Academy Award Best Directors

Here are the films which won the Academy Award for Best Director!

Total Films: 95/97
Average Rating: 7.884

1929. Drama- Frank Borzage- 7th Heaven 8
          Comedy- Lewis Milestone- Two Arabian Knights 8
1930.
1931. Lewis Milestone- All Quiet on the Western Front 8
1932.
1933. Frank Borzage- Bad Girl 7.5
1934. Frank Lloyd- Cavalcade 7
1935. Frank Capra- It Happened One Night 7.5
1936. John Ford- The Informer 7.5
1937. Frank Capra- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 7.5
1938. Leo McCarey- The Awful Truth 7
1939. Frank Capra- You Can't Take it With You 7
1940. Victor Fleming- Gone With the Wind 10
1941. John Ford- The Grapes of Wrath 7
1942. John Ford- How Green Was My Valley 8
1943. William Wyler- Mrs. Miniver 7.5
1944. Michael Curtiz- Casablanca 10
1945. Leo McCarey- Going My Way 7.5
1946. Billy Wilder- The Lost Weekend 8
1947. William Wyler- The Best Years of Our Lives 8
1948. Elia Kazan- Gentleman's Agreement 7.5
1949. John Huston- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 8
1950. Joseph L. Mankiewicz- A Letter to Three Wives 7
1951. Joseph L. Mankiewicz- All About Eve 8
1952. George Stevens- A Place in the Sun 7
1953. John Ford- The Quiet Man 8
1954. Fred Zinnemann- From Here to Eternity 8.5
1955. Elia Kazan- On the Waterfront 8
1956. Delbert Mann- Marty 8
1957. George Stevens- Giant 7.5
1958. David Lean- The Bridge on the River Kwai 8
1959. Vincente Minnelli- Gigi 6.5
1960. William Wyler- Ben-Hur 8.5
1961. Billy Wilder- The Apartment 7.5
1962. Robert Wise- West Side Story 8
1963. David Lean- Lawrence of Arabia 8.5
1964. Tony Richardson- Tom Jones 6
1965. George Cukor- My Fair Lady 7.5
1966. Robert Wise- The Sound of Music 7.5
1967. Fred Zinnemann- A Man for All Seasons 7.5
1968. Mike Nichols- The Graduate 9
1969. Carol Reed- Oliver! 7.5
1970. John Schlesinger- Midnight Cowboy 7
1971. Franklin J. Schaffner- Patton 8.5
1972. William Friedkin- The French Connection 8
1973. Bob Fosse- Cabaret 6.5
1974. George Roy Hill- The Sting 8.5
1975. Francis Ford Coppola- The Godfather: Part II 9
1976. Milos Forman- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 9
1977. John G. Avildsen- Rocky 8.5
1978. Woody Allen- Annie Hall 7.5
1979. Michael Cimino- The Deer Hunter 7.5
1980. Robert Benton- Kramer vs. Kramer 7
1981. Robert Redford- Ordinary People 8
1982. Warren Beatty- Reds 7.5
1983. Richard Attenborough- Gandhi 9
1984. James L. Brooks- Terms of Endearment 7.5
1985. Milos Forman- Amadeus 8.5
1986. Sydney Pollack- Out of Africa 7
1987. Oliver Stone- Platoon 7.5
1988. Bernardo Bertolucci- The Last Emperor 7
1989. Barry Levinson- Rain Man 7.5
1990. Oliver Stone- Born on the Fourth of July 7
1991. Kevin Costner- Dances With Wolves 8
1992. Jonathan Demme- The Silence of the Lambs 8
1993. Clint Eastwood- Unforgiven 8
1994. Steven Spielberg- Schindler's List 9
1995. Robert Zemeckis- Forrest Gump 9.5
1996. Mel Gibson- Braveheart 9
1997. Anthony Minghella- The English Patient 7.5
1998. James Cameron- Titanic 9
1999. Steven Spielberg- Saving Private Ryan 9
2000. Sam Mendes- American Beauty 9.5
2001. Steven Soderbergh- Traffic 6.5
2002. Ron Howard- A Beautiful Mind 8.5
2003. Roman Polanski- The Pianist 8
2004. Peter Jackson- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 9.5
2005. Clint Eastwood- Million Dollar Baby 9
2006. Ang Lee- Brokeback Mountain 8
2007. Martin Scorsese- The Departed 8
2008. Joel & Ethan Coen- No Country for Old Men 8
2009. Danny Boyle- Slumdog Millionaire 8
2010. Kathryn Bigelow- The Hurt Locker 8
2011. Tom Hooper- The King's Speech 8
2012. Michel Hazanavicius- The Artist 7.5
2013. Ang Lee- Life of Pi 7.5
2014. Alfonso Cuaron- Gravity 8.5
2015. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu- Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 8
2016. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu- The Revenant 8
2017. Damien Chazelle- La La Land 8
2018. Guillermo del Toro- The Shape of Water 7.5
2019. Alfonso Cuaron- Roma 7.5
2020. Bong Joon Ho- Parasite 8
2021. Chloe Zhao- Nomadland 8
2022. Jane Campion- The Power of the Dog 6
2023. Daniel Scheinert & Daniel Kwan- Everything Everywhere All at Once 7.5
2024. Oppenheimer 8