OSCARS LISTS:
"BEST" DIRECTORS
- 1927/8 - (2:) LEWIS MILESTONE (Comedy: for "Two Arabian Knights")
+ FRANK BORZAGE (Dramatic: for "7th Heaven")
- 1928/9 - FRANK LLOYD (for "The Divine Lady")
- 1929/30 - LEWIS MILESTONE (for "All Quiet On The Western Front")
- 1930/1 - NORMAN TAUROG (for "Skippy")
- 1931/2 - FRANK BORZAGE (for "Bad Girl")
- 1932/3 - FRANK LLOYD (for "Cavalcade")
- 1934 - FRANK CAPRA (for "It Happened One Night")
- 1935 - JOHN FORD (for "The Informer")
- 1936 - FRANK CAPRA (for "Mr.Deeds Goes To Town")
- 1937 - LEO McCAREY (for "The Awful Truth")
- 1938 - FRANK CAPRA (for "You Can't Take It With You")
- 1939 - VICTOR FLEMING (for "Gone With The Wind")
- 1940 - JOHN FORD (for "The Grapes Of Wrath")
- 1941 - JOHN FORD (for "How Green Was My Valley")
- 1942 - WILLIAM WYLER (for "Mrs. Miniver")
- 1943 - MICHAEL CURTIZ (for "Casablanca")
- 1944 - LEO McCAREY (for "Going My Way")
- 1945 - BILLY WILDER (for "The Lost Weekend")
- 1946 - WILLIAM WYLER (for "The Best Years Of Our Lives")
- 1947 - ELIA KAZAN (for "Gentleman's Agreement")
- 1948 - JOHN HUSTON (for "The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre")
- 1949 - JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ (for "A Letter To Three Wives")
- 1950 - JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ (for "All About Eve")
- 1951 - GEORGE STEVENS (for "A Place In The Sun")
- 1952 - JOHN FORD (for "The Quiet Man")
- 1953 - FRED ZINNEMAN (for "From Here To Eternity")
- 1954 - ELIA KAZAN (for "On The Waterfront")
- 1955 - DELBERT MANN (for "Marty")
- 1956 - GEORGE STEVENS (for "Giant")
- 1957 - DAVID LEAN (for "The Bridge On The River Kwai")
- 1958 - VINCENTE MINELLI (for "Gigi")
- 1959 - WILLIAM WYLER (for "Ben-Hur")
- 1960 - BILLY WILDER (for "The Apartment")
- 1961 - JEROME ROBBINS / ROBERT WISE (for "West Side Story")
- 1962 - DAVID LEAN (for "Lawrence Of Arabia")
- 1963 - TONY RICHARDSON (for "Tom Jones")
- 1964 - GEORGE CUKOR (for "My Fair Lady")
- 1965 - ROBERT WISE (for "The Sound Of Music")
- 1966 - FRED ZINNEMANN (for "A Man For All Seasons")
- 1967 - MIKE NICHOLS (for "The Graduate")
- 1968 - CAROL REED (for "Oliver!")
- 1969 - JOHN SCHLESINGER (for "Midnight Cowboy")
- 1970 - FRANKLIN J. SCHAFFNER (for "Patton")
- 1971 - WILLIAM FRIEDKIN (for "The French Connection")
- 1972 - BOB FOSSE (for "Cabaret")
- 1973 - GEORGE ROY HILL (for "The Sting")
- 1974 - FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA (for "The Godfather Part II")
- 1975 - MILOS FOREMAN (for "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest")
- 1976 - JOHN G. AVILDSEN (for "Rocky")
- 1977 - WOODY ALLEN (for "Annie Hall")
- 1978 - MICHAEL CIMINO (for "The Deer Hunter")
- 1979 - ROBERT BENTON 2 (for "Kramer Vs. Kramer")
- 1980 - ROBERT REDFORD (for "Ordinary People")
- 1981 - WARREN BEATTY (for "Reds")
- 1982 - RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH (for "Gandhi")
- 1983 - JAMES L. BROOKS (for "Terms Of Endearment")
- 1984 - MILOS FOREMAN (for "Amadeus")
- 1985 - SIDNEY POLLACK (for "Out Of Africa")
- 1986 - OLIVER STONE (for "Platoon")
- 1987 - BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI (for "The Last Emperor")
- 1988 - BARRY LEVINSON (for "Rain Man")
- 1989 - OLIVER STONE (for "Born On The Fourth Of July")
- 1990 - KEVIN KOSTNER (for "Dances With Wolves")
- 1991 - JONATHAN DEMME (for "The Silence Of The Lambs")
- 1992 - CLINT EASTWOOD (for "Unforgiven")
- 1993 - STEVEN SPIELBERG (for "Schindler's List")
- 1994 - ROBERT ZEMECKIS (for "Forrest Gump")
- 1995 - MEL GIBSON (for "Braveheart")
- 1996 - ANTHONY MINGHELLA (for "The English Patient")
- 1997 - JAMES CAMERON (for "Titanic")
- 1998 - STEVEN SPIELBERG (for "Saving Private Ryan")
- 1999 - SAM MENDES (for "American Beauty")
- 2000 - STEVEN SODERBERGH (for "Traffic")
- 2001 - RON HOWARD (for "A Beautiful Mind")
- 2002 - ROMAN POLANSKI (for "The Pianist")
- 2003 - PETER JACKSON (for "The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King")
- 2004 - CLINT EASTWOOD (for "Million Dollar Baby")
- 2005 - ANG LEE (for "Brokeback Mountain")
- 2006 - MARTIN SCORSESE (for "The Departed")
- 2007 - JOEL COEN / ETHAN COEN (for "No Country for Old Men")
- 2008 - DANNY BOYLE (for "Slumdog Millionaire")
- 2009 - KATHERINE BIGELOW (for "The Hurt Locker")
- 2010 - TOM HOOPER (for "The King's Speech")
- 2011 - (tba 2012) (for "(tba 2012)")
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