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ACADEMY AWARDS BEST DIRECTOR* WINNERS (*Best Achievement in Directing) |
| | Winners |
(# - did not win Best Picture) |
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| Frank Borzage Lewis Milestone |
Seventh
Heaven (Dramatic Picture) # Two Arabian Knights (Comedy Picture) # |
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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 | The 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 | Casablanca |
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| Leo McCarey | Going My Way |
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| Billy Wilder | The Lost Weekend |
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| William Wyler | The Best Years of Our Lives |
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| Elia Kazan | Gentleman's Agreement |
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| John Huston | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre # |
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| Joseph Mankiewicz | A Letter to Three Wives # |
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| Joseph Mankiewicz | All About Eve |
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| George Stevens | A Place in the Sun # |
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| John Ford | The Quiet Man # |
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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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| Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise | 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 | The 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 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 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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| Jonathan Demme | The Silence of the Lambs |
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| Clint Eastwood | Unforgiven |
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| Steven Spielberg | Schindler's List |
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| Robert Zemeckis | Forrest 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 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
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| Clint Eastwood | Million Dollar Baby |
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| Ang Lee | Brokeback Mountain # |
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| Martin Scorsese | The Departed |
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| Joel and Ethan Coen | No Country for Old Men |
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| Danny Boyle | Slumdog Millionaire |
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| Kathryn Bigelow | The Hurt Locker |
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| Tom Hooper | The King's Speech |
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| Michel Hazanavicius | The Artist |
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| Ang Lee | Life of Pi # |
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| Alfonso Cuarón | Gravity # |
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| Alejandro González Iñárritu | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) |
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| Alejandro González Iñárritu | The Revenant # |
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| Damien Chazelle | La La Land # |
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| Guillermo del Toro | The Shape of Water |
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| Alfonso Cuarón | Roma # |
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| 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 | |
| Christopher Nolan | Oppenheimer |
