Academy Awards
Best Director
481 nominations · 100 winners · 96 years
The Zone of Interest
Jonathan Glazer
Anatomy of a Fall
Justine Triet
Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Scorsese
Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Daniel Schienert
The Banshees of Inisherin
Martin McDonagh
Triangle of Sadness
Ruben Östlund
The Fabelmans
Steven Spielberg
TÁR
Todd Field
Belfast
Kenneth Branagh
Licorice Pizza
Paul Thomas Anderson
Drive My Car
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
West Side Story
Steven Spielberg
Mank
David Fincher
Promising Young Woman
Emerald Fennell
Minari
Lee Isaac Chung
Another Round
Thomas Vinterberg
The Irishman
Martin Scorsese
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino
1917
Sam Mendes
Joker
Todd Phillips
Dunkirk
Christopher Nolan
Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig
Get Out
Jordan Peele
Phantom Thread
Paul Thomas Anderson
Moonlight
Barry Jenkins
Arrival
Denis Villeneuve
Manchester by the Sea
Kenneth Lonergan
Hacksaw Ridge
Mel Gibson
The Big Short
Adam McKay
Mad Max: Fury Road
George Miller
Room
Lenny Abrahamson
Spotlight
Tom McCarthy
Foxcatcher
Bennett Miller
The Imitation Game
Morten Tyldum
Boyhood
Richard Linklater
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson
Nebraska
Alexander Payne
American Hustle
David O. Russell
The Wolf of Wall Street
Martin Scorsese
12 Years a Slave
Steve McQueen
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Benh Zeitlin
Silver Linings Playbook
David O. Russell
Amour
Michael Haneke
Lincoln
Steven Spielberg
The Descendants
Alexander Payne
Hugo
Martin Scorsese
The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick
Midnight in Paris
Woody Allen
Black Swan
Darren Aronofsky
The Social Network
David Fincher
The Fighter
David O. Russell
True Grit
Ethan Coen True Grit
Joel Coen
Avatar
James Cameron
Up in the Air
Jason Reitman
Precious
Lee Daniels
Inglourious Basterds
Quentin Tarantino
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
David Fincher
Milk
Gus Van Sant
Frost/Nixon
Ron Howard
The Reader
Stephen Daldry
No Country for Old Men
Joel
Juno
Jason Reitman
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Julian Schnabel
There Will Be Blood
Paul Thomas Anderson
Michael Clayton
Tony Gilroy
Capote
Bennett Miller
Good Night, and Good Luck.
George Clooney
Crash
Paul Haggis
Munich
Steven Spielberg
Mystic River
Clint Eastwood
City of God
Fernando Meirelles
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Peter Weir
Lost in Translation
Sofia Coppola
Gangs of New York
Martin Scorsese
Talk to Her
Pedro Almodóvar
Chicago
Rob Marshall
The Hours
Stephen Daldry
Mulholland Drive
David Lynch
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Peter Jackson
Black Hawk Down
Ridley Scott
Gosford Park
Robert Altman
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Ang Lee
Gladiator
Ridley Scott
Billy Elliot
Stephen Daldry
Erin Brockovich
Steven Soderbergh
The Cider House Rules
Lasse Hallström
The Sixth Sense
M. Night Shyamalan
The Insider
Michael Mann
Being John Malkovich
Spike Jonze
Shakespeare in Love
John Madden
The Truman Show
Peter Weir
Life Is Beautiful
Roberto Benigni
The Thin Red Line
Terrence Malick
The Sweet Hereafter
Atom Egoyan
L.A. Confidential
Curtis Hanson
Good Will Hunting
Gus Van Sant
The Full Monty
Peter Cattaneo
Babe
Chris Noonan
The Postman
Michael Radford
Leaving Las Vegas
Mike Figgis
Dead Man Walking
Tim Robbins
Three Colors: Red
Krzysztof Kieślowski
Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino
Quiz Show
Robert Redford
Bullets Over Broadway
Woody Allen
The Remains of the Day
James Ivory
The Piano
Jane Campion
In the Name of the Father
Jim Sheridan
Short Cuts
Robert Altman
Howards End
James Ivory
Scent of a Woman
Martin Brest
The Crying Game
Neil Jordan
The Player
Robert Altman
Reversal of Fortune
Barbet Schroeder
The Godfather Part III
Francis Ford Coppola
GoodFellas
Martin Scorsese
The Grifters
Stephen Frears
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Jim Sheridan
Henry V
Kenneth Branagh
Dead Poets Society
Peter Weir
