David di Donatello for Best Foreign Director

The David di Donatello for best foreign film director, or in Italian, Migliore Regista Straniero, was given from 1966 until 1990.

1966

• John Huston - The Bible: In the Beginning

1967

• David Lean - Doctor Zhivago

1968

• Richard Brooks - In Cold Blood

1969

• Roman Polanski - Rosemary's Baby

1970

• John Schlesinger - Midnight Cowboy

1971

• Claude Lelouch - Le Voyou

1972

• John Schlesinger - Sunday Bloody Sunday

1973

• Bob Fosse - Cabaret

1974

• Ingmar Bergman - Viskningar och rop

1975

• Billy Wilder - The Front Page

1976

• Milos Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1977

• Akira Kurosawa - Dersu Uzala

1978

• Herbert Ross - The Goodbye Girl
• Ridley Scott - The Duellists

1979

• Milos Forman - Hair

1980

• Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now

1981

• Akira Kurosawa - Kagemusha

1982

• Margarethe von Trotta - Die bleierne Zeit

1983

• Steven Spielberg - E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

1984

• Ingmar Bergman - Fanny och Alexander

1985

• Milos Forman - Amadeus

1986

• Akira Kurosawa - Ran

1987

• James Ivory - A Room with a View

1988

• Louis Malle - Au revoir les enfants

1989

• Pedro Almodóvar - Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios

1990

• Louis Malle - Milou en mai