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The Academy Award for Achievement in Directing (Best Director) is one of the Awards of Merit presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures....
 (AMPAS) to director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
s working in the motion picture
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 industry. While nominations for Best Director are made by members in the Academy's Directing branch, the award winners are selected by the Academy membership as a whole.
ughout the past 80 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, AMPAS has presented a total of 81 Best Director awards to 61 different directors.






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The Academy Award for Achievement in Directing (Best Director) is one of the Awards of Merit presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures....
 (AMPAS) to director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
s working in the motion picture
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 industry. While nominations for Best Director are made by members in the Academy's Directing branch, the award winners are selected by the Academy membership as a whole.

History

Throughout the past 80 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, AMPAS has presented a total of 81 Best Director awards to 61 different directors. At the 1st Academy Awards
1st Academy Awards

The 1st Academy Awards were presented on May 16, 1929 at a private dinner held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Tickets cost $5 and fewer than 250 people attended....
 (1927
1927 in film

Events*January 10 - Fritz Lang's science-fiction fantasy Metropolis premieres in Germany.*April 12 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx marries Marion Benda....
/1928
1928 in film

EventsAlthough some movies released in 1928 had Sound film, most were still silent film.* July 31 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's mascot Leo the Lion roars for the very first time, creating one of the most popular American film logos....
), there were two directing awards -- one for "Dramatic Direction" and one for "Comedy Direction". The Comedy Direction award was eliminated the next year and, indeed, the awards have overwhelmingly favored dramatic films ever since. At both the 34th Academy Awards
34th Academy Awards

The 34th Academy Awards, honoring the 1961 in film, were held on April 9, 1962 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California....
 (1961
1961 in film

The year 1961 in film involved some significant events....
) and the 80th Academy Awards
80th Academy Awards

The 80th Academy Awards ceremony honored the best films in 2007 in film and was broadcast from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California on American Broadcasting Company beginning at 5:30 p.m....
 (2007
2007 in film

The year '2007 in film' saw major releases such as Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ,The Simpsons Movie, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Transformers , TMNT , Saw IV, and Live Free or Die Hard as well as releases of third installment films, such as: The Bourne Ultimatum , Pirates of the Caribbean:...
), Best Director was presented to a co-directing team, rather than to an individual director.

The earliest years of the award were marked by inconsistency and confusion. In the Academy Awards' first year, actors and others such as cinematographers were nominated for all of their films produced during the qualifying period. However, since the directing award was for "directing" rather than "best director", it honored the director in association with only a single film -- thus Janet Gaynor
Janet Gaynor

Janet Gaynor was an American actor.One of the most popular actresses of the silent films era, in 1928 Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in the films: Sunrise , Seventh Heaven , and Street Angel ....
 has two Frank Borzage
Frank Borzage

Frank Borzage was an Academy Award-winning American film director and actor famed for his mystical romanticism.Borzage's father, Luigi, was born in Roncone, Austria-Hungary in 1859....
 films listed after her Best Actress
Academy Award for Best Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
 nomination, but only one of them earned Borzage a directing nomination. The second year, the directing award followed the others in listing all of a director's work during the qualifying period, resulting in Frank Lloyd
Frank Lloyd

Frank Lloyd was an Academy Award-winning film director, Screenwriter and film producer. Lloyd was among the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and its president between 1934 and 1935....
 being nominated for three of his films -- but, even more confusingly, only one of them was listed on the final award as the film for which he won. Finally, for the 1930/31 awards, this confusing system was replaced by the current system in which a director is nominated for a single film.

Invariably, the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture
Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
 have been very closely linked throughout their history. Of the 80 films that have been awarded Best Picture, 59 have also been awarded Best Director. Only three films have won Best Picture without their directors being nominated (though only one since the early 1930s): Wings
Wings (film)

Wings is a silent film about World War I fighter pilots, directed by William A. Wellman and released by Paramount Pictures. It was the first film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture -- and the only silent film ever to win Best Picture -- and stars Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers and Richard Arlen, with Gary Cooper in a scene whic...
 (1927/28), Grand Hotel
Grand Hotel (film)

Grand Hotel is a 1932 in film MGM Pre-Code Art Deco film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture.The plot device of the film?bringing together several unrelated characters into one setting?was popular and effective enough that it was re-used in other films and became known as "the Grand Hotel" formula....
 (1931/32), and Driving Miss Daisy
Driving Miss Daisy

Driving Miss Daisy is a 1989 in film film adapted from the Alfred Uhry Driving Miss Daisy for Warner Bros. The film was directed by Bruce Beresford with Morgan Freeman reprising his role and Jessica Tandy playing Miss Daisy....
 (1989). The only two Best Director winners to win for films which did not receive a Best Picture nomination are likewise in the early years: Lewis Milestone
Lewis Milestone

Lewis Milestone was an Academy Award-winning film director. He is known for directing Two Arabian Knights , All Quiet on the Western Front , The General Died at Dawn , Of Mice and Men , Ocean's Eleven , and Mutiny on the Bounty ....
 (1927/28) and Frank Lloyd
Frank Lloyd

Frank Lloyd was an Academy Award-winning film director, Screenwriter and film producer. Lloyd was among the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and its president between 1934 and 1935....
 (1928/29).

Due to strict rules promulgated by the Directors Guild of America
Directors Guild of America

Directors Guild of America is the trade union which represents the interests of film director and television director directors in the United States motion picture industry....
 (DGA), only one individual may claim screen credit as a film's director. (This rule is designed to prevent rights and ownership issues and to eliminate lobbying for director credit by producers and actors.) However, the DGA may create an exception to this "one director per film" rule if two co-directors seeking to share director credit for a film qualify as an "established duo". In the history of the Academy Awards, established duos have been nominated for Best Director only three times: Robert Wise
Robert Wise

'Robert Earl Wise' was an United States sound effects editor, film editor, and Academy Awards-winning United States film producer and director. Among his many famous films are Citizen Kane, The Sand Pebbles , The Sound of Music , West Side Story , The Hindenburg , Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Day the Earth Stood...
 and Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins

Jerome Robbins was an United States film director and choreographer whose work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater....
 (who won for West Side Story
West Side Story (film)

West Side Story is a 1961 in film Cinema of the United States film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. It is an adaptation of the Broadway musical West Side Story, which itself was adapted from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet....
 in 1961
1961 in film

The year 1961 in film involved some significant events....
); Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty

Warren Beatty is an United States Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning actor, film producer, screenwriter and film director....
 and Buck Henry
Buck Henry

Henry Zuckerman, better known as Buck Henry , is an United States actor, writer, film director, and television director....
 (who were nominated for Heaven Can Wait
Heaven Can Wait (1978 film)

Heaven Can Wait is a 1978 in film comedy film directed by Warren Beatty and Buck Henry. The screenplay by Beatty, Elaine May and an uncredited Robert Towne is adapted from the original stage play Heaven Can Wait by Harry Segall....
 in 1978
1978 in film

The year 1978 in film involved some significant events....
), and Joel Coen
Coen Brothers

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, known together professionally as the Coen brothers, are American filmmakers. For more than twenty years, the pair have written and directed numerous successful films, ranging from Screwball comedy film to hardboiled , to movies where genres blur together ....
 and Ethan Coen
Coen Brothers

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, known together professionally as the Coen brothers, are American filmmakers. For more than twenty years, the pair have written and directed numerous successful films, ranging from Screwball comedy film to hardboiled , to movies where genres blur together ....
 (who won for No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men (film)

No Country for Old Men is a 2007 in film crime thriller adapted for the screen and directed by Coen brothers, and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin....
 in 2007
2007 in film

The year '2007 in film' saw major releases such as Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ,The Simpsons Movie, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Transformers , TMNT , Saw IV, and Live Free or Die Hard as well as releases of third installment films, such as: The Bourne Ultimatum , Pirates of the Caribbean:...
).

Eight people have been nominated for both Best Director and Best Actor
Academy Award for Best Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
 for the same film. Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty

Warren Beatty is an United States Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning actor, film producer, screenwriter and film director....
 did so twice (Heaven Can Wait
Heaven Can Wait (1978 film)

Heaven Can Wait is a 1978 in film comedy film directed by Warren Beatty and Buck Henry. The screenplay by Beatty, Elaine May and an uncredited Robert Towne is adapted from the original stage play Heaven Can Wait by Harry Segall....
 and Reds), as did Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood

Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American actor, film director, film producer and composer. He is known for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles in Action films and western films, particularly in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s....
 (Unforgiven
Unforgiven

Unforgiven is a 1992 Western film which was produced and directed by Clint Eastwood with the screenplay written by David Peoples. The film tells the story of William Munny, an aging and retired gunslinger who takes on one more job years after he had hung up his guns and turned to farming....
 and Million Dollar Baby
Million Dollar Baby

Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 in film film film director, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood and starring Eastwood, Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman....
). The other six included: Orson Welles
Orson Welles

George Orson Welles , better known as Orson Welles, was an Academy Award-winning United States actor, director, writer and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio....
 (Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane is a 1941 in film United States dramatic film and the first feature film directed by Orson Welles. It was nominated for an Academy Award in nine categories, but won only for Best Original Screenplay by Herman Mankiewicz and Welles....
), Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, Order of Merit was an English people Stage actor, Theatre director, and Theatrical producer. He is one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, along with his contemporaries John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft and Ralph Richardson....
 (Hamlet
Hamlet (1948 film)

Hamlet is a British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier. Hamlet was Olivier's second film as director, and also the second of his three Shakespeare films....
), Woody Allen
Woody Allen

Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
 (Annie Hall
Annie Hall

Annie Hall is an Cinema of the United States romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen from a script co-written with Marshall Brickman. One of Allen's most popular films, it won numerous awards at the time of its release, including four Academy Awards, and in 2002 Roger Ebert referred to it as "just about everyone's favorite Woody All...
), Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Charles Branagh is an Emmy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated actor and film director from Northern Ireland....
 (Henry V
Henry V (1989 film)

Henry V is a 1989 in film film directed by Kenneth Branagh, and based upon the William Shakespeare Henry V about the Henry V of England. Branagh stars in the title role with Derek Jacobi as the Chorus ....
), Kevin Costner
Kevin Costner

Kevin Michael Costner is an United States actor, film producer, and Academy Award-winning film director. He has been nominated for three BAFTA Awards, won two Oscars and a Golden Globe Award....
 (Dances with Wolves
Dances with Wolves

Dances with Wolves is a 1990 in film epic film which tells the story of a Civil War-era United States Army lieutenant who travels to the American Frontier to find a military post....
), and Roberto Benigni
Roberto Benigni

Roberto Remigio Benigni, Italian orders of merit is an Academy Awards-winning Italian actor, comedian, writer and film director of film, theatre and television....
 (Life Is Beautiful
Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful is a 1997 in film Italian language film which tells the story of a Italian Jews, Guido Orefice , who must learn how to use his fertile imagination to help his son survive their internment in a Nazi concentration camp....
). No one has ever won both awards. Four won Best Director, but not Best Actor: Allen, Beatty (for Reds), Costner, and Eastwood (on both occasions). Two won Best Actor, but not Best Director: Benigni and Olivier. Finally, three lost both nominations: Beatty (for Heaven Can Wait), Branagh, and Welles.

No Best Director winning film is lost
Lost film

A lost film is a feature film or short film that is no longer known to exist in either studio archives or private collections. The phrase "lost film" is also used in a literal sense for instances where footage of deleted scenes, unedited and alternate versions of feature films, and recordings of early television programming are known to have...
, though the nominee The Patriot
The Patriot (1928 film)

The Patriot is a semi-biographical film that was directed by Ernst Lubitsch and released by Paramount Pictures. The film was written by Julian Johnson and Hanns Kr?ly....
 is lost and nominee Sorrell and Son
Sorrell and Son

Sorrell and Son was a silent film released on December 2 1927 and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director in the 1st Academy Awards the following year....
 is incomplete. Drag (one of the films for which Frank Lloyd was nominated but did not win in 1929) has long been presumed lost, though there are rumors of its survival, possibly only on videotape, and the Vitaphone discs of its soundtrack survive. The Comedy Direction winner, Two Arabian Knights
Two Arabian Knights

Two Arabian Knights is a 1927 in film Cinema of the United States comedy film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring William Boyd and Mary Astor....
, was believed lost for many years but was preserved in the Howard Hughes archive and has been broadcast (along with another first-year nominee produced by Hughes and believed lost, The Racket
The Racket

The Racket is an Academy Award-nominated 1928 in film Cinema of the United States crime film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Thomas Meighan, Marie Prevost, Louis Wolheim, and George E....
) on Turner Classic Movies
Turner Classic Movies

Turner Classic Movies is a cable television channel featuring television commercial-free classic movies, mostly from the Turner Entertainment and Warner Bros....
.

Superlatives


CategoryNameSuperlativeYearNotes
Most AwardsJohn Ford
John Ford

John Ford was an United States film director of Ireland heritage famous for both his western such as Stagecoach and The Searchers and adaptations of such 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath ....
4 awards1952Awards resulted from 5 nominations.
Most NominationsWilliam Wyler
William Wyler

William Wyler was a three-time Academy Award-winning film film director....
12 nominations1965Nominations resulted in 3 awards.
Oldest WinnerClint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood

Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American actor, film director, film producer and composer. He is known for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles in Action films and western films, particularly in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s....
74 years old2004Million Dollar Baby
Million Dollar Baby

Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 in film film film director, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood and starring Eastwood, Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman....
Oldest NomineeJohn Huston
John Huston

John Marcellus Huston was an United States film director and actor. He was known for directing the films, The Maltese Falcon , The Asphalt Jungle , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The African Queen , The Misfits , and The Man Who Would Be King ....
79 years old1985Prizzi's Honor
Prizzi's Honor

Prizzi's Honor is a 1985 in film black comedy film that tells the story of a Mafia hit man and hit woman who fall in love with each other, even though they have been hired to kill each other....
Youngest WinnerNorman Taurog
Norman Taurog

Norman Rae Taurog was an Academy Award-winning American film director born in Chicago, Illinois.Between 1920 and 1968, Taurog directed over 140 films....
, William Friedkin
William Friedkin

William Friedkin is an Academy Award-winning American movie and television film director, film producer and screenwriter best known for directing The Exorcist and The French Connection in the early 1970s....
32 years old1930/31, 1971Skippy
Skippy (1931 film)

Skippy is one of the first films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, in 1931 in film. The screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Don Marquis, Norman Z....
, The French Connection
The French Connection (film)

The French Connection is a 1971 in film Hollywood crime film directed by William Friedkin. The film was adapted and fictionalized by Ernest Tidyman from the The French Connection by Robin Moore....
Youngest NomineeJohn Singleton
John Singleton

John Daniel Singleton is an United States Academy Award-nominated film director, screenwriter, and Film producer. A native of South Los Angeles, many of his films consider the implications of inner-city violence like the critically acclaimed and popular Boyz N the Hood, Poetic Justice, Higher Learning and Baby Boy , and even...
24 years old1991Boyz N the Hood
Boyz N the Hood

Boyz N the Hood is an Academy Award-nominated 1991 in film hood film written and directed by John Singleton. Starring Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Morris Chestnut, Nia Long, Angela Bassett, Regina King, and Larry Fishburne, the film depicts life in poor South Central Los Angeles, California, and was filmed and released in the summer of 1...


John Ford
John Ford

John Ford was an United States film director of Ireland heritage famous for both his western such as Stagecoach and The Searchers and adaptations of such 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath ....
 is the only director with four Best Director Oscars, followed by Frank Capra
Frank Capra

'Frank Russell Capra' was an Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It's a Wonderful Life and Mr....
 and William Wyler
William Wyler

William Wyler was a three-time Academy Award-winning film film director....
, with three apiece. Wyler has the most nominations, 12. Robert Altman
Robert Altman

Robert Bernard Altman was an United Statesn film director known for making Cinema of the United States that are highly Naturalism , but with a stylized perspective....
, Clarence Brown
Clarence Brown

Clarence Brown was an United States film director. Born in Clinton, Massachusetts, to a cotton manufacturer, Brown moved to the South when he was eleven....
, Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
, and King Vidor
King Vidor

King Wallis Vidor was an acclaimed United States film director whose career spanned nearly seven decades.He was born in Galveston, Texas, Texas, where he survived the great Galveston Hurricane of 1900....
 are tied for the most nominations without a win, at five each.

Only two directors have received consecutive Best Director awards: John Ford
John Ford

John Ford was an United States film director of Ireland heritage famous for both his western such as Stagecoach and The Searchers and adaptations of such 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath ....
 for 1940's The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath (film)

The Grapes of Wrath is a United States drama film directed by Academy Award Winner Best Director, John Ford. It was based on the Pulitzer Prize winning The Grapes of Wrath , written by John Steinbeck....
 and 1941's How Green Was My Valley
How Green Was My Valley

How Green Was My Valley is a novel of 1939, by the author Richard Llewellyn. The author's claims to have based it on his own knowledge of the Gilfach Goch area were proven false, as Llewellyn was English-born and spent little time in Wales, but gathered his facts from conversations with local mining families....
, and Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was an United States Academy Award-winning film director, screenwriter, and film producer....
 for 1949's A Letter to Three Wives
A Letter to Three Wives

A Letter to Three Wives is a 1949 in film film which tells the story of a woman who mails a letter to three women, telling them she has left town with the husband of one of them....
 and 1950's All About Eve
All About Eve

All About Eve is an Cinema of the United States drama film, written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the short story "The Wisdom of Eve," by Mary Orr....
.

No woman has ever won best director, and only three have ever been nominated: Lina Wertmuller for 1975's Seven Beauties
Seven Beauties

Pasqualino Settebellezze is a 1975 Italian language film written and directed by Lina Wertm?ller starring Giancarlo Giannini in the main role....
, Jane Campion
Jane Campion

Jane Campion is an Academy Awards-winning film maker and screenplay writer. She is one of the most internationally successful New Zealand directors, although most of her work has been made in or financed by other countries, principally Australia ? where she now lives ? and the U.S....
 for 1993's The Piano
The Piano

The Piano is a 1993 film about a mute female pianist and her daughter, set during the mid-19th century in a rainy, muddy frontier New Zealand backwater....
 and Sofia Coppola
Sofia Coppola

Sofia Carmina Coppola is an American film director, actor, film producer and Academy Awards-winning screenwriter. She is the third female director, and only American woman, to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing, the other two being Lina Wertm?ller and Jane Campion....
 for 2003's Lost in Translation
Lost in Translation

Lost in translation could refer to:* Literally, a phrase referring to puns or cultural references that lose their significance during translation from one language to another ....
.

Multiple nominations


The following 81 directors have received multiple Best Director nominations. The list is sorted by the number of total awards (with the number of total nominations listed in parentheses).

  • 4 : John Ford
    John Ford

    John Ford was an United States film director of Ireland heritage famous for both his western such as Stagecoach and The Searchers and adaptations of such 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath ....
     (5)
  • 3 : William Wyler
    William Wyler

    William Wyler was a three-time Academy Award-winning film film director....
     (12)
  • 3 : Frank Capra
    Frank Capra

    'Frank Russell Capra' was an Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It's a Wonderful Life and Mr....
     (6)
  • 2 : Billy Wilder
    Billy Wilder

    Billy Wilder was an Austrian-United States journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter, and film producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films....
     (8)
  • 2 : David Lean
    David Lean

    Sir David Lean, CBE, was an England filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter and Film editing, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia , The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago , Ryan's Daughter, and A Passage to India ....
     (7)
  • 2 : Fred Zinnemann
    Fred Zinnemann

    Fred Zinnemann was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States film director. He won four Academy Awards and directed classic movies like From Here to Eternity, High Noon and A Man for All Seasons ....
     (7)
  • 2 : Steven Spielberg
    Steven Spielberg

    Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. Forbes magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3.1 billion....
     (6)
  • 2 : Elia Kazan
    Elia Kazan

    Elia Kazan, September 7 1909 – September 28 2003, was an United States award-winning film director and Theatre direction, film producer and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and co-founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947....
     (5)
  • 2 : George Stevens
    George Stevens

    George Stevens was an United States film director, film producer, screenwriter and cinematographer....
     (5)
  • 2 : Clint Eastwood
    Clint Eastwood

    Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American actor, film director, film producer and composer. He is known for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles in Action films and western films, particularly in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s....
     (4)
  • 2 : Frank Lloyd
    Frank Lloyd

    Frank Lloyd was an Academy Award-winning film director, Screenwriter and film producer. Lloyd was among the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and its president between 1934 and 1935....
     (4)
  • 2 : Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    Joseph L. Mankiewicz

    Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was an United States Academy Award-winning film director, screenwriter, and film producer....
     (4)
  • 2 : Miloš Forman
    Miloš Forman

    Jan Tom? Forman , better known as Milo? Forman , is a Czech-American film director, screenwriter, actor and professor. Two of his films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus are among the most celebrated in the History of Motion Picture....
     (3)
  • 2 : Leo McCarey
    Leo McCarey

    Thomas Leo McCarey was an Academy Awards-winning United States film director, screenwriter and film producer . During his lifetime he was involved in almost 200 movies, especially comedies, where he demonstrated his fine elegance and his great sense of humour....
     (3)
  • 2 : Lewis Milestone
    Lewis Milestone

    Lewis Milestone was an Academy Award-winning film director. He is known for directing Two Arabian Knights , All Quiet on the Western Front , The General Died at Dawn , Of Mice and Men , Ocean's Eleven , and Mutiny on the Bounty ....
     (3)
  • 2 : Oliver Stone
    Oliver Stone

    William Oliver Stone is an United Statesn film director and screenwriter. Stone came to prominence as a director with a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he had participated as an American infantry soldier, and his work continues to focus frequently on contemporary political and cultural issues, often controversially....
     (3)
  • 2 : Robert Wise
    Robert Wise

    'Robert Earl Wise' was an United States sound effects editor, film editor, and Academy Awards-winning United States film producer and director. Among his many famous films are Citizen Kane, The Sand Pebbles , The Sound of Music , West Side Story , The Hindenburg , Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Day the Earth Stood...
     (3)
  • 2 : Frank Borzage
    Frank Borzage

    Frank Borzage was an Academy Award-winning American film director and actor famed for his mystical romanticism.Borzage's father, Luigi, was born in Roncone, Austria-Hungary in 1859....
     (2)
  • 1 : Woody Allen
    Woody Allen

    Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
     (6)
  • 1 : Martin Scorsese
    Martin Scorsese

    Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, and film historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Gol...
     (6)
  • 1 : George Cukor
    George Cukor

    'George Cukor' was an Academy Award-winning United States film director. His career flourished at RKO and later MGM, where he directed a string of impressive films including What Price Hollywood? , A Bill of Divorcement , Dinner at Eight , Little Women , Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copp...
     (5)
  • 1 : John Huston
    John Huston

    John Marcellus Huston was an United States film director and actor. He was known for directing the films, The Maltese Falcon , The Asphalt Jungle , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The African Queen , The Misfits , and The Man Who Would Be King ....
     (5)
  • 1 : Francis Ford Coppola
    Francis Ford Coppola

