Academy Awards: Best Directing

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Nominees and winners of the Academy Awards for Best Directing (bold face indicates winner):

2007
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Julian Schnabel
- Juno - Jason Reitman
- Michael Clayton - Tony Gilroy
- No Country for Old Men - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
- There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson
2006
- Babel - Alejandro González Ińárritu
- The Departed - Martin Scorsese
- Letters from Iwo Jima - Clint Eastwood
- The Queen - Stephen Frears
- United 93 - Paul Greengrass
2005
- Brokeback Mountain - Ang Lee
- Capote - Bennett Miller
- Crash - Paul Haggis
- Good Night, and Good Luck - George Clooney
- Munich - Steven Spielberg
2004
- The Aviator - Martin Scorsese
- Million Dollar Baby - Clint Eastwood
- Ray - Taylor Hackford
- Sideways - Alexander Payne
- Vera Drake -Mike Leigh
2003
- City of God - Fernando Meirelles
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Peter Jackson
- Lost in Translation - Sofia Coppola
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World - Peter Weir
- Mystic River - Clint Eastwood
2002
- Rob Marshall - Chicago
- Martin Scorsese - Gangs of New York
- Stephen Daldry - The Hours
- Roman Polanski - The Pianist
- Pedro Almodóvar - Talk to Her
2001
- Ron Howard - A Beautiful Mind
- Ridley Scott - Black Hawk Down
- Robert Altman - Gosford Park
- Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- David Lynch - Mulholland Drive
2000
- Stephen Daldry -Billy Elliot
- Ang Lee -Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Steven Soderbergh -Erin Brockovich
- Ridley Scott -Gladiator
- Steven Soderbergh -Traffic
1999
- Sam Mendes - American Beauty
- Spike Jonze - Being John Malkovich
- Lasse Hallstrom - The Cider House Rules
- Michael Mann - The Insider
- M. Night Shyamalan - The Sixth Sense
1998
- Roberto Benigni - Life Is Beautiful
- Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan
- John Madden - Shakespeare in Love
- Terrence Malick - The Thin Red Line
- Peter Weir - The Truman Show
1997
- Peter Cattaneo - The Full Monty
- Gus Van Sant - Good Will Hunting
- Curtis Hanson - L.A. Confidential
- Atom Egoyan - The Sweet Hereafter
- James Cameron - Titanic (1997)
1996
- Anthony Minghella - The English Patient
- Joel Coen - Fargo
- Milos Forman - The People vs. Larry Flynt
- Mike Leigh - Secrets & Lies
- Scott Hicks - Shine
1995
- Chris Noonan - Babe
- Mel Gibson - Braveheart
- Tim Robbins - Dead Man Walking
- Mike Figgis - Leaving Las Vegas
- Michael Radford - The Postman (Il Postino)
1994
- Woody Allen - Bullets over Broadway
- Robert Zemeckis - Forrest Gump
- Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction
- Robert Redford - Quiz Show
- Krzysztof Kieslowski - Red
1993
- Jim Sheridan - In the Name of the Father
- Jane Campion - The Piano
- James Ivory - The Remains of the Day
- Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List
- Robert Altman - Short Cuts
1992
- Neil Jordan - The Crying Game
- James Ivory - Howards End
- Robert Altman - The Player
- Martin Brest - Scent of a Woman (1992)
- Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
1991
- John Singleton - Boyz N the Hood
- Barry Levinson - Bugsy
- Oliver Stone - JFK
- Jonathan Demme - The Silence of the Lambs
- Ridley Scott - Thelma & Louise
1990
- Kevin Costner - Dances With Wolves
- Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather, Part III
- Martin Scorsese - Good Fellas
- Stephen Frears - The Grifters
- Barbet Schroeder - Reversal of Fortune
1989
- Oliver Stone - Born on the Fourth of July
- Woody Allen - Crimes and Misdemeanors
- Peter Weir - Dead Poets Society
- Kenneth Branagh - Henry V (1989)
- Jim Sheridan - My Left Foot
1988
- Charles Crichton - A Fish Called Wanda
