Receiving the award in 1984 for Yentl, Barbra Streisand became the first woman to win the Golden Globe for Best Director.[1]
She remained the only woman to win a Golden Globe for directing for 37 years until Chloé Zhao won the award for Nomadland in 2021 and became the second woman and the first Asian woman to do so.[2]
In the following lists, the first names, listed in bold type against a blue background, are the winners, and the following names are the remaining nominees. The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which takes place in January of the following year.
^"HFPS Golden Globes 1943". Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Archived from the original on 2007-06-07. Retrieved 2007-06-26. Nominations for 1943 are not available.
^"HFPS Golden Globes 1944". Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Archived from the original on 2007-06-07. Retrieved 2007-06-26. Nominations for 1944 are not available.
^"HFPS Golden Globes 1945". Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Archived from the original on 2007-06-08. Retrieved 2007-06-26. Nominations for 1945 are not available.
^"HFPS Golden Globes 1946". Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Archived from the original on 2007-06-07. Retrieved 2007-06-26. Nominations for 1946 are not available.
^"HFPS Golden Globes 1947". Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Archived from the original on 2007-06-07. Retrieved 2007-06-26. Nominations for 1947 are not available.
^"HFPS Golden Globes 1948". Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Archived from the original on 2007-06-08. Retrieved 2007-06-26. Nominations for 1948 are not available.
^"HFPS Golden Globes 1953". Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Archived from the original on 2007-07-06. Retrieved 2007-06-26. Nominations for 1953 are not available.
^"HFPS Golden Globes 1954". Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Archived from the original on 2007-04-11. Retrieved 2007-06-26. Nominations for 1954 are not available.
^"HFPS Golden Globes 1955". Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Archived from the original on 2007-06-07. Retrieved 2007-06-26. Nominations for 1955 are not available.