Award |
Best Directors* Academy Award Winner |
| Lewis Milestone Two Arabian Knights |
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| Frank Lloyd The Divine Lady |
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| Lewis Milestone All Quiet on the Western Front |
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| Norman Taurog Skippy |
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| Frank Borzage Bad Girl |
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| Frank Lloyd Cavalcade |
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| Frank Capra It Happened One Night |
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| John Ford The Informer |
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| Frank Capra Mr Deeds Goes To Town |
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| Leo McCarey The Awful Truth |
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| Frank Capra You Can't Take It With You |
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| Victor Fleming Gone With The Wind |
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| John Ford Grapes Of Wrath |
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| John Ford How Green Was My Valley |
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| William Wyler Mrs Miniver |
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| Michael Curtiz Casablana |
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| Leo McCarey Going My Way |
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| Billy Wilder Lost Weekend |
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| William Wyler The Best Years Of Our Lives |
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| Elia Kazan Gentlemans Agreement |
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| John Huston The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
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| Joseph L. Mankiewicz A Letter To Three Wives |
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| Joseph L. Mankiewicz All About Eve |
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| George Stevens A Place In The Sun |
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| John Ford A Place In The Sun |
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| Fred Zinnemann From Here To Eternity |
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| Elia Kazan On The Waterfront |
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| Delbert Mann Marty |
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| George Stevens Giant |
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| David Lean The Bridge On The River Kwai |
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| Vincente Minnelli Gigi |
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| William Wyler Ben-Hur |
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| Billy Wilder The Apartment |
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| Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins West Side Story |
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| David Lean Lawrence Of Arabia |
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| Tony Richardson Tom Jones |
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| George Cukor My Fair Lady |
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| Robert Wise Sound Of Music |
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| Fred Zinnemann A Man For All Seasons |
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| Mike Nichols The Graduate |
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| Carol Reed Oliver! |
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| John Schlesinger Midnight Cowboy |
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| Franklin J. Schaffner Patton |
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| William Friedkin The French Connection |
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| Bob Fosse Cabaret |
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| George Roy Hill The Sting |
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| Francis Ford Coppola The GodFather Part II |
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| Milos Forman One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest |
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| John G. Avildsen Rocky |
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| Woody Allen Annie Hall |
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| Michael Cimino The Deer Hunter |
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| Robert Benton Kramer vs Kramer |
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| Robert Redford Ordinary People |
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| Warren Beatty Reds |
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| Richard Attenborough Gandhi |
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| James L. Brooks Terms of Endearment |
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| Milos Forman Amadeus |
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| Sydney Pollack Out Of Africa |
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| Oliver Stone Platoon |
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| Bernardo Bertolucci The Last Emperor |
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| Barry Levinson Rain Man |
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| Oliver Stone Born on the Fourth of July |
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| Kevin Costner Dances With Wolves |
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| Johnathon Demme The Silence Of The Lambs |
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| Clint Eastwood Unforgiven |
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| Steven Spielberg Schindlers List |
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| Robert Zemeckis Forest Gump |
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| Mel Gibson Braveheart |
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| Anthony Minghella The English Patient |
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| James Cameron Titanic |
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| Steven Spielberg Saving Private Ryan |
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| Sam Mendes American Beauty |
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| Steven Soderbergh Traffic |
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| Ron Howard A Beautiful Mind |
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| Roman Polanski The Pianist |
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| Peter Jackson Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King |
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| Clint Eastwood Million Dollar Baby |
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| 2005 | Ang Lee Brokeback Mountain |
| 2006 | Martin Scorsese The Departed |
| 2007 | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen No Country For Old Men |
| 2008 | Danny Boyle Slumdog Millionaire |
| 2009 | Kathryn Bigelow The Hurt Locker |
| 2010 | Tom Hooper The King's Speech |
| 2011 |
