BAFTA Award for Best Direction

BAFTA Award for Best Direction
The 2024 recipient: Brady Corbet
Awarded forExcellence in film directing
LocationLondon
CountryUnited Kingdom
Presented byBritish Academy of Film and Television Arts
First award1968
Currently held byBrady Corbet for The Brutalist (2024)
Websitehttp://www.bafta.org/

The BAFTA Award for Best Direction, formerly known as David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction, is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to a film director for a specific film.

BAFTA is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, and video games (and formerly also for children's film and television). Since 1968, selected films have been awarded with the BAFTA award for Best Direction at an annual ceremony.

In the following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the remaining nominees. The winner is also the first name listed in each category.