Academy Award, U.S.A. for Best Director

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• 1st 1927/1928 (Drama)Frank Borzage "7th Heaven" (Comedy)Lewis Milestone "Two Arabian Knights"
• 2nd 1928/1929 Frank Lloyd "The Divine Lady"
• 3rd 1829/1930 Lewis Milestone "All Quiet on the Western Front"
• 4th 1930/1931 Norman Taurog "Skippy"
• 5th 1931/1932 Frank Borzage "Bad Girl"
• 6th 1932/1933 Frank Lloyd "Cavalcade"
• 7th 1934 Frank Capra "It Happened One Night"
• 8th 1935 John Ford "The Informer"
• 9th 1936 Frank Capra "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town"
• 10th 1937 Leo McCarey "The Awful Truth"
• 11th 1938 Frank Capra "You Can't Take It with You"
• 12th 1939 Victor Fleming "Gone with the Wind"
• 13th 1940 John Ford "The Grapes of Wrath"
• 14th 1941 John Ford "How Green Was My Valley"
• 15th 1942 William Wyler "Mrs. Miniver"
• 16th 1943 Michael Curtiz "Casablanca"
• 17th 1944 Leo McCarey "Going My Way"
• 18th 1945 Billy Wilder "The Lost Weekend"
• 19th 1946 William Wyler "The Best Years of Our Lives"
• 20th 1947 Elia Kazan "Gentleman's Agreement"
• 21st 1948 John Huston "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
• 22nd 1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz "A Letter to Three Wives"
• 23rd 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz "All About Eve"
• 24th 1951 George Stevens "A Place in the Sun"
• 25th 1952 John Ford "The Quiet Man"
• 26th 1953 Fred Zinnemann "From Here to Eternity"
• 27th 1954 Elia Kazan "On the Waterfront"
• 28th 1955 Delbert Mann "Marty"
• 29th 1956 George Stevens "Giant"
• 30th 1957 David Lean "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
• 31st 1958 Vincente Minnelli "Gigi"
• 32nd 1959 William Wyler "Ben-Hur"
• 33rd 1960 Billy Wilder "The Apartment"
• 34th 1961 Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins "West Side Story"
• 35th 1962 David Lean "Lawrence of Arabia"
• 36th 1963 Tony Richardson "Tom Jones"
• 37th 1964 George Cukor "My Fair Lady"
• 38th 1965 Robert Wise "The Sound of Music"
• 39th 1966 Fred Zinnemann "A Man for All Seasons"
• 40th 1967 Mike Nichols "The Graduate"
• 41st 1968 Carol Reed "Oliver!"
• 42nd 1969 John Schlesinger "Midnight Cowboy"
• 43rd 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner "Patton"
• 44th 1971 William Friedkin "The French Connection"
• 45th 1972 Bob Fosse "Cabaret"
• 46th 1973 George Roy Hill "The Sting"
• 47th 1974 Francis Ford Coppola "The Godfather Part II"
• 48th 1975 Miloš Forman "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
• 49th 1976 John G. Avildsen "Rocky"
• 50th 1977 Woody Allen "Annie Hall"
• 51st 1978 Michael Cimino "The Deer Hunter"
• 52nd 1979 Robert Benton "Kramer vs. Kramer"
• 53rd 1980 Robert Redford "Ordinary People"
• 54th 1981 Warren Beatty "Reds"
• 55th 1982 Richard Attenborough "Gandhi"
• 56th 1983 James L. Brooks "Terms of Endearment"
• 57th 1984 Miloš Forman "Amadeus"
• 58th 1985 Sydney Pollack "Out of Africa"
• 59th 1986 Oliver Stone "Platoon"
• 60th 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci "The Last Emperor"
• 61st 1988 Barry Levinson "Rain Man"
• 62nd 1989 Oliver Stone "Born on the Fourth of July"
• 63rd 1990 Kevin Costner "Dances with Wolves"
• 64th 1991 Jonathan Demme "The Silence of the Lambs"
• 65th 1992 Clint Eastwood "Unforgiven"
• 66th 1993 Steven Spielberg "Schindler's List"
• 67th 1994 Robert Zemeckis "Forrest Gump"
• 68th 1995 Mel Gibson "Braveheart"
• 69th 1996 Anthony Minghella "The English Patient"
• 70th 1997 James Cameron "Titanic"
• 71st 1998 Steven Spielberg "Saving Private Ryan"
• 72nd 1999 Sam Mendes "American Beauty"
• 73rd 2000 Steven Soderbergh "Traffic"
• 74th 2001 Ron Howard "A Beautiful Mind"
• 75th 2002 Roman Polanski "The Pianist"
• 76th 2003 Peter Jackson "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"
• 77th 2004 Clint Eastwood "Million Dollar Baby"
• 78th 2005 Ang Lee "Brokeback Mountain"
• 79th 2006 Martin Scorsese "The Departed"
• 80th 2007 Joel Coen & Ethan Coen "No Country for Old Men"
• 81st 2008 Danny Boyle "Slumdog Millionaire"
• 82nd 2009 Kathryn Bigelow "The Hurt Locker"
• 83rd 2010 Tom Hooper "The King's Speech"
• 84th 2011 Michel Hazanavicius "The Artist"
• 85th 2012 Ang Lee "Life of Pi"
• 86th 2013 Alfonso Cuarón "Gravity"
• 87th 2014 Alejandro González Iñárritu "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)"
• 88th 2015 Alejandro González Iñárritu "The Revenant"
• 89th 2016 Damien Chazelle "La La Land"