Academy Award for Best Director

Category of film award

Academy Award for Best Director

The 2025 recipient: Sean Baker

Awarded for| Excellence in Cinematic Direction Achievement
Country| United States
Presented by| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
First award| May 16, 1929; 96 years ago (1929-05-16) (for films released during the 1927/1928 film season)
Most recent winner| Sean Baker, Anora (2024)
Most awards| John Ford (4)
Most nominations| William Wyler (12)
Website| oscars.org

The Academy Award for Best Director (officially known as the Academy Award of Merit for Directing) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given in honor of a film director who has exhibited outstanding directing while working in the film industry.

The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with the award being split into "Dramatic" and "Comedy" categories; Frank Borzage and Lewis Milestone won for 7th Heaven and Two Arabian Knights, respectively.[1] However, these categories were merged for all subsequent ceremonies.[2] Nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the directors branch of AMPAS; winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the academy.[3][4][5]

For the first eleven years of the Academy Awards, directors were allowed to be nominated for multiple films in the same year. However, after the nomination of Michael Curtiz for two films, Angels with Dirty Faces and Four Daughters, at the 11th Academy Awards, the rules were revised so that an individual could only be nominated for one film at each ceremony.[6] That rule has since been amended, although the only director who has received multiple nominations in the same year was Steven Soderbergh for Erin Brockovich and Traffic in 2000, winning the award for the latter.

The Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture have been very closely linked throughout their history. Of the 91 films that won Best Picture and were also nominated for Best Director, 70 won the award.[7][8] The award has been criticised in recent years for failing to recognise female directors.[9] Of the 257 individual directors nominated in the history of the award, only 9 have been women;[10] and only 3 of the 76 winners have been women.[11]

Since its inception, the award has been given to 74 different directors or directing teams. As of the 97th Academy Awards ceremony, American filmmaker Sean Baker is the most recent winner in this category for his work on Anora.

## Winners and nominees

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In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of film release in Los Angeles County, California; the ceremonies are always held the following year.[12] For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months from August 1 to July 31.[13] For the 6th ceremony held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1, 1932, to December 31, 1933.[13] Since the 7th ceremony held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.[13]

Frank Borzage won twice: "Dramatic director" at the first ceremony, for 7th Heaven (1927); & later, Bad Girl (1931). Lewis Milestone won twice: "Comedy director" at the first ceremony, for Two Arabian Knights (1927); & later, All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). Frank Lloyd won twice, for The Divine Lady (1929) & Cavalcade (1933). Frank Capra won thrice, for It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), & You Can't Take It with You (1938). John Ford won a record four times, for: The Informer (1935), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), & The Quiet Man (1952). Leo McCarey won twice, for The Awful Truth (1937) & Going My Way (1944). Victor Fleming won for Gone with the Wind (1939). William Wyler, with a record twelve nominations, won thrice, for: Mrs. Miniver (1942), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), & Ben-Hur (1959). Michael Curtiz won for Casablanca (1942). Billy Wilder (right, with Gloria Swanson) won twice, for The Lost Weekend (1945) & The Apartment (1960). Elia Kazan won twice, for Gentleman's Agreement (1947) & On the Waterfront (1954). John Huston won for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948). Joseph L. Mankiewicz won twice consecutively, for A Letter to Three Wives (1949) & All About Eve (1950). George Stevens won twice, for A Place in the Sun (1951) & Giant (1956). Fred Zinnemann won twice, for From Here to Eternity (1953) & A Man for All Seasons (1966). David Lean won twice, for The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) & Lawrence of Arabia (1962). Vincente Minnelli won for Gigi (1958). Robert Wise won twice: jointly with Jerome Robbins (an Oscars first) for West Side Story (1961) & solo for The Sound of Music (1965). George Cukor won for My Fair Lady (1964). Mike Nichols won for The Graduate (1967). Carol Reed won for Oliver! (1968). Franklin J. Schaffner won for Patton (1970). William Friedkin won for The French Connection (1971). Bob Fosse won for Cabaret (1972). Francis Ford Coppola won for The Godfather Part II (1974). Miloš Forman won twice, for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) & Amadeus (1984). Woody Allen won for Annie Hall (1977). Robert Redford won for Ordinary People (1980). Warren Beatty won for Reds (1981). Richard Attenborough won for Gandhi (1982). James L. Brooks won for Terms of Endearment (1983). Sydney Pollack won for Out of Africa (1985). Oliver Stone won twice, for Platoon (1986) & Born on the Fourth of July (1989). Bernardo Bertolucci won for The Last Emperor (1987). Barry Levinson won for Rain Man (1988). Kevin Costner won for Dances With Wolves (1990). Jonathan Demme won for The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Clint Eastwood won twice, for Unforgiven (1992) & Million Dollar Baby (2004)—latter, at 74, rendered him the oldest winner. Steven Spielberg won twice, for Schindler's List (1993) & Saving Private Ryan (1998). Robert Zemeckis won for Forrest Gump (1994). Mel Gibson won for Braveheart (1995). James Cameron won for Titanic (1997). Sam Mendes won for American Beauty (1999). Steven Soderbergh won for Traffic (2000). Ron Howard won for A Beautiful Mind (2001). Roman Polanski won for The Pianist (2002). Peter Jackson won for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). Ang Lee won twice, for Brokeback Mountain (2005) & Life of Pi (2012); first Asian winner. Martin Scorsese won for The Departed (2006). The Coen brothers won for No Country for Old Men (2007). Danny Boyle won for Slumdog Millionaire (2008). Kathryn Bigelow won for The Hurt Locker (2009); first woman to win. Tom Hooper won for The King's Speech (2010). Michel Hazanavicius won for The Artist (2011). Alfonso Cuarón won twice, for Gravity (2013) & Roma (2018); first Mexican winner. Alejandro G. Iñárritu won twice consecutively, for Birdman (2014) & The Revenant (2015). Damien Chazelle won for La La Land (2016); youngest winner, at age 32. Guillermo del Toro won for The Shape of Water (2017). Bong Joon-ho won for Parasite (2019); first to direct a foreign-language (Korean) winner for Best Picture. Chloé Zhao won for Nomadland (2020); first woman of color to win. Jane Campion won for The Power of the Dog (2021); first woman to be nominated twice. Daniels won for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022). Christopher Nolan won for Oppenheimer (2023). Table key

