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Academy Award for Directing

The Academy Award for Directing is an Academy Award given to motion picture directors.

1927/1928 Frank Borzage[?] - Seventh Heaven
- Herbert Brenon[?] - Sorrell and Son[?]
- King Vidor - The Crowd

In the first year only a separate award was given for Comedy Direction

1927/1928 Lewis Milestone Two Arabian Knights[?]
- Charles Chaplin - The Circus
- Ted Wilde[?] - Speedy (movie)[?]

1928/1929 Frank Lloyd[?] - The Divine Lady, Weary River[?] and Drag[?]
- Lionel Barrymore - Madame X
- Harry Beaumont[?] - Broadway Melody[?]
- Irving Cummings[?] - In Old Arizona
- Ernst Lubitsch - The Patriot
1929/1930 Lewis Milestone - All Quiet on the Western Front
- Clarence Brown - Anna Christie
- Clarence Brown - Romance
- Robert Z. Leonard[?] - The Divorcée[?]
- Ernst Lubitsch - The Love Parade
- King Vidor - Hallelujah[?]
1930/1931 Norman Taurog[?] - Skippy
- Clarence Brown - A Free Soul
- Lewis Milestone - The Front Page
- Wesley Ruggles[?] - Cimarron
- Josef von Sternberg[?] - Morocco
1931/1932 Frank Borzage[?] - Bad Girl
- King Vidor - The Champ
- Josef von Sternberg[?] - Shanghai Express
1932/1933 Frank Lloyd[?] - Cavalcade
- Frank Capra - Lady for a Day
- George Cukor - Little Women
1934 Frank Capra - It Happened One Night
- Victor Schertzinger[?] - One Night of Love
- W. S. Van Dyke[?] - The Thin Man
1935 John Ford - The Informer
- Henry Hathaway[?] - Lives of a Bengal Lancer
- Frank Lloyd[?] - Mutiny on the Bounty
1936 Frank Capra - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
- Gregory La Cava[?] - My Man Godfrey
- Robert Z. Leonard[?] - The Great Ziegfeld
- Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke[?] - San Francisco[?]
- William Wyler - Dodsworth
1937 Leo McCarey - The Awful Truth
- William Dieterle[?] - The Life of Emile Zola
- Sidney Franklin[?] - The Good Earth
- Gregory La Cava[?] - Stage Door
- William Wellman[?] - A Star Is Born
1938 Frank Capra - You Can't Take It with You
- Michael Curtiz - Angels With Dirty Faces[?]
- Michael Curtiz - Four Daughters
- Norman Taurog[?] - Boys Town
- King Vidor - The Citadel
1939 Victor Fleming - Gone With the Wind
- Frank Capra - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- John Ford - Stagecoach[?]
- Sam Wood[?] - Goodbye, Mr. Chips
- William Wyler - Wuthering Heights
1940 John Ford - The Grapes of Wrath
- George Cukor - The Philadelphia Story
- Alfred Hitchcock - Rebecca[?]
- Sam Wood[?] - Kitty Foyle
- William Wyler - The Letter
1941 John Ford - How Green Was My Valley
- Alexander Hall[?] - Here Comes Mr. Jordan
- Howard Hawks - Sergeant York
- Orson Welles - Citizen Kane
- William Wyler - The Little Foxes
1942 William Wyler - Mrs. Miniver
- Michael Curtiz - Yankee Doodle Dandy
- John Farrow[?] - Wake Island
- Mervyn LeRoy - Random Harvest
- Sam Wood[?] - Kings Row
1943 Michael Curtiz - Casablanca[?]
- Clarence Brown - The Human Comedy
- Henry King[?] - The Song of Bernadette
- Ernst Lubitsch - Heaven Can Wait[?]
- George Stevens - The More the Merrier
1944 Leo McCarey - Going My Way
- Alfred Hitchcock - Lifeboat[?]
- Henry King[?] - Wilson[?]
- Otto Preminger - Laura
- Billy Wilder - Double Indemnity
1945 Billy Wilder - The Lost Weekend
- Clarence Brown - National Velvet[?]
- Alfred Hitchcock - Spellbound
- Leo McCarey - The Bells of St. Mary's
- Jean Renoir - The Southerner[?]
1946 William Wyler - The Best Years of Our Lives
- Clarence Brown - The Yearling
- Frank Capra - It's a Wonderful Life
- David Lean - Brief Encounter
- Robert Siodmak - The Killers[?]
1947 Elia Kazan - Gentleman's Agreement
- George Cukor - A Double Life
- Edward Dmytryk[?] - Crossfire
