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ACADEMY of
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ACADEMY of
MOTION PICTURE ARTS and SCIENCES Best Director - Winners |
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Best Director Sections
Facts & Trivia (1) | Facts & Trivia (2) | Winners Chart
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ARTS and SCIENCES BEST DIRECTOR (1927/28 - present) (*Best Achievement in Directing) |
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Award |
Winners |
(# - did not win Best Picture) |
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| Frank Borzage Lewis Milestone |
Seventh Heaven
(Dramatic Picture) # Two Arabian Knights (Comedy Picture) # |
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Frank Lloyd | The Divine Lady # |
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Lewis Milestone |
All Quiet on the Western Front |
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Norman Taurog | Skippy # |
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Frank Borzage | Bad Girl # |
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Frank Lloyd | Cavalcade |
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Frank Capra |
It Happened One Night |
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John Ford | The Informer # |
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Frank Capra | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town # |
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Leo McCarey | The Awful Truth # |
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Frank Capra | You Can't Take It With You |
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Victor Fleming |
Gone With The Wind |
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John Ford |
The Grapes of Wrath # |
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John Ford | How Green Was My Valley |
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William Wyler | Mrs. Miniver |
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Michael Curtiz |
Casablanca |
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Leo McCarey | Going My Way |
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Billy Wilder | The Lost Weekend |
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William Wyler |
The Best Years of Our Lives |
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Elia Kazan | Gentleman's Agreement |
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John Huston |
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre # |
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Joseph Mankiewicz | A Letter to Three Wives # |
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Joseph Mankiewicz |
All About Eve |
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George Stevens | A Place in the Sun # |
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John Ford |
The Quiet Man # |
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Fred Zinnemann | From Here to Eternity |
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Elia Kazan |
On The Waterfront |
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Delbert Mann | Marty |
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George Stevens | Giant # |
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David Lean |
The Bridge On The River Kwai |
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Vincente Minnelli | Gigi |
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William Wyler |
Ben-Hur |
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Billy Wilder | The Apartment |
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Jerome Robbins Robert Wise |
West Side Story |
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David Lean |
Lawrence of Arabia |
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Tony Richardson | Tom Jones |
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George Cukor | My Fair Lady |
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Robert Wise | The Sound of Music |
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Fred Zinnemann | A Man for All Seasons |
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Mike Nichols |
The Graduate # |
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Carol Reed | Oliver! |
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John Schlesinger |
Midnight Cowboy |
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Franklin Schaffner | Patton |
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William Friedkin | The French Connection |
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Bob Fosse | Cabaret # |
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George Roy Hill | The Sting |
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Francis Ford Coppola |
The Godfather, Part II |
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Milos Forman |
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest |
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John Avildsen | Rocky |
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Woody Allen |
Annie Hall |
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Michael Cimino | The Deer Hunter |
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Robert Benton | Kramer vs. Kramer |
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Robert Redford | Ordinary People |
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Warren Beatty | Reds # |
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Richard Attenborough | Gandhi |
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James L. Brooks | Terms of Endearment |
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Milos Forman | Amadeus |
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Sydney Pollack | Out of Africa |
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Oliver Stone | Platoon |
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Bernardo Bertolucci | The Last Emperor |
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Barry Levinson | Rain Man |
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Oliver Stone | Born on the Fourth of July # |
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Kevin Costner | Dances With Wolves |
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Jonathan Demme | The Silence of the Lambs |
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Clint Eastwood | Unforgiven |
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Steven Spielberg |
Schindler's List |
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Robert Zemeckis | Forrest Gump |
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Mel Gibson | Braveheart |
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Anthony Minghella | The English Patient |
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James Cameron | Titanic |
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Steven Spielberg | Saving Private Ryan # |
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Sam Mendes | American Beauty |
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Steven Soderbergh | Traffic # |
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Ron Howard | A Beautiful Mind |
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Roman Polanski | The Pianist # |
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Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
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Clint Eastwood | Million Dollar Baby |
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Ang Lee | Brokeback Mountain # |
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Martin Scorsese | The Departed |
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Joel and Ethan Coen | No Country for Old Men |
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| Danny Boyle | Slumdog Millionaire |