Indicates the winner

### 1920s

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1927/28
(1st) | Frank Borzage (Dramatic Picture) | 7th Heaven | [14]
Herbert Brenon (Dramatic Picture) | Sorrell and Son
King Vidor (Dramatic Picture) | The Crowd
Lewis Milestone (Comedy Picture) | Two Arabian Knights
Ted Wilde (Comedy Picture) | Speedy
Charlie Chaplin (Comedy Picture) | The Circus[a] | [15]
1928/29
(2nd)
[b] | Frank Lloyd | The Divine Lady | [16]
Lionel Barrymore | Madame X
Harry Beaumont | The Broadway Melody
Irving Cummings | In Old Arizona
Frank Lloyd | Drag
Weary River
Ernst Lubitsch | The Patriot

### 1930s

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1929/30
(3rd) | Lewis Milestone | All Quiet on the Western Front | [17]
Clarence Brown[c] | Anna Christie
Romance
Robert Z. Leonard | The Divorcee
Ernst Lubitsch | The Love Parade
King Vidor | Hallelujah!
1930/31
(4th) | Norman Taurog | Skippy | [18]
Clarence Brown | A Free Soul
Lewis Milestone | The Front Page
Wesley Ruggles | Cimarron
Josef von Sternberg | Morocco
1931/32
(5th) | Frank Borzage | Bad Girl | [19]
King Vidor | The Champ
Josef von Sternberg | Shanghai Express
1932/33
(6th) | Frank Lloyd | Cavalcade | [20]
Frank Capra | Lady for a Day
George Cukor | Little Women
1934
(7th) | Frank Capra | It Happened One Night | [21]
Victor Schertzinger | One Night of Love
W. S. Van Dyke | The Thin Man
1935
(8th) | John Ford | The Informer | [22][23]
Henry Hathaway | The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Frank Lloyd | Mutiny on the Bounty
Michael Curtiz (Write-in)[d] | Captain Blood
1936
(9th) | Frank Capra | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | [24]
Gregory La Cava | My Man Godfrey
Robert Z. Leonard | The Great Ziegfeld
W. S. Van Dyke | San Francisco
William Wyler | Dodsworth
1937
(10th) | Leo McCarey | The Awful Truth | [25]
William Dieterle | The Life of Emile Zola
Sidney Franklin | The Good Earth
Gregory La Cava | Stage Door
William A. Wellman | A Star Is Born
1938
(11th) | Frank Capra | You Can't Take It with You | [26]
Michael Curtiz | Angels with Dirty Faces
Four Daughters
Norman Taurog | Boys Town
King Vidor | The Citadel
1939
(12th) | Victor Fleming | Gone with the Wind | [27]
Frank Capra | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
John Ford | Stagecoach
Sam Wood | Goodbye, Mr. Chips
William Wyler | Wuthering Heights

