani (2002) Patrice Chéreau (2003) Kim Ki-duk (2004) Marc Rothemund (2005) Michael Winterbottom / Mat Whitecross (2006) Joseph Cedar (2007) Paul Thomas Anderson (2008) Asghar Farhadi (2009) Roman Polanski (2010) Ulrich Köhler (2011) Christian Petzold (2012) David Gordon Green (2013) Richard Linklater (2014) Radu Jude / Małgorzata Szumowska (2015) Mia Hansen-Løve (2016) Aki Kaurismäki (2017) Wes Anderson (2018)

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