BAFTA Award for Best Direction

BAFTA Award for Best Direction
The 2023 recipient: Christopher Nolan
Awarded for	Excellence in film directing
Location	London
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	British Academy of Film and Television Arts
First awarded	1968
Currently held by	Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer (2023)
Website	http://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.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, children's film and television, and interactive media. 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.