OSCARS LISTS: THE FILMS WITHOUT DOUBLE-TOP...

In the 80 years of Oscar award ceremonies, the two top awards for Best Film and Best Director have been won by the same movie 59 times. But on 21 occasions (most recently in March 2005) the "double" has not been achieved (with more often than not the top film's "unlucky" Director being British):

• 1927/8 -
  • Best Picture: Dir. William A. Wellman's "WINGS"
  • Best Director (Comedy): LEWIS MILESTONE (for "Two Arabian Knights")
  • Best Director (Dramatic): FRANK BORZAGE (for "7th Heaven")
• 1928/9 -
  • Best Picture: Dir. Harry Beaumont's "THE BROADWAY MELODY"
  • Best Director: FRANK LLOYD (for "The Divine Lady")
• 1930/1 -
  • Best Picture: Dir. Wesley Ruggles' "CIMARRON"
  • Best Director: NORMAN TAUROG (for "Skippy")
• 1931/2 -
  • Best Picture: Dir. Edmund Goulding's "GRAND HOTEL"
  • Best Director: FRANK BORZAGE (for "Bad Girl")
• 1935 -
  • Best Picture: Dir. Frank Lloyd's "MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY"
  • Best Director: JOHN FORD (for "The Informer")
• 1936 -
  • Best Picture: Dir. Robert Z. Leonard's "THE GREAT ZIEGFELD"
  • Best Director: FRANK CAPRA (for "Mr.Deeds Goes To Town")
• 1937 -
  • Best Picture: Dir. William Dieterle's "THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA"
  • Best Director: LEO McCAREY (for "The Awful Truth")
• 1940 -
  • Best Picture: Dir. Alfred Hitchcock's "REBECCA"
  • Best Director: JOHN FORD (for "The Grapes Of Wrath")
• 1948 -
  • Best Picture: Dir. Laurence Olivier's "HAMLET"
  • Best Director: JOHN HUSTON (for "The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre")
• 1949 -
  • Best Picture: Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz's "ALL THE KING'S MEN"
  • Best Director: JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ (for "A Letter To Three Wives")
• 1951 -
  • Best Picture: Dir. Vincente Minelli's "AN AMERICAN IN PARIS"
  • Best Director: GEORGE STEVENS (for "A Place In The Sun")
• 1952 -
  • Best Picture: Dir. Cecil B. DeMille's "THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH"
  • Best Director: JOHN FORD (for "The Quiet Man")
• 1956 -
  • Best Picture: Dir. Michael Anderson's "AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS"
  • Best Director: GEORGE STEVENS (for "Giant")
• 1967 -
  • Best Picture: Dir. Norman Jewison's "IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT"
  • Best Director: MIKE NICHOLS (for "The Graduate")
• 1972 -
  • Best Picture: Dir. Francis Ford Coppola's "THE GODFATHER"
  • Best Director: BOB FOSSE (for "Cabaret")
• 1981 -
  • Best Picture: Dir. Hugh Hudson's "CHARIOTS OF FIRE"
  • Best Director: WARREN BEATTY (for "Reds")
• 1989 -
  • Best Picture: Dir. Bruce Beresford's "DRIVING MISS DAISY"
  • Best Director: OLIVER STONE (for "Born On The Fourth Of July")
• 1998 -
  • Best Picture: Dir. John Madden's "SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE"
  • Best Director: STEVEN SPIELBERG (for "Saving Private Ryan")
• 2000 -
  • Best Picture: Dir. Ridley Scott's "GLADIATOR"
  • Best Director: STEVEN SODERBERGH (for "Traffic")
• 2002 -
  • Best Picture: Dir. Rob Marshall's "CHICAGO"
  • Best Director: ROMAN POLANSKI (for "The Pianist")
• 2005 -
  • Best Picture: Dir. Paul Haggis' "CRASH"
  • Best Director: ANG LEE (for "Brokeback Mountain")

 

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