Bavarian Film Awards (Best Director)
# 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