### 1940s

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1940
(13th) | John Ford | The Grapes of Wrath | [28]
George Cukor | The Philadelphia Story
Alfred Hitchcock | Rebecca
Sam Wood | Kitty Foyle
William Wyler | The Letter
1941
(14th) | John Ford | How Green Was My Valley | [29]
Alexander Hall | Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Howard Hawks | Sergeant York
Orson Welles | Citizen Kane
William Wyler | The Little Foxes
1942
(15th) | William Wyler | Mrs. Miniver | [30]
Michael Curtiz | Yankee Doodle Dandy
John Farrow | Wake Island
Mervyn LeRoy | Random Harvest
Sam Wood | Kings Row
1943
(16th) | Michael Curtiz | Casablanca | [31]
Clarence Brown | The Human Comedy
Henry King | The Song of Bernadette
Ernst Lubitsch | Heaven Can Wait
George Stevens | The More the Merrier
1944
(17th) | Leo McCarey | Going My Way | [32]
Alfred Hitchcock | Lifeboat
Henry King | Wilson
Otto Preminger | Laura
Billy Wilder | Double Indemnity
1945
(18th) | Billy Wilder | The Lost Weekend | [33]
Clarence Brown | National Velvet
Alfred Hitchcock | Spellbound
Leo McCarey | The Bells of St. Mary's
Jean Renoir | The Southerner
1946
(19th) | William Wyler | The Best Years of Our Lives | [34]
Clarence Brown | The Yearling
Frank Capra | It's a Wonderful Life
David Lean | Brief Encounter
Robert Siodmak | The Killers
1947
(20th) | Elia Kazan | Gentleman's Agreement | [35]
George Cukor | A Double Life
Edward Dmytryk | Crossfire
Henry Koster | The Bishop's Wife
David Lean | Great Expectations
1948
(21st) | John Huston | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | [36]
Anatole Litvak | The Snake Pit
Jean Negulesco | Johnny Belinda
Laurence Olivier | Hamlet
Fred Zinnemann | The Search
1949
(22nd) | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | A Letter to Three Wives | [37]
Carol Reed | The Fallen Idol
Robert Rossen | All the King's Men
William A. Wellman | Battleground
William Wyler | The Heiress

### 1950s

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1950
(23rd) | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | All About Eve | [38]
George Cukor | Born Yesterday
John Huston | The Asphalt Jungle
Carol Reed | The Third Man
Billy Wilder | Sunset Boulevard
1951
(24th) | George Stevens | A Place in the Sun | [39]
John Huston | The African Queen
Elia Kazan | A Streetcar Named Desire
Vincente Minnelli | An American in Paris
William Wyler | Detective Story
1952
(25th) | John Ford | The Quiet Man | [40]
Cecil B. DeMille | The Greatest Show on Earth
John Huston | Moulin Rouge
Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 5 Fingers
Fred Zinnemann | High Noon
1953
(26th) | Fred Zinnemann | From Here to Eternity | [41]
George Stevens | Shane
Charles Walters | Lili
Billy Wilder | Stalag 17
William Wyler | Roman Holiday
1954
(27th) | Elia Kazan | On the Waterfront | [42]
Alfred Hitchcock | Rear Window
George Seaton | The Country Girl
William A. Wellman | The High and the Mighty
Billy Wilder | Sabrina
1955
(28th) | Delbert Mann | Marty | [43]
Elia Kazan | East of Eden
David Lean | Summertime
Joshua Logan | Picnic
John Sturges | Bad Day at Black Rock
1956
(29th) | George Stevens | Giant | [44]
Michael Anderson | Around the World in 80 Days
Walter Lang | The King and I
King Vidor | War and Peace
William Wyler | Friendly Persuasion
1957
(30th) | David Lean | The Bridge on the River Kwai | [45]
Joshua Logan | Sayonara
Sidney Lumet | 12 Angry Men
Mark Robson | Peyton Place
Billy Wilder | Witness for the Prosecution
1958
(31st) | Vincente Minnelli | Gigi | [46]
Richard Brooks | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Stanley Kramer | The Defiant Ones
Mark Robson | The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Robert Wise | I Want to Live!
1959
(32nd) | William Wyler | Ben-Hur | [47]
Jack Clayton | Room at the Top
George Stevens | The Diary of Anne Frank
Billy Wilder | Some Like It Hot
Fred Zinnemann | The Nun's Story

### 1960s

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1960
(33rd) | Billy Wilder | The Apartment | [48]
Jack Cardiff | Sons and Lovers
Jules Dassin | Never on Sunday
Alfred Hitchcock | Psycho
Fred Zinnemann | The Sundowners
1961
(34th) | Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins | West Side Story | [49]
Federico Fellini | La Dolce Vita
Stanley Kramer | Judgment at Nuremberg
Robert Rossen | The Hustler
J. Lee Thompson | The Guns of Navarone
1962
(35th) | David Lean | Lawrence of Arabia | [50]
Pietro Germi | Divorce Italian Style
Robert Mulligan | To Kill a Mockingbird
Arthur Penn | The Miracle Worker
Frank Perry | David and Lisa
1963
(36th) | Tony Richardson | Tom Jones | [51]
Federico Fellini | 8½
Elia Kazan | America America
Otto Preminger | The Cardinal
Martin Ritt | Hud
1964
(37th) | George Cukor | My Fair Lady | [52]
Michael Cacoyannis | Zorba the Greek
Peter Glenville | Becket
Stanley Kubrick | Dr. Strangelove
Robert Stevenson | Mary Poppins
1965
(38th) | Robert Wise | The Sound of Music | [53]
David Lean | Doctor Zhivago
John Schlesinger | Darling
Hiroshi Teshigahara | Woman in the Dunes
William Wyler | The Collector
1966
(39th) | Fred Zinnemann | A Man for All Seasons | [54]
Michelangelo Antonioni | Blowup
Richard Brooks | The Professionals
Claude Lelouch | A Man and a Woman
Mike Nichols | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1967
(40th) | Mike Nichols | The Graduate | [55]
Richard Brooks | In Cold Blood
Norman Jewison | In the Heat of the Night
Stanley Kramer | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Arthur Penn | Bonnie and Clyde
1968
(41st) | Carol Reed | Oliver! | [56]
Anthony Harvey | The Lion in Winter
Stanley Kubrick | 2001: A Space Odyssey
Gillo Pontecorvo | The Battle of Algiers
Franco Zeffirelli | Romeo and Juliet
1969
(42nd) | John Schlesinger | Midnight Cowboy | [57]
Costa-Gavras | Z
George Roy Hill | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Arthur Penn | Alice's Restaurant
Sydney Pollack | They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

