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Academy Award - Directing (winners)

Here is a list of the movie directors that have won the Directing Oscar or Academy Award.  The early Academy Awards were for two years.  So an Oscar was given for the years 1927-1928.   This list shows the director that won the best picture Oscaraward as well as the year the award was won and the movie for which the directing award was won. 

76 Directors have won the Academy Award for Directing more than once.  Woody Allen, Fred Zimmerman, Frank Capra, and David Lean have been nominated 6 times.  Billy Wilder has been nominated for the award 8 times.  William Wyler stands out as the Academy's all time favorite director with 12 nominations and 3 Oscars.

 

Year Movie Director
1934 It Happened One Night  Frank Capra
1935 The Informer  John Ford
1936 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town  Frank Capra
1937 The Awful Truth  Leo McCarey
1938 You Can't Take It with You  Frank Capra
1939 Gone with the Wind  Victor Fleming
1940 The Grapes of Wrath  John Ford
1941 How Green Was My Valley  John Ford
1942 Mrs. Miniver  William Wyler
1943 Casablanca  Michael Curtiz
1944 Going My Way  Leo McCarey
1945 The Lost Weekend  Billy Wilder
1946 The Best Years of Our Lives  William Wyler
1947 Gentleman's Agreement  Elia Kazan
1948 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre  John Huston
1949 A Letter to Three Wives  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1950 All about Eve  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1951 A Place in the Sun  George Stevens
1952 The Quiet Man  John Ford
1953 From Here to Eternity  Fred Zinnemann
1954 On the Waterfront  Elia Kazan
1955 Marty  Delbert Mann
1956 Giant  George Stevens
1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai  David Lean
1958 Gigi  Vincente Minnelli
1959 Ben-Hur  William Wyler
1960 The Apartment  Billy Wilder
1961 West Side Story  Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
1962 Lawrence of Arabia  David Lean
1963 Tom Jones  Tony Richardson
1964 My Fair Lady  George Cukor
1965 The Sound of Music  Robert Wise
1966 A Man for All Seasons  Fred Zinnemann
1967 The Graduate  Mike Nichols
1968 Oliver!  Carol Reed
1969 Midnight Cowboy  John Schlesinger
1970 Patton  Franklin J. Schaffner
1971 The French Connection  William Friedkin
1972 Cabaret  Bob Fosse
1973 The Sting  George Roy Hill
1974 The Godfather Part II  Francis Ford Coppola
1975 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest  Milos Forman
1976 Rocky  John G. Avildsen
1977 Annie Hall  Woody Allen
1978 The Deer Hunter  Michael Cimino
1979 Kramer vs. Kramer  Robert Benton
1980 Ordinary People  Robert Redford
1981 Reds  Warren Beatty
1982 Gandhi  Richard Attenborough
1983 Terms of Endearment  James L. Brooks
1984 Amadeus  Milos Forman
1985 Out of Africa  Sydney Pollack
1986 Platoon  Oliver Stone
1987 The Last Emperor  Bernardo Bertolucci
1988 Rain Man  Barry Levinson
1989 Born on the Fourth of July  Oliver Stone
1990 Dances With Wolves  Kevin Costner
1991 The Silence of the Lambs  Jonathan Demme
1992 Unforgiven  Clint Eastwood
1993 Schindler's List  Steven Spielberg
1994 Forrest Gump  Robert Zemeckis
1995 Braveheart  Mel Gibson
1996 The English Patient  Anthony Minghella
1997 Titanic  James Cameron
1998 Saving Private Ryan  Steven Spielberg
1999 American Beauty  Sam Mendes
2000 Traffic  Steven Soderbergh
2001 A Beautiful Mind  Ron Howard
2002 The Pianist  Roman Polanski
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King  Peter Jackson
2004 Million Dollar Baby  Clint Eastwood

 

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