| Best Direction Award | |
| Awarded For: | Best directed film |
| Presenter: | Locarno International Film Festival |
| Country: | Switzerland |
| Year2: | 2022 |
| Holder: | Valentina Maurel for I Have Electric Dreams (Tengo sueños eléctricos) |
The Best Direction Award is an award given at the Locarno International Film Festival. It is awarded to the best directed film in the international competition section.
| Year | Film | Original title | Director | Country of production | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | And Then There Were None | data-sort-value="Clair" | United States | ||||
| 1947 | Man About Town | Le Silence est d'or | data-sort-value="Clair" | France | |||
| 1948 | Fort Apache (1st prize) | data-sort-value="Ford" | United States | ||||
| Germany, Year Zero (2nd prize) | Germania anno zero | data-sort-value="Rossellini" | Italy | ||||
| 1949 - 1959 : No Award Given | |||||||
| 1960 | Foma Gordeev [1] | data-sort-value="Donskoy" | Soviet Union | ||||
| 1961 - 2005 : No Award Given | |||||||
| 2006 | Le Dernier des fous (The Last of the Crazy People) | data-sort-value="Achard" | France / Belgium | ||||
| 2007 | Capitaine Achab [2] | data-sort-value="Ramos" | France | ||||
| 2008 | All That She Wants [3] | Elle veut le chaos | data-sort-value="Cote" | Canada | |||
| 2009 | Tambourine, Drum [4] | Buben, baraban | data-sort-value="Mizgiryov" | Russia | |||
| 2010 | Curling [5] | data-sort-value="Cote" | Canada | ||||
| 2011 | Best Intentions [6] | Din dragoste cu cele mai bune intentii | data-sort-value="Sitaru" | Romania | |||
| 2012 | When Night Falls [7] | Wo hai you hua yao shou | data-sort-value="Ying" | China / South Korea | |||
| 2013 | Our Sunhi | Uri Seonhui | data-sort-value="Sang-soo" | South Korea | |||
| 2014 | Horse Money | Cavalo Dinheiro | data-sort-value="Costa" | Portugal | |||
| 2015 | Cosmos [8] | data-sort-value="Zulawski" | France / Portugal | ||||
| 2016 | data-sort-value="Ornithologist" | The Ornithologist [9] | data-sort-value="Ornitologo" | O Ornitólogo | data-sort-value="Rodrigues" | Portugal / France / Brazil | |
| 2017 | [10] [11] | 9 Doigts | data-sort-value="Ossang" | France / Portugal | |||
| 2018 | Too Late to Die Young [12] [13] | Tarde para morir joven | data-sort-value="Ossang" | Chile | |||
| 2019 | Isadora's Children | Les Enfants d'Isadora | data-sort-value="Ossang" | Damien Manivel | France/South Korea | ||
| Zeros and Ones | data-sort-value="Ossang" | US, Italy | |||||
| I Have Electric Dreams | Tengo sueños eléctricos | data-sort-value="Ossang" | Valentina Maurel | Belgium, France, Costa Rica[14] | |||
| Stepne | data-sort-value="Ossang" | Maryna Vroda | Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Slovakia | ||||
| Drowning Dry | Seses | data-sort-value="Ossang" | Lithuania, Latvia | ||||