- Henry Koster[?] - The Bishop's Wife
- David Lean - Great Expectations
1948 John Huston - Treasure of the Sierra Madre[?]
- Anatole Litvak[?] - The Snake Pit
- Jean Negulesco[?] - Johnny Belinda
- Laurence Olivier - Hamlet
- Fred Zinnemann - The Search
1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz[?] - A Letter to Three Wives
- Carol Reed - The Fallen Idol[?]
- Robert Rossen[?] - All the King's Men
- William A. Wellman[?] - Battleground[?]
- William Wyler - The Heiress
1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz[?] - All About Eve
- George Cukor - Born Yesterday
- John Huston - The Asphalt Jungle[?]
- Carol Reed - The Third Man
- Billy Wilder - Sunset Boulevard
1951 George Stevens - A Place in the Sun
- John Huston - The African Queen
- Elia Kazan - A Streetcar Named Desire
- Vincente Minnelli[?] - An American in Paris
- William Wyler - Detective Story
1952 John Ford - The Quiet Man
- Cecil B. DeMille - The Greatest Show on Earth
- John Huston - Moulin Rouge[?]
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz[?] - Five Fingers[?]
- Fred Zinnemann - High Noon
1953 Fred Zinnemann - From Here to Eternity
- George Stevens - Shane
- Charles Walters[?] - Lili[?]
- Billy Wilder - Stalag 17
- William Wyler - Roman Holiday
1954 Elia Kazan - On the Waterfront
- Alfred Hitchcock - Rear Window
- George Seaton - The Country Girl
- William Wellman[?] - The High and the Mighty[?]
- Billy Wilder - Sabrina[?]
1955 Delbert Mann[?] - Marty[?]
- Elia Kazan - East of Eden
- David Lean - Summertime[?]
- Joshua Logan[?] - Picnic[?]
- John Sturges[?] - Bad Day at Black Rock
1956 George Stevens - Giant[?]
- Michael Anderson - Around the World in Eighty Days
- Walter Lang[?] - The King and I
- King Vidor - War and Peace[?]
- William Wyler - Friendly Persuasion
1957 David Lean - The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Joshua Logan[?] - Sayonara
- Sidney Lumet[?] - Twelve Angry Men[?]
- Mark Robson[?] - Peyton Place
- Billy Wilder - Witness for the Prosecution
1958 Vincente Minnelli[?] - Gigi
- Richard Brooks[?] - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Stanley Kramer[?] - The Defiant Ones
- Mark Robson[?] - The Inn of the Sixth Happiness[?]
- Robert Wise - I Want to Live!
1959 William Wyler - Ben-Hur
- Jack Clayton[?] - Room at the Top
- George Stevens - The Diary of Anne Frank
- Billy Wilder - Some Like It Hot
- Fred Zinnemann - The Nun's Story
1960 Billy Wilder - The Apartment
- Jack Cardiff[?] - Sons and Lovers
- Jules Dassin[?] - Never on Sunday
- Alfred Hitchcock - Psycho
- Fred Zinnemann - The Sundowners
1961 Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins[?] - West Side Story
- Federico Fellini - La Dolce Vita[?]
- Stanley Kramer[?] - Judgment at Nuremberg
- Robert Rossen[?] - The Hustler
- J. Lee Thompson[?] - The Guns of Navarone
1962 David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia
- Pietro Germi[?] - Divorce - Italian Style[?]
- Robert Mulligan[?] - To Kill a Mockingbird
- Arthur Penn[?] - The Miracle Worker
- Frank Perry[?] - David and Lisa[?]
1963 Tony Richardson - Tom Jones[?]
- Federico Fellini - 8½[?]
- Elia Kazan - America, America
- Otto Preminger - The Cardinal[?]
- Martin Ritt[?] - Hud
1964 George Cukor - My Fair Lady
- Michael Cacoyannis[?] - Zorba the Greek
- Peter Glenville[?] - Becket
- Stanley Kubrick - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Robert Stevenson[?] - Mary Poppins
1965 Robert Wise - The Sound of Music
- David Lean - Doctor Zhivago
- John Schlesinger[?] - Darling[?]
- Hiroshi Teshigahara[?] - Woman in the Dunes[?]
- William Wyler - The Collector
1966 Fred Zinnemann - A Man for All Seasons