### 1970s

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1970
(43rd) | Franklin J. Schaffner | Patton | [58]
Robert Altman | M*A*S*H
Federico Fellini | Fellini Satyricon
Arthur Hiller | Love Story
Ken Russell | Women in Love
1971
(44th) | William Friedkin | The French Connection | [59]
Peter Bogdanovich | The Last Picture Show
Norman Jewison | Fiddler on the Roof
Stanley Kubrick | A Clockwork Orange
John Schlesinger | Sunday Bloody Sunday
1972
(45th) | Bob Fosse | Cabaret | [60]
John Boorman | Deliverance
Francis Ford Coppola | The Godfather
Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Sleuth
Jan Troell | The Emigrants
1973
(46th) | George Roy Hill | The Sting | [61]
Ingmar Bergman | Cries and Whispers
Bernardo Bertolucci | Last Tango in Paris
William Friedkin | The Exorcist
George Lucas | American Graffiti
1974
(47th) | Francis Ford Coppola | The Godfather Part II | [62]
John Cassavetes | A Woman Under the Influence
Bob Fosse | Lenny
Roman Polanski | Chinatown
François Truffaut | Day for Night
1975
(48th) | Miloš Forman | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | [63]
Robert Altman | Nashville
Federico Fellini | Amarcord
Stanley Kubrick | Barry Lyndon
Sidney Lumet | Dog Day Afternoon
1976
(49th) | John G. Avildsen | Rocky | [64]
Ingmar Bergman | Face to Face
Sidney Lumet | Network
Alan J. Pakula | All the President's Men
Lina Wertmüller | Seven Beauties
1977
(50th) | Woody Allen | Annie Hall | [65]
George Lucas | Star Wars
Herbert Ross | The Turning Point
Steven Spielberg | Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Fred Zinnemann | Julia
1978
(51st) | Michael Cimino | The Deer Hunter | [66]
Woody Allen | Interiors
Hal Ashby | Coming Home
Warren Beatty & Buck Henry | Heaven Can Wait
Alan Parker | Midnight Express
1979
(52nd) | Robert Benton | Kramer vs. Kramer | [67]
Francis Ford Coppola | Apocalypse Now
Bob Fosse | All That Jazz
Édouard Molinaro | La Cage aux Folles
Peter Yates | Breaking Away

### 1980s

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1980
(53rd) | Robert Redford | Ordinary People | [68]
David Lynch | The Elephant Man
Roman Polanski | Tess
Richard Rush | The Stunt Man
Martin Scorsese | Raging Bull
1981
(54th) | Warren Beatty | Reds | [69]
Hugh Hudson | Chariots of Fire
Louis Malle | Atlantic City
Mark Rydell | On Golden Pond
Steven Spielberg | Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982
(55th) | Richard Attenborough | Gandhi | [70]
Sidney Lumet | The Verdict
Wolfgang Petersen | Das Boot
Sydney Pollack | Tootsie
Steven Spielberg | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1983
(56th) | James L. Brooks | Terms of Endearment | [71]
Bruce Beresford | Tender Mercies
Ingmar Bergman | Fanny and Alexander
Mike Nichols | Silkwood
Peter Yates | The Dresser
1984
(57th) | Miloš Forman | Amadeus | [72]
Woody Allen | Broadway Danny Rose
Robert Benton | Places in the Heart
Roland Joffé | The Killing Fields
David Lean | A Passage to India
1985
(58th) | Sydney Pollack | Out of Africa | [73]
Héctor Babenco | Kiss of the Spider Woman
John Huston | Prizzi's Honor
Akira Kurosawa | Ran
Peter Weir | Witness
1986
(59th) | Oliver Stone | Platoon | [74]
Woody Allen | Hannah and Her Sisters
James Ivory | A Room with a View
Roland Joffé | The Mission
David Lynch | Blue Velvet
1987
(60th) | Bernardo Bertolucci | The Last Emperor | [75]
John Boorman | Hope and Glory
Lasse Hallström | My Life as a Dog
Norman Jewison | Moonstruck
Adrian Lyne | Fatal Attraction
1988
(61st) | Barry Levinson | Rain Man | [76]
Charles Crichton | A Fish Called Wanda
Mike Nichols | Working Girl
Alan Parker | Mississippi Burning
Martin Scorsese | The Last Temptation of Christ
1989
(62nd) | Oliver Stone | Born on the Fourth of July | [77]
Woody Allen | Crimes and Misdemeanors
Kenneth Branagh | Henry V
Jim Sheridan | My Left Foot
Peter Weir | Dead Poets Society