    Francis Ford "Frank" Coppola is a five-time Academy Award-winning United States film director, Film producer and screenwriter. Away from showbusiness, Coppola is also a vintner, publisher and Hotel manager....
     (4)
  • 1 : Michael Curtiz
    Michael Curtiz

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     (4)
  • 1 : Mike Nichols
    Mike Nichols

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     (4)
  • 1 : Bob Fosse
    Bob Fosse

    Robert Louis ?Bob? Fosse was an American musical theater choreographer and theatre director, and a film director. He won an unprecedented eight Tony Awards for choreography, as well as one for direction....
     (3)
  • 1 : Roman Polanski
    Roman Polanski

    Roman Raymond Polanski is an Academy Award-winning and four-time nominated Poland-France film director, writer, actor and film producer.Polanski began his career in Poland, and later became a celebrated director of both art house and commercial films, making such films as Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown ....
     (3)
  • 1 : Sydney Pollack
    Sydney Pollack

    Sydney Irwin Pollack was an United States film director, producer and actor. Born in Lafayette, Indiana to Russian Jewish immigrants, Pollack studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where he later taught acting....
     (3)
  • 1 : Carol Reed
    Carol Reed

    Sir Carol Reed was an England film director, most famous for directing The Third Man and Oliver! . He won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Director for the latter....
     (3)
  • 1 : John Schlesinger
    John Schlesinger

    John Richard Schlesinger, Order of the British Empire was an England film director....
     (3)
  • 1 : Warren Beatty
    Warren Beatty

    Warren Beatty is an United States Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning actor, film producer, screenwriter and film director....
     (2)
  • 1 : Robert Benton
    Robert Benton

    Robert Benton is an United States, Academy Award winning screenwriter and film director.He has enjoyed a highly successful career in film, winning numerous prestigious awards for both writing and directing....
     (2)
  • 1 : Bernardo Bertolucci
    Bernardo Bertolucci

    Bernardo Bertolucci is an Academy Award-winning Italy film director and screenwriter....
     (2)
  • 1 : Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
    Coen Brothers

    Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, known together professionally as the Coen brothers, are American filmmakers. For more than twenty years, the pair have written and directed numerous successful films, ranging from Screwball comedy film to hardboiled , to movies where genres blur together ....
     (2)
  • 1 : William Friedkin
    William Friedkin

    William Friedkin is an Academy Award-winning American movie and television film director, film producer and screenwriter best known for directing The Exorcist and The French Connection in the early 1970s....
     (2)
  • 1 : Ron Howard
    Ron Howard

    Ronald William "Ron" Howard is an Academy Award-winning American film director and film producer as well as an actor. Howard came to prominence in the 1960s while playing Andy Griffith's TV son, Opie Taylor, on The Andy Griffith Show , and later in the 1970s as Howard Cunningham's son and Arthur Fonzarelli's best friend, Richie Cunningha...
     (2)
  • 1 : Peter Jackson
    Peter Jackson

    Peter Robert Jackson, New Zealand Order of Merit is a three-time Academy Award-winning New Zealand filmmaker, film producer and screenwriter, best known for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy trilogy adapted from the The Lord of the Rings by J....
     (2)
  • 1 : Ang Lee
    Ang Lee

    Ang Lee is an Academy Award-winning Taiwanese American film director....
     (2)
  • 1 : Barry Levinson
    Barry Levinson

    Barry Levinson is an Academy Award-winning United States screenwriter, film director, actor, and Film producer of film and television....
     (2)
  • 1 : Vincente Minnelli
    Vincente Minnelli

    Vincente Minnelli was a Hollywood film director and Theatre director. His skilled integration of story, music, lighting, and design elements in a film made him the most critically respected crafter of musical film....
     (2)
  • 1 : Robert Redford
    Robert Redford

    Charles Robert Redford Jr. , better known as Robert Redford, is an Academy Award-winning United States film director, actor, film producer, businessman, model , environmentalism, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival....
     (2)
  • 1 : George Roy Hill
    George Roy Hill

    George Roy Hill was an Academy Award-winning American film director. He is most noted for directing such films as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting, which both starred the acting duo Paul Newman and Robert Redford....
     (2)
  • 1 : Steven Soderbergh
    Steven Soderbergh

    Steven Andrew Soderbergh is an American film film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, film editing, and an Academy Award-winning film director....
     (2)
  • 1 : Norman Taurog
    Norman Taurog

    Norman Rae Taurog was an Academy Award-winning American film director born in Chicago, Illinois.Between 1920 and 1968, Taurog directed over 140 films....
     (2)
  • 0 : Robert Altman
    Robert Altman

    Robert Bernard Altman was an United Statesn film director known for making Cinema of the United States that are highly Naturalism , but with a stylized perspective....
     (5)
  • 0 : Clarence Brown
    Clarence Brown

    Clarence Brown was an United States film director. Born in Clinton, Massachusetts, to a cotton manufacturer, Brown moved to the South when he was eleven....
     (5)
  • 0 : Alfred Hitchcock
    Alfred Hitchcock

    Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
     (5)
  • 0 : King Vidor
    King Vidor

    King Wallis Vidor was an acclaimed United States film director whose career spanned nearly seven decades.He was born in Galveston, Texas, Texas, where he survived the great Galveston Hurricane of 1900....
     (5)
  • 0 : Federico Fellini
    Federico Fellini

    Federico Fellini, Italian orders of merit was an Italy film director. Known for a distinct style which meshes fantasy and baroque images, he is considered as one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century....
     (4)
  • 0 : Stanley Kubrick
    Stanley Kubrick

    Stanley Kubrick was an influential American-British filmmaker, screenwriter, Film producer and photographer. He directed a number of highly acclaimed and often controversial films....
     (4)
  • 0 : Sidney Lumet
    Sidney Lumet

    Sidney Lumet is an Academy Award winning United States film director, with over 50 films to his name, including the critically acclaimed 12 Angry Men , Serpico , Dog Day Afternoon , Network and The Verdict , all of which, except for Serpico , earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director....
     (4)
  • 0 : Peter Weir
    Peter Weir

    Peter Lindsay Weir Order of Australia is an Australian film director. After exerting a strong influence on the Australian New Wave with his films Picnic at Hanging Rock , The Last Wave and Gallipoli , Weir directed a diverse group of U.S....
     (4)
  • 0 : Ingmar Bergman
    Ingmar Bergman

    Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Sweden director, writer and Film producer for film, stage and television. He depicted bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his explorations of the human condition....
     (3)
  • 0 : Richard Brooks
    Richard Brooks

    Richard Brooks was an United States screenwriter, film director, novelist and occasional film producer....
     (3)
  • 0 : Stephen Daldry
    Stephen Daldry

    Stephen David Daldry, Order of the British Empire is an English theatre director and film director and Film producer, as well as a three-time Academy Award nominated director....
     (3)
  • 0 : James Ivory
    James Ivory (director)

    James Francis Ivory is an award-winning United States film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both India Film producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala....
     (3)
  • 0 : Norman Jewison
    Norman Jewison

    Norman Frederick Jewison, Order of Canada is a Canada film director, Film producer and actor....
     (3)
  • 0 : Stanley Kramer
    Stanley Kramer

    Stanley Kramer was an Academy Award-nominated Jewish-American film director and film producer responsible for some of Hollywood's most famous Social problem film....
     (3)
  • 0 : Ernst Lubitsch
    Ernst Lubitsch

    Ernst Lubitsch , was a German-born Jewish film director. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch"....
     (3)
  • 0 : David Lynch
    David Lynch

    David Keith Lynch is an United States film director, screenwriter, Film producer, Painting, cartoonist, composer, video artist and performance artist....
     (3)
  • 0 : Arthur Penn
    Arthur Penn

    Arthur Hiller Penn is a film director and film producer. Although best known as the director of the iconic Bonnie and Clyde Arthur Penn amassed a critically acclaimed body of work though the 1960s and 1970s, keenly focusing on leftist themes relevant to the times....
     (3)
  • 0 : Ridley Scott
    Ridley Scott

    Sir Ridley Scott is a United Kingdom Academy Award nominated and Golden Globe Award, Emmy Award and British Academy of Film and Television Arts winning film director and film producer known for his stylish visuals and an obsession for detail....
     (3)
  • 0 : William A. Wellman
    William A. Wellman

    William Augustus Wellman was an United States movie director, noted for directing the film which received the first Academy Award for Best Picture, Wings ....
     (3)
  • 0 : Sam Wood
    Sam Wood

    Samuel Grosvenor Wood was a prolific Hollywood director, he also did some production, writing, and to a lesser extent, acting work.Born in Philadelphia, Wood worked for Cecil B....
     (3)
  • 0 : John Boorman
    John Boorman

    John Boorman is an England filmmaker, currently based in Ireland, best known for his feature films such as Point Blank , Deliverance, Excalibur , Hope and Glory , The General and Zardoz....
     (2)
  • 0 : Stephen Frears
    Stephen Frears

    Stephen Arthur Frears is a two-time Academy Award-nominated England film director....
     (2)
  • 0 : Lasse Hallström
    Lasse Hallström

    Lars Sven "Lasse" Hallstr?m is a Sweden film director.Hallstrom's mother was the Swedish writer Karin Lyberg . His maternal grandfather, Ernst Lyberg, was the Swedish Minister of Finance in the first cabinet of Carl Gustaf Ekman and leader of the Liberal Party of Sweden ....
     (2)
  • 0 : Roland Joffé
    Roland Joffé

    Roland Joff? is a film director who began his career in television. His early television credits included episodes of Coronation Street and an The Stars Look Down of The Stars Look Down for Granada Television....
     (2)
  • 0 : Henry King
    Henry King (director)

    Henry King was an United States film director.Before coming to film, King worked as an actor in various repertoire theatres, and first started to take small film roles in 1912....
     (2)
  • 0 : Gregory La Cava
    Gregory La Cava

    Gregory La Cava was an United States film director best known for his films of the 1930s, including My Man Godfrey and Stage Door.He was born in Towanda, Pennsylvania and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League of New York....
     (2)
  • 0 : Mike Leigh
    Mike Leigh

    Mike Leigh, Order of the British Empire is an England writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and did his early acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company ....
     (2)
  • 0 : Robert Z. Leonard
    Robert Z. Leonard

    Robert Zigler Leonard was an United States film director, actor, producer and screenwriter.He was born in Chicago, Illinois. At one time, he was married to silent superstar Mae Murray with the two forming Tiffany Pictures to film eight motion pictures that were released by MGM....
     (2)
  • 0 : Joshua Logan
    Joshua Logan

    Joshua Lockwood Logan III was an American Theatre director and film director and writer....
     (2)
  • 0 : George Lucas
    George Lucas

    George Walton Lucas, Jr. is an Academy Award-nominated United States film director, film producer, screenwriter and chairman of Lucasfilm Ltd. He is best known for being the creator of the Epic film Sci-Fi franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones....
     (2)
  • 0 : Alan Parker
    Alan Parker

    Sir Alan William Parker, Order of the British Empire is an England film director, Film producer, writer and actor. He has been active in both the British film industry as well as in Hollywood....
     (2)
  • 0 : Otto Preminger
    Otto Preminger

    Otto Ludwig Preminger was an Austrian-born Jewish film director who moved from the theatre to Hollywood, directing over 35 feature films in a five-decade career....
     (2)
  • 0 : Mark Robson
    Mark Robson

    Mark Robson was a Canadian-born film editor, film director and film producer in Hollywood.Born in Montreal, Quebec, he moved to the United States at a young age....
     (2)
  • 0 : Robert Rossen
    Robert Rossen

    Robert Rossen was an United States screenwriter, film director, and film producer. In a film career that spanned almost three decades, Rossen was twice nominated for an Academy Award for best director and once for best adapted screenplay....
     (2)
  • 0 : Jim Sheridan
    Jim Sheridan

    Jim Sheridan is an Republic of Ireland film director. A six-time Academy Award nominee, Sheridan is perhaps best known for My Left Foot , In the Name of the Father , and In America....
     (2)
  • 0 : Josef von Sternberg
    Josef von Sternberg

    Josef von Sternberg aka Jonas Sternberg was an Austrian-United States film Film director. He is one of the earliest examples of 'auteur' filmmakers, and practised many other skills while making his films including cinematography, writer, and film editor....
     (2)
  • 0 : W. S. Van Dyke
    W. S. Van Dyke

    Woodbridge Strong "Woody" Van Dyke, Jr. was an United States film film director.Born in San Diego, California, Van Dyke was a child actor on the vaudeville circuit, and in his early adult years was unsettled and moved from career to career until arriving in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California....
     (2)
  • 0 : Gus Van Sant
    Gus Van Sant

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     (2)
  • 0 : Peter Yates
    Peter Yates

    Peter Yates is an England film director and producer.He went to Charterhouse School as a boy, graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked for some years as an actor, director and stage manager....
     (2)


Winners and nominees


Each Academy Award ceremony is listed chronologically below along with the winner of the Academy Award for Directing and the film associated with the award. In the column next to the winner of each award are the other nominees for best director. Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by the years of their Los Angeles qualifying run, which is usually (but not always) in the year of release; for example, the Oscar for Best Director of 1999 was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000.

1920s

In the first year only, the award was separated into Dramatic Direction and Comedy Direction.

YearWinner
film		Nominated
1927/1928
Dramatic		 Frank Borzage
Frank Borzage

Frank Borzage was an Academy Award-winning American film director and actor famed for his mystical romanticism.Borzage's father, Luigi, was born in Roncone, Austria-Hungary in 1859....

 – Seventh Heaven
Seventh Heaven (film)

Seventh Heaven is a silent film and one of the first films to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture . The film was written by H.H....
 Herbert Brenon
Herbert Brenon

File:Herbert Brenon Mausoleum 12-2-2008.jpgHerbert Brenon was a film Film director during the era of silent movies through the 1930s. He was born in Dublin, Ireland....
 – Sorrell and Son
Sorrell and Son

Sorrell and Son was a silent film released on December 2 1927 and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director in the 1st Academy Awards the following year....

King Vidor
King Vidor

King Wallis Vidor was an acclaimed United States film director whose career spanned nearly seven decades.He was born in Galveston, Texas, Texas, where he survived the great Galveston Hurricane of 1900....
 – The Crowd
The Crowd

The Crowd is an United States silent film released in 1928 in film and directed by King Vidor.The picture is an influential and acclaimed feature and was nominated for the Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production....
Comedy Lewis Milestone
Lewis Milestone

Lewis Milestone was an Academy Award-winning film director. He is known for directing Two Arabian Knights , All Quiet on the Western Front , The General Died at Dawn , Of Mice and Men , Ocean's Eleven , and Mutiny on the Bounty ....

 – Two Arabian Knights
Two Arabian Knights

Two Arabian Knights is a 1927 in film Cinema of the United States comedy film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring William Boyd and Mary Astor....
 Charles Chaplin – The Circus
The Circus (silent film)

The Circus is a 1928 in film silent film film which finds Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp character being chased by a police officer at a circus....

Ted Wilde
Ted Wilde

Ted Wilde was a comedy writer and Film director during the era of silent movies, though he also produced two movies with sound in 1930. He was born in New York , New York ....
 – Speedy
Speedy (film)

Speedy is a 1928 in film silent film that was one of the films to be nominated for the short-lived Academy Award for Best Director of a Comedy....
1928/1929 Frank Lloyd
Frank Lloyd

Frank Lloyd was an Academy Award-winning film director, Screenwriter and film producer. Lloyd was among the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and its president between 1934 and 1935....

 – The Divine Lady
The Divine Lady

The Divine Lady is a 1929 in film silent film which tells the story of the love affair between Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton. It stars Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi, H.B....
 Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore

Lionel Barrymore was an United States Academy Award-winning actor of stage, radio and film....
 – Madame X
Madame X (1929 film)

Madame X is a 1929 in film drama film directed by Lionel Barrymore, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. Ruth Chatterton was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as a fallen woman....

Harry Beaumont
Harry Beaumont

Harry Beaumont was an American film director of the 1920s and 30s. He worked for a variety of production companies including 20th Century Fox, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation, Metro Pictures Corporation, Warner Brothers and MGM....
 – The Broadway Melody
The Broadway Melody

The Broadway Melody is a musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the first musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929-1930....

Irving Cummings
Irving Cummings

Irving Cummings , born Irving Camisky in New York City, New York was an American movie actor, director, producer and writer.Cummings started his acting career in his late teens on Broadway theatre with the legendary Lillian Russell....
 – In Old Arizona
In Old Arizona

In Old Arizona is a 1929 in film Western film, directed by Irving Cummings and Raoul Walsh, nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture....

Ernst Lubitsch
Ernst Lubitsch

Ernst Lubitsch , was a German-born Jewish film director. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch"....
 – The Patriot
The Patriot (1928 film)

The Patriot is a semi-biographical film that was directed by Ernst Lubitsch and released by Paramount Pictures. The film was written by Julian Johnson and Hanns Kr?ly....
1929/1930 Lewis Milestone
Lewis Milestone

Lewis Milestone was an Academy Award-winning film director. He is known for directing Two Arabian Knights , All Quiet on the Western Front , The General Died at Dawn , Of Mice and Men , Ocean's Eleven , and Mutiny on the Bounty ....

 – All Quiet on the Western Front		 Clarence Brown
Clarence Brown

Clarence Brown was an United States film director. Born in Clinton, Massachusetts, to a cotton manufacturer, Brown moved to the South when he was eleven....
 – Anna Christie
Anna Christie (1930 film)

Anna Christie is a 1930 in film MGM drama film adaptation of the 1922 play by Eugene O'Neill. It was adapted by Frances Marion, produced and directed by Clarence Brown with Paul Bern and Irving Thalberg as co-producers....
 and Romance
Romance (1930 film)

Romance is a film which tells the story of a bishop sharing a cautionary tale with a young man, who is going against the wishes of his family, of the dangers of falling in love with "fallen women," by using a story of naivete from his past....

Robert Z. Leonard
Robert Z. Leonard

Robert Zigler Leonard was an United States film director, actor, producer and screenwriter.He was born in Chicago, Illinois. At one time, he was married to silent superstar Mae Murray with the two forming Tiffany Pictures to film eight motion pictures that were released by MGM....
 – The Divorcée
The Divorcee

The Divorcee is a 1930 in film USA drama film written by Nick Grind?, John Meehan and Zelda Sears, and based on the novel Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott....

Ernst Lubitsch
Ernst Lubitsch

Ernst Lubitsch , was a German-born Jewish film director. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch"....
 – The Love Parade
The Love Parade

The Love Parade is a 1927 in film musical comedy film. The plot concerns the romantic difficulties of Queen Louise of Sylvania and her new husband, Count Alfred ....

King Vidor
King Vidor

King Wallis Vidor was an acclaimed United States film director whose career spanned nearly seven decades.He was born in Galveston, Texas, Texas, where he survived the great Galveston Hurricane of 1900....
 – Hallelujah


1930s

YearWinner
film		Nominated
1930/1931 Norman Taurog
Norman Taurog

Norman Rae Taurog was an Academy Award-winning American film director born in Chicago, Illinois.Between 1920 and 1968, Taurog directed over 140 films....

 – Skippy
Skippy (1931 film)

Skippy is one of the first films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, in 1931 in film. The screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Don Marquis, Norman Z....
 Clarence Brown
Clarence Brown

Clarence Brown was an United States film director. Born in Clinton, Massachusetts, to a cotton manufacturer, Brown moved to the South when he was eleven....
 – A Free Soul
A Free Soul

A Free Soul is a Pre-Code film which tells the story of an alcoholism defense attorney who must defend his daughter's ex-boyfriend on a charge of murdering the mobster she had started a relationship with; a mobster whom her father had previously gotten an acquittal for on a murder charge....

Lewis Milestone
Lewis Milestone

Lewis Milestone was an Academy Award-winning film director. He is known for directing Two Arabian Knights , All Quiet on the Western Front , The General Died at Dawn , Of Mice and Men , Ocean's Eleven , and Mutiny on the Bounty ....
 – The Front Page
The Front Page (1931 film)

The Front Page is an Academy Award-nominated 1931 in film Cinema of the United States comedy film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien ....

Wesley Ruggles
Wesley Ruggles

Wesley Ruggles was an United States film director.He was born in Los Angeles, California, a younger brother of actor Charles Ruggles. He began his career in 1915 as an actor, appearing in a dozen or so silent films, on occasion with Charles Chaplin....
 – Cimarron
Cimarron (1931 film)

Cimarron is a film directed by Wesley Ruggles and based on the Edna Ferber novel Cimarron, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1931 in film....

Josef von Sternberg
Josef von Sternberg

Josef von Sternberg aka Jonas Sternberg was an Austrian-United States film Film director. He is one of the earliest examples of 'auteur' filmmakers, and practised many other skills while making his films including cinematography, writer, and film editor....
 – Morocco
Morocco (1930 film)

Morocco is a 1930 in film film in which a French Foreign Legionnaire meets and falls in love with a sultry seductress. It was directed by Josef von Sternberg and stars Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich and Adolphe Menjou....
1931/1932 Frank Borzage
Frank Borzage

Frank Borzage was an Academy Award-winning American film director and actor famed for his mystical romanticism.Borzage's father, Luigi, was born in Roncone, Austria-Hungary in 1859....

 – Bad Girl		 King Vidor
King Vidor

King Wallis Vidor was an acclaimed United States film director whose career spanned nearly seven decades.He was born in Galveston, Texas, Texas, where he survived the great Galveston Hurricane of 1900....
 – The Champ
The Champ

The Champ is a 1931 in film movie that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Frances Marion, Leonard Praskins and Wanda Tuchock, and directed by King Vidor....

Josef von Sternberg
Josef von Sternberg

Josef von Sternberg aka Jonas Sternberg was an Austrian-United States film Film director. He is one of the earliest examples of 'auteur' filmmakers, and practised many other skills while making his films including cinematography, writer, and film editor....
 – Shanghai Express
Shanghai Express (film)

Shanghai Express is an United States 1932 in film film directed by Josef von Sternberg. The Pre-Code picture stars Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, and Warner Oland....
1932/1933 Frank Lloyd
Frank Lloyd

Frank Lloyd was an Academy Award-winning film director, Screenwriter and film producer. Lloyd was among the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and its president between 1934 and 1935....

 – Cavalcade
Cavalcade (film)

Cavalcade is an Academy Award-winning 1933 in film United States drama film directed by Frank Lloyd. The screenplay by Reginald Berkeley and Sonya Levien is based on the 1931 Cavalcade by No?l Coward....
 Frank Capra
Frank Capra

'Frank Russell Capra' was an Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It's a Wonderful Life and Mr....
 – Lady for a Day
Lady for a Day

Lady for a Day is a 1933 in film film which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Robert Riskin, based on the Damon Runyon story Madame la Gimp....

