Oscar Winning Directors
A list of past academy award winning directors, and the film for which they won their Oscar. The year listed below refers to the year the film was released, the Oscar is awarded the following year. For example Clint Eastwood was awarded an Oscar in February 2005 for his film Million Dollor Baby which was released in 2004.
The 79th Academy Awards are to be held on the 25th of February 2007 where the oscars for the best films of 2006 will be awarded. The nominees for the best director Oscar 2006 were:
- Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu - Babel
- Clint Eastwood - Letters From Iwo Jima
- Martin Scorsese - The Departed
- Paul Greengrass - United 93
- Stephen Frears - The Queen
| Year | Winning Director | Movie |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | ?? | ?? |
| 2005 | Ang Lee | Brokeback Mountain |
| 2004 | Clint Eastwood | Million Dollar Baby |
| 2003 | Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
| 2002 | Roman Polanski | The Pianist |
| 2001 | Ron Howard | A Beautiful Mind |
| 2000 | Steven Soderbergh | Traffic |
| 1999 | Sam Mendes | American Beauty |
| 1998 | Steven Spielberg | Saving Private Ryan |
| 1997 | James Cameron | Titanic |
| 1996 | Anthony Minghella | The English Patient |
| 1995 | Mel Gibson | Braveheart |
| 1994 | Robert Zemeckis | Forrest Gump |
| 1993 | Steven Spielberg | Schindler's List |
| 1992 | Clint Eastwood | Unforgiven |
| 1991 | Jonathan Demme | The Silence Of The Lambs |
| 1990 | Kevin Costner | Dances With Wolves |
| 1989 | Oliver Stone | Born On The Fourth Of July |
| 1988 | Barry Levinson | Rain Man |
| 1987 | Bernardo Bertolucci | The Last Emperor |
| 1986 | Oliver Stone | Platoon |
| 1985 | Sydney Pollack | Out Of Africa |
| 1984 | Milos Forman | Amadeus |
| 1983 | James L. Brooks | Terms Of Endearment |
| 1982 | Richard Attenborough | Gandhi |
| 1981 | Warren Beatty | Reds |
| 1980 | Robert Redford | Ordinary People |
| 1979 | Robert Benton 2 | Kramer Vs. Kramer |
| 1978 | Michael Cimino | The Deer Hunter |
| 1977 | Woody Allen | Annie Hall |
| 1976 | John G. Avildsen | Rocky |
| 1975 | Milos Forman | One Flew Over The Cuckoo'S Nest |
| 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | The Godfather Part Ii |
| 1973 | George Roy Hill | The Sting |
| 1972 | Bob Fosse | Cabaret |
| 1971 | William Friedkin | The French Connection |
| 1970 | Franklin J. Schaffner | Patton |
| 1969 | John Schlesinger | Midnight Cowboy |
| 1968 | Carol Reed | Oliver! |
| 1967 | Mike Nichols | The Graduate |
| 1966 | Fred Zinnemann | A Man For All Seasons |
| 1965 | Robert Wise | The Sound Of Music |
| 1964 | George Cukor | My Fair Lady |
| 1963 | Tony Richardson | Tom Jones |
| 1962 | David Lean | Lawrence Of Arabia |
| 1961 | Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise | West Side Story |
| 1960 | Billy Wilder | The Apartment |
| 1959 | William Wyler | Ben Hur |
| 1958 | Vincente Minnelli | Gigi |
| 1957 | David Lean | The Bridge On The River Kwai |
| 1956 | George Stevens | Giant |
| 1955 | Delbert Mann | Marty |
| 1954 | Elia Kazan | On The Waterfront |
| 1953 | Fred Zinnemann | From Here To Eternity |
| 1952 | John Ford | The Quiet Man |
| 1951 | George Stevens | A Place In The Sun |
| 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | All About Eve |
| 1949 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | A Letter To Three Wives |
| 1948 | John Huston | The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre |
| 1947 | Elia Kazan | Gentleman'S Agreement |
| 1946 | William Wyler | The Best Years Of Our Lives |
| 1945 | Billy Wilder | The Lost Weekend |
| 1944 | Leo McCarey | Going My Way |
| 1943 | Michael Curtiz | Casablanca |
| 1942 | William Wyler | Mrs. Miniver |
| 1941 | John Ford | How Green Was My Valley |
| 1940 | John Ford | The Grapes Of Wrath |
| 1939 | Victor Fleming | Gone With The Wind |
| 1938 | Frank Capra | You Can'T Take It With You |
| 1937 | Leo McCarey | The Awful Truth |
| 1936 | Frank Capra | Mr. Deeds Goes To Town |
| 1935 | John Ford | The Informer |
| 1934 | Frank Capra | It Happened One Night |
| 1933 | Frank Lloyd | Cavalcade |
| 1932 | Frank Borzage | Bad Girl |
| 1931 | Norman Taurog | Skippy |
| 1930 | Lewis Milestone | All Quiet On The Western Front |
| 1929 | Frank Lloyd | The Divine Lady |
| 1928 | Lewis Milestone | Two Arabian Knights |
| 1928 | Frank Borzage | 7th Heaven |