- Martin Scorsese - The Last Temptation of Christ
- Alan Parker - Mississippi Burning
- Barry Levinson - Rain Man
- Mike Nichols - Working Girl
1987
- Adrian Lyne - Fatal Attraction
- John Boorman - Hope and Glory
- Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor
- Norman Jewison - Moonstruck
- Lasse Hallstrm - My Life As a Dog
1986
- David Lynch - Blue Velvet
- Woody Allen - Hannah and Her Sisters
- Roland Joffé - The Mission
- Oliver Stone - Platoon
- James Ivory - A Room with a View
1985
- Hector Babenco - Kiss of the Spider Woman
- Sydney Pollack - Out of Africa
- John Huston - Prizzi's Honor
- Akira Kurosawa - Ran
- Peter Weir - Witness
1984
- Milos Forman - Amadeus
- Woody Allen - Broadway Danny Rose
- Roland Joffé - The Killing Fields
- David Lean - A Passage to India
- Robert Benton - Places in the Heart
1983
- Peter Yates - The Dresser
- Ingmar Bergman - Fanny & Alexander
- Mike Nichols - Silkwood
- Bruce Beresford - Tender Mercies
- James L. Brooks - Terms of Endearment
1982
- Wolfgang Petersen - Das Boot
- Steven Spielberg - E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
- Richard Attenborough - Gandhi
- Sydney Pollack - Tootsie
- Sidney Lumet - The Verdict
1981
- Louis Malle - Atlantic City
- Hugh Hudson - Chariots of Fire
- Mark Rydell - On Golden Pond
- Steven Spielberg - Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Warren Beatty - Reds
1980
- David Lynch - The Elephant Man
- Robert Redford - Ordinary People
- Martin Scorsese - Raging Bull
- Richard Rush - The Stunt Man
- Roman Polanski - Tess
1979
- Bob Fosse - All That Jazz
- Francis Coppola - Apocalypse Now
- Peter Yates - Breaking Away
- Edouard Molinaro - La Cage aux Folles
- Robert Benton - Kramer vs. Kramer
1978
- Hal Ashby - Coming Home
- Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter
- Warren Beatty, Buck Henry - Heaven Can Wait (1978)
- Woody Allen - Interiors
- Alan Parker - Midnight Express
1977
- Woody Allen - Annie Hall
- Steven Spielberg - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Fred Zinnemann - Julia
- George Lucas - Star Wars
- Herbert Ross - The Turning Point
1976
- Alan J. Pakula - All the President's Men
- Ingmar Bergman - Face to Face
- Sidney Lumet - Network
- John G. Avildsen - Rocky
- Lina Wertmüller - Seven Beauties
1975
- Federico Fellini - Amarcord
- Stanley Kubrick - Barry Lyndon
- Sidney Lumet - Dog Day Afternoon
- Robert Altman - Nashville
- Milos Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1974
- Roman Polanski - Chinatown
- Francois Truffaut - Day for Night
- Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather Part II
- Bob Fosse - Lenny
- John Cassavetes - A Woman under the Influence
1973
- George Lucas - American Graffiti
- Ingmar Bergman - Cries and Whispers
- William Friedkin - The Exorcist
- Bernardo Bertolucci - Last Tango in Paris
- George Roy Hill - The Sting
1972
- Bob Fosse - Cabaret
- John Boorman - Deliverance
- Jan Troell - The Emigrants
- Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Sleuth
1971
- Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange
- Norman Jewison - Fiddler on the Roof
- William Friedkin - The French Connection
- Peter Bogdanovich - The Last Picture Show
- John Schlesinger - Sunday Bloody Sunday
1970
- Federico Fellini - Fellini Satyricon
- Arthur Hiller - Love Story
- Robert Altman - M*A*S*H
- Franklin J. Schaffner - Patton
- Ken Russell - Women in Love
1969
- Arthur Penn - Alice's Restaurant
- George Roy Hill - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- John Schlesinger - Midnight Cowboy
- Sydney Pollack - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
- Costa-Gavras - Z
1968
- Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Gillo Pontecorvo - The Battle of Algiers
- Anthony Harvey - The Lion in Winter
- Carol Reed - Oliver!
