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Academy Award for Directing
The Academy Award for Directing is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry. As is the customary practice in Wikipedia for listing Oscar results, the winner of the award for that year is listed first. The films below are listed with their production year, so for example the Oscar awarded in 2000 went to the Best Supporting Actor in 1999. In the majority of years, this award has gone to the director of the eventual winner for Best Picture, although in recent years this trend has weakened.While the award is considered a good way to sum up the most successful and talented American film directors, it is interesting to note that several revered directors such as Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles, and Alfred Hitchcock never won the award. Martin Scorsese, who has been nominated for the award five times as of 2005, is typically considered the most notable living American director without an Oscar, with Robert Altman running a close second.
List of winners
| Year | Director | Picture |
| 1927-28 | Frank Borzage | Seventh Heaven |
| 1927-28 | Lewis Milestone | Two Arabian Knights |
| 1928-29 | Frank Lloyd | The Divine Lady |
| 1929-30 | Lewis Milestone | All Quiet on the Western Front |
| 1930-31 | Norman Taurog | Skippy |
| 1931-32 | Frank Borzage | Bad Girl |
| 1932-33 | Frank Lloyd | Cavalcade |
| 1934 | Frank Capra | It Happened One Night |
| 1935 | John Ford | The Informer |
| 1936 | Frank Capra | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town |
| 1937 | Leo McCarey | The Awful Truth |
| 1938 | Frank Capra | You Can't Take It with You |
| 1939 | Victor Fleming | Gone with the Wind |
| 1940 | John Ford | The Grapes of Wrath |
| 1941 | John Ford | How Green Was My Valley |
| 1942 | William Wyler | Mrs. Miniver |
| 1943 | Michael Curtiz | Casablanca |
| 1944 | Leo McCarey | Going My Way |
| 1945 | Billy Wilder | The Lost Weekend |
| 1946 | William Wyler | The Best Years of Our Lives |
| 1947 | Elia Kazan | Gentleman's Agreement |
| 1948 | John Huston | Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| 1949 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | A Letter to Three Wives |
| 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | All About Eve |
| 1951 | George Stevens | A Place in the Sun |
| 1952 | John Ford | The Quiet Man |
| 1953 | Fred Zinnemann | From Here to Eternity |
| 1954 | Elia Kazan | On the Waterfront |
| 1955 | Delbert Mann | Marty |
| 1956 | George Stevens | Giant |
| 1957 | David Lean | The Bridge on the River Kwai |
| 1958 | Vincente Minnelli | Gigi |
| 1959 | William Wyler | Ben-Hur |
| 1960 | Billy Wilder | The Apartment |
| 1961 | Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins | West Side Story |
| 1962 | David Lean | Lawrence of Arabia |
| 1963 | Tony Richardson | Tom Jones |
| 1964 | George Cukor | My Fair Lady |
| 1965 | Robert Wise | The Sound of Music |
| 1966 | Fred Zinnemann | A Man for All Seasons |
| 1967 | Mike Nichols | The Graduate |
| 1968 | Carol Reed | Oliver! |
| 1969 | John Schlesinger | Midnight Cowboy |
| 1970 | Franklin J. Schaffner | Patton |
| 1971 | William Friedkin | The French Connection |
| 1972 | Bob Fosse | Cabaret |
| 1973 | George Roy Hill | The Sting |
| 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | The Godfather Part II |
| 1975 | Milos Forman | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| 1976 | John G. Avildsen | Rocky |
| 1977 | Woody Allen | Annie Hall |
| 1978 | Michael Cimino | The Deer Hunter |
| 1979 | Robert Benton | Kramer vs. Kramer |
| 1980 | Robert Redford | Ordinary People |
| 1981 | Warren Beatty | Reds |
| 1982 | Richard Attenborough | Gandhi |
| 1983 | James L. Brooks | Terms of Endearment |
| 1984 | Milos Forman | Amadeus |
| 1985 | Sydney Pollack | Out of Africa |
| 1986 | Oliver Stone | Platoon |
| 1987 | Bernardo Bertolucci | The Last Emperor |
| 1988 | Barry Levinson | Rain Man |
| 1989 | Oliver Stone | Born on the Fourth of July |
| 1990 | Kevin Costner | Dances with Wolves |
| 1991 | Jonathan Demme | The Silence of the Lambs |
| 1992 | Clint Eastwood | Unforgiven |
| 1993 | Steven Spielberg | Schindler's List |
| 1994 | Robert Zemeckis | Forrest Gump |
| 1995 | Mel Gibson | Braveheart |
| 1996 | Anthony Minghella | The English Patient |
| 1997 | James Cameron | Titanic |
| 1998 | Steven Spielberg | Saving Private Ryan |
| 1999 | Sam Mendes | American Beauty |
| 2000 | Steven Soderbergh | Traffic |
| 2001 | Ron Howard | A Beautiful Mind |
| 2002 | Roman Polanski | The Pianist |
| 2003 | Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
| 2004 | Clint Eastwood | Million Dollar Baby |
| 2005 | Ang Lee | Brokeback Mountain |
| 2006 | Martin Scorsese | The Departed |
| 2007 | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | No Country for Old Men |
| 2008 | Danny Boyle | Slumdog Millionaire |
