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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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