- Franco Zeffirelli - Romeo and Juliet (1968)
1967
- Arthur Penn - Bonnie and Clyde
- Mike Nichols - The Graduate
- Stanley Kramer - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- Richard Brooks - In Cold Blood
- Norman Jewison - In the Heat of the Night
1966
- Michelangelo Antonioni - Blow-Up
- Claude Lelouch - A Man and a Woman
- Fred Zinnemann - A Man for All Seasons
- Richard Brooks - The Professionals
- Mike Nichols - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1965
- William Wyler - The Collector
- John Schlesinger - Darling
- David Lean - Doctor Zhivago
- Robert Wise - The Sound of Music
- Hiroshi Teshigahara - Woman in the Dunes
1964
- Peter Glenville - Becket
- Stanley Kubrick - Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Robert Stevenson - Mary Poppins
- George Cukor - My Fair Lady
- Michael Cacoyannis - Zorba the Greek
1963
- Elia Kazan - America America
- Otto Preminger - The Cardinal
- Federico Fellini - Federico Fellini's 8-1/2
- Martin Ritt - Hud
- Tony Richardson - Tom Jones
1962
- Frank Perry - David and Lisa
- Pietro Germi - Divorce--Italian Style
- David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia
- Arthur Penn - The Miracle Worker
- Robert Mulligan - To Kill a Mockingbird
1961
- Federico Fellini - La Dolce Vita
- J. Lee Thompson - The Guns of Navarone
- Robert Rossen - The Hustler
- Stanley Kramer - Judgment at Nuremberg
- Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins - West Side Story
1960
- Billy Wilder - The Apartment
- Jules Dassin - Never on Sunday
- Alfred Hitchcock - Psycho
- Jack Cardiff - Sons and Lovers
- Fred Zinnemann - The Sundowners
1959
- William Wyler - Ben-Hur
- George Stevens - The Diary of Anne Frank
- Fred Zinnemann - The Nun's Story
- Jack Clayton - Room at the Top
- Billy Wilder - Some Like It Hot
1958
- Richard Brooks - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Stanley Kramer - The Defiant Ones
- Vincente Minnelli - Gigi
- Robert Wise - I Want To Live!
- Mark Robson - The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
1957
- Sidney Lumet - 12 Angry Men
- David Lean - The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Mark Robson - Peyton Place
- Joshua Logan - Sayonara
- Billy Wilder - Witness for the Prosecution
1956
- Michael Anderson - Around the World in 80 Days
- William Wyler - Friendly Persuasion
- George Stevens - Giant
- Walter Lang - The King and I
- King Vidor - War and Peace (1956)
1955
- John Sturges - Bad Day at Black Rock
- Elia Kazan - East of Eden
- Delbert Mann - Marty
- Joshua Logan - Picnic
- David Lean - Summertime
1954
- George Seaton - The Country Girl
- William Wellman - The High and the Mighty
- Elia Kazan - On the Waterfront
- Alfred Hitchcock - Rear Window
- Billy Wilder - Sabrina (1954)
1953
- Fred Zinnemann - From Here to Eternity
- Charles Walters - Lili
- William Wyler - Roman Holiday
- George Stevens - Shane
- Billy Wilder - Stalag 17
1952
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Five Fingers
- Cecil B. DeMille - The Greatest Show on Earth
- Fred Zinnemann - High Noon
- John Huston - Moulin Rouge
- John Ford - The Quiet Man
1951
- John Huston - The African Queen
- Vincente Minnelli - An American in Paris
- William Wyler - Detective Story
- George Stevens - A Place in the Sun (1951)
- Elia Kazan - A Streetcar Named Desire
1950
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz - All about Eve
- John Huston - The Asphalt Jungle
- George Cukor - Born Yesterday
- Billy Wilder - Sunset Blvd.