### 1990s

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1990
(63rd) | Kevin Costner | Dances With Wolves | [78]
Francis Ford Coppola | The Godfather Part III
Stephen Frears | The Grifters
Barbet Schroeder | Reversal of Fortune
Martin Scorsese | Goodfellas
1991
(64th) | Jonathan Demme | The Silence of the Lambs | [79]
Barry Levinson | Bugsy
Ridley Scott | Thelma & Louise
John Singleton | Boyz n the Hood
Oliver Stone | JFK
1992
(65th) | Clint Eastwood | Unforgiven | [80]
Robert Altman | The Player
Martin Brest | Scent of a Woman
James Ivory | Howards End
Neil Jordan | The Crying Game
1993
(66th) | Steven Spielberg | Schindler's List | [81]
Robert Altman | Short Cuts
Jane Campion | The Piano
James Ivory | The Remains of the Day
Jim Sheridan | In the Name of the Father
1994
(67th) | Robert Zemeckis | Forrest Gump | [82]
Woody Allen | Bullets Over Broadway
Krzysztof Kieślowski | Three Colours: Red
Robert Redford | Quiz Show
Quentin Tarantino | Pulp Fiction
1995
(68th) | Mel Gibson | Braveheart | [83]
Mike Figgis | Leaving Las Vegas
Chris Noonan | Babe
Michael Radford | Il Postino: The Postman
Tim Robbins | Dead Man Walking
1996
(69th) | Anthony Minghella | The English Patient | [84]
Joel Coen | Fargo
Miloš Forman | The People vs. Larry Flynt
Scott Hicks | Shine
Mike Leigh | Secrets & Lies
1997
(70th) | James Cameron | Titanic | [85]
Peter Cattaneo | The Full Monty
Atom Egoyan | The Sweet Hereafter
Curtis Hanson | L.A. Confidential
Gus Van Sant | Good Will Hunting
1998
(71st) | Steven Spielberg | Saving Private Ryan | [86]
Roberto Benigni | Life Is Beautiful
John Madden | Shakespeare in Love
Terrence Malick | The Thin Red Line
Peter Weir | The Truman Show
1999
(72nd) | Sam Mendes | American Beauty | [87]
Lasse Hallström | The Cider House Rules
Spike Jonze | Being John Malkovich
Michael Mann | The Insider
M. Night Shyamalan | The Sixth Sense

### 2000s

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2000
(73rd) | Steven Soderbergh | Traffic | [88]
Stephen Daldry | Billy Elliot
Ang Lee | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Ridley Scott | Gladiator
Steven Soderbergh | Erin Brockovich
2001
(74th) | Ron Howard | A Beautiful Mind | [89]
Robert Altman | Gosford Park
Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
David Lynch | Mulholland Drive
Ridley Scott | Black Hawk Down
2002
(75th) | Roman Polanski | The Pianist | [90]
Pedro Almodóvar | Talk to Her
Stephen Daldry | The Hours
Rob Marshall | Chicago
Martin Scorsese | Gangs of New York
2003
(76th) | Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | [91]
Sofia Coppola | Lost in Translation
Clint Eastwood | Mystic River
Fernando Meirelles | City of God
Peter Weir | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2004
(77th) | Clint Eastwood | Million Dollar Baby | [92]
Taylor Hackford | Ray
Mike Leigh | Vera Drake
Alexander Payne | Sideways
Martin Scorsese | The Aviator
2005
(78th) | Ang Lee | Brokeback Mountain | [93]
George Clooney | Good Night, and Good Luck
Paul Haggis | Crash
Bennett Miller | Capote
Steven Spielberg | Munich
2006
(79th) | Martin Scorsese | The Departed | [94]
Clint Eastwood | Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears | The Queen
Paul Greengrass | United 93
Alejandro González Iñárritu | Babel
2007
(80th) | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | No Country for Old Men | [95]
Paul Thomas Anderson | There Will Be Blood
Tony Gilroy | Michael Clayton
Jason Reitman | Juno
Julian Schnabel | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2008
(81st) | Danny Boyle | Slumdog Millionaire | [96]
Stephen Daldry | The Reader
David Fincher | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard | Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant | Milk
2009
(82nd) | Kathryn Bigelow | The Hurt Locker | [97]
James Cameron | Avatar
Lee Daniels | Precious
Jason Reitman | Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino | Inglourious Basterds

### 2010s

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Year  | Director(s)  | Film  | Ref.

