title: Bavarian Film Awards (Best Director)
text: # Bavarian Film Awards (Best Director)
  
  This is a list of the winners of the Bavarian Film Awards for Best Director.
  
  ## Best Director
  
  * 1981 Thomas Brasch, Wolfgang Petersen
  * 1982 Percy Adlon
  * 1983 Peter Schamoni
  * 1984 Carl Schenkel
  * 1985 Xaver Schwarzenberger
  * 1987 Wim Wenders
  * 1989 Uli Edel
  * 1991 Percy Adlon, Michael Klier
  * 1992 Helmut Dziuba, Juraj Herz
  * 1993 Wim Wenders
  * 1995 Rainer Kaufmann
  * 1996 Helmut Dietl
  * 1997 Joseph Vilsmaier, Sönke Wortmann
  * 1998 Max Färberböck
  * 1999 Rolf Schübel
  * 2000 Oliver Hirschbiegel
  * 2001 Peter Sehr
  * 2002 Andreas Dresen
  * 2003 Sönke Wortmann
  * 2005 Andreas Dresen
  * 2006 Tom Tykwer
  * 2007 Fatih Akın
  * 2008 Caroline Link
  * 2009 Juraj Herz
  * 2010 Tom Tykwer
  * 2011 Doris Dörrie
  * 2012 Michael Haneke
  * 2013 Andreas Prochaska
  * 2014 Baran bo Odar
  * 2015 Kai Wessel
  * 2016 Maren Ade, Nicolette Krebitz, Maria Schrader, Marie Noëlle, Franziska Meletzky
  * 2017 Fatih Akin
  * 2018 Caroline Link
  * 2019 Sherry Hormann
  * 2020 Tim Fehlbaum
  * 2021 Dominik Graf
  * 2022 Frauke Finsterwalder
  
  ## Best Director (Low Budget)
  
  * 1987 Hans Noever
  
  ## Best New Director
  
  * 1979 Dominik Graf
  * 1980 Peter F. Bringmann
  * 1985 Wolfram Paulus
  * 1986 Peter Timm
  * 1988 Nico Hoffmann
  * 1988 Robert Sigl
  * 1988 Maria Theresia Wagner
  * 1989 Uwe Janson
  * 1989 Berthold Mittermayr
  * 1991 Detlev Buck
  * 1991 Sherry Hormann
  * 1993 Katja von Garnier
  * 1994 Tom Tykwer
  * 1996 Caroline Link
  * 1998 Fatih Akın
  * 1998 Marc Rothemund
  * 1999 Veit Helmer
  * 2000 Esther Gronenborn
  * 2001 Zoltan Spirandelli
  * 2002 Chris Kraus
  * 2006 Marcus H. Rosenmüller
  * 2007 Ralf Westhoff
  * 2008 Jan Fehse
  * 2010 Benjamin Heisenberg
  * 2011 Sebastian Stern
  * 2012 David Wnendt
  * 2013 Michaela Kezele
  * 2014 Katrin Gebbe
  * 2015 Tomasz Emil Rudzik
  * 2016 Uisenma Borchu
  * 2017 Jakob M. Erwa
  * 2018 Adrian Goiginger
  * 2019 Kerstin Polte
  