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2020 Academy Awards – Directing
Parasite
Bong Joon Ho
2019 Academy Awards – Directing
Roma
Alfonso Cuarón
2018 Academy Awards – Directing
The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro
2017 Academy Awards – Directing
La La Land
Damien Chazelle
2016 Academy Awards – Directing
The Revenant
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
2015 Academy Awards – Directing
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
2014 Academy Awards – Directing
Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón
2013 Academy Awards – Directing
Life of Pi
Ang Lee
2012 Academy Awards – Directing
The Artist
Michel Hazanavicius
2011 Academy Awards – Directing
The King’s Speech
Tom Hooper
2010 Academy Awards – Directing
The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow
2009 Academy Awards – Directing
Slumdog Millionaire
Danny Boyle
2008 Academy Awards – Directing
No Country for Old Men
Ethan Coen
2007 Academy Awards – Directing
The Departed
Martin Scorsese
2006 Academy Awards – Directing
Brokeback Mountain
Ang Lee
2005 Academy Awards – Directing
Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood
2004 Academy Awards – Directing
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Peter Jackson
2003 Academy Awards – Directing
The Pianist
Roman Polanski
2002 Academy Awards – Directing
A Beautiful Mind
Ron Howard
2001 Academy Awards – Directing
Traffic
Steven Soderbergh
2000 Academy Awards – Directing
American Beauty
Sam Mendes
1999 Academy Awards – Directing
Saving Private Ryan
Steven Spielberg
1998 Academy Awards – Directing
Titanic
James Cameron
1997 Academy Awards – Directing
The English Patient
Anthony Minghella
1996 Academy Awards – Directing
Braveheart
Mel Gibson
1995 Academy Awards – Directing
Forrest Gump
Robert Zemeckis
1994 Academy Awards – Directing
Schindler’s List
Steven Spielberg
1993 Academy Awards – Directing
Unforgiven
Clint Eastwood
1992 Academy Awards – Directing
The Silence of the Lambs
Jonathan Demme
1991 Academy Awards – Directing
Dances with Wolves
Kevin Costner
1990 Academy Awards – Directing
Born on the Fourth of July
Oliver Stone
1989 Academy Awards – Directing
Rain Man
Barry Levinson
1988 Academy Awards – Directing
The Last Emperor
Bernardo Bertolucci
1987 Academy Awards – Directing
Platoon
Oliver Stone
1986 Academy Awards – Directing
Out of Africa
Sydney Pollack
1985 Academy Awards – Directing
Amadeus
Milos Forman
1984 Academy Awards – Directing
Terms of Endearment
James L. Brooks
1983 Academy Awards – Directing
Gandhi
Richard Attenborough
1982 Academy Awards – Directing
Reds
Warren Beatty
1981 Academy Awards – Directing
Ordinary People
Robert Redford
1980 Academy Awards – Directing
Kramer vs. Kramer
Robert Benton
1979 Academy Awards – Directing
The Deer Hunter
Michael Cimino
1978 Academy Awards – Directing
Annie Hall
Woody Allen
1977 Academy Awards – Directing
Rocky
John G. Avildsen
1976 Academy Awards – Directing
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Milos Forman
1975 Academy Awards – Directing
The Godfather: Part II
Francis Ford Coppola
1974 Academy Awards – Directing
The Sting
George Roy Hill
1973 Academy Awards – Directing
Cabaret
Bob Fosse
1972 Academy Awards – Directing
The French Connection
William Friedkin
1971 Academy Awards – Directing
Patton
Franklin J. Schaffner
1970 Academy Awards – Directing
Midnight Cowboy
John Schlesinger
1969 Academy Awards – Directing
Oliver!
Carol Reed
1968 Academy Awards – Directing
The Graduate
Mike Nichols
1967 Academy Awards – Directing
A Man for All Seasons
Fred Zinnemann
1966 Academy Awards – Directing
The Sound of Music
Robert Wise
1965 Academy Awards – Directing
My Fair Lady
George Cukor
1964 Academy Awards – Directing
Tom Jones
Tony Richardson
1963 Academy Awards – Directing
Lawrence of Arabia
David Lean
1962 Academy Awards – Directing
West Side Story
Robert Wise
1961 Academy Awards – Directing
The Apartment
Billy Wilder
1960 Academy Awards – Directing
Ben-Hur
William Wyler
1959 Academy Awards – Directing
Gigi
Vincente Minnelli
1958 Academy Awards – Directing
The Bridge on the River Kwai
David Lean
1957 Academy Awards – Directing
Giant
George Stevens
1956 Academy Awards – Directing
Marty
Delbert Mann
1955 Academy Awards – Directing
On the Waterfront
Elia Kazan
1954 Academy Awards – Directing
From Here to Eternity
Fred Zinnemann
1953 Academy Awards – Directing
The Quiet Man
John Ford
1952 Academy Awards – Directing
A Place in the Sun
George Stevens
1951 Academy Awards – Directing
All About Eve
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1950 Academy Awards – Directing
A Letter to Three Wives
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1949 Academy Awards – Directing
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
John Huston
1948 Academy Awards – Directing
Gentleman’s Agreement
Elia Kazan
1947 Academy Awards – Directing
The Best Years of Our Lives
William Wyler
1946 Academy Awards – Directing
The Lost Weekend
Billy Wilder
1945 Academy Awards – Directing
Going My Way
Leo McCarey
1944 Academy Awards – Directing
Casablanca
Michael Curtiz
1943 Academy Awards – Directing
Mrs. Miniver
William Wyler
1942 Academy Awards – Directing
How Green Was My Valley
John Ford
1941 Academy Awards – Directing
The Grapes of Wrath
John Ford
1940 Academy Awards – Directing
Gone with the Wind
Victor Fleming
1939 Academy Awards – Directing
You Can’t Take It with You
Frank Capra
1938 Academy Awards – Directing
The Awful Truth
Leo McCarey
1937 Academy Awards – Directing
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Frank Capra
1936 Academy Awards – Directing
The Informer
John Ford
1935 Academy Awards – Directing
It Happened One Night
Frank Capra
1934 Academy Awards – Directing
Cavalcade
Frank Lloyd
1932 Academy Awards – Directing
Bad Girl
Frank Borzage
1931 Academy Awards – Directing
Skippy
Norman Taurog
1930s Academy Awards – Directing
All Quiet on the Western Front
Lewis Milestone
1930s Academy Awards – Directing
The Divine Lady
Frank Lloyd
1929 Academy Awards – Directing
7th Heaven
Frank Borzage
1929 Academy Awards – Directing