George Cukor
George Cukor

'George Cukor' was an Academy Award-winning United States film director. His career flourished at RKO and later MGM, where he directed a string of impressive films including What Price Hollywood? , A Bill of Divorcement , Dinner at Eight , Little Women , Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copp...
 – Little Women
Little Women (1933 film)

Little Women is a 1933 in film Cinema of the United States drama film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman is based on the Little Women by Louisa May Alcott....
1934 Frank Capra
Frank Capra

'Frank Russell Capra' was an Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It's a Wonderful Life and Mr....

 – It Happened One Night
It Happened One Night

It Happened One Night is an Cinema of the United States 1934 in film screwball comedy film directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite tries to get out from under her father's thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter ....
 Victor Schertzinger
Victor Schertzinger

Victor L. Schertzinger was an United States composer, film director, film producer, and screenwriter. His films include Paramount on Parade , Something to Sing About with James Cagney, and the first two "Road" pictures Road to Singapore and Road to Zanzibar ....
 – One Night of Love
One Night of Love

One Night of Love is a 1934 in film musical romance, set in the opera world, starring Grace Moore and Tullio Carminati. It was written by James Gow, S.K....

W. S. Van Dyke
W. S. Van Dyke

Woodbridge Strong "Woody" Van Dyke, Jr. was an United States film film director.Born in San Diego, California, Van Dyke was a child actor on the vaudeville circuit, and in his early adult years was unsettled and moved from career to career until arriving in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California....
 – The Thin Man
The Thin Man (film)

The Thin Man was the first of six comic detective films starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, a flirtatious married couple who banter wittily as they solve crimes with ease....
1935 John Ford
John Ford

John Ford was an United States film director of Ireland heritage famous for both his western such as Stagecoach and The Searchers and adaptations of such 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath ....

 – The Informer
The Informer (film)

The Informer is a 1935 in film dramatic film, released by RKO. The plot concerns the underside of the Irish War of Independence, set in 1922....
 Henry Hathaway
Henry Hathaway

Henry Hathaway was an United States film director and producer. He is best known as a director of Western , especially starring John Wayne....
 – The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is a 1935 in film adventure film loosely adapted from the 1930 book of the same name by Francis Yeats-Brown. The plot of the movie, which bears little resemblance to Yeats-Brown's memoir, concerns United Kingdom soldiers defending the borders of India against rebellious natives....

Frank Lloyd
Frank Lloyd

Frank Lloyd was an Academy Award-winning film director, Screenwriter and film producer. Lloyd was among the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and its president between 1934 and 1935....
 – Mutiny on the Bounty
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)

Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 in film starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable based on the Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel Mutiny on the Bounty ....
1936 Frank Capra
Frank Capra

'Frank Russell Capra' was an Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It's a Wonderful Life and Mr....

 – Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is a 1936 in film comedy film directed by Frank Capra, based on the story Opera Hat by Clarence Budington Kelland that appeared in serial form in the Saturday Evening Post....
 Gregory La Cava
Gregory La Cava

Gregory La Cava was an United States film director best known for his films of the 1930s, including My Man Godfrey and Stage Door.He was born in Towanda, Pennsylvania and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League of New York....
 – My Man Godfrey
My Man Godfrey

My Man Godfrey is a screwball comedy film released in by Universal Pictures, directed by Gregory LaCava. It was adapted from Eric Hatch's novel 1101 Park Avenue by Hatch himself and Morrie Ryskind, with uncredited contributions by LaCava....

Robert Z. Leonard
Robert Z. Leonard

Robert Zigler Leonard was an United States film director, actor, producer and screenwriter.He was born in Chicago, Illinois. At one time, he was married to silent superstar Mae Murray with the two forming Tiffany Pictures to film eight motion pictures that were released by MGM....
 – The Great Ziegfeld
The Great Ziegfeld

The Great Ziegfeld is a musical film produced by MGM. Although the film is a fictionalized biography of Florenz Ziegfeld from his show business beginnings to his death, it showcases a series of spectacular musical productions....

W. S. Van Dyke
W. S. Van Dyke

Woodbridge Strong "Woody" Van Dyke, Jr. was an United States film film director.Born in San Diego, California, Van Dyke was a child actor on the vaudeville circuit, and in his early adult years was unsettled and moved from career to career until arriving in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California....
 – San Francisco
San Francisco (film)

San Francisco is a 1936 in film Drama film-adventure film directed by Woody Van Dyke, based on the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The film, which was the top grossing movie of that year, stars Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, and Spencer Tracy....

William Wyler
William Wyler

William Wyler was a three-time Academy Award-winning film film director....
 – Dodsworth
Dodsworth (film)

Dodsworth is a 1936 in film United States drama film directed by William Wyler. Sidney Howard based the screenplay on his Dodsworth of Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis....
1937 Leo McCarey
Leo McCarey

Thomas Leo McCarey was an Academy Awards-winning United States film director, screenwriter and film producer . During his lifetime he was involved in almost 200 movies, especially comedies, where he demonstrated his fine elegance and his great sense of humour....

 – The Awful Truth
The Awful Truth

The Awful Truth is a screwball comedy film starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. The plot concerns the machinations of a soon-to-be-divorced couple, played by Dunne and Grant, who go to great lengths to try to ruin each other's romantic escapades....
William Dieterle
William Dieterle

William Dieterle was a Germany actor and film director, who in 1937 attained United States citizenship....
 – The Life of Emile Zola
The Life of Emile Zola

The Life of ?mile Zola is a 1937 in film biographical film of famous French author ?mile Zola. It depicts his friendship with noted painter Paul C?zanne and his involvement in the Dreyfus affair....

Sidney Franklin
Sidney Franklin (director)

Sidney Franklin , was an Academy Award-winning USA film director and Film producer.His credits as director include:*Smilin' Through *A Lady's Morals ...
 – The Good Earth
The Good Earth (film)

The Good Earth is a feature film about China farmers who struggle to survive. It was adapted by Talbot Jennings, Tess Slesinger, and Claudine West from the play by Donald Davis and Owen Davis, which was in itself based on the 1931 in literature The Good Earth by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S....

Gregory La Cava
Gregory La Cava

Gregory La Cava was an United States film director best known for his films of the 1930s, including My Man Godfrey and Stage Door.He was born in Towanda, Pennsylvania and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League of New York....
 – Stage Door
Stage Door

Stage Door is a RKO film, adapted from the play by the same name, that tells the story of several would-be actresses who live together in a boarding house at 158 West 58th Street in New York City....

William A. Wellman
William A. Wellman

William Augustus Wellman was an United States movie director, noted for directing the film which received the first Academy Award for Best Picture, Wings ....
 – A Star Is Born
A Star Is Born (1937 film)

A Star Is Born is a 1937 Romance film drama film film producer by David O. Selznick and film director by William A. Wellman, with a script by Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell ....
1938 Frank Capra
Frank Capra

'Frank Russell Capra' was an Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It's a Wonderful Life and Mr....

 – You Can't Take It with You
You Can't Take It with You

You Can't Take It with You is a Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning comedic play in three acts by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The original production of the play opened at the Booth Theater on December 14, 1936 and played for 837 performances....
 Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz

Michael Curtiz was an Academy Award-winning Hungarian-American film director. He directed at least 50 films in Europe and a further hundred in the United States, among the best-known being The Adventures of Robin Hood , Angels with Dirty Faces, Casablanca , Yankee Doodle Dandy, and White Christmas ....
 – Angels with Dirty Faces
Angels with Dirty Faces

Angels with Dirty Faces is a Warner Bros. gangster film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney, Pat O'Brien , the Dead End Kids and Humphrey Bogart, along with Ann Sheridan and George Bancroft ....

Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz

Michael Curtiz was an Academy Award-winning Hungarian-American film director. He directed at least 50 films in Europe and a further hundred in the United States, among the best-known being The Adventures of Robin Hood , Angels with Dirty Faces, Casablanca , Yankee Doodle Dandy, and White Christmas ....
 – Four Daughters
Four Daughters

Four Daughters is a 1938 in film musical film drama film that tells the story of a happy musical family whose lives and loves are disrupted by the arrival of a cynical young composer who interjects himself into the daughters' romantic lives....

Norman Taurog
Norman Taurog

Norman Rae Taurog was an Academy Award-winning American film director born in Chicago, Illinois.Between 1920 and 1968, Taurog directed over 140 films....
 – Boys Town
Boys Town (1938 film)

Boys Town is a biographical film drama film based on Edward J. Flanagan's work with a group of disadvantaged and delinquent boys in a home that he founded and named "Girls and Boys Town"....

King Vidor
King Vidor

King Wallis Vidor was an acclaimed United States film director whose career spanned nearly seven decades.He was born in Galveston, Texas, Texas, where he survived the great Galveston Hurricane of 1900....
 – The Citadel
The Citadel (film)

The Citadel is a 1938 in film film based on The Citadel by A. J. Cronin, first published in 1937. The film was directed by King Vidor and produced by Victor Saville....
1939 Victor Fleming
Victor Fleming

Victor Fleming was an Academy Award-winning United States film director....

 – Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind (film)

Gone with the Wind is a 1939 in film Cinema of the United States drama film-romance film-film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 in literature Gone with the Wind and directed by Victor Fleming ....
 Frank Capra
Frank Capra

'Frank Russell Capra' was an Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It's a Wonderful Life and Mr....
 – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is an Cinema of the United States comedy film/drama film starring James Stewart and Jean Arthur, about one man's effect on Politics of the United States....

John Ford
John Ford

John Ford was an United States film director of Ireland heritage famous for both his western such as Stagecoach and The Searchers and adaptations of such 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath ....
 – Stagecoach
Stagecoach (film)

Stagecoach is a western film directed by John Ford, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne in his breakthrough role. The screenplay, written by Dudley Nichols and Ben Hecht, is an adaptation of "The Stage to Lordsburg", a 1937 in literature short story by Ernest Haycox....

Sam Wood
Sam Wood

Samuel Grosvenor Wood was a prolific Hollywood director, he also did some production, writing, and to a lesser extent, acting work.Born in Philadelphia, Wood worked for Cecil B....
 – Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939 film)

Goodbye, Mr. Chips is a Cinema of the United Kingdom based on Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton. It was directed by Sam Wood, and starred Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn, John Mills and Paul Henreid....

William Wyler
William Wyler

William Wyler was a three-time Academy Award-winning film film director....
 – Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights (1939 film)

Wuthering Heights is a film, directed by William Wyler and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. It is based on the celebrated novel, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bront?, although the film only depicts sixteen of the novel's thirty-four chapters....
1940 John Ford
John Ford

John Ford was an United States film director of Ireland heritage famous for both his western such as Stagecoach and The Searchers and adaptations of such 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath ....

 – The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath (film)

The Grapes of Wrath is a United States drama film directed by Academy Award Winner Best Director, John Ford. It was based on the Pulitzer Prize winning The Grapes of Wrath , written by John Steinbeck....
 George Cukor
George Cukor

'George Cukor' was an Academy Award-winning United States film director. His career flourished at RKO and later MGM, where he directed a string of impressive films including What Price Hollywood? , A Bill of Divorcement , Dinner at Eight , Little Women , Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copp...
 – The Philadelphia Story
The Philadelphia Story

The Philadelphia Story is a romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart , and directed by George Cukor. Based on a Broadway theatre play of the same name by Philip Barry, with screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart and an uncredited Waldo Salt, the film is about a socialite whose wedding plans are complicat...

Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
 – Rebecca
Rebecca (film)

Rebecca is a psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock as his first United States project, and his first film produced under his contract with David O....

Sam Wood
Sam Wood

Samuel Grosvenor Wood was a prolific Hollywood director, he also did some production, writing, and to a lesser extent, acting work.Born in Philadelphia, Wood worked for Cecil B....
 – Kitty Foyle
Kitty Foyle (film)

Kitty Foyle, subtitled The Natural History of a Woman, is a film starring Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig , Ernest Cossart and Gladys Cooper....

William Wyler
William Wyler

William Wyler was a three-time Academy Award-winning film film director....
 – The Letter
The Letter (1940 film)

The Letter is a 1940 United States film noir directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Howard Koch is based on the The Letter by W. Somerset Maugham, The Letter ....


1940s


YearWinner
film		Nominated
1941 John Ford
John Ford

John Ford was an United States film director of Ireland heritage famous for both his western such as Stagecoach and The Searchers and adaptations of such 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath ....

 – How Green Was My Valley
How Green Was My Valley

How Green Was My Valley is a novel of 1939, by the author Richard Llewellyn. The author's claims to have based it on his own knowledge of the Gilfach Goch area were proven false, as Llewellyn was English-born and spent little time in Wales, but gathered his facts from conversations with local mining families....
 Alexander Hall
Alexander Hall

Alexander Hall was a theatre actor from the age of four through 1914, when he began to work in silent movies. Following his military service in World War I, he returned to Hollywood and pursued a career in film production....
 – Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Here Comes Mr. Jordan

Here Comes Mr. Jordan is a comedy film in which a boxer, mistakenly taken to Heaven before his time, is given a second chance back on Earth....

Howard Hawks
Howard Hawks

Howard Winchester Hawks was an American film director, Film producer and writer of the Classical Hollywood cinema. He died in Palm Springs, California, California, after a fall....
 – Sergeant York
Sergeant York

Sergeant York is a 1941 in film biographical film about the life of Alvin York, the most-decorated American soldier of World War I. It was directed by Howard Hawks and was the highest-grossing film of the year....

Orson Welles
Orson Welles

George Orson Welles , better known as Orson Welles, was an Academy Award-winning United States actor, director, writer and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio....
 – Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane is a 1941 in film United States dramatic film and the first feature film directed by Orson Welles. It was nominated for an Academy Award in nine categories, but won only for Best Original Screenplay by Herman Mankiewicz and Welles....

William Wyler
William Wyler

William Wyler was a three-time Academy Award-winning film film director....
 – The Little Foxes
The Little Foxes (film)

The Little Foxes is a 1941 in film United States drama film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Lillian Hellman is based on her The Little Foxes....
1942 William Wyler
William Wyler

William Wyler was a three-time Academy Award-winning film film director....

 – Mrs. Miniver
Mrs. Miniver (film)

Mrs. Miniver is a 1942 in film drama film directed by William Wyler and starring Greer Garson in the title role. It was produced as a propaganda film aimed at ending American isolation from World War II, and was based on the fictional English homemaker created by Jan Struther in 1937 for a series of newspaper columns, Mrs....
 Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz

Michael Curtiz was an Academy Award-winning Hungarian-American film director. He directed at least 50 films in Europe and a further hundred in the United States, among the best-known being The Adventures of Robin Hood , Angels with Dirty Faces, Casablanca , Yankee Doodle Dandy, and White Christmas ....
 – Yankee Doodle Dandy
Yankee Doodle Dandy

Yankee Doodle Dandy is a biopic about George M. Cohan, the actor-singer-dancer-playwright-songwriter-producer-theatre owner-director-choreographer known as "The Man Who Owns Broadway", starring James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston and Richard Whorf, and featuring Irene Manning, George Tobias, Rosemary DeCamp and Jeanne Cagney....

John Farrow
John Farrow

John Farrow was an award-winning film director, producer and screenwriter.Born John Villiers Farrow in Sydney, Australia, John Farrow began writing while working as a sailor in the 1920s....
 – Wake Island
Wake Island (1942 film)

Wake Island is a 1942 film which tells the story of the United States military garrison on Wake Island and the Battle of Wake Island following the attack on Pearl Harbor....

Mervyn LeRoy
Mervyn LeRoy

Mervyn LeRoy was an Academy Award-winning United States film director, film producer and sometime actor....
 – Random Harvest
Sam Wood
Sam Wood

Samuel Grosvenor Wood was a prolific Hollywood director, he also did some production, writing, and to a lesser extent, acting work.Born in Philadelphia, Wood worked for Cecil B....
 – Kings Row
Kings Row

Kings Row is a 1942 film which tells the story of a group of youths who grow up leading supposedly idyllic lives in a small town with disturbing secrets....
1943 Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz

Michael Curtiz was an Academy Award-winning Hungarian-American film director. He directed at least 50 films in Europe and a further hundred in the United States, among the best-known being The Adventures of Robin Hood , Angels with Dirty Faces, Casablanca , Yankee Doodle Dandy, and White Christmas ....

 – Casablanca
Casablanca (film)

Casablanca is an Cinema of the United States romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre....
 Clarence Brown
Clarence Brown

Clarence Brown was an United States film director. Born in Clinton, Massachusetts, to a cotton manufacturer, Brown moved to the South when he was eleven....
 – The Human Comedy
The Human Comedy (film)

The Human Comedy is a 1943 in film drama film directed by Clarence Brown and adapted by Howard Estabrook. It is often thought to be based on the novel of the The Human Comedy , but actually Saroyan wrote the screenplay first, was fired from the movie project, and quickly wrote the novel and published it just before the movie was released...

Henry King
Henry King (director)

Henry King was an United States film director.Before coming to film, King worked as an actor in various repertoire theatres, and first started to take small film roles in 1912....
 – The Song of Bernadette
The Song of Bernadette (film)

The Song of Bernadette is a 1943 film which tells the story of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, who, from February to July 1858 in Lourdes, France, reported 18 visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary....

Ernst Lubitsch
Ernst Lubitsch

Ernst Lubitsch , was a German-born Jewish film director. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch"....
 – Heaven Can Wait
Heaven Can Wait (1943 film)

Heaven Can Wait is a 1943 in film comedy film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The screenplay was by Samson Raphaelson based on the play Birthday by Leslie Bush-Fekete....

George Stevens
George Stevens

George Stevens was an United States film director, film producer, screenwriter and cinematographer....
 – The More the Merrier
The More the Merrier

The More the Merrier is a 1943 in film comedy film made by Columbia Pictures which makes fun of the housing shortage during World War II, especially in Washington, D.C.....
1944 Leo McCarey
Leo McCarey

Thomas Leo McCarey was an Academy Awards-winning United States film director, screenwriter and film producer . During his lifetime he was involved in almost 200 movies, especially comedies, where he demonstrated his fine elegance and his great sense of humour....

 – Going My Way
Going My Way

For the 1962-1963 American Broadcasting Company television series of the same name, starring Gene Kelly, Leo G. Carroll, and Dick York, see Going My Way ....
 Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
 – Lifeboat
Lifeboat (film)

Lifeboat is a 1944 World War II war film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a story written by John Steinbeck. The film stars Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson , John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel , Hume Cronyn and Canada Lee, and is set entirely on a Lifeboat ....

Henry King
Henry King (director)

Henry King was an United States film director.Before coming to film, King worked as an actor in various repertoire theatres, and first started to take small film roles in 1912....
 – Wilson
Wilson (film)

Wilson is a 1944 biographical film in Technicolor about President Woodrow Wilson. It stars Charles Coburn, Alexander Knox, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell , Ruth Nelson , Eddie Foy Jr., Cedric Hardwicke, Matthew Moore and Vincent Price....

Otto Preminger
Otto Preminger

Otto Ludwig Preminger was an Austrian-born Jewish film director who moved from the theatre to Hollywood, directing over 35 feature films in a five-decade career....
 – Laura
Laura (1944 film)

Laura is an United States film noir directed by Otto Preminger and starring Gene Tierney as Laura, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, and Judith Anderson....

Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder was an Austrian-United States journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter, and film producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films....
 – Double Indemnity
Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity is an Cinema of the United States Academy Award nominated film noir starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G....
1945 Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder was an Austrian-United States journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter, and film producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films....

 – The Lost Weekend		 Clarence Brown
Clarence Brown

Clarence Brown was an United States film director. Born in Clinton, Massachusetts, to a cotton manufacturer, Brown moved to the South when he was eleven....
 – National Velvet
National Velvet (film)

National Velvet is a 1944 in film film based on the National Velvet by Enid Bagnold, first published in 1935. It stars a very young Elizabeth Taylor ....

Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
 – Spellbound
Spellbound (1945 film)

Spellbound is a psychological thriller Mystery Thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It tells the story of the new head of a mental asylum who turns out not to be what he claims....

Leo McCarey
Leo McCarey

Thomas Leo McCarey was an Academy Awards-winning United States film director, screenwriter and film producer . During his lifetime he was involved in almost 200 movies, especially comedies, where he demonstrated his fine elegance and his great sense of humour....
 – The Bells of St. Mary's
The Bells of St. Mary's

The Bells of St. Mary's is a 1945 film which tells the story of a priest and a nun at a school who set out, despite their good-natured rivalry, to save the school from being shut down....

Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir , born in the Montmartre district of Paris, France, was a film director, actor and author. He was the second son of Aline Charigot and the French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir....
 – The Southerner
The Southerner (1945 film)

The Southerner is a film directed by Jean Renoir, based on the novel Hold Autumn in Your Hand by George Sessions Perry. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Director, Original Music Score and Sound....
1946 William Wyler
William Wyler

William Wyler was a three-time Academy Award-winning film film director....

 – The Best Years of Our Lives
The Best Years of Our Lives

The Best Years of Our Lives is an Cinema of the United States drama film about three servicemen trying to piece their lives back together after coming home from World War II....
 Clarence Brown
Clarence Brown

Clarence Brown was an United States film director. Born in Clinton, Massachusetts, to a cotton manufacturer, Brown moved to the South when he was eleven....
 – The Yearling
Frank Capra
Frank Capra

'Frank Russell Capra' was an Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It's a Wonderful Life and Mr....
 – It's a Wonderful Life
It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life is an United States film produced and directed by Frank Capra and loosely based on the short story "The Greatest Gift " written by Philip Van Doren Stern....

David Lean
David Lean

Sir David Lean, CBE, was an England filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter and Film editing, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia , The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago , Ryan's Daughter, and A Passage to India ....
 – Brief Encounter
Brief Encounter

Brief Encounter is a 1945 in film British film directed by David Lean about the mores of British suburban life, centring on a housewife for whom real love was an unexpectedly "violent" thing....

Robert Siodmak
Robert Siodmak

Robert Siodmak was a German born United States film director. He is best remembered for the series of Hollywood Film noirs he made in the 1940s....
 – The Killers
The Killers (1946 film)

The Killers is an United States film noir about the investigation of a mob murder. It is based in part on the short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway....
1947 Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan

Elia Kazan, September 7 1909 – September 28 2003, was an United States award-winning film director and Theatre direction, film producer and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and co-founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947....

 – Gentleman's Agreement
Gentleman's Agreement

Gentleman's Agreement is a 1947 in film drama film about a journalist who goes undercover as a Jew to research antisemitism in New York City and the affluent community of Darien, Connecticut....
 George Cukor
George Cukor

'George Cukor' was an Academy Award-winning United States film director. His career flourished at RKO and later MGM, where he directed a string of impressive films including What Price Hollywood? , A Bill of Divorcement , Dinner at Eight , Little Women , Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copp...
 – A Double Life
A Double Life

A Double Life is a 1947 in film film noir which tells the story of an actor whose mind becomes affected by the character he portrays. The movie starred Ronald Colman and Signe Hasso....