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Woody Allen
Mississippi Burning
Alan Parker
A Fish Called Wanda
Charles Crichton
The Last Temptation of Christ
Martin Scorsese
Working Girl
Mike Nichols
Fatal Attraction
Adrian Lyne
Hope and Glory
John Boorman
My Life as a Dog
Lasse Hallström
Moonstruck
Norman Jewison
Blue Velvet
David Lynch
A Room with a View
James Ivory
The Mission
Roland Joffé
Hannah and Her Sisters
Woody Allen
Ran
Akira Kurosawa
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Héctor Babenco
Prizzi's Honor
John Huston
Witness
Peter Weir
A Passage to India
David Lean
Places in the Heart
Robert Benton
The Killing Fields
Roland Joffé
Broadway Danny Rose
Woody Allen
Tender Mercies
Bruce Beresford
Fanny and Alexander
Ingmar Bergman
Silkwood
Mike Nichols
The Dresser
Peter Yates
The Verdict
Sidney Lumet
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Steven Spielberg
Tootsie
Sydney Pollack
Das Boot
Wolfgang Petersen
Chariots of Fire
Hugh Hudson
Atlantic City
Louis Malle
On Golden Pond
Mark Rydell
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Steven Spielberg
The Elephant Man
David Lynch
Raging Bull
Martin Scorsese
The Stunt Man
Richard Rush
Tess
Roman Polanski
All That Jazz
Bob Fosse
La Cage aux Folles
Édouard Molinaro
Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola
Breaking Away
Peter Yates
Midnight Express
Alan Parker
Heaven Can Wait
Buck Henry
Coming Home
Hal Ashby Heaven Can Wait
Warren Beatty
Interiors
Woody Allen
Julia
Fred Zinnemann
Star Wars
George Lucas
The Turning Point
Herbert Ross
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Steven Spielberg
All the President's Men
Alan J. Pakula
Face to Face
Ingmar Bergman
Seven Beauties
Lina Wertmüller
Network
Sidney Lumet
Amarcord
Federico Fellini
Nashville
Robert Altman
Dog Day Afternoon
Sidney Lumet
Barry Lyndon
Stanley Kubrick
Lenny
Bob Fosse
Day for Night
François Truffaut
A Woman Under the Influence
John Cassavetes
Chinatown
Roman Polanski
Last Tango in Paris
Bernardo Bertolucci
American Graffiti
George Lucas
Cries and Whispers
Ingmar Bergman
The Exorcist
William Friedkin
The Godfather
Francis Ford Coppola
The Emigrants
Jan Troell
Deliverance
John Boorman
Sleuth
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Sunday Bloody Sunday
John Schlesinger
Fiddler on the Roof
Norman Jewison
The Last Picture Show
Peter Bogdanovich
A Clockwork Orange
Stanley Kubrick
Alice's Restaurant
Arthur Penn
Z
Costas-Gavras
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
George Roy Hill
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Sydney Pollack
The Lion in Winter
Anthony Harvey
Romeo and Juliet
Franco Zeffirelli
The Battle of Algiers
Gillo Pontecorvo
2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick
Bonnie and Clyde
Arthur Penn
In the Heat of the Night
Norman Jewison
In Cold Blood
Richard Brooks
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Stanley Kramer
A Man and a Woman
Claude Lelouch
Blow-Up
Michelangelo Antonioni
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Mike Nichols
The Professionals
Richard Brooks
Doctor Zhivago
David Lean
Woman in the Dunes
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Darling
John Schlesinger
The Collector
William Wyler
Zorba the Greek
Michael Cacoyannis
Becket
Peter Glenville
Mary Poppins
Robert Stevenson
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Stanley Kubrick
The Miracle Worker
Arthur Penn
David and Lisa
Frank Perry
Divorce Italian Style
Pietro Germi
To Kill a Mockingbird
Robert Mulligan
La Dolce Vita
Federico Fellini
The Guns of Navarone
J. Lee Thompson
The Hustler
Robert Rossen
Judgment at Nuremberg
Stanley Kramer
Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock
The Sundowners
Fred Zinnemann
Sons and Lovers
Jack Cardiff
Never on Sunday
Jules Dassin
Some Like It Hot
Billy Wilder
The Nun's Story
Fred Zinnemann
The Diary of Anne Frank
George Stevens
Room at the Top
Jack Clayton
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Mark Robson
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Richard Brooks
I Want to Live!
