Adademy Awards - Best Director

Submitted by dashforcover on Mon, 10/26/2009 - 12:02
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  1. 1928 Frank Borzage Two Arabian Knights (Comedy Picture) # NYAG 11/09
  2. 1928 Lewis Milestone Seventh Heaven (Dramatic Picture) # Q
  3. 1929 Frank Lloyd The Divine Lady # NYAG 11/09
  4. 1930 Lewis Milestone All Quiet on the Western Front
  5. 1931 Norman Taurog Skippy # NYAG 11/09
  6. 1932 Frank Borzage Bad Girl # Q
  7. 1933 Frank Lloyd CavalcadeNYAG 11/09
  8. 1934 Frank Capra It Happened One Night
  9. 1935 John Ford The Informer # Q
  10. 1936 Frank Capra Mr. Deeds Goes to Town # Q
  11. 1937 Leo McCarey The Awful Truth #
  12. 1938 Frank Capra You Can't Take It With You
  13. 1939 Victor Fleming Gone With The Wind
  14. 1940 John Ford The Grapes of Wrath #
  15. 1941 John Ford How Green Was My Valley
  16. 1942 William Wyler Mrs. Miniver
  17. 1943 Michael Curtiz Casablanca
  18. 1944 Leo McCarey Going My Way
  19. 1945 Billy Wilder The Lost Weekend
  20. 1946 William Wyler The Best Years of Our Lives
  21. 1947 Elia Kazan Gentleman's Agreement
  22. 1948 John Huston The Treasure of the Sierra Madre #
  23. 1949 Joseph Mankiewicz A Letter to Three Wives #
  24. 1950 Joseph Mankiewicz All About Eve
  25. 1951 George Stevens A Place in the Sun # Q
  26. 1952 John Ford The Quiet Man #
  27. 1953 Fred Zinnemann From Here to Eternity
  28. 1954 Elia Kazan On The Waterfront
  29. 1955 Delbert Mann Marty
  30. 1956 George Stevens Giant #
  31. 1957 David Lean The Bridge On The River Kwai
  32. 1958 Vincente Minnelli Gigi
  33. 1959 William Wyler Ben-Hur
  34. 1960 Billy Wilder The Apartment
  35. 1961 Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise West Side Story
  36. 1962 David Lean Lawrence of Arabia
  37. 1963 Tony Richardson Tom Jones
  38. 1964 George Cukor My Fair Lady
  39. 1965 Robert Wise The Sound of Music
  40. 1966 Fred Zinnemann A Man for All Seasons
  41. 1967 Mike Nichols The Graduate #
  42. 1968 Carol Reed Oliver!
  43. 1969 John Schlesinger Midnight Cowboy
  44. 1970 Franklin Schaffner Patton
  45. 1971 William Friedkin The French Connection
  46. 1972 Bob Fosse Cabaret #
  47. 1973 George Roy Hill The Sting
  48. 1974 Francis Ford Coppola The Godfather, Part II
  49. 1975 Milos Forman One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
  50. 1976 John Avildsen Rocky
  51. 1977 Woody Allen Annie Hall
  52. 1978 Michael Cimino The Deer Hunter
  53. 1979 Robert Benton Kramer vs. Kramer
  54. 1980 Robert Redford Ordinary People
  55. 1981 Warren Beatty Reds # Q
  56. 1982 Richard Attenborough Gandhi
  57. 1983 James L. Brooks Terms of Endearment
  58. 1984 Milos Forman Amadeus
  59. 1985 Sydney Pollack Out of Africa
  60. 1986 Oliver Stone Platoon
  61. 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci The Last Emperor
  62. 1988 Barry Levinson Rain Man
  63. 1989 Oliver Stone Born on the Fourth of July # Q
  64. 1990 Kevin Costner Dances With Wolves
  65. 1991 Jonathan Demme The Silence of the Lambs
  66. 1992 Clint Eastwood Unforgiven
  67. 1993 Steven Spielberg Schindler's List
  68. 1994 Robert Zemeckis Forrest Gump
  69. 1995 Mel Gibson Braveheart
  70. 1996 Anthony Minghella The English Patient
  71. 1997 James Cameron Titanic
  72. 1998 Steven Spielberg Saving Private Ryan #
  73. 1999 Sam Mendes American Beauty
  74. 2000 Steven Soderbergh Traffic #
  75. 2001 Ron Howard A Beautiful Mind
  76. 2002 Roman Polanski The Pianist #
  77. 2003 Peter Jackson The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  78. 2004 Clint Eastwood Million Dollar Baby Q
  79. 2005 Ang Lee Brokeback Mountain # Q
  80. 2006 Martin Scorsese The Departed
  81. 2007 Joel and Ethan Coen No Country for Old Men
  82. 2008 Danny Boyle Slumdog Millionaire
Author Comments: 

The symbol "#" means the film was not a best picture winner