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2010
(83rd) | Tom Hooper | The King's Speech | [98]
Darren Aronofsky | Black Swan
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | True Grit
David Fincher | The Social Network
David O. Russell | The Fighter
2011
(84th) | Michel Hazanavicius | The Artist | [99]
Woody Allen | Midnight in Paris
Terrence Malick | The Tree of Life
Alexander Payne | The Descendants
Martin Scorsese | Hugo
2012
(85th) | Ang Lee | Life of Pi | [100]
Michael Haneke | Amour
David O. Russell | Silver Linings Playbook
Steven Spielberg | Lincoln
Benh Zeitlin | Beasts of the Southern Wild
2013
(86th) | Alfonso Cuarón | Gravity | [101]
Steve McQueen | 12 Years a Slave
Alexander Payne | Nebraska
David O. Russell | American Hustle
Martin Scorsese | The Wolf of Wall Street
2014
(87th) | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Birdman | [102]
Wes Anderson | The Grand Budapest Hotel
Richard Linklater | Boyhood
Bennett Miller | Foxcatcher
Morten Tyldum | The Imitation Game
2015
(88th) | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | The Revenant | [103]
Lenny Abrahamson | Room
Tom McCarthy | Spotlight
Adam McKay | The Big Short
George Miller | Mad Max: Fury Road
2016
(89th) | Damien Chazelle | La La Land | [104]
Mel Gibson | Hacksaw Ridge
Barry Jenkins | Moonlight
Kenneth Lonergan | Manchester by the Sea
Denis Villeneuve | Arrival
2017
(90th) | Guillermo del Toro | The Shape of Water | [105]
Paul Thomas Anderson | Phantom Thread
Greta Gerwig | Lady Bird
Christopher Nolan | Dunkirk
Jordan Peele | Get Out
2018
(91st) | Alfonso Cuarón | Roma | [106]
Yorgos Lanthimos | The Favourite
Spike Lee | BlacKkKlansman
Adam McKay | Vice
Paweł Pawlikowski | Cold War
2019
(92nd) | Bong Joon-ho | Parasite | [107]
Sam Mendes | 1917
Todd Phillips | Joker
Martin Scorsese | The Irishman
Quentin Tarantino | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

### 2020s

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Year  | Director(s)  | Film  | Ref.

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|
|

2020/21
[e]
(93rd) | Chloé Zhao | Nomadland | [108]
Lee Isaac Chung | Minari
Emerald Fennell | Promising Young Woman
David Fincher | Mank
Thomas Vinterberg | Another Round
2021
(94th) | Jane Campion | The Power of the Dog | [109]
Paul Thomas Anderson | Licorice Pizza
Kenneth Branagh | Belfast
Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Drive My Car
Steven Spielberg | West Side Story
2022
(95th) | Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert | Everything Everywhere All at Once | [110]
Todd Field | Tár
Martin McDonagh | The Banshees of Inisherin
Ruben Östlund | Triangle of Sadness
Steven Spielberg | The Fabelmans
2023
(96th) | Christopher Nolan | Oppenheimer | [111]
Jonathan Glazer | The Zone of Interest
Yorgos Lanthimos | Poor Things
Martin Scorsese | Killers of the Flower Moon
Justine Triet | Anatomy of a Fall
2024
(97th) | Sean Baker | Anora | [112]
Jacques Audiard | Emilia Pérez
Brady Corbet | The Brutalist
Coralie Fargeat | The Substance
James Mangold | A Complete Unknown

## Multiple wins and nominations

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### Multiple wins

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Wins  | Director

|

| John Ford
3  | Frank Capra
William Wyler
2  | Frank Borzage
Alfonso Cuarón
Clint Eastwood
Miloš Forman
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Elia Kazan
David Lean
Ang Lee
Frank Lloyd[b]
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Leo McCarey
Lewis Milestone
Steven Spielberg
George Stevens
Oliver Stone
Billy Wilder
Robert Wise[f]
Fred Zinnemann

### Three or more nominations

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Nominations  | Director

|

12  | William Wyler
10  | Martin Scorsese
9  | Steven Spielberg
8  | Billy Wilder
7  | Woody Allen
David Lean
Fred Zinnemann
6  | Frank Capra
5  | Robert Altman
Clarence Brown[c]
George Cukor
John Ford
Alfred Hitchcock
John Huston
Elia Kazan
George Stevens
King Vidor
4  | Francis Ford Coppola
Michael Curtiz[d]
Clint Eastwood
Federico Fellini
Stanley Kubrick
Frank Lloyd[b]
Sidney Lumet
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Mike Nichols
Peter Weir
3  | Paul Thomas Anderson
Ingmar Bergman
Richard Brooks
Joel Coen[g]
Stephen Daldry
David Fincher
Miloš Forman
Bob Fosse
Alejandro González Iñárritu
James Ivory
Norman Jewison
Stanley Kramer
Ang Lee
Ernst Lubitsch
David Lynch
Leo McCarey
Lewis Milestone
Alexander Payne
Arthur Penn
Roman Polanski
Sydney Pollack
Carol Reed
David O. Russell
John Schlesinger
Ridley Scott
Oliver Stone
Quentin Tarantino
William A. Wellman
Robert Wise[f]
Sam Wood

## Age superlatives

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Main article: List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees § Best Director

Record  | Director  | Film  | Age  | Ref.

