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Academy Award for Best Director
All winners of the Academy Award for Best Director.
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Director↕ | Year↕ | Film↕ |
|---|---|---|
| Eti Tsicko | — | — |
| The Divine Lady | 1,930 | — |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | 1,930 | — |
| Lewis Milestone | 1,930 | All Quiet on the Western Front |
| Frank Lloyd | 1,930 | The Divine Lady |
| Skippy | 1,931 | — |
| Norman Taurog | 1,931 | Skippy |
| Frank Borzage | 1,932 | Bad Girl |
| Bad Girl | 1,932 | — |
| Cavalcade | 1,934 | — |
| Frank Capra | 1,935 | It Happened One Night |
| It Happened One Night | 1,935 | — |
| The Informer | 1,936 | — |
| John Ford | 1,936 | The Informer |
| Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | 1,937 | — |
| Leo McCarey | 1,938 | The Awful Truth |
| The Awful Truth | 1,938 | — |
| You Can't Take It With You | 1,939 | — |
| Victor Fleming | 1,940 | Gone with the Wind |
| Gone with the Wind | 1,940 | — |
| The Grapes of Wrath | 1,941 | — |
| How Green Was My Valley | 1,942 | — |
| Mrs. Miniver | 1,943 | — |
| William Wyler | 1,943 | Mrs. Miniver |
| Michael Curtiz | 1,944 | Casablanca |
| Casablanca | 1,944 | — |
| Going My Way | 1,945 | — |
| Billy Wilder | 1,946 | The Lost Weekend |
| The Lost Weekend | 1,946 | — |
| The Best Years of Our Lives | 1,947 | — |
| Elia Kazan | 1,948 | Gentleman's Agreement |
| Gentleman's Agreement | 1,948 | — |
| John Huston | 1,949 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 1,949 | — |
| Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1,950 | A Letter to Three Wives |
| A Letter to Three Wives | 1,950 | — |
| All About Eve | 1,951 | — |
| George Stevens | 1,952 | A Place in the Sun |
| A Place in the Sun | 1,952 | — |
| The Quiet Man | 1,953 | — |
| Fred Zinnemann | 1,954 | From Here to Eternity |
| From Here to Eternity | 1,954 | — |
| On the Waterfront | 1,955 | — |
| Marty | 1,956 | — |
| Delbert Mann | 1,956 | Marty |
| Giant | 1,957 | — |
| David Lean | 1,958 | The Bridge on the River Kwai |
| The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1,958 | — |
| Vincente Minnelli | 1,959 | Gigi |
| Gigi | 1,959 | — |
| Ben-Hur | 1,960 | — |
| The Apartment | 1,961 | — |
| Jerome Robbins | 1,962 | West Side Story |
| Robert Wise | 1,962 | West Side Story |
| West Side Story | 1,962 | — |
| Lawrence of Arabia | 1,963 | — |
| Tony Richardson | 1,964 | Tom Jones |
| Tom Jones | 1,964 | — |
| George Cukor | 1,965 | My Fair Lady |
| My Fair Lady | 1,965 | — |
| The Sound of Music | 1,966 | — |
| A Man for All Seasons | 1,967 | — |
| Mike Nichols | 1,968 | The Graduate |
| The Graduate | 1,968 | — |
| Carol Reed | 1,969 | Oliver! |
| Oliver! | 1,969 | — |
| John Schlesinger | 1,970 | Midnight Cowboy |
| Midnight Cowboy | 1,970 | — |
| Franklin J. Schaffner | 1,971 | Patton |
| Patton | 1,971 | — |
| William Friedkin | 1,972 | The French Connection |
| The French Connection | 1,972 | — |
| Cabaret | 1,973 | — |
| Bob Fosse | 1,973 | Cabaret |
| George Roy Hill | 1,974 | The Sting |
| The Sting | 1,974 | — |
| Francis Ford Coppola | 1,975 | The Godfather Part II |
| The Godfather Part II | 1,975 | — |
| Miloš Forman | 1,976 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1,976 | — |
| Rocky | 1,977 | — |
| John G. Avildsen | 1,977 | Rocky |
| Annie Hall | 1,978 | — |