Edward Dmytryk
Edward Dmytryk

Edward Dmytryk was an United States film director who was amongst the Hollywood blacklist#The Hollywood Ten and other 1947 blacklistees, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who served time in prison for being in contempt of Congress during the McCarthy era Second Red Scare....
 – Crossfire
Crossfire (film)

Crossfire is a film noir drama film which deals with the theme of antisemitism, as did that year's Academy Award for Best Picture winner, Gentleman's Agreement....

Henry Koster
Henry Koster

Henry Koster was born Herman Kosterlitz in Berlin, Germany. He became a film director and later moved to Hollywood. Koster's father, a salesman, left home when Henry was a young man....
 – The Bishop's Wife
The Bishop's Wife

The Bishop's Wife is a Samuel Goldwyn romantic comedy film feature film starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven in a story about an angel who helps a bishop with his problems....

David Lean
David Lean

Sir David Lean, CBE, was an England filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter and Film editing, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia , The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago , Ryan's Daughter, and A Passage to India ....
 – Great Expectations
Great Expectations (1946 film)

Great Expectations is a 1946 in film British film directed by David Lean and based on the Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. It stars John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Finlay Currie, Martita Hunt, and Alec Guinness....
1948 John Huston
John Huston

John Marcellus Huston was an United States film director and actor. He was known for directing the films, The Maltese Falcon , The Asphalt Jungle , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The African Queen , The Misfits , and The Man Who Would Be King ....

 – The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is John Huston's Cinema of the United States feature film adaptation of B. Traven's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, in which two United States down-and-outers in 1920s Mexico hook up with an old-timer to prospect for gold....
 Anatole Litvak
Anatole Litvak

Anatole Litvak was a Ukraine-born international filmmaker who wrote, directed, and produced films in a variety of countries and languages....
 – The Snake Pit
The Snake Pit

The Snake Pit is a 1948 film which tells the story of a woman who finds herself in an insane asylum and cannot remember how she got there. It stars Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens , Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Beulah Bondi and Lee Patrick....

Jean Negulesco
Jean Negulesco

Jean Negulesco was a Romania American film director and screenwriter.Born in Craiova, he attended Carol I High School. In 1915, he moved to Vienna, and, in 1919, to Bucharest, where he worked as a painter, before becoming a stage decorator in Paris....
 – Johnny Belinda
Johnny Belinda (1948 film)

Johnny Belinda is a 1948 in film drama film based on the Play of the same name by Elmer Blaney Harris. The movie was adapted to the screen by Allen Vincent and Irma von Cube, and film director by Jean Negulesco....

Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, Order of Merit was an English people Stage actor, Theatre director, and Theatrical producer. He is one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, along with his contemporaries John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft and Ralph Richardson....
 – Hamlet
Hamlet (1948 film)

Hamlet is a British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier. Hamlet was Olivier's second film as director, and also the second of his three Shakespeare films....

Fred Zinnemann
Fred Zinnemann

Fred Zinnemann was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States film director. He won four Academy Awards and directed classic movies like From Here to Eternity, High Noon and A Man for All Seasons ....
 – The Search
The Search

The Search is a 1948 film directed by Fred Zinnemann which tells the story of a young Auschwitz survivor and his mother who search for each other across post-World War II Europe....
1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was an United States Academy Award-winning film director, screenwriter, and film producer....

 – A Letter to Three Wives
A Letter to Three Wives

A Letter to Three Wives is a 1949 in film film which tells the story of a woman who mails a letter to three women, telling them she has left town with the husband of one of them....
 Carol Reed
Carol Reed

Sir Carol Reed was an England film director, most famous for directing The Third Man and Oliver! . He won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Director for the latter....
 – The Fallen Idol
Robert Rossen
Robert Rossen

Robert Rossen was an United States screenwriter, film director, and film producer. In a film career that spanned almost three decades, Rossen was twice nominated for an Academy Award for best director and once for best adapted screenplay....
 – All the King's Men
All the King's Men (1949 film)

All the King's Men is a 1949 in film drama film film based on the Robert Penn Warren novel All the King's Men. It was directed by Robert Rossen and starred Broderick Crawford in the role of Willie Stark....

William A. Wellman
William A. Wellman

William Augustus Wellman was an United States movie director, noted for directing the film which received the first Academy Award for Best Picture, Wings ....
 – Battleground
Battleground (1949 film)

Battleground is a war film that tells the story of the 2nd Squad, 3rd Platoon of Item Company, 327th Infantry Regiment , 101st Airborne Division, trying to cope with the Siege of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II....

William Wyler
William Wyler

William Wyler was a three-time Academy Award-winning film film director....
 – The Heiress
The Heiress

The Heiress is a 1949 drama film by Ruth Goetz and Augustus Goetz adapted from their 1947 The Heiress that was based on the 1880 novel Washington Square by Henry James....
1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was an United States Academy Award-winning film director, screenwriter, and film producer....

 – All About Eve
All About Eve

All About Eve is an Cinema of the United States drama film, written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the short story "The Wisdom of Eve," by Mary Orr....
 George Cukor
George Cukor

'George Cukor' was an Academy Award-winning United States film director. His career flourished at RKO and later MGM, where he directed a string of impressive films including What Price Hollywood? , A Bill of Divorcement , Dinner at Eight , Little Women , Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copp...
 – Born Yesterday
Born Yesterday (1950 film)

Born Yesterday is a 1950 in film film based on the Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin which was directed by George Cukor. The screenplay was written by Albert Mannheimer with uncredited contributions from Kanin....

John Huston
John Huston

John Marcellus Huston was an United States film director and actor. He was known for directing the films, The Maltese Falcon , The Asphalt Jungle , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The African Queen , The Misfits , and The Man Who Would Be King ....
 – The Asphalt Jungle
The Asphalt Jungle

The Asphalt Jungle is a film noir directed by John Huston. The caper film, is based on the novel of the same name by W.R. Burnett and stars an ensemble cast including Sterling Hayden, Jean Hagen, Sam Jaffe, Louis Calhern, James Whitmore, and Marilyn Monroe....

Carol Reed
Carol Reed

Sir Carol Reed was an England film director, most famous for directing The Third Man and Oliver! . He won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Director for the latter....
 – The Third Man
The Third Man

The Third Man is a Cinema of the United Kingdom film noir directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard and Orson Welles....

Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder was an Austrian-United States journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter, and film producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films....
 – Sunset Boulevard


1950s

YearWinner
film		Nominated
1951 George Stevens
George Stevens

George Stevens was an United States film director, film producer, screenwriter and cinematographer....

 – A Place in the Sun
A Place in the Sun

A Place in the Sun is a film based on the novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the play of the same name adapted from it by Patrick Kearney....
 John Huston
John Huston

John Marcellus Huston was an United States film director and actor. He was known for directing the films, The Maltese Falcon , The Asphalt Jungle , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The African Queen , The Misfits , and The Man Who Would Be King ....
 – The African Queen
The African Queen

The African Queen is an Cinema of the United States drama film directed by John Huston and produced by Sam Spiegel and John Woolf. The screenplay was adapted by James Agee, John Huston, John Collier and Peter Viertel from the 1935 in literature novel by C....

Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan

Elia Kazan, September 7 1909 – September 28 2003, was an United States award-winning film director and Theatre direction, film producer and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and co-founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947....
 – A Streetcar Named Desire
Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli

Vincente Minnelli was a Hollywood film director and Theatre director. His skilled integration of story, music, lighting, and design elements in a film made him the most critically respected crafter of musical film....
 – An American in Paris
An American in Paris (film)

An American in Paris is a MGM musical film inspired by the An American in Paris by George Gershwin. Starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, and Oscar Levant, the film is set in Paris, and was directed by Vincente Minnelli from a script by Alan Jay Lerner....

William Wyler
William Wyler

William Wyler was a three-time Academy Award-winning film film director....
 – Detective Story
Detective Story

Detective Story is a film noir which tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. It features Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell, Lee Grant, among others....
1952 John Ford
John Ford

John Ford was an United States film director of Ireland heritage famous for both his western such as Stagecoach and The Searchers and adaptations of such 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath ....

 – The Quiet Man
The Quiet Man

The Quiet Man is a United States Romantic film drama film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen and Barry Fitzgerald....
 Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil Blount DeMille was an Academy Award-winning United States film director. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies....
 – The Greatest Show on Earth
The Greatest Show on Earth

The Greatest Show on Earth is a List of American films of 1952 drama film set in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The film was produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B....

John Huston
John Huston

John Marcellus Huston was an United States film director and actor. He was known for directing the films, The Maltese Falcon , The Asphalt Jungle , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The African Queen , The Misfits , and The Man Who Would Be King ....
 – Moulin Rouge
Moulin Rouge (1952 film)

Moulin Rouge is a film directed by John Huston, produced by Sir John Woolf and James Woolf of Romulus Films and released by United Artists....

Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was an United States Academy Award-winning film director, screenwriter, and film producer....
 – 5 Fingers
5 Fingers

5 Fingers, known also as Five Fingers, is a 1952 in film 20th Century Fox spy film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by Otto Lang ....

Fred Zinnemann
Fred Zinnemann

Fred Zinnemann was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States film director. He won four Academy Awards and directed classic movies like From Here to Eternity, High Noon and A Man for All Seasons ....
 – High Noon
High Noon

High Noon is an Cinema of the United States 1952 in film western film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. The film tells the story of a town marshal who is forced to face a gang of killers by himself....
1953 Fred Zinnemann
Fred Zinnemann

Fred Zinnemann was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States film director. He won four Academy Awards and directed classic movies like From Here to Eternity, High Noon and A Man for All Seasons ....

 – From Here to Eternity
From Here to Eternity

From Here to Eternity is a 1953 in film Academy Award winning drama film based on the From Here to Eternity by James Jones . It deals with the troubles of soldiers stationed on Hawaii in the months leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor....
 George Stevens
George Stevens

George Stevens was an United States film director, film producer, screenwriter and cinematographer....
 – Shane
Charles Walters
Charles Walters

Charles Walters was a Hollywood Film director and choreographer most noted for his work in MGM musicals and comedies in from the 1940s to the 1960s....
 – Lili
Lili

Lili is an United States film. Considered one among many classic MGM releases, it stars Leslie Caron as a touchingly na?ve French girl, whose emotional relationship with a carnival puppeteer is conducted through the medium of four puppets....

Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder was an Austrian-United States journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter, and film producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films....
 – Stalag 17
Stalag 17

Stalag 17 is a 1953 in film war film which tells the story of a group of United States Army Air Forces held in a Nazi Germany World War II prisoner of war camp, who come to suspect that one of their number is a traitor....

William Wyler
William Wyler

William Wyler was a three-time Academy Award-winning film film director....
 – Roman Holiday
1954 Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan

Elia Kazan, September 7 1909 – September 28 2003, was an United States award-winning film director and Theatre direction, film producer and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and co-founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947....

 – On the Waterfront
On the Waterfront

On the Waterfront is a United States drama film about mob violence and corruption among stevedore. The film was directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg....
 Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
 – Rear Window
Rear Window

Rear Window is a suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and written by John Michael Hayes, based on Cornell Woolrich's short story It Had to Be Murder....

George Seaton
George Seaton

George Seaton was an American playwright, film director and Film producer.Born George Stenius in South Bend, Indiana, Seaton began his career as radio actor 'George Stenius' in Detroit, Michigan....
 – The Country Girl
The Country Girl (1954 film)

The Country Girl is a 1954 in film drama film adapted by George Seaton from a Clifford Odets play of the same name, which tells the story of a wikt:has-been singer/actor who is given one last chance to star in a musical, only to have his alcoholism hinder his chances....

William A. Wellman
William A. Wellman

William Augustus Wellman was an United States movie director, noted for directing the film which received the first Academy Award for Best Picture, Wings ....
 – The High and the Mighty
The High and the Mighty (film)

The High and the Mighty is a 1954 CinemaScope drama adventure film with a star laden ensemble cast released through Warner Bros.. The film starred and was co-produced by John Wayne, directed by William A....

Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder was an Austrian-United States journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter, and film producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films....
 – Sabrina
Sabrina (1954 film)

Sabrina is a 1954 film directed by Billy Wilder, adapted for the screen by Wilder, Samuel A. Taylor, and Ernest Lehman from Taylor's play Sabrina Fair ....
1955 Delbert Mann
Delbert Mann

Delbert Martin Mann, Jr. was an Academy Award-winning United States television and film director. He won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Directing for the film Marty....

 – Marty
Marty

Marty is a 1955 in film romance film based on a teleplay by the same name. It was directed by Delbert Mann, starring Ernest Borgnine in the title role, and Betsy Blair as the female lead....
 Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan

Elia Kazan, September 7 1909 – September 28 2003, was an United States award-winning film director and Theatre direction, film producer and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and co-founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947....
 – East of Eden
East of Eden (1955 film)

East of Eden is a 1955 in film, directed by Elia Kazan, and loosely based on part of the East of Eden by US author John Steinbeck.It stars Julie Harris, James Dean , and Raymond Massey; it also features Burl Ives, Richard Davalos and Jo Van Fleet, and was adapted by Paul Osborn and John Steinbeck ....

David Lean
David Lean

Sir David Lean, CBE, was an England filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter and Film editing, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia , The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago , Ryan's Daughter, and A Passage to India ....
 – Summertime
Summertime (film)

Summertime is a 1955 in film Cinema of the United States/Cinema of the United Kingdom drama film directed by David Lean. The screenplay by Lean and H....

Joshua Logan
Joshua Logan

Joshua Lockwood Logan III was an American Theatre director and film director and writer....
 – Picnic
Picnic (film)

Picnic is a 1955 Cinemascope film in Technicolor which tells the story of an ex-college football star turned drifter who arrives in a small Kansas town on Labor Day and is drawn to a girl who's already spoken for....

John Sturges
John Sturges

'John Eliot Sturges' was an American film director. He was known as "The dean of big-budget action movies made during the 1950s and 1960s". His movies include The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape , Gunfight at the O.K....
 – Bad Day at Black Rock
Bad Day at Black Rock

Bad Day at Black Rock is a Thriller directed by John Sturges that combines elements of Westerns and film noir. It tells the story of a mysterious stranger who arrives at a tiny isolated town in a desert of the southwest United States in search of a man....
1956 George Stevens
George Stevens

George Stevens was an United States film director, film producer, screenwriter and cinematographer....

 – Giant
Giant (film)

Giant is a drama film directed by George Stevens from a screenplay adapted by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat from the novel by Edna Ferber. It stars Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean and features Carroll Baker, Jane Withers, Chill Wills, Mercedes McCambridge, Dennis Hopper, Sal Mineo, Rod Taylor and Earl Holliman....
 Michael Anderson
Michael Anderson (director)

Michael Joseph Anderson is an England Director ....
 – Around the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956 film)

Around the World in 80 Days is a 1956 in film adventure film produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists. It was directed by Michael Anderson ....

Walter Lang
Walter Lang

Walter Lang was an United states film director.Born in Memphis, Tennessee, as a young man he went to New York City where he found clerical work at a movie studio....
 – The King and I
The King and I (1956 film)

The King and I is a 1956 in film musical film made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Walter Lang and produced by Charles Brackett and Darryl F....

King Vidor
King Vidor

King Wallis Vidor was an acclaimed United States film director whose career spanned nearly seven decades.He was born in Galveston, Texas, Texas, where he survived the great Galveston Hurricane of 1900....
 – War and Peace
War and Peace (1956 film)

War and Peace is the first English film version of the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. It is an United States/Italy version, directed by King Vidor and produced by Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti....

William Wyler
William Wyler

William Wyler was a three-time Academy Award-winning film film director....
 – Friendly Persuasion
Friendly Persuasion (film)

Friendly Persuasion is a 1956 Palme d'Or-winning American Civil War film starring Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins, Richard Eyer, Robert Middleton and Phyllis Love....
1957 David Lean
David Lean

Sir David Lean, CBE, was an England filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter and Film editing, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia , The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago , Ryan's Daughter, and A Passage to India ....

 – The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai is a Cinema of the United Kingdom 1957 in film World War II film by David Lean; based on the novel The Bridge over the River Kwai by French writer Pierre Boulle....
 Joshua Logan
Joshua Logan

Joshua Lockwood Logan III was an American Theatre director and film director and writer....
 – Sayonara
Sayonara

Sayonara is a film which tells the story of an United States United States Air Force flier who was a fighter "Ace" during the Korean War. The film's screenplay was adapted by Paul Osborn from the novel by James Michener, and the film was produced by William Goetz and directed by Joshua Logan....

Sidney Lumet
Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet is an Academy Award winning United States film director, with over 50 films to his name, including the critically acclaimed 12 Angry Men , Serpico , Dog Day Afternoon , Network and The Verdict , all of which, except for Serpico , earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director....
 – 12 Angry Men
12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men is a 1957 American drama film adapted from the Reginald Rose play, Twelve Angry Men. Directed by first-time director Sidney Lumet, the film tells the story of a jury member who tries to persuade the other eleven members to acquit the suspect on trial on the basis of burden of proof....

Mark Robson
Mark Robson

Mark Robson was a Canadian-born film editor, film director and film producer in Hollywood.Born in Montreal, Quebec, he moved to the United States at a young age....
 – Peyton Place
Peyton Place (film)

Peyton Place is a 1957 in film United States drama film directed by Mark Robson. The screenplay by John Michael Hayes is based on the bestselling Peyton Place by Grace Metalious....

Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder was an Austrian-United States journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter, and film producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films....
 – Witness for the Prosecution
Witness for the Prosecution

Witness for the Prosecution is a courtroom drama film based on a The Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie dealing with the trial of a man accused of murder....
1958 Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli

Vincente Minnelli was a Hollywood film director and Theatre director. His skilled integration of story, music, lighting, and design elements in a film made him the most critically respected crafter of musical film....

 – Gigi
Gigi (1958 film)

Gigi is a 1958 in film Cinema of the United States musical film directed by Vincente Minnelli. The screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner is based on the 1944 novella Gigi by Colette....
 Richard Brooks
Richard Brooks

Richard Brooks was an United States screenwriter, film director, novelist and occasional film producer....
 – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (film)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is an Academy Award-nominated MGM film directed by Richard Brooks based on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams....

Stanley Kramer
Stanley Kramer

Stanley Kramer was an Academy Award-nominated Jewish-American film director and film producer responsible for some of Hollywood's most famous Social problem film....
 – The Defiant Ones
The Defiant Ones

The Defiant Ones is a film which tells the story of two escaped prisoners who are shackled together, one white and one black, who must co-operate in order to survive....

Mark Robson
Mark Robson

Mark Robson was a Canadian-born film editor, film director and film producer in Hollywood.Born in Montreal, Quebec, he moved to the United States at a young age....
 – The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness is a 1958 in film 20th Century Fox film based on the true story of Gladys Aylward, a tenacious United Kingdom maid, who became a missionary in China during the tumultuous years leading up to World War II....

Robert Wise
Robert Wise

'Robert Earl Wise' was an United States sound effects editor, film editor, and Academy Awards-winning United States film producer and director. Among his many famous films are Citizen Kane, The Sand Pebbles , The Sound of Music , West Side Story , The Hindenburg , Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Day the Earth Stood...
 – I Want to Live!
I Want to Live!

I Want to Live! is a Drama film film noir directed by Robert Wise which tells the story of a woman, Barbara Graham, convicted of murder and facing execution....
1959 William Wyler
William Wyler

William Wyler was a three-time Academy Award-winning film film director....

 – Ben-Hur
Ben-Hur (1959 film)

Ben-Hur is a 1959 in film movie directed by William Wyler, and is the third film version of Lew Wallace's novel Ben-Hur . It premiered at Loews Cineplex Entertainment in New York City on November 18, 1959....
 Jack Clayton
Jack Clayton

Jack Clayton was a United Kingdom film director who specialised in bringing literary works to the screen....
 – Room at the Top
George Stevens
George Stevens

George Stevens was an United States film director, film producer, screenwriter and cinematographer....
 – The Diary of Anne Frank
The Diary of Anne Frank (film)

The Diary of Anne Frank is a 1959 in film film based on the Pulitzer Prize winning The Diary of Anne Frank , which was based on the The Diary of a Young Girl of Anne Frank....

Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder was an Austrian-United States journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter, and film producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films....
 – Some Like It Hot
Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot is an Cinema of the United States comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon....

Fred Zinnemann
Fred Zinnemann

Fred Zinnemann was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States film director. He won four Academy Awards and directed classic movies like From Here to Eternity, High Noon and A Man for All Seasons ....
 – The Nun's Story
The Nun's Story (film)

The Nun's Story is the title of a dramatic film that was released by Warner Bros. in 1959 in film....
1960 Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder was an Austrian-United States journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter, and film producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films....

 – The Apartment
The Apartment

The Apartment is a Cinema of the United States comedy film-drama film produced and directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray....
 Jack Cardiff
Jack Cardiff

Jack Cardiff Order of the British Empire, B.S.C. is an Academy Awards-winning United Kingdom cinematographer, film director and photographer....
 – Sons and Lovers
Sons and Lovers (1960 film)

Sons and Lovers is a 1960 in film film adaptation of the D. H. Lawrence novel Sons and Lovers. It was adapted by T. E. B. Clarke and Gavin Lambert and directed by Jack Cardiff....

Jules Dassin
Jules Dassin

Jules Dassin, born Julius Dassin , was an United States film director. He was a subject of the Hollywood blacklist, and subsequently moved to France where he revived his career....
 – Never on Sunday
Never on Sunday

Never on Sunday is a 1960 cinema of Greece black-and-white film which tells the story of Ilya, a prostitute who lives in the port of Piraeus in Greece, and Homer, an American tourist — a classical scholar enamored with all things Greek....

Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
 – Psycho
Psycho (1960 film)

Psycho is an Cinema of the United States Thriller /thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, from the screenplay by Joseph Stefano. It is based on the Psycho by Robert Bloch, which was in turn inspired by the crimes of Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein....

Fred Zinnemann
Fred Zinnemann

Fred Zinnemann was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States film director. He won four Academy Awards and directed classic movies like From Here to Eternity, High Noon and A Man for All Seasons ....
 – The Sundowners
The Sundowners

The Sundowners is a 1960 film that tells the story of an Australian outback family torn between the father's desires to continue his nomadic sheep-herding ways and the wife's and son's desire to settle down in one place....


1960s

YearWinner
film		Nominated
1961 Robert Wise
Robert Wise

'Robert Earl Wise' was an United States sound effects editor, film editor, and Academy Awards-winning United States film producer and director. Among his many famous films are Citizen Kane, The Sand Pebbles , The Sound of Music , West Side Story , The Hindenburg , Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Day the Earth Stood...
 and Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins

Jerome Robbins was an United States film director and choreographer whose work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater....