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|
|
|

Oldest winner  | Clint Eastwood | Million Dollar Baby | 74 years, 272 days  | [113]
Oldest nominee  | Martin Scorsese | Killers of the Flower Moon | 81 years, 67 days  | [111]
Youngest winner  | Damien Chazelle | La La Land | 32 years, 38 days  | [113]
Youngest nominee  | John Singleton | Boyz n the Hood | 24 years, 44 days  | [113]

## Records

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* John Ford has received the most awards in this category, with four. Frank Capra and William Wyler won three each.
* Wyler has the most nominations, with 12—including a record four years in a row. Martin Scorsese is currently second, with 10 nominations.
* Clarence Brown received the most nominations without a win (6). Alfred Hitchcock and King Vidor each received 5 nominations without a win.
* Four directors have won twice for films that did not win Best Picture: Frank Borzage, George Stevens, Ang Lee, and Alfonso Cuarón.
* Of John Ford's four wins, the only film which also won Best Picture was How Green Was My Valley (1941).
* Ford (1940–1941), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949–1950), and Alejandro González Iñárritu (2014–2015) are the only directors to have won the award in two consecutive years.
* Francis Ford Coppola is the only director to be nominated for each film of a trilogy, The Godfather trilogy, winning for the second film.
* Four directing teams have been nominated together (a total of five times, winning on three occasions): Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for West Side Story (1961, winners); Warren Beatty and Buck Henry for Heaven Can Wait (1978); Joel and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men (2007, winners) and True Grit (2010); and Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022, winners).
* The Coen Brothers are the only siblings to have won the award.
* Six directors won the award for their feature film debut: Delbert Mann for Marty (1955), Jerome Robbins for West Side Story (1961), Robert Redford for Ordinary People (1980), James L. Brooks for Terms of Endearment (1983), Kevin Costner for Dances With Wolves (1990), and Sam Mendes for American Beauty (1999).
* Robbins is the only director to have won for his only career directing credit.
* Lina Wertmüller was the first woman nominated in the category, for Seven Beauties (1976).
* Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the award, for The Hurt Locker (2009).
* Chloé Zhao was the first woman of color to win the award, for Nomadland (2020).
* Jane Campion is the first woman to be nominated twice for the award: The Piano (1993) and The Power of the Dog (2021)—winning for the latter.
* John Singleton is the first Black (and youngest) nominee for Boyz n the Hood (1991).
* Steve McQueen is the first Black nominee to direct a Best Picture winner, for 12 Years a Slave. Barry Jenkins subsequently did the same three years later, with Moonlight (2016).
* David Lean was the first non-American to win—and twice, for The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962). This did not recur for five decades with any other non-American directors, until Ang Lee, Alfonso Cuarón, and Alejandro González Iñárritu each won twice themselves.
* Lee was the first Asian director to win the award, for Brokeback Mountain (2005). He won again for Life of Pi (2012).
* Cuarón was the first Mexican (and Latin American) director to win the award, for Gravity (2013). He won again for Roma (2018).

## Notes

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1. ^ The Circus originally received a nomination for Best Director (Comedy Picture), as well as nominations for Best Actor and Best Writing (Original Story), all for Charlie Chaplin. However, the Academy subsequently decided to remove Chaplin's name from the competitive award categories and instead to confer upon him a Special Award "for acting, writing, directing and producing The Circus".
2. ^ a b c The 2nd Academy Awards is the only ceremony for which there were no official nominees. Subsequent research by AMPAS has resulted in a list of unofficial or de facto nominees, based on records of which films were evaluated by the judges. While Frank Lloyd won for The Divine Lady, his other two nominated films are considered to be a single combined nomination.
3. ^ a b According to the Oscars.org database, Brown's directing nomination counts as one singular, joint, cumulative nomination for two films. This same recognition was applicable to all nominees, such as to Greta Garbo's acting nominations from the same respective films; as well as acting winners, Norma Shearer and George Arliss. No explanation was given for why the latter two were nominated with two films, yet only awarded for one each.
4. ^ a b Michael Curtiz was not on the original ballot of nominees. However, after the year prior with Bette Davis's omission for Of Human Bondage, the resulting furor led to a write-in campaign determined to secure her a nomination. Thus, the Academy relaxed their rules and allowed her performance to be amongst the competition. They permitted this once more, prompting further submissions: Curtiz; Paul Muni for Black Fury; and several other categories, including Hal Mohr for A Midsummer Night's Dream. Ultimately, Mohr became the only person to win an Oscar as a result of this process. The Academy discontinued this option from the next ceremony forward to prevent any recurrence.
5. ^ The eligibility period for the 93rd ceremony was extended through to February 28, 2021, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
6. ^ a b Wise earned two individual nominations (resulting in one win); and one joint nomination with Jerome Robbins, which also resulted in the pair of them winning.
7. ^ While the Coen Brothers, as a directing duo, earned two nominations, their work on Fargo was credited as being split apart: Ethan was given sole producer credit, while Joel was listed as the sole director. Joel thus has one additional directing nomination combined with his work as part of their dual efforts.

