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Academy Award
for Best Director
1927–1950
Frank Borzage
(1927)
Lewis Milestone
(1928)
Frank Lloyd
(1929)
Lewis Milestone
(1930)
Norman Taurog
(1931)
Frank Borzage
(1932)
Frank Lloyd
(1933)
Frank Capra
(1934)
John Ford
(1935)
Frank Capra
(1936)
Leo McCarey
(1937)
Frank Capra
(1938)
Victor Fleming
(1939)
John Ford
(1940)
John Ford
(1941)
William Wyler
(1942)
Michael Curtiz
(1943)
Leo McCarey
(1944)
Billy Wilder
(1945)
William Wyler
(1946)
Elia Kazan
(1947)
John Huston
(1948)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
(1949)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
(1950)
1951–1975
George Stevens
(1951)
John Ford
(1952)
Fred Zinnemann
(1953)
Elia Kazan
(1954)
Delbert Mann
(1955)
George Stevens
(1956)
David Lean
(1957)
Vincente Minnelli
(1958)
William Wyler
(1959)
Billy Wilder
(1960)
Jerome Robbins
and
Robert Wise
(1961)
David Lean
(1962)
Tony Richardson
(1963)
George Cukor
(1964)
Robert Wise
(1965)
Fred Zinnemann
(1966)
Mike Nichols
(1967)
Carol Reed
(1968)
John Schlesinger
(1969)
Franklin J. Schaffner
(1970)
William Friedkin
(1971)
Bob Fosse
(1972)
George Roy Hill
(1973)
Francis Ford Coppola
(1974)
Miloš Forman
(1975)
1976–2000
John G. Avildsen
(1976)
Woody Allen
(1977)
Michael Cimino
(1978)
Robert Benton
(1979)
Robert Redford
(1980)
Warren Beatty
(1981)
Richard Attenborough
(1982)
James L. Brooks
(1983)
Miloš Forman
(1984)
Sydney Pollack
(1985)
Oliver Stone
(1986)
Bernardo Bertolucci
(1987)
Barry Levinson
(1988)
Oliver Stone
(1989)
Kevin Costner
(1990)
Jonathan Demme
(1991)
Clint Eastwood
(1992)
Steven Spielberg
(1993)
Robert Zemeckis
(1994)
Mel Gibson
(1995)
Anthony Minghella
(1996)
James Cameron
(1997)
Steven Spielberg
(1998)
Sam Mendes
(1999)
Steven Soderbergh
(2000)
2001–2025
Ron Howard
(2001)
Roman Polanski
(2002)
Peter Jackson
(2003)
Clint Eastwood
(2004)
Ang Lee
(2005)
Martin Scorsese
(2006)
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
(2007)
Danny Boyle
(2008)
Kathryn Bigelow
(2009)
Tom Hooper
(2010)
Michel Hazanavicius
(2011)
Ang Lee
(2012)
Alfonso Cuarón
(2013)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
(2014)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
(2015)
Damien Chazelle
(2016)
Guillermo del Toro
(2017)
Alfonso Cuarón
(2018)
Bong Joon-ho
(2019)
Chloé Zhao
(2020)
Jane Campion
(2021)
Daniel Kwan
and
Daniel Scheinert
(2022)
Christopher Nolan
(2023)