| Goya Award for Best Director | |
|---|---|
 The 2024 recipient: J.A. Bayona | |
| Awarded for | Best Director of the Year |
| Country | Spain |
| Presented by | Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España |
| Currently held by | J. A. Bayona for Society of the Snow (2023) |
| Website | http://www.premiosgoya.com/ |
The Goya Award for Best Director (Spanish: Premio Goya a la mejor dirección) is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards. The category has been presented ever since the first edition of the Goya Awards. Fernando Fernán Gómez was the first winner of this award for his film Voyage to Nowhere.
Pedro Almodóvar holds the record of most wins and nominations for this category, with three wins out of eleven nominations, winning for All About My Mother (1999), Volver (2006) and Pain and Glory (2019). 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.