- Carol Reed - The Third Man
1949
- Robert Rossen - All the King's Men
- William A. Wellman - Battleground
- Carol Reed - The Fallen Idol
- William Wyler - The Heiress
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz - A Letter to Three Wives
1948
- Laurence Olivier - Hamlet (1948)
- Jean Negulesco - Johnny Belinda
- Fred Zinnemann - The Search
- Anatole Litvak - The Snake Pit
- John Huston - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1947
- Henry Koster - The Bishop's Wife
- Edward Dmytryk - Crossfire
- George Cukor - A Double Life
- Elia Kazan - Gentleman's Agreement
- David Lean - Great Expectations
1946
- William Wyler - The Best Years of Our Lives
- David Lean - Brief Encounter
- Frank Capra - It's a Wonderful Life
- Robert Siodmak - The Killers
- Clarence Brown - The Yearling
1945
- Leo McCarey - The Bells of St. Mary's
- Billy Wilder - The Lost Weekend
- Clarence Brown - National Velvet
- Jean Renoir - The Southerner
- Alfred Hitchcock - Spellbound
1944
- Billy Wilder - Double Indemnity
- Leo McCarey - Going My Way
- Otto Preminger - Laura
- Alfred Hitchcock - Lifeboat
- Henry King - Wilson
1943
- Michael Curtiz - Casablanca
- Ernst Lubitsch - Heaven Can Wait (1943)
- Clarence Brown - The Human Comedy
- George Stevens - The More the Merrier
- Henry King - The Song of Bernadette
1942
- Sam Wood - Kings Row
- William Wyler - Mrs. Miniver
- Mervyn LeRoy - Random Harvest
- John Farrow - Wake Island
- Michael Curtiz - Yankee Doodle Dandy
1941
- Orson Welles - Citizen Kane
- Alexander Hall - Here Comes Mr. Jordan
- John Ford - How Green Was My Valley
- William Wyler - The Little Foxes
- Howard Hawks - Sergeant York
1940
- John Ford - The Grapes of Wrath
- Sam Wood - Kitty Foyle
- William Wyler - The Letter (1940)
- George Cukor - The Philadelphia Story
- Alfred Hitchcock - Rebecca
1939
- Victor Fleming - Gone with the Wind
- Sam Wood - Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
- Frank Capra - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- John Ford - Stagecoach
- William Wyler - Wuthering Heights
1938
- Michael Curtiz - Angels with Dirty Faces
- Norman Taurog - Boys Town
- King Vidor - The Citadel
- Michael Curtiz - Four Daughters
- Frank Capra - You Can't Take It with You
1937
- Leo McCarey - The Awful Truth
- Sidney Franklin - The Good Earth
- William Dieterle - The Life of Emile Zola
- Gregory La Cava - Stage Door
- William Wellman - A Star Is Born (1937)
1936
- William Wyler - Dodsworth
- Robert Z. Leonard - The Great Ziegfeld
- Frank Capra - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
- Gregory La Cava - My Man Godfrey
- W. S. Van Dyke - San Francisco
1935
- Michael Curtiz - Captain Blood
- John Ford - The Informer
- Henry Hathaway - The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
- Frank Lloyd - Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
1934
- Frank Capra - It Happened One Night
- Victor Schertzinger - One Night of Love
- W. S. Van Dyke - The Thin Man
1932/1933
- Frank Lloyd - Cavalcade
- Frank Capra - Lady for a Day
- George Cukor - Little Women (1932/33)
1931/1932
- Frank Borzage - Bad Girl
- King Vidor - The Champ (1931/32)
- Josef Von Sternberg -