 Kathryn Bigelow is the only woman to have won the award, for 2009's "The Hurt Locker".As of the 2020 ceremony, Bong Joon-ho is the most recent winner in this category for his work on "Parasite".In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of film release in Los Angeles County, California; the ceremonies are always held the following year.