 – West Side Story
West Side Story (film)

West Side Story is a 1961 in film Cinema of the United States film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. It is an adaptation of the Broadway musical West Side Story, which itself was adapted from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet....
 Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini, Italian orders of merit was an Italy film director. Known for a distinct style which meshes fantasy and baroque images, he is considered as one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century....
 – La dolce vita
La Dolce Vita

La dolce vita is a 1960 film directed by Federico Fellini. It is usually cited as the film that signals the split between Fellini's earlier Italian neorealism films and his later art films....
 aka The Sweet Life
La Dolce Vita

La dolce vita is a 1960 film directed by Federico Fellini. It is usually cited as the film that signals the split between Fellini's earlier Italian neorealism films and his later art films....

Stanley Kramer
Stanley Kramer

Stanley Kramer was an Academy Award-nominated Jewish-American film director and film producer responsible for some of Hollywood's most famous Social problem film....
 – Judgment at Nuremberg
Judgment at Nuremberg

Judgment at Nuremberg is a fictionalized film account of the post-World War II Nuremberg Trials, written by Abby Mann and directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift, Werner Klemperer, and William Shatner....

Robert Rossen
Robert Rossen

Robert Rossen was an United States screenwriter, film director, and film producer. In a film career that spanned almost three decades, Rossen was twice nominated for an Academy Award for best director and once for best adapted screenplay....
 – The Hustler
The Hustler (film)

The Hustler is a 1961 in film American drama film. It tells the story of small-time pool Hustling, "Fast Eddie" Felson, and his desire to prove himself the best player in the country by beating legendary pool player "Minnesota Fats." After initially losing to Fats and getting involved with unscrupulous manager Bert Gordon, Eddie returns t...

J. Lee Thompson
J. Lee Thompson

John Lee-Thompson , better known as J. Lee Thompson, was an England film director, active in England and Hollywood....
 – The Guns of Navarone
The Guns of Navarone (film)

The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 film based on the The Guns of Navarone about World War II by Scotland Thriller writer Alistair MacLean. It stars Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn, along with Anthony Quayle and Stanley Baker....
1962 David Lean
David Lean

Sir David Lean, CBE, was an England filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter and Film editing, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia , The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago , Ryan's Daughter, and A Passage to India ....

 – Lawrence of Arabia
Lawrence of Arabia (film)

Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 in film UK epic film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Austrian Sam Spiegel , from a script by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson ....
 Pietro Germi
Pietro Germi

Pietro Germi was an Italy actor, screenwriter, and Film director. Germi was born in Genoa, Liguria, to a lower-middle class family. He was a messenger and briefly attended nautical school before deciding on a career in acting....
 – Divorzio all'italiana aka Divorce, Italian Style
Divorce, Italian Style

Divorce, Italian Style is a 1961 Italy comedy film directed by Pietro Germi, written by Ennio De Concini, Pietro Germi, Alfredo Giannetti and Agenore Incrocci, and starring Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, Lando Buzzanca and Leopoldo Trieste....

Robert Mulligan
Robert Mulligan

Robert Mulligan was an Academy Award-nominated United States film and television director....
 – To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird (film)

To Kill a Mockingbird is an Cinema of the United States drama film based on the To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It was directed by Robert Mulligan and stars Gregory Peck in the role of Atticus Finch ....

Arthur Penn
Arthur Penn

Arthur Hiller Penn is a film director and film producer. Although best known as the director of the iconic Bonnie and Clyde Arthur Penn amassed a critically acclaimed body of work though the 1960s and 1970s, keenly focusing on leftist themes relevant to the times....
 – The Miracle Worker
The Miracle Worker (1962 film)

The Miracle Worker is a 1962 in film United States biographical film directed by Arthur Penn. The screenplay by William Gibson is based on his The Miracle Worker , which originated as a 1957 broadcast of the television anthology series Playhouse 90....

Frank Perry
Frank Perry

Frank Perry was an United States Theatre and film director, Film producer and screenwriter.Perry was born in New York City where as a teenager he began pursuing his interest in the theater with a job as a parking lot attendant for the Westport Country Playhouse in nearby Westport, Connecticut....
 – David and Lisa
David and Lisa

David and Lisa is a low-budget film film director by Frank Perry, often cited as one of his best works. Based on the novel by Theodore Isaac Rubin, the screenplay, written by Frank Perry's wife Eleanor Perry, tells the story of a bright young man suffering from a severe case of obsessive-compulsive disorder ....
1963 Tony Richardson
Tony Richardson

Tony Richardson was an England theatre and Academy Award-winning film film director and film producer.Richardson was born Cecil Antonio Richardson in Shipley, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire in 1928, the son of Elsie Evans and Clarence Albert Richardson, a chemist....

 – Tom Jones
Tom Jones (film)

Tom Jones is a 1963 in film British comedy film. It is an adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling , starring Albert Finney as the titular hero....
 Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini, Italian orders of merit was an Italy film director. Known for a distinct style which meshes fantasy and baroque images, he is considered as one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century....
 – 8½
8½

8? is a 1963 in film directed by Italy film director Federico Fellini. Co-scripted by Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, and Brunello Rondi, it stars Marcello Mastroianni as Guido Anselmi, a famous Italian film director....

Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan

Elia Kazan, September 7 1909 – September 28 2003, was an United States award-winning film director and Theatre direction, film producer and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and co-founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947....
 – America, America
America, America

America, America is a 1963 in film black-and-white United States dramatic film directed, produced and written by Elia Kazan, from his own book....

Otto Preminger
Otto Preminger

Otto Ludwig Preminger was an Austrian-born Jewish film director who moved from the theatre to Hollywood, directing over 35 feature films in a five-decade career....
 – The Cardinal
The Cardinal

The Cardinal is a 1963 in film film which was produced independently and directed by Otto Preminger, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The screenplay was written by Robert Dozier, based on the novel by Henry Morton Robinson....

Martin Ritt
Martin Ritt

Martin Ritt was an United States Theater director, actor, and playwright who worked in both film and theater. He was born in New York City....
 – Hud
Hud (film)

Hud is a 1963 film which tells the story of a self-centered, modern-day cowboy. It stars Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde and Whit Bissell....
1964 George Cukor
George Cukor

'George Cukor' was an Academy Award-winning United States film director. His career flourished at RKO and later MGM, where he directed a string of impressive films including What Price Hollywood? , A Bill of Divorcement , Dinner at Eight , Little Women , Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copp...

 – My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady is a musical theater based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe....
 Michael Cacoyannis
Michael Cacoyannis

Michael Cacoyannis is a prominent cinema of Greece best-known for his 1964 film Zorba the Greek . Much of his work is rooted in classical texts, especially those of the Tragedy#Greek tragedy Euripides....
 – Zorba the Greek
Peter Glenville
Peter Glenville

Peter Glenville , born Peter Patrick Brabazon Browne, was an England film and stage actor and director....
 – Becket
Becket (film)

Becket is a 1964 in film film adaptation of the play Becket by Jean Anouilh made by Hal Wallis Productions and released by Paramount Pictures....

Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was an influential American-British filmmaker, screenwriter, Film producer and photographer. He directed a number of highly acclaimed and often controversial films....
 – Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Robert Stevenson
Robert Stevenson (director)

Robert Stevenson was an England film writer and director. Born in Buxton, Derbyshire, educated at Cambridge University where he became the president of both the Liberal Club and the Cambridge Union Society, he moved to California in the 1940s and ended up directing 19 films for The Walt Disney Company in the 1960s and 1970s....
 – Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins (film)

Mary Poppins is a 1964 in film musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke and produced by Walt Disney, based on the Mary Poppins children's literature by P....
1965 Robert Wise
Robert Wise

'Robert Earl Wise' was an United States sound effects editor, film editor, and Academy Awards-winning United States film producer and director. Among his many famous films are Citizen Kane, The Sand Pebbles , The Sound of Music , West Side Story , The Hindenburg , Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Day the Earth Stood...

 – The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music (film)

Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music is a musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews in the lead role. The film is based on the Broadway theatre The Sound of Music, with songs written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and with the musical book written by the writing team of Howard Lindsay and R...
 David Lean
David Lean

Sir David Lean, CBE, was an England filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter and Film editing, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia , The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago , Ryan's Daughter, and A Passage to India ....
 – Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago (1965 film)

Doctor Zhivago is a 1965 in film Cinema of the United States epic film or drama film-romance film-war film directed by David Lean and loosely based on the famous Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak....

John Schlesinger
John Schlesinger

John Richard Schlesinger, Order of the British Empire was an England film director....
 – Darling
Darling (film)

Darling is a 1965 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom which tells the story of an amoral model who sleeps her way to success. It stars Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey....

Hiroshi Teshigahara
Hiroshi Teshigahara

was an avant-garde Japanese people Filmmaking.He was born in Tokyo, son to the famous Sofu Teshigahara, founder and grand master of the Sogetsu School of ikebana....
 – Suna no onna
Woman in the Dunes

is a novel by Kobo Abe and a film based on the novel directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara. The novel was published in 1962 in literature, and the film was released in 1964 in film....
 aka Woman in the Dunes
Woman in the Dunes

is a novel by Kobo Abe and a film based on the novel directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara. The novel was published in 1962 in literature, and the film was released in 1964 in film....

William Wyler
William Wyler

William Wyler was a three-time Academy Award-winning film film director....
 – The Collector
The Collector

The Collector is the title of a 1963 novel by John Fowles. It was made into a movie in 1965....
1966 Fred Zinnemann
Fred Zinnemann

Fred Zinnemann was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States film director. He won four Academy Awards and directed classic movies like From Here to Eternity, High Noon and A Man for All Seasons ....

 – A Man for All Seasons
A Man for All Seasons

A Man for All Seasons is a play by Robert Bolt. An early form of the play had been written for BBC Radio in 1954, but after Bolt's success with The Flowering Cherry, he reworked it for the stage....
 Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni

Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian orders of merit was an Italian people modernist film director....
 – Blow-Up
Blow-Up

Blow-Up is a DJ duo from California....

Richard Brooks
Richard Brooks

Richard Brooks was an United States screenwriter, film director, novelist and occasional film producer....
 – The Professionals
The Professionals (film)

The Professionals is a 1966 in film USA Western film directed by Richard Brooks. A kidnap-rescue adventure set in about 1917, it features a small group of experts heading into Mexico to free the Mexican-born wife of a wealthy Texan from several hundred bandits....

Claude Lelouch
Claude Lelouch

Claude Lelouch is a France film director, screenwriter, cinematographer, actor and film producer....
 – Un homme et une femme aka A Man and a Woman
A Man and a Woman

A Man and a Woman is a 1966 in film French film. The movie was written by Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven, and directed by Lelouch. It is notable for its lush photography , which features frequent segues between full color, black-and-white, and Sepia tone shots, and for its memorable musical score by Francis Lai....

Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols

Mike Nichols is an United States television, stage and film director, writer, and producer. Nichols is one of the few people to have won List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards: an Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and Tony Award....
 – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film)

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a 1966 film adaptation of the Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee. It was the first film directed by Mike Nichols, and starred Elizabeth Taylor as Martha and Richard Burton as George, with George Segal as Nick and Sandy Dennis as Honey....
1967 Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols

Mike Nichols is an United States television, stage and film director, writer, and producer. Nichols is one of the few people to have won List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards: an Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and Tony Award....

 – The Graduate
The Graduate

The Graduate is a Cinema of United States comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols, based on the The Graduate by Charles Webb, who wrote the piece shortly after graduating from Williams College....
 Richard Brooks
Richard Brooks

Richard Brooks was an United States screenwriter, film director, novelist and occasional film producer....
 – In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood (film)

In Cold Blood is a film based on Truman Capote's In Cold Blood . Richard Brooks prepared the adaptation and directed the film. Some scenes were filmed on the locations of the original events, in Garden City and Holcomb, Kansas including the Clutter residence, the site of the murders....

Norman Jewison
Norman Jewison

Norman Frederick Jewison, Order of Canada is a Canada film director, Film producer and actor....
 – In the Heat of the Night
Stanley Kramer
Stanley Kramer

Stanley Kramer was an Academy Award-nominated Jewish-American film director and film producer responsible for some of Hollywood's most famous Social problem film....
 – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a drama film starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn, and featuring Katharine Houghton....

Arthur Penn
Arthur Penn

Arthur Hiller Penn is a film director and film producer. Although best known as the director of the iconic Bonnie and Clyde Arthur Penn amassed a critically acclaimed body of work though the 1960s and 1970s, keenly focusing on leftist themes relevant to the times....
 – Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde (film)

Bonnie and Clyde is a Cinema of the United States crime film about Bonnie and Clyde, the bank robbers who operated in the central United States during the Great Depression....
1968 Carol Reed
Carol Reed

Sir Carol Reed was an England film director, most famous for directing The Third Man and Oliver! . He won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Director for the latter....

 – Oliver!
Oliver!

Oliver! is a United Kingdom Musical theater, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is loosely based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens....
 Anthony Harvey
Anthony Harvey

Anthony Harvey is a United Kingdom film film editing and film director. He is most recognized for directing The Lion in Winter , which earned him a Academy Award for Directing nomination....
 – The Lion in Winter
The Lion in Winter (1968 film)

The Lion in Winter is a 1968 in film historical film costume drama made by Embassy Pictures, based on the Broadway theatre play by James Goldman....

Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was an influential American-British filmmaker, screenwriter, Film producer and photographer. He directed a number of highly acclaimed and often controversial films....
 – 2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey (film)

2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 in film science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick, written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. The film deals with thematic elements of human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life, and is notable for its scientific realism, pioneering special effects, ambiguous and of...

Gillo Pontecorvo
Gillo Pontecorvo

Gillo Pontecorvo was an Italian Cinema of Italy, best known for The Battle of Algiers although he directed several movies before its release in 1966, such as the drama Kap? , which takes place in a World War II concentration camp....
 – La battaglia di Algeri
The Battle of Algiers (film)

The Battle of Algiers is a 1966 in film black-and-white film by Gillo Pontecorvo based on events during the 1954-1962 Algerian War against French rule in Algeria....
 aka The Battle of Algiers
The Battle of Algiers (film)

The Battle of Algiers is a 1966 in film black-and-white film by Gillo Pontecorvo based on events during the 1954-1962 Algerian War against French rule in Algeria....

Franco Zeffirelli
Franco Zeffirelli

Franco Zeffirelli, Order of the British Empire , is an Italy film director. He is also an theatre director, designer and producer of opera, theatre, film and television....
 – Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet (1968 film)

Romeo and Juliet is a movie adaptation of the William Shakespeare Play Romeo and Juliet.The film was directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and stars Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey....
1969 John Schlesinger
John Schlesinger

John Richard Schlesinger, Order of the British Empire was an England film director....

 – Midnight Cowboy
Midnight Cowboy

Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 in film Cinema of the United States drama film based on the 1965 in literature Midnight Cowboy by James Leo Herlihy....
 Costa-Gavras – Z
Z (film)

Z is a 1969 French language political Thriller directed by Costa Gavras, with a screenplay by Gavras and Jorge Sempr?n, based on the 1966 in literature novel of the same name by Vassilis Vassilikos....

George Roy Hill
George Roy Hill

George Roy Hill was an Academy Award-winning American film director. He is most noted for directing such films as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting, which both starred the acting duo Paul Newman and Robert Redford....
 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a American Revisionist Western that tells the story of bank robbers Butch Cassidy and his partner Harry Longabaugh , based loosely on historical fact....

Arthur Penn
Arthur Penn

Arthur Hiller Penn is a film director and film producer. Although best known as the director of the iconic Bonnie and Clyde Arthur Penn amassed a critically acclaimed body of work though the 1960s and 1970s, keenly focusing on leftist themes relevant to the times....
 – Alice's Restaurant
Alice's Restaurant (film)

Alice's Restaurant is a 1969 movie adapted from a song by Arlo Guthrie. The song is Arlo Guthrie's most famous work, a talking blues based on a true story that began on Thanksgiving 1965....

Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack

Sydney Irwin Pollack was an United States film director, producer and actor. Born in Lafayette, Indiana to Russian Jewish immigrants, Pollack studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where he later taught acting....
 – They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? is a 1969 in film United States drama film directed by Sydney Pollack. The screenplay by James Poe and Robert E....
1970 Franklin J. Schaffner
 – Patton
Patton (film)

Patton is a Biography film war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II. It stars George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates , and Karl Michael Vogler....
 Robert Altman
Robert Altman

Robert Bernard Altman was an United Statesn film director known for making Cinema of the United States that are highly Naturalism , but with a stylized perspective....
 – MASH
MASH (film)

MASH is a American satire dark comedy film directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner Jr based on the novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by H....

Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini, Italian orders of merit was an Italy film director. Known for a distinct style which meshes fantasy and baroque images, he is considered as one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century....
 – Satyricon
Satyricon (film)

Satyricon is a 1969 Italy film by Federico Fellini. It is loosely based on Petronius's work, Satyricon, a series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imperial Rome....

Arthur Hiller
Arthur Hiller

Arthur Hiller, Order of Canada is a Canadian film director.Hiller was born in Edmonton, Alberta, and graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1947, a Master of Arts degree in psychology in 1950 and received an Honorary degree Doctor of Laws in 1995....
 – Love Story
Love Story (1970 film)

Love Story is a 1970 in film romantic drama film written by Erich Segal based on his 1970 best-seller Love Story . It was directed by Arthur Hiller....

Ken Russell
Ken Russell

Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell, known as Ken Russell , is an England film director. He is known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his controversial style....
 – Women in Love
Women in Love (film)

Women in Love is a 1969 in film Great Britain film directed by Ken Russell which tells the story of the relationships between men and women during the early part of the 20th century....


1970s

YearWinner
film		Nominated
1971 William Friedkin
William Friedkin

William Friedkin is an Academy Award-winning American movie and television film director, film producer and screenwriter best known for directing The Exorcist and The French Connection in the early 1970s....

 – The French Connection
The French Connection (film)

The French Connection is a 1971 in film Hollywood crime film directed by William Friedkin. The film was adapted and fictionalized by Ernest Tidyman from the The French Connection by Robin Moore....
 Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich

Peter Bogdanovich is an American film historian, director, writer, actor, producer, and critic. He was part of the wave of "New Hollywood" directors, which included William Friedkin, Brian DePalma, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Michael Cimino, and Francis Ford Coppola....
 – The Last Picture Show
The Last Picture Show

The Last Picture Show is a 1971 in film film drama directed by Peter Bogdanovich, adapted from a semi-autobiographical 1966 novel of the same name by Larry McMurtry....

Norman Jewison
Norman Jewison

Norman Frederick Jewison, Order of Canada is a Canada film director, Film producer and actor....
 – Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof (film)

Fiddler on the Roof is the 1971 Cinema of the United States film adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof. It was directed by Norman Jewison. The film won three Academy Awards, including one for arranger-conductor John Williams....

Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was an influential American-British filmmaker, screenwriter, Film producer and photographer. He directed a number of highly acclaimed and often controversial films....
 – A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange (film)

A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 satire science fiction film film adaptation of a 1962 A Clockwork Orange, written by Anthony Burgess. The adaptation was produced, co-written, and directed by Stanley Kubrick....

John Schlesinger
John Schlesinger

John Richard Schlesinger, Order of the British Empire was an England film director....
 – Sunday Bloody Sunday
Sunday Bloody Sunday (film)

Sunday Bloody Sunday is a 1971 in film British film directed by John Schlesinger. It tells the story of a young bisexual designer and his simultaneous relationships with a recruitment consultant and a Jewish doctor ....
1972 Bob Fosse
Bob Fosse

Robert Louis ?Bob? Fosse was an American musical theater choreographer and theatre director, and a film director. He won an unprecedented eight Tony Awards for choreography, as well as one for direction....

 – Cabaret
Cabaret (film)

Cabaret is a 1972 in film American musical film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey. The film is set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic in 1931, before the rise of the Nazism under Adolf Hitler....
 John Boorman
John Boorman

John Boorman is an England filmmaker, currently based in Ireland, best known for his feature films such as Point Blank , Deliverance, Excalibur , Hope and Glory , The General and Zardoz....
 – Deliverance
Deliverance

Deliverance is a 1972 in film drama film produced and directed by John Boorman. Principal cast members include Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox, Jon Voight, and Ned Beatty in his film debut....

Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford "Frank" Coppola is a five-time Academy Award-winning United States film director, Film producer and screenwriter. Away from showbusiness, Coppola is also a vintner, publisher and Hotel manager....
 – The Godfather
The Godfather

The Godfather is an Cinema of the United States crime film film based on the The Godfather by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a screenplay by Puzo, Coppola, and Robert Towne, who was not credited....

Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was an United States Academy Award-winning film director, screenwriter, and film producer....
 – Sleuth
Jan Troell
Jan Troell

Jan Troell is an Academy Award-nomiated Sweden film director. Usually, Troell writes his own scripts and serves as his own director of photography....
 – Utvandrarna aka The Emigrants
1973 George Roy Hill
George Roy Hill

George Roy Hill was an Academy Award-winning American film director. He is most noted for directing such films as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting, which both starred the acting duo Paul Newman and Robert Redford....

 – The Sting
The Sting

The Sting is a 1973 caper film set in September 1936 and revolving around a complicated plot by two professional Confidence trick to confidence trick a mob boss ....
 William Friedkin
William Friedkin

William Friedkin is an Academy Award-winning American movie and television film director, film producer and screenwriter best known for directing The Exorcist and The French Connection in the early 1970s....
 – The Exorcist
The Exorcist

The Exorcist is a horror novel written by William Blatty. It is based on a 1949 exorcism Blatty heard about while he was a student in the class of 1950 at Georgetown University, a Jesuit and Catholic school....

Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci is an Academy Award-winning Italy film director and screenwriter....
 – Last Tango in Paris
Last Tango in Paris

Last Tango in Paris is a 1973 film directed by italy Bernardo Bertolucci which tells of an United States widower drawn into a sexual relationship with a young, soon-to-be-married Parisian woman....

Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman

Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Sweden director, writer and Film producer for film, stage and television. He depicted bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his explorations of the human condition....
 – Viskningar och rop aka Cries and Whispers
Cries and Whispers

Cries and Whispers is a 1973 Sweden film about two sisters who watch over their third sister on her deathbed, torn between fearing she might die and hoping that she will....

George Lucas
George Lucas

George Walton Lucas, Jr. is an Academy Award-nominated United States film director, film producer, screenwriter and chairman of Lucasfilm Ltd. He is best known for being the creator of the Epic film Sci-Fi franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones....
 – American Graffiti
American Graffiti

American Graffiti is a 1973 period piece coming of age film directed by George Lucas, and written by Lucas, Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips, Cindy Williams and Wolfman Jack and features Harrison Ford....
1974 Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford "Frank" Coppola is a five-time Academy Award-winning United States film director, Film producer and screenwriter. Away from showbusiness, Coppola is also a vintner, publisher and Hotel manager....