| Woody Allen | 1,978 | Annie Hall |
| Michael Cimino | 1,979 | The Deer Hunter |
| The Deer Hunter | 1,979 | — |
| Robert Benton | 1,980 | Kramer vs. Kramer |
| Kramer vs. Kramer | 1,980 | — |
| Ordinary People | 1,981 | — |
| Robert Redford | 1,981 | Ordinary People |
| Reds | 1,982 | — |
| Warren Beatty | 1,982 | Reds |
| Richard Attenborough | 1,983 | Gandhi |
| Gandhi | 1,983 | — |
| James L. Brooks | 1,984 | Terms of Endearment |
| Terms of Endearment | 1,984 | — |
| Amadeus | 1,985 | — |
| Sydney Pollack | 1,986 | Out of Africa |
| Out of Africa | 1,986 | — |
| Oliver Stone | 1,987 | Platoon |
| Platoon | 1,987 | — |
| Bernardo Bertolucci | 1,988 | The Last Emperor |
| The Last Emperor | 1,988 | — |
| Rain Man | 1,989 | — |
| Barry Levinson | 1,989 | Rain Man |
| Born on the Fourth of July | 1,990 | — |
| Kevin Costner | 1,991 | Dances with Wolves |
| Dances with Wolves | 1,991 | — |
| Jonathan Demme | 1,992 | The Silence of the Lambs |
| The Silence of the Lambs | 1,992 | — |
| Clint Eastwood | 1,993 | Unforgiven |
| Unforgiven | 1,993 | — |
| Schindler's List | 1,994 | — |
| Steven Spielberg | 1,994 | Schindler's List |
| Q134773 | 1,995 | — |
| Robert Zemeckis | 1,995 | Q134773 |
| Mel Gibson | 1,996 | Braveheart |
| Braveheart | 1,996 | — |
| The English Patient | 1,997 | — |
| Anthony Minghella | 1,997 | The English Patient |
| James Cameron | 1,998 | Titanic |
| Titanic | 1,998 | — |
| Saving Private Ryan | 1,999 | — |
| Sam Mendes | 2,000 | American Beauty |
| American Beauty | 2,000 | — |
| Steven Soderbergh | 2,001 | Traffic |
| Traffic | 2,001 | — |
| Ron Howard | 2,002 | A Beautiful Mind |
| A Beautiful Mind | 2,002 | — |
| Roman Polanski | 2,003 | The Pianist |
| The Pianist | 2,003 | — |
| Peter Jackson | 2,004 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2,004 | — |
| Million Dollar Baby | 2,005 | — |
| Brokeback Mountain | 2,006 | — |
| Ang Lee | 2,006 | Brokeback Mountain |
| Martin Scorsese | 2,007 | The Departed |
| The Departed | 2,007 | — |
| Joel Coen | 2,008 | No Country for Old Men |
| Ethan Coen | 2,008 | No Country for Old Men |
| No Country for Old Men | 2,008 | — |
| Slumdog Millionaire | 2,009 | — |
| Danny Boyle | 2,009 | Slumdog Millionaire |
| Kathryn Bigelow | 2,010 | The Hurt Locker |
| Jude Buffum | 2,010 | — |
| The Hurt Locker | 2,010 | — |
| The King's Speech | 2,011 | — |
| Tom Hooper | 2,011 | The King's Speech |
| The Artist | 2,012 | — |
| Michel Hazanavicius | 2,012 | The Artist |
| Life of Pi | 2,013 | — |
| Gravity | 2,014 | — |
| Alfonso Cuarón | 2,014 | Gravity |
| Alejandro González Iñárritu | 2,015 | Birdman |
| Birdman | 2,015 | — |
| The Revenant | 2,016 | — |
| Damien Chazelle | 2,017 | La La Land |
| La La Land | 2,017 | — |
| Guillermo del Toro | 2,018 | The Shape of Water |
| The Shape of Water | 2,018 | — |
| Roma | 2,019 | — |
| Bong Joon-ho | 2,020 | Parasite |
| Parasite | 2,020 | — |
| Nomadland | 2,021 | — |
| Chloé Zhao | 2,021 | Nomadland |
| Jane Campion | 2,022 | The Power of the Dog |
| Daniels | 2,022 | Everything Everywhere All at Once |
| Dan Kwan | 2,023 | Everything Everywhere All at Once |
| Daniel Scheinert | 2,023 | Everything Everywhere All at Once |
| Oppenheimer | 2,024 | — |
| Christopher Nolan | 2,024 | Oppenheimer |
| Sean Baker | 2,025 | Anora |
| Anora | 2,025 | — |
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