## See also

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* BAFTA Award for Best Direction
* Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director
* Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film
* Golden Globe Award for Best Director
* Independent Spirit Award for Best Director
* List of Academy Award–nominated films

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* Academy Honorary Award
* Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
* Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
* Special Achievement Academy Award

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Academy Scientific
and Technical Awards|

* Academy Award of Merit (non-competitive)
* Scientific and Engineering Award
* Technical Achievement Award
* John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation
* Gordon E. Sawyer Award

Student Awards|

* Student Academy Award

Former awards|

| Merit Awards|

* Assistant Director
* Dance Direction
* Sound Editing
* Story

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Special Awards|

* Academy Juvenile Award

Ceremonies
(years of film release)|

* 1927/28
* 1928/29
* 1929/30
* 1930/31
* 1931/32
* 1932/33
* 1934
* 1935
* 1936
* 1937
* 1938
* 1939
* 1940
* 1941
* 1942
* 1943
* 1944
* 1945
* 1946
* 1947
* 1948
* 1949
* 1950
* 1951
* 1952
* 1953
* 1954
* 1955
* 1956
* 1957
* 1958
* 1959
* 1960
* 1961
* 1962
* 1963
* 1964
* 1965
* 1966
* 1967
* 1968
* 1969
* 1970
* 1971
* 1972
* 1973
* 1974
* 1975
* 1976
* 1977
* 1978
* 1979
* 1980
* 1981
* 1982
* 1983
* 1984
* 1985
* 1986
* 1987
* 1988
* 1989
* 1990
* 1991
* 1992
* 1993
* 1994
* 1995
* 1996
* 1997
* 1998
* 1999
* 2000
* 2001
* 2002
* 2003
* 2004
* 2005
* 2006
* 2007
* 2008
* 2009
* 2010
* 2011
* 2012
* 2013
* 2014
* 2015
* 2016
* 2017
* 2018
* 2019
* 2020/21
* 2021
* 2022
* 2023
* 2024

* Category

* v
* t
* e

Academy Awards lists

* Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)

* Records
* Most awards per ceremony

Combined major
Academy Awards|

* Superlatives
* Big Five
* All four acting categories

Acting|

* All nominees
* Best Actor
* Best Actress
* Best Supporting Actor
* Best Supporting Actress
* Non-English acting noms
* Actor multi-nom years
* Multi-win actors
* Multi-nom actors
* "Oscar love curse"

Directing|

* Best Director

Film|

* Winning films
* Multi-noms in same category
* Two acting awards for same film
* Foreign-language wins
* Foreign-language noms in other categories
* International Feature nominees
* International Feature: count by country
* Best Animated Feature submissions
* Best Documentary Feature submissions
* Best Animated Short submissions
* Best Documentary Short submissions
* Animated feature noms in other categories

Countries of
the nominees|

* Africa
* Argentina
* Australia
* Austria
* Baltic
* Belarus
* Belgium
* Brazil
* Bulgaria
* Canada
* Chile
* Colombia
* Cuba
* Czech Republic
* Europe
* France
* Germany
* Greece
* Hungary
* India
* Iran
* Ireland
* Israel
* Italy
* Japan
* (South) Korea
* Latin America
* Mexico
* Netherlands
* New Zealand
* Nordic
* Pakistan
* Philippines
* Poland
* Puerto Rico
* Romania
* Russia
* Spain
* Switzerland
* United Kingdom

Nominees demographics|

* Asian
* Black
* Hispanic
* Indigenous
* Jewish
* Muslim
* Gen Y
* Gen Z

Other|

* Ceremonies
* Families
* False names
* Multi-win years
* Awards for Walt Disney
* Posthumous wins and noms
* Best Picture presenters
* Trophies on public display
* Oldest and youngest
* LGBTQ
* Women in non-gendered categories

Combined major
awards|

* EGOT
* Triple Crown of Acting

* Category

* v
* t
* e

Academy Award for Best Director

1927–1975|

* Frank Borzage (1927/28; Dramatic Picture)
* Lewis Milestone (1927/28; Comedy Picture)
* Frank Lloyd (1928/29)
* Lewis Milestone (1929/30)
* Norman Taurog (1930/31)
* Frank Borzage (1931/32)
* Frank Lloyd (1932/33)
* 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)
* 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–present|

* 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)
* 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 González Iñárritu (2014)
* Alejandro González Iñárritu (2015)
* Damien Chazelle (2016)
* Guillermo del Toro (2017)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
* Bong Joon-ho (2019)
* Chloé Zhao (2020/21)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022)
* Christopher Nolan (2023)
* Sean Baker (2024)

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