 – The Godfather Part II
The Godfather Part II

The Godfather Part II is an Cinema of the United States 1974 in film crime drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a script co-written with Mario Puzo....
 John Cassavetes
John Cassavetes

John Nicholas Cassavetes was an United Statesn actor, screenwriter and film director. He appeared in many Hollywood films, and is considered a pioneer of independent film....
 – A Woman Under the Influence
A Woman Under the Influence

A Woman Under the Influence is an Academy Award nominated film written and directed by John Cassavetes. It tells the story of a young wife and mother's uninhibited, erratic, psychotic behavior which leads her violent, confused husband to commit her for psychiatric treatment, leaving the family even more dysfunctional than before....

Bob Fosse
Bob Fosse

Robert Louis ?Bob? Fosse was an American musical theater choreographer and theatre director, and a film director. He won an unprecedented eight Tony Awards for choreography, as well as one for direction....
 – Lenny
Lenny (film)

Lenny is a 1974 in film film about the life of the comedian Lenny Bruce, starring Dustin Hoffman. Directed by Bob Fosse. The screenplay by Julian Barry is based on his play Lenny....

Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski

Roman Raymond Polanski is an Academy Award-winning and four-time nominated Poland-France film director, writer, actor and film producer.Polanski began his career in Poland, and later became a celebrated director of both art house and commercial films, making such films as Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown ....
 – Chinatown
Chinatown

A Chinatown is a section of an urban area with a large number of overseas Chinese residents, usually outside of Greater China. Chinatowns are present throughout the world, including those in East Asia, Southeast Asia, North America, South America, Australasia, and Europe....

François Truffaut
François Truffaut

Fran?ois Roland Truffaut was an influential filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave; and remains an icon of the Cinema of France industry....
 – La nuit américaine aka Day for Night
Day for Night (film)

La Nuit am?ricaine is a 1974 French language film directed by Fran?ois Truffaut. It stars Jacqueline Bisset and Jean-Pierre L?aud. In French, day for night is a technical process whereby sequences shot during the daytime are made to appear as if they are taking place at night....
1975 Miloš Forman
Miloš Forman

Jan Tom? Forman , better known as Milo? Forman , is a Czech-American film director, screenwriter, actor and professor. Two of his films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus are among the most celebrated in the History of Motion Picture....

 – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is an Cinema of the United States drama film film director by Milo? Forman. The film is an adaptation of the 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey....
 Robert Altman
Robert Altman

Robert Bernard Altman was an United Statesn film director known for making Cinema of the United States that are highly Naturalism , but with a stylized perspective....
 – Nashville
Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini, Italian orders of merit was an Italy film director. Known for a distinct style which meshes fantasy and baroque images, he is considered as one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century....
 – Amarcord
Amarcord

Amarcord , directed by Federico Fellini, is a semi-autobiographical bildungsroman that combines poignancy with bawdy comedy. It tells the story of a wild cast of characters inhabiting the fictional Borgo based on Fellini?s hometown of Rimini in 1930s Fascist Italy....
 aka I Remember
Amarcord

Amarcord , directed by Federico Fellini, is a semi-autobiographical bildungsroman that combines poignancy with bawdy comedy. It tells the story of a wild cast of characters inhabiting the fictional Borgo based on Fellini?s hometown of Rimini in 1930s Fascist Italy....
Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was an influential American-British filmmaker, screenwriter, Film producer and photographer. He directed a number of highly acclaimed and often controversial films....
 – Barry Lyndon
Barry Lyndon

Barry Lyndon is a period film by Stanley Kubrick loosely based on the novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray. It recounts the exploits of unscrupulous 18th century Ireland adventurer Barry Lyndon, particularly his rise and fall in England society....

Sidney Lumet
Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet is an Academy Award winning United States film director, with over 50 films to his name, including the critically acclaimed 12 Angry Men , Serpico , Dog Day Afternoon , Network and The Verdict , all of which, except for Serpico , earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director....
 – Dog Day Afternoon
Dog Day Afternoon

Dog Day Afternoon is a 1975 in film American crime film drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Frank Pierson. The film stars Al Pacino, John Cazale, Chris Sarandon, James Broderick, and Charles Durning....
1976 John G. Avildsen
John G. Avildsen

John Guilbert Avildsen is an Academy Award-winning United States film director.His movies include Guess What We Learned in School , Cry Uncle! , Joe , Rocky and Rocky V with Sylvester Stallone, and The Karate Kid , with Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita....

 – Rocky
Rocky

Rocky is a 1976 film written by and starring Sylvester Stallone and directed by John G. Avildsen. It tells the rags-to-riches American Dream story of Rocky Balboa , an uneducated but good-hearted debt collector for a loan shark in Philadelphia....
 Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman

Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Sweden director, writer and Film producer for film, stage and television. He depicted bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his explorations of the human condition....
 – Ansikte mot ansikte aka Face to Face
Face to Face (1976 film)

Face to Face is a 1976 in film Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. It tells the story of a psychiatrist who is suffering from a mental illness....

Sidney Lumet
Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet is an Academy Award winning United States film director, with over 50 films to his name, including the critically acclaimed 12 Angry Men , Serpico , Dog Day Afternoon , Network and The Verdict , all of which, except for Serpico , earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director....
 – Network
Network (film)

Network is a satire about a fictional television network, Union Broadcasting System , and its struggle with poor Nielsen Ratings. It was written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, and stars Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch and Robert Duvall and features Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty and Beatrice Straight....

Alan J. Pakula
Alan J. Pakula

Alan Jay Pakula was an United Statesn film director, writer and producer noted for his contributions to the conspiracy thriller genre....
 – All the President's Men
All the President's Men (film)

All the President's Men is a 1976 film based on the All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two journalists investigating the Watergate scandal for the Washington Post....

Lina Wertmüller
Lina Wertmüller

Lina Wertm?ller is an Italy film director of aristocratic Switzerland descent. In 1976, she became the first woman ever to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing with Seven Beauties....
 – Pasqualino Settebellezze aka Seven Beauties
Seven Beauties

Pasqualino Settebellezze is a 1975 Italian language film written and directed by Lina Wertm?ller starring Giancarlo Giannini in the main role....
1977 Woody Allen
Woody Allen

Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....

 – Annie Hall
Annie Hall

Annie Hall is an Cinema of the United States romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen from a script co-written with Marshall Brickman. One of Allen's most popular films, it won numerous awards at the time of its release, including four Academy Awards, and in 2002 Roger Ebert referred to it as "just about everyone's favorite Woody All...
 George Lucas
George Lucas

George Walton Lucas, Jr. is an Academy Award-nominated United States film director, film producer, screenwriter and chairman of Lucasfilm Ltd. He is best known for being the creator of the Epic film Sci-Fi franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones....
 – Star Wars
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is an Cinema of the United States 1977 in film space opera film, written and directed by George Lucas. It was the first of six films released in the Star Wars saga: Star Wars#Original trilogy continue the story, while a Star Wars#Prequel trilogy contributes backstory, primarily for the troubled charac...

Herbert Ross
Herbert Ross

Herbert Ross was an two-time Academy Award nominated United States film director, film producer, choreographer and actor.Born Herbert David Ross in Brooklyn, New York, he made his stage debut as Third Witch with a touring company of Macbeth in 1942....
 – The Turning Point
The Turning Point (1977 film)

The Turning Point was written by Arthur Laurents and directed by Herbert Ross. In starring roles were Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Leslie Browne, Tom Skerritt, Martha Scott, Anthony Zerbe, Marshall Thompson and James Mitchell ....

Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. Forbes magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3.1 billion....
 – Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 science fiction film written and directed by Steven Spielberg. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss, Fran?ois Truffaut, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban and Cary Guffey....

Fred Zinnemann
Fred Zinnemann

Fred Zinnemann was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States film director. He won four Academy Awards and directed classic movies like From Here to Eternity, High Noon and A Man for All Seasons ....
 – Julia
Julia (film)

Julia is a 1977 in film film drama made by 20th Century Fox. It is based on Lillian Hellman's book Pentimento , a portion of which purports to tell the story of her relationship with her lifelong friend, "Julia," who worked as an anti-nazism in the years prior to World War II....
1978 Michael Cimino
Michael Cimino

Michael Cimino is an United States, Academy Award-winning film director. He is often cited as an example of meteoric rises and falls that were seen in Hollywood in the 1970s....

 – The Deer Hunter
The Deer Hunter

The Deer Hunter is a War film drama film about a trio of Russian American steel worker friends and their infantry service in the Vietnam War....
 Woody Allen
Woody Allen

Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
 – Interiors
Interiors

Interiors is a 1978 drama film written and directed by Woody Allen. Featured performers are Kristin Griffith, Mary Beth Hurt, Richard Jordan, Diane Keaton, E.G....

Hal Ashby
Hal Ashby

Hal Ashby was an United States film director and Academy Awards-winning film editor....
 – Coming Home
Coming Home

Coming Home is a 1978 in film drama film which tells the story of an injured Vietnam War veteran's difficulty in re-entering civilian life after his return from the war....

Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty

Warren Beatty is an United States Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning actor, film producer, screenwriter and film director....
 and Buck Henry
Buck Henry

Henry Zuckerman, better known as Buck Henry , is an United States actor, writer, film director, and television director....
 – Heaven Can Wait
Heaven Can Wait (1978 film)

Heaven Can Wait is a 1978 in film comedy film directed by Warren Beatty and Buck Henry. The screenplay by Beatty, Elaine May and an uncredited Robert Towne is adapted from the original stage play Heaven Can Wait by Harry Segall....

Alan Parker
Alan Parker

Sir Alan William Parker, Order of the British Empire is an England film director, Film producer, writer and actor. He has been active in both the British film industry as well as in Hollywood....
 – Midnight Express
Midnight Express (film)

Midnight Express is a film, based on Billy Hayes ' Midnight Express adapted into screenplay by Oliver Stone. Hayes was a young United States student sent to a Turkish prison for trying to smuggle hashish out of Turkey....
1979 Robert Benton
Robert Benton

Robert Benton is an United States, Academy Award winning screenwriter and film director.He has enjoyed a highly successful career in film, winning numerous prestigious awards for both writing and directing....

 – Kramer vs. Kramer
Kramer vs. Kramer

Kramer vs. Kramer is a 1979 in film trial movies film adapted by Robert Benton from the novel by Avery Corman, and directed by Benton. The film tells the story of a married couple's divorce and its impact on everyone involved, including the couple's young son....
 Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford "Frank" Coppola is a five-time Academy Award-winning United States film director, Film producer and screenwriter. Away from showbusiness, Coppola is also a vintner, publisher and Hotel manager....
 – Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse Now is an Cinema of the United States 1979 in film epic film war film set during the Vietnam War. It tells the tale of United States Armed Forces Captain Benjamin L....

Bob Fosse
Bob Fosse

Robert Louis ?Bob? Fosse was an American musical theater choreographer and theatre director, and a film director. He won an unprecedented eight Tony Awards for choreography, as well as one for direction....
 – All That Jazz
All That Jazz

All That Jazz is a 1979 in film United States musical film directed by Bob Fosse. The screenplay by Robert Alan Aurthur and Fosse is a autobiographical novel fantasy based on aspects of the dancer, choreographer, and director's life and career....

Edouard Molinaro
Édouard Molinaro

?douard Molinaro is an Academy Award-nominated France film director, actor, and screenwriter. He was born in Gironde, Bordeaux.He is best known for his comedies with Louis de Fun?s , My Uncle Benjamin , Dracula and Son , and the Academy Award-nominated La Cage aux Folles ....
 – La Cage aux Folles
La Cage aux Folles (film)

La Cage aux Folles is a 1978 film adaptation of the 1973 play by Jean Poiret. It was directed by ?douard Molinaro. Like the play, the film tells the story of a gay couple - Renato, the manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and Albin, his star attraction - and the adventures that ensue when Renato's son brings h...
 aka The Birdcage
La Cage aux Folles (film)

La Cage aux Folles is a 1978 film adaptation of the 1973 play by Jean Poiret. It was directed by ?douard Molinaro. Like the play, the film tells the story of a gay couple - Renato, the manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and Albin, his star attraction - and the adventures that ensue when Renato's son brings h...

Peter Yates
Peter Yates

Peter Yates is an England film director and producer.He went to Charterhouse School as a boy, graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked for some years as an actor, director and stage manager....
 – Breaking Away
Breaking Away

Breaking Away is a 1979 in film coming of age film that tells the story of four teenagers in Bloomington, Indiana who have graduated from high school and are not sure what they want to do with their lives, other than hang out and go swimming in an abandoned Indiana Limestone quarry....
1980 Robert Redford
Robert Redford

Charles Robert Redford Jr. , better known as Robert Redford, is an Academy Award-winning United States film director, actor, film producer, businessman, model , environmentalism, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival....

 – Ordinary People
Ordinary People

Ordinary People is a 1980 in film United States motion picture drama that marked the directorial debut of Robert Redford. The story concerns the disintegration of an upper middle class family in Lake Forest, Illinois, following the death of the oldest son....
 David Lynch
David Lynch

David Keith Lynch is an United States film director, screenwriter, Film producer, Painting, cartoonist, composer, video artist and performance artist....
 – The Elephant Man
The Elephant Man (film)

The Elephant Man is a American film loosely based on the story of Joseph Merrick , a severely deformity man in 19th century London. The film was directed by David Lynch and stars John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Michael Elphick, Hannah Gordon and Freddie Jones....

Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski

Roman Raymond Polanski is an Academy Award-winning and four-time nominated Poland-France film director, writer, actor and film producer.Polanski began his career in Poland, and later became a celebrated director of both art house and commercial films, making such films as Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown ....
 – Tess
Tess

For other uses, see Tess Tess is a 1979 in film English language romance film directed by Roman Polanski, an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles....
Richard Rush
Richard Rush (director)

Richard Rush is an United States movie director, scriptwriter, and producer. He is best known for the Oscar-nominated The Stunt Man. His other works, however, have been less celebrated....
 – The Stunt Man
The Stunt Man

The Stunt Man is a critically acclaimed 1980 United States film directed by Richard Rush , starring Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback and Barbara Hershey....

Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese

Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, and film historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Gol...
 – Raging Bull


1980s

YearWinner
film		Nominated
1981 Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty

Warren Beatty is an United States Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning actor, film producer, screenwriter and film director....

 – Reds		 Hugh Hudson
Hugh Hudson

Hugh Hudson is an Academy Awards nominated film director....
 – Chariots of Fire
Chariots of Fire

Chariots of Fire is a United Kingdom film released in 1981 in film. Written by Colin Welland and directed by Hugh Hudson, it is based on the true story of British athletes preparing for and competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics....

Louis Malle
Louis Malle

Louis Malle was a French film director, working in both French and English....
 – Atlantic City
Atlantic City (film)

Atlantic City is a film directed by Louis Malle. Filmed in late 1979, it was released in France and Germany in 1980 and in the United States in 1981....

Mark Rydell
Mark Rydell

Mark Rydell is an United States actor, film director and Film producer.Rydell began his career as an actor and first became known for his role as Walt Johnson on The Edge of Night and as Jeff Baker on As the World Turns, which he played from 1956 to 1962....
 – On Golden Pond
On Golden Pond (1981 film)

On Golden Pond is a 1981 in film cinema of the United States drama film directed by Mark Rydell. The screenplay by Ernest Thompson was adapted from his On Golden Pond ....

Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. Forbes magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3.1 billion....
 – Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raiders of the Lost Ark

Raiders of the Lost Ark is a action film-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas and starring Harrison Ford....
1982 Richard Attenborough
Richard Attenborough

Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, Order of the British Empire, is an English people actor, film director, film producer, and entrepreneur....

 – Gandhi
Gandhi (film)

Gandhi is a film about Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who was a leader of the nonviolent resistance movement against British Raj in India during the first half of the 20th century....
 Sidney Lumet
Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet is an Academy Award winning United States film director, with over 50 films to his name, including the critically acclaimed 12 Angry Men , Serpico , Dog Day Afternoon , Network and The Verdict , all of which, except for Serpico , earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director....
 – The Verdict
The Verdict

The Verdict is a 1982 in film feature film which tells the story of a down-on-his-luck alcoholism lawyer who pushes a medical malpractice case in order to improve his own situation, but discovers along the way that he is doing the "right" thing....

Wolfgang Petersen
Wolfgang Petersen

Wolfgang Petersen is a Germany film director. Petersen is known for his body of film work, which includes Outbreak , In the Line of Fire, Air Force One , The Perfect Storm , Troy and the 2006 film, Poseidon ....
 – Das Boot
Das Boot

Das Boot is a 1981 feature film directed by Wolfgang Petersen, adapted from a novel of the same name by Lothar-G?nther Buchheim. Hans-Joachim Krug, former first officer on Unterseeboot 219, served as a consultant, as did Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, the captain of the real Unterseeboot 96 ....
 aka The Boat
Das Boot

Das Boot is a 1981 feature film directed by Wolfgang Petersen, adapted from a novel of the same name by Lothar-G?nther Buchheim. Hans-Joachim Krug, former first officer on Unterseeboot 219, served as a consultant, as did Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, the captain of the real Unterseeboot 96 ....

Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack

Sydney Irwin Pollack was an United States film director, producer and actor. Born in Lafayette, Indiana to Russian Jewish immigrants, Pollack studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where he later taught acting....
 – Tootsie
Tootsie

Tootsie is a 1982 in film comedy film that tells the story of a talented but volatile actor whose reputation for being difficult forces him to go to extreme lengths to land a job....

Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. Forbes magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3.1 billion....
 – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 in film American science fiction film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison and starring Henry Thomas, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace-Stone and Peter Coyote....
1983 James L. Brooks
James L. Brooks

James L. Brooks is an United States Film producer, screenwriter and film director. He is known for producing television programs such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Simpsons , Rhoda and Taxi ....

 – Terms of Endearment		 Bruce Beresford
Bruce Beresford

Bruce Beresford is an Academy Award-nominated Australian film director, writer, and producer of such films as Breaker Morant, Tender Mercies and Driving Miss Daisy....
 – Tender Mercies
Tender Mercies

Tender Mercies is a 1983 United States drama film starring Robert Duvall as Mac Sledge, a recovering alcoholic country music singer who seeks to turn his life around through his relationship with a young widow and her son in rural Texas....

Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman

Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Sweden director, writer and Film producer for film, stage and television. He depicted bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his explorations of the human condition....
 – Fanny och Alexander
Fanny and Alexander

Fanny and Alexander is a 1982 in film Sweden film written and film director by Ingmar Bergman. It was originally conceived as a four part TV movie which spanned 312 minutes....
 aka Fanny and Alexander
Fanny and Alexander

Fanny and Alexander is a 1982 in film Sweden film written and film director by Ingmar Bergman. It was originally conceived as a four part TV movie which spanned 312 minutes....

Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols

Mike Nichols is an United States television, stage and film director, writer, and producer. Nichols is one of the few people to have won List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards: an Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and Tony Award....
 – Silkwood
Silkwood

Silkwood is a 1983, Academy Award-nominated film which dramatizes the story of Karen Silkwood, who died in a car accident under suspicious circumstances while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she worked....

Peter Yates
Peter Yates

Peter Yates is an England film director and producer.He went to Charterhouse School as a boy, graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked for some years as an actor, director and stage manager....
 – The Dresser
The Dresser

The Dresser is a 1983 in film film which tells the story of an aging actor's personal assistant, who struggles to keep his charge's life together....
1984 Miloš Forman
Miloš Forman

Jan Tom? Forman , better known as Milo? Forman , is a Czech-American film director, screenwriter, actor and professor. Two of his films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus are among the most celebrated in the History of Motion Picture....

 – Amadeus
Amadeus (film)

Amadeus is a 1984 in film drama film directed by Milo? Forman and written by Peter Shaffer. Based on Shaffer's stage play Amadeus, the film is based loosely on the lives of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, two composers who lived in Vienna, Austria, during the later half of the 18th century....
 Woody Allen
Woody Allen

Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
 – Broadway Danny Rose
Broadway Danny Rose

Broadway Danny Rose is a black and white 1984 in film Academy Award-nominated film written, directed by and starring Woody Allen....

Robert Benton
Robert Benton

Robert Benton is an United States, Academy Award winning screenwriter and film director.He has enjoyed a highly successful career in film, winning numerous prestigious awards for both writing and directing....
 – Places in the Heart
Places in the Heart

Places in the Heart is a 1984 in film drama film that tells the story of a Southern widow who tries to keep her farm together with the help of a blind man and an African-American man....

Roland Joffé
Roland Joffé

Roland Joff? is a film director who began his career in television. His early television credits included episodes of Coronation Street and an The Stars Look Down of The Stars Look Down for Granada Television....
 – The Killing Fields
The Killing Fields (film)

The Killing Fields is a 1984 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom feature film about the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.It is based on the experiences of three journalists: Dith Pran, a Cambodian, Sydney Schanberg, an American, and Jon Swain, a journalist from the UK....

David Lean
David Lean

Sir David Lean, CBE, was an England filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter and Film editing, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia , The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago , Ryan's Daughter, and A Passage to India ....
 – A Passage to India
A Passage to India (film)

A Passage to India is a 1984 in film adventure film-drama film directed by David Lean, based on the A Passage to India by E. M. Forster....
1985 Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack

Sydney Irwin Pollack was an United States film director, producer and actor. Born in Lafayette, Indiana to Russian Jewish immigrants, Pollack studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where he later taught acting....

 – Out of Africa		 Hector Babenco
Hector Babenco

H?ctor Eduardo Babenco is an Academy Award-nominated Argentina-born Brazilian film director, screenwriter, film producer and actor.He has worked in several countries including Argentina, Brazil and the United States....
 – Kiss of the Spider Woman
John Huston
John Huston

John Marcellus Huston was an United States film director and actor. He was known for directing the films, The Maltese Falcon , The Asphalt Jungle , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The African Queen , The Misfits , and The Man Who Would Be King ....
 – Prizzi's Honor
Prizzi's Honor

Prizzi's Honor is a 1985 in film black comedy film that tells the story of a Mafia hit man and hit woman who fall in love with each other, even though they have been hired to kill each other....

Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa

was a prominent Japanese people filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter and film editing. His first credited film as director, , was released in 1943, his last as director, , in 1993....
 – Ran
Peter Weir
Peter Weir

Peter Lindsay Weir Order of Australia is an Australian film director. After exerting a strong influence on the Australian New Wave with his films Picnic at Hanging Rock , The Last Wave and Gallipoli , Weir directed a diverse group of U.S....
 – Witness
Witness (1985 film)

Witness is a 1985 in film Cinema of the United States thriller film released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis and Lukas Haas....
1986 Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone

William Oliver Stone is an United Statesn film director and screenwriter. Stone came to prominence as a director with a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he had participated as an American infantry soldier, and his work continues to focus frequently on contemporary political and cultural issues, often controversially....

 – Platoon
Platoon (film)

Platoon is a 1986 in film war film written and directed by Oliver Stone and starring Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker, Kevin Dillon, Keith David, John C....
 Woody Allen
Woody Allen

Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
 – Hannah and Her Sisters
Hannah and Her Sisters

Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 in film comedy film drama film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family, told mostly during a year that begins and ends with a family Thanksgiving#Thanksgiving dinner....