- Michelangelo Antonioni - Blow-Up[?]
- Richard Brooks[?] - The Professionals[?]
- Claude Lelouch[?] - A Man and a Woman
- Mile Nichols[?] - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1967 Mike Nichols - The Graduate
- Richard Brooks[?] - In Cold Blood
- Norman Jewison - In the Heat of the Night
- Stanley Kramer[?] - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- Arthur Penn[?] - Bonnie and Clyde
1968 Carol Reed - Oliver!
- Anthony Harvey[?] - The Lion in Winter
- Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Gillo Pontecorvo[?] - The Battle of Algiers[?]
- Franco Zeffirelli - Romeo and Juliet
1969 John Schlesinger[?] - Midnight Cowboy
- Constantin Costa-Gavras - Z[?]
- George Roy Hill - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Arthur Penn[?] - Alice's Restaurant[?]
- Sydney Pollack[?] - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
1970 Franklin J. Schaffner - Patton
- Robert Altman - M*A*S*H
- Federico Fellini - Satyricon[?]
- Arthur Hiller[?] - Love Story
- Ken Russell - Women in Love
1971 William Friedkin[?] - The French Connection
- Peter Bogdanovich - The Last Picture Show
- Norman Jewison - Fiddler on the Roof
- Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange
- John Schlesinger[?] - Sunday, Bloody Sunday[?]
1972 Bob Fosse - Cabaret[?]
- John Boorman[?] - Deliverance
- Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz[?] - Sleuth[?]
- Jan Troell[?] - The Emigrants
1973 George Roy Hill - The Sting
- Ingmar Bergman - Cries and Whispers
- Bernardo Bertolucci - Last Tango in Paris
- William Friedkin[?] - The Exorcist
- George Lucas - American Graffiti
1974 Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather Part II
- John Cassavetes[?] - A Woman Under the Influence
- Bob Fosse - Lenny[?]
- Roman Polanski - Chinatown
- François Truffaut - Day for Night
1975 Milos Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Robert Altman - Nashville
- Federico Fellini - Amarcord
- Stanley Kubrick - Barry Lyndon
- Sidney Lumet[?] - Dog Day Afternoon
1976 John G. Avildsen - Rocky
- Ingmar Bergman - Face to Face[?]
- Sidney Lumet[?] - Network[?]
- Alan J. Pakula[?] - All the President's Men
- Lina Wertmüller[?] - Seven Beauties
1977 Woody Allen - Annie Hall
- George Lucas - Star Wars
- Herbert Ross[?] - The Turning Point
- Steven Spielberg - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Fred Zinnemann - Julia[?]
1978 Michael Cimino[?] - The Deer Hunter
- Woody Allen - Interiors
- Hal Ashby[?] - Coming Home
- Warren Beatty, Buck Henry[?] - Heaven Can Wait[?]
- Alan Parker[?] - Midnight Express
1979 Robert Benton[?] - Kramer vs. Kramer
- Francis Coppola[?] - Apocalypse Now
- Bob Fosse - All That Jazz
- Edouard Molinaro[?] - La Cage aux Folles[?]
- Peter Yates[?] - Breaking Away
1980 Robert Redford - Ordinary People
- David Lynch - The Elephant Man
- Roman Polanski - Tess[?]
- Richard Rush[?] - The Stunt Man
- Martin Scorsese - Raging Bull
1981 Warren Beatty - Reds[?]
- Hugh Hudson[?] - Chariots of Fire
- Louis Malle[?] - Atlantic City
- Mark Rydell[?] - On Golden Pond
- Steven Spielberg - Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 Richard Attenborough - Gandhi
- Sidney Lumet[?] - The Verdict
- Wolfgang Petersen - Das Boot
- Sidney Pollack[?] - Tootsie
- Steven Spielberg - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1983 James L. Brooks[?] - Terms of Endearment
- Bruce Beresford[?] - Tender Mercies
- Ingmar Bergman - Fanny and Alexander[?]
- Mike Nichols - Silkwood
- Peter Yates[?] - The Dresser
1984 Milos Forman - Amadeus
- Woody Allen - Broadway Danny Rose[?]
- Robert Benton[?] - Places in the Heart
- Roland Joffé[?] - The Killing Fields