Robert Wise
The Defiant Ones
Stanley Kramer
Witness for the Prosecution
Billy Wilder
Sayonara
Joshua Logan
Peyton Place
Mark Robson
12 Angry Men
Sidney Lumet
War and Peace
King Vidor
Around the World in 80 Days
Michael Anderson
The King and I
Walter Lang
Friendly Persuasion
William Wyler
Summertime
David Lean
East of Eden
Elia Kazan
Bad Day at Black Rock
John Sturges
Picnic
Joshua Logan
Rear Window
Alfred Hitchcock
Sabrina
Billy Wilder
The Country Girl
George Seaton
The High and the Mighty
William A. Wellman
The Greatest Show on Earth
Cecil B. DeMille
High Noon
Fred Zinnemann
Moulin Rouge
John Huston
5 Fingers
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
A Streetcar Named Desire
Elia Kazan
The African Queen
John Huston
An American in Paris
Vincente Minnelli
Detective Story
William Wyler
Sunset Boulevard
Billy Wilder
The Third Man
Carol Reed
Born Yesterday
George Cukor
The Asphalt Jungle
John Huston
The Fallen Idol
Carol Reed
All the King's Men
Robert Rossen
Battleground
William A. Wellman
The Heiress
William Wyler
The Snake Pit
Anatole Litvak
The Search
Fred Zinnemann
Johnny Belinda
Jean Negulesco
Hamlet
Laurence Olivier
Great Expectations
David Lean
Crossfire
Edward Dmytryk
A Double Life
George Cukor
The Bishop's Wife
Henry Koster
The Yearling
Clarence Brown
Brief Encounter
David Lean
It's a Wonderful Life
Frank Capra
The Killers
Robert Siodmak
Spellbound
Alfred Hitchcock
National Velvet
Clarence Brown
The Southerner
Jean Renoir
The Bells of St. Mary's
Leo McCarey
The Human Comedy
Clarence Brown
Heaven Can Wait
Ernst Lubitsch
The More the Merrier
George Stevens
The Song of Bernadette
Henry King
Wake Island
John Farrow
Random Harvest
Mervyn LeRoy
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Michael Curtiz
Kings Row
Sam Wood
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Alexander Hall
Sergeant York
Howard Hawks
Citizen Kane
Orson Welles
The Little Foxes
William Wyler
Rebecca
Alfred Hitchcock
The Philadelphia Story
George Cukor
Kitty Foyle
Sam Wood
The Letter
William Wyler
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Frank Capra
Stagecoach
John Ford
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Sam Wood
Wuthering Heights
William Wyler
The Citadel
King Vidor
Four Daughters
Michael Curtiz
Angels with Dirty Faces
Michael Curtiz
Boys Town
Norman Taurog
Stage Door
Gregory La Cava
The Good Earth
Sidney Franklin
The Life of Emile Zola
William Dieterle
A Star Is Born
William Wellman
My Man Godfrey
Gregory La Cava
The Great Ziegfeld
Robert Z. Leonard
San Francisco
W.S. Van Dyke
Dodsworth
William Wyler
Mutiny on the Bounty
Frank Lloyd
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Henry Hathaway
Captain Blood
Michael Curtiz
One Night of Love
Victor Schertzinger
The Thin Man
W.S. Van Dyke
A Free Soul
Clarence Brown
Morocco
Josef von Sternberg
The Front Page
Lewis Milestone
Cimarron
Wesley Ruggles
Romance
Clarence Brown
Anna Christie
Clarence Brown
The Love Parade
Ernst Lubitsch
Hallelujah
King Vidor
The Divorcee
Robert Z. Leonard
The Patriot
Ernst Lubitsch
Weary River
Frank Lloyd
Drag
Frank Lloyd
The Broadway Melody
Harry Beaumont
In Old Arizona
Irving Cummings
Madame X
Lionel Barrymore
