César Awards: Best Director
Winners and nominees by ceremony year, newest first.
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- 2026Nouvelle Vague (2025)
GoodWatch score 79Nominated: The Little Sister, Case 137, The Ties That Bind Us, The Great Arch
- 2025Emilia Pérez (2024)
GoodWatch score 58 - 2024Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
GoodWatch score 82Nominated: Last Summer, The Animal Kingdom, All Your Faces, The Goldman Case
- 2023The Night of the 12th (2022)
GoodWatch score 80Nominated: Pacifiction, Rise, The Innocent, November
- 2022Annette (2021)
GoodWatch score 66Nominated: The Stronghold, Titane, Lost Illusions, Happening, Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle, Aline
- 2021Bye Bye Morons (2020)
GoodWatch score 55Nominated: DNA, Summer of 85, Adolescents, Love Affair(s)
- 2020An Officer and a Spy (2019)
GoodWatch score 71 - 2019The Sisters Brothers (2018)
GoodWatch score 76Nominated: Memoir of War, In Safe Hands, Custody, The Trouble with You, Sink or Swim, Guy
- 2018See You Up There (2017)
GoodWatch score 86Nominated: Godard Mon Amour, C'est la vie!, Raw, BPM (Beats per Minute), Barbara, Bloody Milk
- 2017It's Only the End of the World (2016)
GoodWatch score 56Nominated: Elle, Divines, Slack Bay, The Innocents, From the Land of the Moon, Frantz
- 2016My Golden Days (2015)
GoodWatch score 77Nominated: Dheepan, Standing Tall, My King, The Measure of a Man, Mustang, Marguerite
- 2015Timbuktu (2014)
GoodWatch score 83Nominated: Clouds of Sils Maria, Eastern Boys, Saint Laurent, Girlhood, Love at First Fight, Hippocrates
- 2014Venus in Fur (2013)
GoodWatch score 75 - 2013Amour (2012)
GoodWatch score 87 - 2012The Artist (2011)
GoodWatch score 85Nominated: The Intouchables, The Minister, Pater, Le Havre, Polisse, Declaration of War
- 2011The Ghost Writer (2010)
GoodWatch score 75Nominated: The Clink of Ice, Of Gods and Men, On Tour
- 2010A Prophet (2009)
GoodWatch score 87Nominated: The Concert, In the Beginning, Welcome, Rapt
- 2009Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 (2008)
GoodWatch score 75 - 2008The Secret of the Grain (2007)
GoodWatch score 79Nominated: La Vie en Rose, The Witnesses, A Secret, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- 2007Tell No One (2006)
GoodWatch score 81 - 2006The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)
GoodWatch score 77Nominated: The Child, The Young Lieutenant, Live and Become, Caché
- 2005Games of Love and Chance (2003)
GoodWatch score 67Nominated: Kings & Queen, A Very Long Engagement, 36th Precinct, The Chorus
- 2004The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
GoodWatch score 74Nominated: Bon Voyage, After Life, Not on the Lips, An Amazing Couple, Little Lili, On the Run
- 2003The Pianist (2002)
GoodWatch score 88Nominated: The Spanish Apartment, To Be and to Have, 8 Women, Amen.
- 2002Amélie (2001)
GoodWatch score 82Nominated: The Officers' Ward, Under the Sand, Read My Lips, Intimacy
- 2001With a Friend Like Harry... (2000)
GoodWatch score 78 - 2000Venus Beauty Institute (1999)
GoodWatch score 61 - 1999Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (1998)
GoodWatch score 64Nominated: The Dinner Game, The Dreamlife of Angels, Taxi, Place Vendôme
- 1998The Fifth Element (1997)
GoodWatch score 70Nominated: Same Old Song, The Cousin, Marius and Jeannette, Western
- 1997Ridicule (1996)
GoodWatch score 68 - 1996Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
GoodWatch score 85 - 1995Wild Reeds (1994)
GoodWatch score 77Nominated: Le fils préféré, Three Colors: Red, Queen Margot, Léon: The Professional
- 1994Smoking / No Smoking (1993)
GoodWatch score 79Nominated: Germinal, The Visitors, My Favorite Season, Three Colors: Blue
- 1993A Heart in Winter (1992)
GoodWatch score 82Nominated: And the Little Prince Said, L.627, Savage Nights, Indochine
- 1992All the Mornings of the World (1991)
GoodWatch score 84Nominated: La Belle Noiseuse, Thank You, Life, Van Gogh, I Don't Kiss
- 1991Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
GoodWatch score 83Nominated: The Hairdresser's Husband, Uranus, The Little Gangster, Nikita
- 1990Too Beautiful for You (1989)
GoodWatch score 62Nominated: Monsieur Hire, Life and Nothing But, Nocturne Indien, Valmont
- 1989The Bear (1988)
GoodWatch score 75Nominated: The Big Blue, La Lectrice, Story of Women, The Little Thief
- 1988Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)
GoodWatch score 87Nominated: Under the Sun of Satan, The Innocents, Tandem, The Grand Highway
- 1987Thérèse (1986)
GoodWatch score 85Nominated: Betty Blue, Jean de Florette, Ménage, Mélo
- 1986Death in a French Garden (1985)
GoodWatch score 65Nominated: Vagabond, Three Men and a Cradle, An Impudent Girl, Subway
- 1985My New Partner (1984)
GoodWatch score 72Nominated: Love Unto Death, Full Moon in Paris, A Sunday in the Country, Carmen
- 1984Le Bal (1983)
GoodWatch score 78Nominated: So Long, Stooge, Confidentially Yours, A Nos Amours, One Deadly Summer
- 1983Danton (1983)
GoodWatch score 79Nominated: La Balance, Godard's Passion, A Room in Town
- 1982Quest for Fire (1981)
GoodWatch score 78Nominated: Coup de Torchon, The Inquisitor, Strange Affair
- 1981The Last Metro (1980)
GoodWatch score 81Nominated: A Bad Son, My American Uncle, Every Man for Himself
- 1980Tess (1979)
GoodWatch score 78Nominated: Don Giovanni, The Hussy, Womanlight
- 1979Other People's Money (1978)
GoodWatch score 64Nominated: Dossier 51, Molière, A Simple Story
- 1978Providence (1977)
GoodWatch score 74Nominated: This Sweet Sickness, That Obscure Object of Desire, Drummer-Crab
- 1977Mr. Klein (1976)
GoodWatch score 75Nominated: The Best Way to Walk, Barocco, The Judge and the Assassin
- 1976Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975)
GoodWatch score 71Nominated: Lovers Like Us, The Old Gun, The Story of Adèle H.