James Ivory
James Ivory (director)

James Francis Ivory is an award-winning United States film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both India Film producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala....
 – A Room with a View
A Room with a View (film)

A Room with a View is a 1986 Merchant Ivory Productions' feature film, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. The film was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant....

Roland Joffé
Roland Joffé

Roland Joff? is a film director who began his career in television. His early television credits included episodes of Coronation Street and an The Stars Look Down of The Stars Look Down for Granada Television....
 – The Mission
The Mission (film)

The Mission is a 1986 in film British film about the experiences of a Jesuit missionary in eighteenth century South America. The film was written by Robert Bolt and directed by Roland Joff?....

David Lynch
David Lynch

David Keith Lynch is an United States film director, screenwriter, Film producer, Painting, cartoonist, composer, video artist and performance artist....
 – Blue Velvet
Blue Velvet

Blue Velvet is a mystery film, written and directed by David Lynch, that exhibits elements of both film noir and surrealism. The film features Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper and Laura Dern....
1987 Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci is an Academy Award-winning Italy film director and screenwriter....

 – The Last Emperor
The Last Emperor

The Last Emperor is a biopic about the life of Puyi, the last Emperor of China, whose autobiography was the basis for the screenplay written by Mark Peploe and Bernardo Bertolucci....
 John Boorman
John Boorman

John Boorman is an England filmmaker, currently based in Ireland, best known for his feature films such as Point Blank , Deliverance, Excalibur , Hope and Glory , The General and Zardoz....
 – Hope and Glory
Lasse Hallström
Lasse Hallström

Lars Sven "Lasse" Hallstr?m is a Sweden film director.Hallstrom's mother was the Swedish writer Karin Lyberg . His maternal grandfather, Ernst Lyberg, was the Swedish Minister of Finance in the first cabinet of Carl Gustaf Ekman and leader of the Liberal Party of Sweden ....
 – Mitt liv som Hund
My Life as a Dog

My Life as a Dog is a 1985 in film cinema of Sweden based on a novel by Reidar J?nsson. It tells the story of Ingemar, a young boy sent to live with relatives....
 aka My Life as a Dog
My Life as a Dog

My Life as a Dog is a 1985 in film cinema of Sweden based on a novel by Reidar J?nsson. It tells the story of Ingemar, a young boy sent to live with relatives....

Norman Jewison
Norman Jewison

Norman Frederick Jewison, Order of Canada is a Canada film director, Film producer and actor....
 – Moonstruck
Moonstruck

Moonstruck is a 1987 in film romantic comedy film directed by Norman Jewison. The movie was released on December 18, 1987, and earned largely positive reviews from critics....

Adrian Lyne
Adrian Lyne

Adrian Lyne is an English filmmaker and film producer. He is best known for his films focusing on sexually charged characters, and sultry, eroticized atmospheres which he visually creates in his films by use of filming techniques such as making use of natural light and using a fog machine to create a soft focus....
 – Fatal Attraction
Fatal Attraction

Fatal Attraction is a 1987 Thriller film about a married man who has a weekend affair with a woman who refuses to allow it to end and who becomes Obsession with him....
1988 Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson

Barry Levinson is an Academy Award-winning United States screenwriter, film director, actor, and Film producer of film and television....

 – Rain Man
Rain Man

Rain Man is a 1988 in film drama film written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass and directed by Barry Levinson. It tells the story of an abrasive, selfish yuppie, Charlie Babbitt, who discovers that his father has left all of his millionaire estate to his brother, Raymond, an Autism Savant syndrome, of whose existence he was unaware....
 Charles Crichton
Charles Crichton

Charles Crichton was an England film director who became best known for his comedies produced at Ealing Studios. Crichton enjoyed an extremely long career, directing many films and television programmes over a period exceeding 40 years....
 – A Fish Called Wanda
A Fish Called Wanda

A Fish Called Wanda is a comedy film written by John Cleese and Charles Crichton and directed by Charles Crichton, and starring Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and Michael Palin....
Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols

Mike Nichols is an United States television, stage and film director, writer, and producer. Nichols is one of the few people to have won List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards: an Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and Tony Award....
 – Working Girl
Working Girl

Working Girl is a 1988 film written by Kevin Wade and directed by Mike Nichols. It tells the story of a Staten Island-raised secretary, Tess McGill , working in the mergers and acquisitions department of a Wall Street investment bank....

Alan Parker
Alan Parker

Sir Alan William Parker, Order of the British Empire is an England film director, Film producer, writer and actor. He has been active in both the British film industry as well as in Hollywood....
 – Mississippi Burning
Mississippi Burning

Mississippi Burning is a 1988 crime drama film based on the FBI investigation into the real-life Mississippi civil rights workers murders in the U.S....

Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese

Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, and film historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Gol...
 – The Last Temptation of Christ
The Last Temptation of Christ

The Last Temptation of Christ is a novel written by Nikos Kazantzakis, first published in 1951. It follows the life of Jesus Christ from his perspective....
1989 Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone

William Oliver Stone is an United Statesn film director and screenwriter. Stone came to prominence as a director with a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he had participated as an American infantry soldier, and his work continues to focus frequently on contemporary political and cultural issues, often controversially....

 – Born on the Fourth of July		 Woody Allen
Woody Allen

Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
 – Crimes and Misdemeanors
Crimes and Misdemeanors

Crimes and Misdemeanors is a black comedy/thriller film written and directed by Woody Allen. It stars Allen, Martin Landau, Mia Farrow, Anjelica Huston, Jerry Orbach, Alan Alda, Sam Waterston and Joanna Gleason....

Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Charles Branagh is an Emmy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated actor and film director from Northern Ireland....
 – Henry V
Henry V (1989 film)

Henry V is a 1989 in film film directed by Kenneth Branagh, and based upon the William Shakespeare Henry V about the Henry V of England. Branagh stars in the title role with Derek Jacobi as the Chorus ....

Jim Sheridan
Jim Sheridan

Jim Sheridan is an Republic of Ireland film director. A six-time Academy Award nominee, Sheridan is perhaps best known for My Left Foot , In the Name of the Father , and In America....
 – My Left Foot
My Left Foot (film)

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown is a 1989 in film drama film directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Daniel Day-Lewis. It tells the story of Christy Brown, an Ireland born with cerebral palsy, who could only control his left foot....

Peter Weir
Peter Weir

Peter Lindsay Weir Order of Australia is an Australian film director. After exerting a strong influence on the Australian New Wave with his films Picnic at Hanging Rock , The Last Wave and Gallipoli , Weir directed a diverse group of U.S....
 – Dead Poets Society
Dead Poets Society

Dead Poets Society is a 1989 in film film directed by Peter Weir. Set in 1959 at a conservative and aristocratic boys prep school, it tells the story of an English teacher who inspires his students to change their lives of conformity through his teaching of poetry and literature....
1990 Kevin Costner
Kevin Costner

Kevin Michael Costner is an United States actor, film producer, and Academy Award-winning film director. He has been nominated for three BAFTA Awards, won two Oscars and a Golden Globe Award....

 – Dances with Wolves
Dances with Wolves

Dances with Wolves is a 1990 in film epic film which tells the story of a Civil War-era United States Army lieutenant who travels to the American Frontier to find a military post....
 Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford "Frank" Coppola is a five-time Academy Award-winning United States film director, Film producer and screenwriter. Away from showbusiness, Coppola is also a vintner, publisher and Hotel manager....
 – The Godfather: Part III
Stephen Frears
Stephen Frears

Stephen Arthur Frears is a two-time Academy Award-nominated England film director....
 – The Grifters
Barbet Schroeder
Barbet Schroeder

Barbet Schroeder is a French movie Film director and producer who started his career in France cinema in the 1960s, working together with directors such as Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Rivette....
 – Reversal of Fortune
Reversal of Fortune

Reversal of Fortune is the cinematic adaptation of the 1985 book, Reversal of Fortune , written by law professor Alan Dershowitz. It recounts the true story of the unexplained coma of socialite Sunny von B?low, the subsequent attempted murder trial, and the eventual acquittal of her husband, Claus von B?low....

Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese

Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, and film historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Gol...
 – Goodfellas
Goodfellas

Goodfellas is a crime film drama film film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is based on the non-fiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, who also co-wrote the screenplay for the film with Scorsese....


1990s

YearWinner
film		Nominated
1991 Jonathan Demme
Jonathan Demme

Robert Jonathan Demme is an Academy Award for Directing-winning United States film director, film producer and writer....

 – The Silence of the Lambs		 Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson

Barry Levinson is an Academy Award-winning United States screenwriter, film director, actor, and Film producer of film and television....
 – Bugsy
Bugsy

Bugsy is a 1991 in film film which tells the story of mobster Bugsy Siegel. It stars Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Elliott Gould, Joe Mantegna, Bebe Neuwirth and Bill Graham ....

Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott

Sir Ridley Scott is a United Kingdom Academy Award nominated and Golden Globe Award, Emmy Award and British Academy of Film and Television Arts winning film director and film producer known for his stylish visuals and an obsession for detail....
 – Thelma and Louise
Thelma and Louise

Thelma & Louise is a 1991 in film Cinema of the United States road movie which breaks with tradition by featuring two female leads. Directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri, the film's plot revolves around Thelma and Louise's escape from their troubled caged lives....

John Singleton
John Singleton

John Daniel Singleton is an United States Academy Award-nominated film director, screenwriter, and Film producer. A native of South Los Angeles, many of his films consider the implications of inner-city violence like the critically acclaimed and popular Boyz N the Hood, Poetic Justice, Higher Learning and Baby Boy , and even...
 – Boyz N the Hood
Boyz N the Hood

Boyz N the Hood is an Academy Award-nominated 1991 in film hood film written and directed by John Singleton. Starring Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Morris Chestnut, Nia Long, Angela Bassett, Regina King, and Larry Fishburne, the film depicts life in poor South Central Los Angeles, California, and was filmed and released in the summer of 1...

Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone

William Oliver Stone is an United Statesn film director and screenwriter. Stone came to prominence as a director with a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he had participated as an American infantry soldier, and his work continues to focus frequently on contemporary political and cultural issues, often controversially....
 – JFK
JFK (film)

JFK is an Cinema of the United States directed by Oliver Stone and released on December 20, 1991 in film. It examines the events leading to the John F....
1992 Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood

Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American actor, film director, film producer and composer. He is known for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles in Action films and western films, particularly in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s....

 – Unforgiven
Unforgiven

Unforgiven is a 1992 Western film which was produced and directed by Clint Eastwood with the screenplay written by David Peoples. The film tells the story of William Munny, an aging and retired gunslinger who takes on one more job years after he had hung up his guns and turned to farming....
 Robert Altman
Robert Altman

Robert Bernard Altman was an United Statesn film director known for making Cinema of the United States that are highly Naturalism , but with a stylized perspective....
 – The Player
The Player

The Player is a satire film directed by Robert Altman from a screenplay by Michael Tolkin based on his own novel of the same name. It is the story of Griffin Mill , a Hollywood Movie studio executive who gets away with murdering a wannabe screenwriter who Mill believes is sending him death threats....

Martin Brest
Martin Brest

Martin Brest is an United States filmmaker, Film producer, screenwriter, film editor, and actor....
 – Scent of a Woman
Scent of a Woman

Scent of a Woman is a 1992 film which tells the story of a University-preparatory school student who takes a job as an assistant to an irascible, blind, medically retired Army officer....

James Ivory
James Ivory (director)

James Francis Ivory is an award-winning United States film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both India Film producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala....
 – Howards End
Howards End (film)

Howards End is a 1992 in film film adaptation of E.M. Forster's 1910 in literature novel Howards End, a story of class relations in turn-of-the-20th-century England....

Neil Jordan
Neil Jordan

Neil Jordan is an Academy Award-winning Ireland filmmaker and novelist. He received the Academy Award for The Crying Game....
 – The Crying Game
The Crying Game

The Crying Game is a 1992 in film Cinema of Ireland/Cinema of the United Kingdom drama film written and film director by Neil Jordan. The film explores themes of race, gender, nationality, and sexuality against the backdrop of the Irish The Troubles....
1993 Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. Forbes magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3.1 billion....

 – Schindler's List
Schindler's List

Schindler's List is an Cinema of the United States biographical film about Oskar Schindler, a Germany businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand Poland Jews during the The Holocaust by employing them in his factories....
 Robert Altman
Robert Altman

Robert Bernard Altman was an United Statesn film director known for making Cinema of the United States that are highly Naturalism , but with a stylized perspective....
 – Short Cuts
Short Cuts

Short Cuts is a 1993 in film drama film directed by Robert Altman. Filmed from a screenplay by Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt, it is inspired by nine short stories and a poem by Raymond Carver....

Jane Campion
Jane Campion

Jane Campion is an Academy Awards-winning film maker and screenplay writer. She is one of the most internationally successful New Zealand directors, although most of her work has been made in or financed by other countries, principally Australia ? where she now lives ? and the U.S....
 – The Piano
The Piano

The Piano is a 1993 film about a mute female pianist and her daughter, set during the mid-19th century in a rainy, muddy frontier New Zealand backwater....

James Ivory
James Ivory (director)

James Francis Ivory is an award-winning United States film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both India Film producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala....
 – The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day (film)

The Remains of the Day is a Merchant Ivory Productions adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. It was directed by James Ivory , produced by Ismail Merchant, and starred Anthony Hopkins as Stevens and Emma Thompson as Miss Kenton, with James Fox, Christopher Reeve, Hugh Grant, and Ben Chaplin....
Jim Sheridan
Jim Sheridan

Jim Sheridan is an Republic of Ireland film director. A six-time Academy Award nominee, Sheridan is perhaps best known for My Left Foot , In the Name of the Father , and In America....
 – In the Name of the Father
1994 Robert Zemeckis
Robert Zemeckis

Robert Lee "Bob" Zemeckis is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning American film director, Film producer and screenwriter. Zemeckis first came to public attention in the 1980s as the director of the comedic time-travel Back to the Future trilogy films as well as the live-action/animated film Who Framed Roger Rabbit , though in t...

 – Forrest Gump		 Woody Allen
Woody Allen

Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
 – Bullets Over Broadway
Bullets Over Broadway

Bullets Over Broadway is a Cinema of the United States crime film-comedy film screenwriter by Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath and film director by Woody Allen....

Krzysztof Kieslowski
Krzysztof Kieslowski

Krzysztof Kieslowski , was an influential Academy Awards-nominated Poland film film director and screenwriter, known internationally for his film cycles The Decalogue and Three Colors....
 – Trois Couleurs Rouge aka Three Colors: Red
Robert Redford
Robert Redford

Charles Robert Redford Jr. , better known as Robert Redford, is an Academy Award-winning United States film director, actor, film producer, businessman, model , environmentalism, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival....
 – Quiz Show
Quiz Show

Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical drama film which tells the true story of the Twenty One quiz show scandal of the 1950s. It stars John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Ralph Fiennes, Paul Scofield, David Paymer, Hank Azaria, and Christopher McDonald....

Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, Film producer, cinematographer and actor. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an independent film filmmaker whose films used nonlinear and aestheticization of violence....
 – Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction (film)

Pulp Fiction is a 1994 in film United States crime film by director Quentin Tarantino, who cowrote its screenplay with Roger Avary. The film is known for its rich, eclecticism dialogue, irony Black comedy, nonlinear storyline, and host of cinematic and popular culture references....
1995 Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson

Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson, Officer of the Order of Australia is an Australian-American actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter....

 – Braveheart
Braveheart

Braveheart is an Academy Award-Winning, 1995 historical action-drama movie film producer and Film director by Mel Gibson, who also starred in the title role....
 Mike Figgis
Mike Figgis

Michael "Mike" Figgis is an List of English people film director, writer, and composer....
 – Leaving Las Vegas
Leaving Las Vegas

Leaving Las Vegas is a 1995 in film romantic drama film about a relationship between a suicidal alcoholism and a prostitute from Las Vegas, Nevada, starring Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue....

Chris Noonan
Chris Noonan

Chris Noonan is a Sydney-based Australian Film director best known for the pioneering live-action / CG film Babe , for which he received Academy Award nominations as both director and writer....
 – Babe
Babe (film)

Babe is a 1995 in film Academy Award winning Australian film that tells the story of a pig who wants to be a sheep dog. The main animal characters are played by a combination of real and Audio-Animatronics pigs and Border Collies....

Michael Radford
Michael Radford

Michael Radford is an England film director and screenwriter.Radford was educated at Bedford School before attending Worcester College, Oxford....
 – Il Postino
Il Postino

Il Postino is a 1994 Italian language film directed by Michael Radford.The film was originally released in the United States as The Postman, a straight translation of the Italian title....
 aka The Postman
Il Postino

Il Postino is a 1994 Italian language film directed by Michael Radford.The film was originally released in the United States as The Postman, a straight translation of the Italian title....

Tim Robbins
Tim Robbins

Timothy Francis Robbins is an Academy Award winning United States actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer, Activism and musician. He is the longtime domestic partner of actress Susan Sarandon....
 – Dead Man Walking
Dead Man Walking

Dead Man Walking is a work of non-fiction by Sister Helen Prejean, a Roman Catholic nun and one of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Medaille....
1996 Anthony Minghella
Anthony Minghella

Anthony Minghella Order of the British Empire was an Academy Awards-winning England film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was Chairman of the Board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007....

 – The English Patient
The English Patient (film)

The English Patient is a 1996 in film film adaptation of the The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje. The film, directed by Anthony Minghella, won nine Academy Awards, including Academy Award for Best Picture....
 Joel Coen – Fargo
Fargo (film)

Fargo is a Cinema of the United States film produced, directed and written by brothers Coen brothers. Set in Minnesota, it is the story of a car salesman who hires two men to kidnap his wife for an $80,000 ransom....

Miloš Forman
Miloš Forman

Jan Tom? Forman , better known as Milo? Forman , is a Czech-American film director, screenwriter, actor and professor. Two of his films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus are among the most celebrated in the History of Motion Picture....
 – The People vs. Larry Flynt
The People vs. Larry Flynt

The People vs. Larry Flynt is a 1996 film directed by Milo? Forman about the rise of pornographic magazine publisher and editor Larry Flynt, and his subsequent clash with the law....

Scott Hicks
Scott Hicks

Robert Scott Hicks is an Academy Awards nominated film director from South Australia.Hicks graduated from Flinders University of South Australia in 1975 and was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1997....
 – Shine
Shine (film)

Shine is a 1996 Australian film based on the life of piano David Helfgott, who suffered a mental breakdown and spent years in institutions. It stars Geoffrey Rush, Lynn Redgrave, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Noah Taylor, John Gielgud, Googie Withers, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd, Chris Haywood, and Alex Rafalowicz....

Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh

Mike Leigh, Order of the British Empire is an England writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and did his early acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company ....
 – Secrets & Lies
Secrets & Lies

Secrets & Lies is a 1996 in film British film directed by Mike Leigh and starring Brenda Blethyn and Marianne Jean-Baptiste.Storyline...
1997 James Cameron
James Cameron

James Francis Cameron is an Academy Award-winning Canada-United States film director, Film producer and screenwriter. He has written and directed films as disparate as Aliens_ and Titanic ....

 – Titanic
Titanic (1997 film)

Titanic is a 1997 United States romantic film directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron about the sinking of the RMS Titanic....
 Peter Cattaneo
Peter Cattaneo

Peter Cattaneo was born in 1964 in Twickenham, London. He is a two-time Academy Award-nominated England filmmaker most famous for directing the hit British film The Full Monty....
 – The Full Monty
The Full Monty

The Full Monty is a 1997 in film United Kingdom comedy film. It tells the story of six unemployed men, four of them steel workers, who decide to form a male striptease act in order to gather enough money to get somewhere else and for main character Gaz to be able to see his son....

Atom Egoyan
Atom Egoyan

Atom Egoyan, Order of Canada is a critically acclaimed Canadians of Armenian descent film maker, known as one of the most remarkable figures of contemporary independent filmmaking....
 – The Sweet Hereafter
The Sweet Hereafter

The Sweet Hereafter is a 1991 novel by American author Russell Banks. It is set in a small town in the aftermath of a deadly school bus accident that has killed most of the town's children....

Curtis Hanson
Curtis Hanson

Curtis Lee Hanson is an Academy Award-winning United States of America filmmaker. A former photographer, freelance writer of Hollywood-themed articles and editor of Cinema magazine, Hanson honed his filmmaking skills by writing screenplays for low-budget thrillers before establishing himself as a director of Oscar-caliber work....
 – L.A. Confidential
Gus Van Sant
Gus Van Sant

Gus Green Van Sant, Jr. is an United States film director, screenwriter, photographer, musician, and author. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Director for his 1997 film Good Will Hunting and his 2008 film Milk , and won the Palme d'Or at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival for his film Elephant ....
 – Good Will Hunting
Good Will Hunting

Good Will Hunting is a 1997 in film drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, both of whom star in the film....
1998 Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. Forbes magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3.1 billion....

 – Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 in film Cinema of the United States war film set during the Invasion of Normandy of Normandy in World War II. It was film director by Steven Spielberg and Screenplay by Robert Rodat....
 Roberto Benigni
Roberto Benigni

Roberto Remigio Benigni, Italian orders of merit is an Academy Awards-winning Italian actor, comedian, writer and film director of film, theatre and television....
 – La Vita è Bella aka Life Is Beautiful
Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful is a 1997 in film Italian language film which tells the story of a Italian Jews, Guido Orefice , who must learn how to use his fertile imagination to help his son survive their internment in a Nazi concentration camp....

John Madden
John Madden (director)

John Philip Madden is an England director of Theater, film, television, and radio. He was educated at Clifton College.He was in the same house as friend and fellow director Roger Michell....
 – Shakespeare in Love
Shakespeare in Love

Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 in film romantic comedy/drama film. The film was directed by John Madden and written by Marc Norman and playwright Tom Stoppard....

Terrence Malick
Terrence Malick

Terrence "Terry" Malick is an Academy Award nominated American filmmaker and script writer. In a career spanning decades, Malick has directed one short film and four feature-length films....
 – The Thin Red Line
The Thin Red Line (1998 film)

The Thin Red Line is a 1998 in film Cinema of the United States which tells a fictional story of Military of the United States during the Battle of Guadalcanal in World War II with the focus on the men in C Company, most notably Private Witt and his conflicted feelings about fighting in the war, Colonel Tall and his desire to win the ba...

Peter Weir
Peter Weir

Peter Lindsay Weir Order of Australia is an Australian film director. After exerting a strong influence on the Australian New Wave with his films Picnic at Hanging Rock , The Last Wave and Gallipoli , Weir directed a diverse group of U.S....
 – The Truman Show
The Truman Show

The Truman Show is a 1998 dystopia comedy-drama film directed by Peter Weir and written by Andrew Niccol. The cast includes Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank, as well as Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Ed Harris and Natascha McElhone....
1999 Sam Mendes
Sam Mendes

Samuel Alexander Mendes Order of the British Empire is an English Theatre director, film and commercial director at RSA US. He is known for his 1998 production of Cabaret , starring Alan Cumming, and his debut film, American Beauty , for which he won an Academy Award for Directing....

