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ACADEMY AWARDS BEST DIRECTOR* WINNERS (*Best Achievement in Directing) |
| Winners |
(# - did not win Best Picture) |
| Frank Borzage Lewis Milestone |
Seventh
Heaven (Dramatic Picture) # Two Arabian Knights (Comedy Picture) # |
| Frank Lloyd | The Divine Lady # |
| Lewis Milestone | All Quiet on the Western Front |
| Norman Taurog | Skippy # |
| Frank Borzage | Bad Girl # |
| Frank Lloyd | Cavalcade |
| Frank Capra | It Happened One Night |
| John Ford | The Informer # |
| Frank Capra | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town # |
| Leo McCarey | The Awful Truth # |
| Frank Capra | You Can't Take It With You |
| Victor Fleming | Gone With The Wind |
| John Ford | The Grapes of Wrath # |
| John Ford | How Green Was My Valley |
| William Wyler | Mrs. Miniver |
| Michael Curtiz | Casablanca |
| Leo McCarey | Going My Way |
| Billy Wilder | The Lost Weekend |
| William Wyler | The Best Years of Our Lives |
| Elia Kazan | Gentleman's Agreement |
| John Huston | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre # |
| Joseph Mankiewicz | A Letter to Three Wives # |
| Joseph Mankiewicz | All About Eve |
| George Stevens | A Place in the Sun # |
| John Ford | The Quiet Man # |
| Fred Zinnemann | From Here to Eternity |
| Elia Kazan | On The Waterfront |
| Delbert Mann | Marty |
| George Stevens | Giant # |
| David Lean | The Bridge On The River Kwai |
| Vincente Minnelli | Gigi |
| William Wyler | Ben-Hur |
| Billy Wilder | The Apartment |
| Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise | West Side Story |
| David Lean | Lawrence of Arabia |
| Tony Richardson | Tom Jones |
| George Cukor | My Fair Lady |
| Robert Wise | The Sound of Music |
| Fred Zinnemann | A Man for All Seasons |
| Mike Nichols | The Graduate # |
| Carol Reed | Oliver! |
| John Schlesinger | Midnight Cowboy |
| Franklin Schaffner | Patton |
| William Friedkin | The French Connection |
| Bob Fosse | Cabaret # |
| George Roy Hill | The Sting |
| Francis Ford Coppola | The Godfather, Part II |
| Milos Forman | One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest |
| John Avildsen | Rocky |
| Woody Allen | Annie Hall |
| Michael Cimino | The Deer Hunter |
| Robert Benton | Kramer vs. Kramer |
| Robert Redford | Ordinary People |
| Warren Beatty | Reds # |
| Richard Attenborough | Gandhi |
| James L. Brooks | Terms of Endearment |
| Milos Forman | Amadeus |
| Sydney Pollack | Out of Africa |
| Oliver Stone | Platoon |
| Bernardo Bertolucci | The Last Emperor |
| Barry Levinson | Rain Man |
| Oliver Stone | Born on the Fourth of July # |
| Kevin Costner | Dances With Wolves |
| Jonathan Demme | The Silence of the Lambs |
| Clint Eastwood | Unforgiven |
| Steven Spielberg | Schindler's List |
| Robert Zemeckis | Forrest Gump |
| Mel Gibson | Braveheart |
| Anthony Minghella | The English Patient |
| James Cameron | Titanic |
| Steven Spielberg | Saving Private Ryan # |
| Sam Mendes | American Beauty |
| Steven Soderbergh | Traffic # |
| Ron Howard | A Beautiful Mind |
| Roman Polanski | The Pianist # |
| Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
| Clint Eastwood | Million Dollar Baby |
| Ang Lee | Brokeback Mountain # |
| Martin Scorsese | The Departed |
| Joel and Ethan Coen | No Country for Old Men |
| Danny Boyle | Slumdog Millionaire |
| Kathryn Bigelow | The Hurt Locker |
| Tom Hooper | The King's Speech |
| Michel Hazanavicius | The Artist |
| Ang Lee | Life of Pi # |
| Alfonso Cuarón | Gravity # |
| Alejandro González Iñárritu | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) |
| Alejandro González Iñárritu | The Revenant # |
| Damien Chazelle | La La Land # |
| Guillermo del Toro | The Shape of Water |
| Alfonso Cuarón | Roma # |
| Bong Joon Ho | Parasite |
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Chloe Zhao | Nomadland |
Jane Campion | The Power of the Dog # | |
Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert | Everything Everywhere All at Once |