Academy Award for Directing

Academy Award for Directing

The Academy Award for Directing is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry. As is the customary practice in Wikipedia for listing Oscar results, the winner of the award for that year is listed first. The films below are listed with their production year, so for example the Oscar awarded in 2000 went to the Best Supporting Actor in 1999.

Table of contents

1 1920s
2 1930s
3 1940s
4 1950s
5 1960s
6 1970s
7 1980s
8 1990s
9 2000s

1920s

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 Divorc�e
- Ernst Lubitsch - The Love Parade
- King Vidor - Hallelujah

1930s

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

1940s

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

1950s

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

1960s

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 - 8�
- 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
- 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

1970s

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
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
- Fran�ois 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 Wertm�ller - 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

1980s

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 Joff� - 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

1990s

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 � Bella a.k.a. Life Is Beautiful
1999 Sam Mendes - American Beauty
- Spike Jonze - Being John Malkovich
- Lasse Halstr�m - The Cider House Rules
- Michael Mann - The Insider
- M. Night Shyamalan - The Sixth Sense

2000s

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
2002 Roman Polanski - The Pianist
- Rob Marshall - Chicago
- Martin Scorsese - Gangs of New York
- Pedro Almod�var - Habla con ella
- Stephen Daldry - The Hours
2003 nominees
- Fernando Meirelles - City of God
- Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- Sofia Coppola - Lost in Translation
- Peter Weir - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
- Clint Eastwood - Mystic River

See also: Best Picture - Best Actor - Best Actress - Best Supporting Actor - Best Supporting Actress - Best Director

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