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. In the majority of years, this award has gone to the director of the eventual winner for Best Picture, although in recent years this trend has weakened.
While the award is considered a good way to sum up the most successful and talented American film directors, it is interesting to note that several revered directors such as Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles, and Alfred Hitchcock never won the award. Martin Scorsese, who has been nominated for the award five times as of 2005, is typically considered the most notable living American director without an Oscar, with Robert Altman running a close second.
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1920s
In the first year only a separate award was given for Comedy Direction
- 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
1930s
- 1934 Frank Capra – It Happened One Night
- Victor Schertzinger – One Night of Love
- W. S. Van Dyke – The Thin Man
- 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
1940s
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
1960s
- 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
- 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
1970s
- 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner – Patton
- Robert Altman – M*A*S*H
- Federico Fellini – Satyricon
- Arthur Hiller – Love Story
- Ken Russell – Women in Love
- 1979 Robert Benton – Kramer vs. Kramer
- Francis Ford Coppola – Apocalypse Now
- Bob Fosse – All That Jazz
- Edouard Molinaro – La Cage aux Folles
- Peter Yates – Breaking Away
1980s
- 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
- 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
1990s
- 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
- 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
2000s
- 2002 Roman Polanski – The Pianist
- Rob Marshall – Chicago
- Martin Scorsese – Gangs of New York
- Pedro Almodóvar – Habla con ella
- Stephen Daldry – The Hours
See also: Best Picture – Best Actor – Best Actress – Best Supporting Actor – Best Supporting Actress – Best Director
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