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