title: David di Donatello for Best Foreign Director
text: # David di Donatello for Best Foreign Director
  
  The David di Donatello for Best Foreign Director (Italian: David di Donatello per il miglior regista straniero) is a category in the David di Donatello Awards, described as "Italy’s answer to the Oscars". It was awarded by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI, Academy of Italian Cinema) to recognize outstanding efforts on the part of non-Italian film directors during the year preceding the ceremony. The award was given from 1966 until 1990.
  
  ## Winners and nominees
  
  Winners are indicated in bold.
  
  ### 1960s
  
  1966
  
  * John Huston - The Bible: In the Beginning
  
  1967
  
  * David Lean - Doctor Zhivago
  
  1968
  
  * Richard Brooks - In Cold Blood
  
  1969
  
  * Roman Polanski - Rosemary's Baby
  
  ### 1970s
  
  1970
  
  * John Schlesinger - Midnight Cowboy
  
  1971
  
  * Claude Lelouch - Le Voyou
  
  1972
  
  * John Schlesinger - Sunday Bloody Sunday
  
  1973
  
  * Bob Fosse - Cabaret
  
  1974
  
  * Ingmar Bergman - Viskningar och rop
  
  1975
  
  * Billy Wilder - The Front Page
  
  1976
  
  * Miloš Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  
  1977
  
  * Akira Kurosawa - Dersu Uzala
  
  1978
  
  * Herbert Ross - The Goodbye Girl ex aequo
  * Ridley Scott - The Duellists ex aequo
  
  1979
  
  * Miloš Forman - Hair
  
  ### 1980s
  
  1980
  
  * Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now
  
  1981
  
  * Akira Kurosawa - Kagemusha
  * Pál Gábor - Angi Vera
  * Martin Scorsese - Raging Bull
  
  1982
  
  * Margarethe von Trotta - Die bleierne Zeit
  * István Szabó - Mephisto
  * Warren Beatty - Reds
  
  1983
  
  * Steven Spielberg - E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
  * Blake Edwards - Victor Victoria
  * Costa Gavras - Missing
  
  1984
  
  * Ingmar Bergman - Fanny och Alexander
  * Woody Allen - Zelig
  * Andrzej Wajda - Danton
  
  1985
  
  * Miloš Forman - Amadeus
  * Sergio Leone - Once Upon a Time in America
  * Roland Joffé - The Killing Fields
  
  1986
  
  * Akira Kurosawa - Ran
  * John Huston - Prizzi's Honor
  * Sydney Pollack - Out of Africa
  * Emir Kusturica - When Father Was Away on Business
  
  1987
  
  * James Ivory - A Room with a View
  * Luis Puenzo - The Official Story
  * Alain Cavalier - Thérèse
  
  1988
  
  * Louis Malle - Au revoir les enfants
  * Stanley Kubrick - Full Metal Jacket
  * John Huston - The Dead
  
  1989
  
  * Pedro Almodóvar - Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios
  * Barry Levinson - Rain Man
  * Woody Allen - Another Woman
  
  ### 1990s
  
  1990
  
  * Louis Malle - Milou en mai
  