- David Lean - A Passage to India
1985 Sydney Pollack[?] - Out of Africa
- Hector Babenco[?] - Kiss of the Spider Woman
- John Huston - Prizzi's Honor
- Akira Kurosawa - Ran
- Peter Weir - Witness
1986 Oliver Stone - Platoon[?]
- Woody Allen - Hannah and Her Sisters
- James Ivory[?] - A Room with a View
- Roland Joffe[?] - The Mission
- David Lynch - Blue Velvet
1987 Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor
- John Boorman[?] - Hope and Glory
- Lasse Hallstrom[?] - My Life as a Dog[?]
- Norman Jewison - Moonstruck
- Adrian Lyne[?] - Fatal Attraction
1988 Barry Levinson[?] - Rain Man
- Charles Crichton[?] - A Fish Called Wanda[?]
- Martin Scorsese - The Last Temptation of Christ
- Alan Parker[?] - Mississippi Burning
- Mike Nichols - Working Girl
1989 Oliver Stone - Born on the Fourth of July
- Woody Allen - Crimes and Misdemeanors[?]
- Peter Weir - Dead Poets Society
- Kenneth Branagh - Henry V[?]
- Jim Sheridan[?] - My Left Foot
1990 Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves
- Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather: Part III
- Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas
- Stephen Frears[?] - The Grifters[?]
- Barbet Schroeder[?] - Reversal of Fortune
1991 Jonathan Demme - The Silence of the Lambs
- John Singleton - Boyz N the Hood
- James Toback[?] - Bugsy
- Oliver Stone - JFK[?]
- Ridley Scott - Thelma and Louise
1992 Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
- Neil Jordan[?] - The Crying Game
- James Ivory[?] - Howards End
- Robert Altman - The Player[?]
- Martin Brest[?] - Scent of a Woman
1993 Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List
- Jim Sheridan[?] - In the Name of the Father
- Jane Campion[?] - The Piano
- James Ivory[?] - The Remains of the Day
- Robert Altman - Short Cuts[?]
1994 Robert Zemeckis - Forrest Gump
- Woody Allen - Bullets Over Broadway[?]
- Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction
- Robert Redford - Quiz Show[?]
- Krzysztof Piesiewicz[?], Krzysztof Kieslowski - Trois Couleurs Rouge
1995 Mel Gibson - Braveheart
- Chris Noonan[?] - Babe[?]
- Tim Robbins[?] - Dead Man Walking
- Mike Figgis[?] - Leaving Las Vegas
- Michael Radford[?] - Il Postino a.k.a. The Postman
1996 Anthony Minghella[?] - The English Patient)
- Milos Forman - The People vs. Larry Flynt
- Joel Coen - Fargo[?]
- Mike Leigh[?] - Secrets and Lies
- Scott Hicks[?] - Shine
1997 James Cameron - Titanic
- Peter Cattaneo[?] - The Full Monty
- Gus Van Sant - Good Will Hunting
- Curtis Hanson - L.A. Confidential
- Atom Egoyan[?] - The Sweet Hereafter
1998 Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan
- John Madden - Shakespeare in Love
- Terrence Malick - The Thin Red Line
- Peter Weir - The Truman Show
- Roberto Benigni - La Vita è Bella a.k.a. Life Is Beautiful
1999 Sam Mendes - American Beauty
- Spike Jonze - Being John Malkovich[?]
- Lasse Halström[?] - The Cider House Rules
- Michael Mann - The Insider
- M. Night Shyamalan - The Sixth Sense
2000 Steven Soderbergh - Traffic
- Stephen Daldry[?] - Billy Elliot
- Steven Soderbergh - Erin Brockovich
- Ridley Scott - Gladiator
- Ang Lee - Wo hu cang long[?] a.k.a. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2001 Ron Howard - A Beautiful Mind
- Ridley Scott - Black Hawk Down
- Robert Altman - Gosford Park
- Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- David Lynch - Mulholland Drive
2002 Roman Polanski - The Pianist
- Rob Marshall[?] - Chicago
- Martin Scorsese - Gangs of New York
- Pedro Almodóvar - Hable con ella[?]
- Stephen Daldry[?] - The Hours[?]

See also Academy Awards

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