Goya Award for Best Director

Fernando Fernán Gómez was the first winner of this award for his film Voyage to Nowhere.

Fernando León de Aranoa, who won for Barrio (1998), Mondays in the Sun (2002) and The Good Boss (2021), and J.

A. Bayona, who won for The Impossible (2012), A Monster Calls (2015), and Society of the Snow (2023), share the record of most wins.

Directors Fernando Trueba, Alejandro Amenábar, Isabel Coixet, and Rodrigo Sorogoyen have received this award twice.

In the list below the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees.

Fernando Fernán Gómez was the first winner of this award for Voyage to Nowhere (1986).
José Luis Garci won for Course Completed (1987).
Fernando Trueba has won this award twice, for Twisted Obsession (1989) and Belle Époque (1992).
Carlos Saura won for ¡Ay, Carmela! (1990).
Luis García Berlanga won for Everyone Off to Jail (1993).
Imanol Uribe won for Running Out of Time (1994).
Pilar Miró won for The Dog in the Manger (1996).
Fernando León de Aranoa has won thrice, for Barrio (1998), Mondays in the Sun (2002), and The Good Boss (2021).
Pedro Almodóvar has won this award three times, for All About My Mother (1999), Volver (2006) and Pain and Glory (2019).
Alejandro Amenábar has won twice, for The Others (2001) and The Sea Inside (2004).
Icíar Bollaín won for Take My Eyes (2003).
Isabel Coixet has won twice, for The Secret Life of Words (2005) and The Bookshop (2017).
Agustí Villaronga won for Black Bread (2010).
Juan Antonio Bayona has won thrice, The Impossible (2012), A Monster Calls (2016) and Society of the Snow (2023).
David Trueba won for Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed (2013).
Alberto Rodríguez won for Marshland (2014).
Rodrigo Sorogoyen has won twice, for The Realm (2018) and The Beasts (2022).