 – American Beauty
American Beauty (film)

American Beauty is a 1999 in film dramedy film set in modern United States suburbia. Starring Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening, it was the feature film debut for writer Alan Ball and director Sam Mendes, all of whom won Academy Awards....
 Lasse Hallström
Lasse Hallström

Lars Sven "Lasse" Hallstr?m is a Sweden film director.Hallstrom's mother was the Swedish writer Karin Lyberg . His maternal grandfather, Ernst Lyberg, was the Swedish Minister of Finance in the first cabinet of Carl Gustaf Ekman and leader of the Liberal Party of Sweden ....
 – The Cider House Rules
The Cider House Rules (film)

The Cider House Rules is a 1999 drama film, directed by Lasse Hallstr?m, based on The Cider House Rules, a 1985 novel by John Irving. The film won two Academy Awards....

Spike Jonze
Spike Jonze

Spike Jonze is an United States film director of Music video and commercials, and an Academy Award-nominated director and film producer in film and television, most notably the 1999 film Being John Malkovich and the 2002 in film Adaptation., both written by Charlie Kaufman....
 – Being John Malkovich
Being John Malkovich

Being John Malkovich is a 1999 in film film written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze. It stars John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, and Catherine Keener, as well as the actor John Malkovich, who plays a fictionalized version of himself....

Michael Mann
Michael Mann (film director)

Michael Kenneth Mann is an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. For his work, he has received nominations from international organizations and juries, including those at British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Cannes Film Festival and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts a...
 – The Insider
The Insider (film)

The Insider is a 1999 in film that tells the true story of a 60 Minutes television series expos? of the tobacco industry, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand....

M. Night Shyamalan
M. Night Shyamalan

Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan , known professionally as M. Night Shyamalan, is a two-time Academy Award nominated India-born United States filmmaker and script writer of Major film studio, known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots that usually climax with a twist ending....
 – The Sixth Sense
The Sixth Sense

The Sixth Sense is a 1999 psychological thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It tells the story of Cole Sear, a troubled, isolated boy who claims to be able to see and talk to the dead, and an equally troubled child psychologist who tries to help him....
2000
73rd Academy Awards

The 73rd Academy Awards ceremony was the last to take place at the Los Angeles, California Shrine Auditorium. It was hosted by first-time host Steve Martin, who was nominated for an Emmy Awards for his presentation....
 Steven Soderbergh
Steven Soderbergh

Steven Andrew Soderbergh is an American film film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, film editing, and an Academy Award-winning film director....

 – Traffic
Traffic (2000 film)

Traffic is a 2000 in film crime drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Stephen Gaghan. It explores the intricacies of the illegal drug trade from a number of perspectives: a user, an enforcer, a politician and a trafficker, whose lives affect each other even though they do not meet....
 Stephen Daldry
Stephen Daldry

Stephen David Daldry, Order of the British Empire is an English theatre director and film director and Film producer, as well as a three-time Academy Award nominated director....
 – Billy Elliot
Billy Elliot

Billy Elliot is a 2000 in film film written by Lee Hall and directed by Stephen Daldry. Set in the fictional town of 'Everington' in the real County Durham, UK, it stars Jamie Bell as 11-year-old Billy, an aspiring dancer, Gary Lewis as his coal miner father, Jamie Draven as Billy's older brother, and Julie Walters as his ballet teacher...

Ang Lee
Ang Lee

Ang Lee is an Academy Award-winning Taiwanese American film director....
 – Wo hu cang long aka Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a Chinese-language film in the wuxia style, released in 2000. A China-Hong Kong-Taiwan-United States coproduction , the film was directed by Ang Lee and featured an international cast of Zhonghua minzu actors, including Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi and Chang Chen....

Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott

Sir Ridley Scott is a United Kingdom Academy Award nominated and Golden Globe Award, Emmy Award and British Academy of Film and Television Arts winning film director and film producer known for his stylish visuals and an obsession for detail....
 – Gladiator
Gladiator (2000 film)

Gladiator is a 2000 in film epic film directed by Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Djimon Hounsou, Derek Jacobi, and Richard Harris....

Steven Soderbergh
Steven Soderbergh

Steven Andrew Soderbergh is an American film film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, film editing, and an Academy Award-winning film director....
 – Erin Brockovich
Erin Brockovich (film)

Erin Brockovich is a 2000 in film docudrama which dramatizes the story of Erin Brockovich's first fight against the West Coast of the United States energy giant Pacific Gas and Electric Company known as PG&E....


2000s

YearWinner
film		Nominated
2001
74th Academy Awards

The 74th Academy Awards honored the 2001 in film and were held on March 24 2002, for the first time at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California....
 Ron Howard
 – A Beautiful Mind
A Beautiful Mind (film)

A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 in film United States film based on the life of John Forbes Nash, a Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel....
 Robert Altman
Robert Altman

Robert Bernard Altman was an United Statesn film director known for making Cinema of the United States that are highly Naturalism , but with a stylized perspective....
 – Gosford Park
Gosford Park

Gosford Park is a 2001 in film film directed by Robert Altman. The screenplay is by Julian Fellowes, based on an idea by Altman and producer Bob Balaban....

Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson

Peter Robert Jackson, New Zealand Order of Merit is a three-time Academy Award-winning New Zealand filmmaker, film producer and screenwriter, best known for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy trilogy adapted from the The Lord of the Rings by J....
 – The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (film)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is a 2001 in film fantasy film directed by Peter Jackson based on the The Fellowship of the Ring of J....

David Lynch
David Lynch

David Keith Lynch is an United States film director, screenwriter, Film producer, Painting, cartoonist, composer, video artist and performance artist....
 – Mulholland Drive
Mulholland Drive (film)

Mulholland Drive is a surrealism, neo-noir psychological thriller directed by David Lynch, and starring Naomi Watts, Laura Harring and Justin Theroux....

Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott

Sir Ridley Scott is a United Kingdom Academy Award nominated and Golden Globe Award, Emmy Award and British Academy of Film and Television Arts winning film director and film producer known for his stylish visuals and an obsession for detail....
 – Black Hawk Down
2002
75th Academy Awards

The 75th Academy Awards honored the 2002 in film, were held on March 23, 2003, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It was produced by Gilbert Cates and hosted by Steve Martin, who also hosted the 73rd Academy Awards....
 Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski

Roman Raymond Polanski is an Academy Award-winning and four-time nominated Poland-France film director, writer, actor and film producer.Polanski began his career in Poland, and later became a celebrated director of both art house and commercial films, making such films as Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown ....

 – The Pianist
The Pianist (2002 film)

The Pianist is a 2002 in film Poland-France-Germany-United Kingdom co-produced film directed by Roman Polanski, starring Adrien Brody. It is an adaptation of the The Pianist by History of the Jews in Poland musician Wladyslaw Szpilman....
 Pedro Almodóvar
Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almod?var Caballero is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and Film producer.Almod?var is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation....
 – Hable con ella
Talk to Her

Talk to Her is a 2002 in film film written and directed by the Spanish director Pedro Almod?var, starring Javier C?mara, Dar?o Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Geraldine Chaplin and Rosario Flores....
 aka Talk to Her
Talk to Her

Talk to Her is a 2002 in film film written and directed by the Spanish director Pedro Almod?var, starring Javier C?mara, Dar?o Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Geraldine Chaplin and Rosario Flores....

Stephen Daldry
Stephen Daldry

Stephen David Daldry, Order of the British Empire is an English theatre director and film director and Film producer, as well as a three-time Academy Award nominated director....
 – The Hours
The Hours (film)

The Hours is a 2002 in film Cinema of the United States/Cinema of the United Kingdom drama film directed by Stephen Daldry. The screenplay by David Hare is based on the 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hours by Michael Cunningham....

Rob Marshall
Rob Marshall

Rob Marshall is an United States theater director, film director and choreographer. He is a six-time Tony Award nominee, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe nominee and Emmy winner whose most noted work includes the 2002 film Chicago and the 1998 Broadway revival of Cabaret ....
 – Chicago
Chicago (2002 film)

Chicago is a musical film film adaptation of the Satire Musical theatre Chicago , the film explores the themes of celebrity and scandal in Jazz#History##1920s to 1950s Chicago, Illinois....

Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese

Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, and film historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Gol...
 – Gangs of New York
Gangs of New York

Gangs of New York is a 2002 in film USA historical film crime film set in the mid-19th century in the Five Points, Manhattan district of New York City....
2003
76th Academy Awards

The 76th Academy Awards ceremony honored the 2003 in film and was broadcast from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California on American Broadcasting Company beginning at 5:30 p.m....
 Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson

Peter Robert Jackson, New Zealand Order of Merit is a three-time Academy Award-winning New Zealand filmmaker, film producer and screenwriter, best known for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy trilogy adapted from the The Lord of the Rings by J....

 – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (film)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a 2003 in film fantasy film directed by Peter Jackson that is based on the The Two Towers and The Return of the King of J....
 Sofia Coppola
Sofia Coppola

Sofia Carmina Coppola is an American film director, actor, film producer and Academy Awards-winning screenwriter. She is the third female director, and only American woman, to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing, the other two being Lina Wertm?ller and Jane Campion....
 – Lost in Translation
Lost in Translation (film)

Lost in Translation is a 2003 in film comedy-drama film starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson. It was the second feature film written and directed by Sofia Coppola, after The Virgin Suicides ....

Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood

Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American actor, film director, film producer and composer. He is known for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles in Action films and western films, particularly in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s....
 – Mystic River
Fernando Meirelles
Fernando Meirelles

Fernando Meirelles is an Academy Award-nominated Brazilian people filmmaker.He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director in 2004 for his work in the Brazilian film City of God , released in 2002 in Brazil and in 2003 in the United States of America by Miramax Films....
 – Cidade de Deus
City of God (film)

City of God is a Brazilian films of the 2000s Cinema of Brazil police procedural film directed by Fernando Meirelles and K?tia Lund, released in its home country in 2002 and worldwide in 2003 in film....
 aka City of God
City of God (film)

City of God is a Brazilian films of the 2000s Cinema of Brazil police procedural film directed by Fernando Meirelles and K?tia Lund, released in its home country in 2002 and worldwide in 2003 in film....

Peter Weir
Peter Weir

Peter Lindsay Weir Order of Australia is an Australian film director. After exerting a strong influence on the Australian New Wave with his films Picnic at Hanging Rock , The Last Wave and Gallipoli , Weir directed a diverse group of U.S....
 – Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 film directed by Peter Weir and starring Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey, with Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin....
2004
77th Academy Awards

The 77th Academy Awards honored the 2004 in film and were held on February 27, 2005, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. They were hosted by comedian Chris Rock....
 Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood

Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American actor, film director, film producer and composer. He is known for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles in Action films and western films, particularly in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s....

 – Million Dollar Baby
Million Dollar Baby

Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 in film film film director, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood and starring Eastwood, Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman....
 Taylor Hackford
Taylor Hackford

Taylor Edwin Hackford is an Academy Award-winning United States film director....
 – Ray
Ray (film)

Ray is a 2004 in film biographical film focusing on thirty years of the life of legendary Rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles. The independent film was directed by Taylor Hackford and starred Jamie Foxx in the title role; Foxx received an Academy Award for Best Actor#2000s for his performance....

Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh

Mike Leigh, Order of the British Empire is an England writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and did his early acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company ....
 – Vera Drake
Vera Drake

Vera Drake is a 2004 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom Film director by Mike Leigh. It tells the story of a working class woman in London in 1950, whose values conflict with the social mores of the period....

Alexander Payne
Alexander Payne

Constantine Alexander Payne is an United States film director and screenwriter. His films are noted for their dark humour and satire depictions of contemporary American society....
 – Sideways
Sideways

Sideways is an United States comedy-drama film written by Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne and directed by Payne. Adapted from Rex Pickett's Sideways , Sideways follows two forty-something men, portrayed by Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church, who take a week-long road trip to the wine country of Santa Barbara....

Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese

Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, and film historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Gol...
 – The Aviator
The Aviator

The Aviator is an Cinema of the United States biographical film drama film, film director by Martin Scorsese and based on the life of Howard Hughes....
2005
78th Academy Awards

The 78th Academy Awards honored the 2005 in film and were held on March 5 2006 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by The Daily Show host Jon Stewart....
 Ang Lee
Ang Lee

Ang Lee is an Academy Award-winning Taiwanese American film director....

 – Brokeback Mountain
Brokeback Mountain

Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 in film Cinema of the United States romance film-drama film that depicts the complex romantic and sexual relationship between two men in the Western United States from 1963 to 1983....
 George Clooney
George Clooney

George Timothy Clooney is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning United States of America actor, Film director, film producer and screenwriter....
 – Good Night, and Good Luck.
Good Night, and Good Luck.

Good Night, and Good Luck. is a 2005 in film directed by George Clooney and written by Clooney and Grant Heslov that portrays the conflict between veteran radio and television journalist Edward R....

Paul Haggis
Paul Haggis

Paul Edward Haggis is an Academy Awards-winning Canada-United States screenwriter, Film producer and film director who spent his early career producing and directing various American and Canadian television network series....
 – Crash
Crash (2004 film)

Crash is a 2005 in film Cinema of the United States/Cinema of Germany drama film, written, produced, and directed by Paul Haggis. It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2004, and was released internationally in 2005....

Bennett Miller
Bennett Miller

Bennett Miller is an Academy Awards-nominated United States film director.Miller is the director of the feature Capote , a film for which he received an Academy Award for Best Director....
 – Capote
Capote (film)

Capote is a 2005 in film biographical film about Truman Capote on a writing assignment for The New Yorker. Philip Seymour Hoffman won several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his critically acclaimed portrayal of the title role....

Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. Forbes magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3.1 billion....
 – Munich
Munich (film)

Munich is a 2005 in film fictional film about the Israeli government's secret retaliation after the 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli Olympic athletes by Black September gunmen....
2006
79th Academy Awards

The 79th Academy Awards ceremony , honored the 2006 in film and took place on February 25, 2007 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California on American Broadcasting Company....
 Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese

Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, and film historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Gol...

 – The Departed
The Departed

The Departed is a Cinema of the United States crime film-thriller film remake of the 2002 Hong Kong crime thriller Infernal Affairs....
 Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood

Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American actor, film director, film producer and composer. He is known for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles in Action films and western films, particularly in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s....
 – Letters from Iwo Jima
Letters from Iwo Jima

is a 2006 in film war film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood whose cast includes Ken Watanabe and Kazunari Ninomiya. The film portrays the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of the Japanese Imperial Japanese Army and is a companion piece to Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers , which depicts the same battle from the American viewpoin...

Stephen Frears
Stephen Frears

Stephen Arthur Frears is a two-time Academy Award-nominated England film director....
 – The Queen
The Queen (film)

The Queen is a 2006 in film United Kingdom drama film Film director by Stephen Frears, screenwriter by Peter Morgan and stars Helen Mirren in the title role, Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom....

Alejandro González Iñárritu
Alejandro González Iñárritu

Alejandro Gonz?lez I??rritu , born August 15, 1963, to Hector Gonz?lez Gama and Luz Mar?a I??rritu in Mexico City, is an Academy Award, Palme d'Or, Golden Lion, European Film Award, DGA Award, PGA Award, three-time C?sar Award, Silver Ribbon, -nominated and Prix de la mise en sc?ne, BAFTA, three-time Ariel Award, Golden Globe, David di Donate...
 – Babel
Babel (2006 film)

Babel is a 2006 film, directed by Alejandro Gonz?lez I??rritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga, starring an ensemble cast. The multi-narrative drama completes Gonz?lez I??rritu's Death Trilogy, which also consists of Amores perros and 21 Grams....
Paul Greengrass
Paul Greengrass

Paul Greengrass is an English writer and Academy Award nominated film director. He specialises in dramatisations of real-life events and is known for his signature use of hand-held cameras....
 – United 93
United 93 (film)

United 93 is a 2006 in film film written and directed by Paul Greengrass that chronicles events aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked during the September 11, 2001 attacks....
2007
80th Academy Awards

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 Joel Coen
Coen Brothers

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 and Ethan Coen
Coen Brothers

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, known together professionally as the Coen brothers, are American filmmakers. For more than twenty years, the pair have written and directed numerous successful films, ranging from Screwball comedy film to hardboiled , to movies where genres blur together ....

 – No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men (film)

No Country for Old Men is a 2007 in film crime thriller adapted for the screen and directed by Coen brothers, and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin....
 Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson

Paul Thomas Anderson is a five-time Academy Award-nominated United States filmmaker....
 – There Will Be Blood
There Will Be Blood

There Will Be Blood is a 2007 in film USA drama film directed, written and co-produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. The film is loosely based on the Upton Sinclair novel Oil! ....

Tony Gilroy
Tony Gilroy

Anthony Joseph Gilroy is an United States screenwriter and Film director. He wrote the screenplays for the Jason Bourne series starring Matt Damon....
 – Michael Clayton
Michael Clayton (film)

Michael Clayton is a 2007 in film United States drama film written and directed by Tony Gilroy and produced by Sydney Pollack. It stars George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson , Tilda Swinton, and Sydney Pollack....
Jason Reitman
Jason Reitman

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 – Juno
Juno (film)

Juno is a 2007 in film Cinema of Canada-Cinema of the United States comedy-drama directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody. Ellen Page stars as the title character, an independent-minded teenager confronting an unplanned pregnancy and the subsequent events that put pressures of adult life onto her....
Julian Schnabel
Julian Schnabel

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 – Le scaphandre et le papillon
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (film)

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a 2007 in film film based on the memoir of the same name by Jean-Dominique Bauby. The film depicts Bauby's life after suffering a massive stroke at the age of 43, which left him with a condition known as locked-in syndrome....
 aka The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (film)

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a 2007 in film film based on the memoir of the same name by Jean-Dominique Bauby. The film depicts Bauby's life after suffering a massive stroke at the age of 43, which left him with a condition known as locked-in syndrome....
2008
81st Academy Awards

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 Danny Boyle
Danny Boyle

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 – Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire is a film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the Exclusive Books Boeke Prize-winning and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-nominated novel Q & A by Indian English literature and diplomat Vikas Swarup....
Stephen Daldry
Stephen Daldry

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 - The Reader
The Reader

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David Fincher
David Fincher

David Leo Fincher is an American, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and music video director known for his dark and stylish movies such as Seven , Fight Club , Zodiac and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button....
 - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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Ron Howard
Ron Howard

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 - Frost/Nixon
Frost/Nixon (film)

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Gus Van Sant
Gus Van Sant

Gus Green Van Sant, Jr. is an United States film director, screenwriter, photographer, musician, and author. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Director for his 1997 film Good Will Hunting and his 2008 film Milk , and won the Palme d'Or at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival for his film Elephant ....
 - Milk
Milk (film)

Milk is a 2008 in film biographical film on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors....
 


International presence


As the Academy Awards are based in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 and are centered on the Hollywood film industry
Cinema of the United States

United States cinema has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. Its history is sometimes separated into four main periods: the silent film era, Classical Hollywood cinema, New Hollywood, and the contemporary period ....
, the majority of Academy Award winners have been American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
s. Nonetheless, there is significant international presence at the awards, as evidenced by the following list of winners of the Academy Award for Best Director.

  • Australia
    Australia

    Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
    : Mel Gibson
    Mel Gibson

    Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson, Officer of the Order of Australia is an Australian-American actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter....
  • Austria: Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann
  • Canada
    Canada

    Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
    : James Cameron
    James Cameron

    James Francis Cameron is an Academy Award-winning Canada-United States film director, Film producer and screenwriter. He has written and directed films as disparate as Aliens_ and Titanic ....
  • Czech Republic
    Czech Republic

    The Czech Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country borders Poland to the northeast, Germany to the west, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east....
    : Miloš Forman
    Miloš Forman

    Jan Tom? Forman , better known as Milo? Forman , is a Czech-American film director, screenwriter, actor and professor. Two of his films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus are among the most celebrated in the History of Motion Picture....
  • Germany: William Wyler
  • Poland
    Poland

    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
    : Roman Polanski
    Roman Polanski

    Roman Raymond Polanski is an Academy Award-winning and four-time nominated Poland-France film director, writer, actor and film producer.Polanski began his career in Poland, and later became a celebrated director of both art house and commercial films, making such films as Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown ....
  • Italy
    Italy

    Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
    : Bernardo Bertolucci
    Bernardo Bertolucci

    Bernardo Bertolucci is an Academy Award-winning Italy film director and screenwriter....
  • New Zealand
    New Zealand

    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
    : Peter Jackson
    Peter Jackson

    Peter Robert Jackson, New Zealand Order of Merit is a three-time Academy Award-winning New Zealand filmmaker, film producer and screenwriter, best known for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy trilogy adapted from the The Lord of the Rings by J....
  • Taiwan
    Taiwan

    Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
    : Ang Lee
    Ang Lee

    Ang Lee is an Academy Award-winning Taiwanese American film director....
  • United Kingdom
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
    : Richard Attenborough
    Richard Attenborough

    Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, Order of the British Empire, is an English people actor, film director, film producer, and entrepreneur....
    , Danny Boyle
    Danny Boyle

    Danny Boyle is an Academy Award-winning British people filmmaker and film producer. He is best known for his work on films such as Trainspotting , 28 Days Later, Sunshine , and Slumdog Millionaire, for which Boyle won numerous awards in 2009, including the Academy Award for Best Director....
    , David Lean
    David Lean

    Sir David Lean, CBE, was an England filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter and Film editing, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia , The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago , Ryan's Daughter, and A Passage to India ....
    , Sam Mendes
    Sam Mendes

    Samuel Alexander Mendes Order of the British Empire is an English Theatre director, film and commercial director at RSA US. He is known for his 1998 production of Cabaret , starring Alan Cumming, and his debut film, American Beauty , for which he won an Academy Award for Directing....
    , Anthony Minghella
    Anthony Minghella

    Anthony Minghella Order of the British Empire was an Academy Awards-winning England film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was Chairman of the Board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007....
    , Carol Reed
    Carol Reed

    Sir Carol Reed was an England film director, most famous for directing The Third Man and Oliver! . He won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Director for the latter....
    , Tony Richardson
    Tony Richardson

    Tony Richardson was an England theatre and Academy Award-winning film film director and film producer.Richardson was born Cecil Antonio Richardson in Shipley, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire in 1928, the son of Elsie Evans and Clarence Albert Richardson, a chemist....
    , and John Schlesinger
    John Schlesinger

    John Richard Schlesinger, Order of the British Empire was an England film director....


Several international nominees:
  • Australia
    Australia

    Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
    : Bruce Beresford
    Bruce Beresford

    Bruce Beresford is an Academy Award-nominated Australian film director, writer, and producer of such films as Breaker Morant, Tender Mercies and Driving Miss Daisy....
    , Scott Hicks