2009 Academy Awards – Directing Winner
![Slumdog Millionaire Danny Boyle](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/slumdog-millionaire-danny-boyle-loveleen-tandanco-director-image.jpg)
Slumdog Millionaire
Danny Boyle
A Mumbai teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?”
2009 Academy Awards – Directing Nominees
![Frost/Nixon Ron Howard](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/frostnixon-ron-howard-image.jpg)
Frost/Nixon
Ron Howard
![Milk Gus Van Sant](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/milk-gus-van-sant-image.jpg)
Milk
Gus Van Sant
![The Curious Case of Benjamin Button David Fincher](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button-david-fincher-image.jpg)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
David Fincher
![The Reader Stephen Daldry](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-reader-stephen-daldry-image.jpg)