Stage and Screen
Oscar Winners for Best Director
The Oscars have been awarded annually since 1927 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Clint Eastwood (born 1930)
American actor, director and politician.
- 1992 Academy Award winner for Unforgiven
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Francis Ford Coppola (born 1939)
American writer, actor, directer, producer and composer.
- 1974 Academy Award winner for The Godfather, Part II
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George Stevens (born 1904, died 1975)
American director, writer, cinematographer and producer.
- Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Director: 1951, for A Place in the Sun; 1956, for Giant
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John Ford (born 1895, died 1973)
American actor, writer, director, producer and cinematographer. Original name: Sean O'Fearna.
- Four-time Academy Award winner for Best Director: 1935, for The Informer; 1940, for The Grapes of Wrath; 1941, for How Green Was My Valley; 1952, for The Quiet Man
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Robert Redford (born 1937)
American actor, director and producer.
- 1980 Academy Award winner for Ordinary People
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Woody Allen (born 1935)
American writer, actor, composer, director and producer. Original name: Allen Konigsberg.
- 1977 Academy Award winner for Annie Hall
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Billy Wilder (born 1906)
Austrian writer, director and producer.
- Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Director: 1945, for The Lost Weekend; 1960, for The Apartment
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Frank Borzage (born 1893, died 1962)
American director, actor, writer and producer.
- Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Director: 1928, for Seventh Heaven; 1932, for Bad Girl
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George Cukor (born 1899, died 1983)
American director.
- 1964 Academy Award winner for My Fair Lady
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Michael Curtiz (born 1888, died 1962)
Hungarian-American actor, director, writer, costume designer and producer.
- 1943 Academy Award winner for Casablanca
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Victor Fleming (born 1883, died 1949)
American director, producer and cinematographer.
- 1939 Academy Award winner for Gone With the Wind
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John Huston (born 1906, died 1987)
American actor, writer, director, producer and cinematographer.
- 1948 Academy Award winner for Treasure of Sierra Madre
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Frank Lloyd (born 1888, died 1960)
Scottish director and producer, one of the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Director: 1929, for The Divine Lady; 1933, for Cavalcade
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz (born 1909, died 1993)
American actor, writer, director and producer.
- Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Director: 1949, for Letter to Three Wives; 1950, for All About Eve
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Delbert Mann (born 1920)
American director, producer and actor.
- 1955 Academy Award winner for Marty
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Leo McCarey (born 1898, died 1969)
American writer, director and producer.
- Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Director: 1937, for The Awful Truth; 1944, for Going My Way
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Lewis Milestone (born 1895)
Actor, writer, director and producer.
- Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Director: 1928, for Two Arabian Knights; 1930, for All Quiet on the Western Front
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Vincente Minnelli (born 1910, died 1986)
American director. Father of Liza Minnelli.
- 1958 Academy Award winner for Gigi
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Norman Taurog (born 1899, died 1981)
American movie director.
- 1931 Academy Award winner for Skippy
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Robert Wise (born 1914)
American actor, director and producer.
- Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Director: 1961, for West Side Story; 1965, for The Sound of Music
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William Wyler (born 1902, died 1981)
American director and producer.
- Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Director: 1942, for Mrs. Miniver; 1959, for Ben-Hur
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Mel Gibson (born 1956)
American actor, director and producer.
- 1995 Academy Award winner for Braveheart
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Kevin Costner (born 1955)
American actor, director and producer.
- 1990 Academy Award winner for Dances With Wolves
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Milos Forman (born 1932)
Czechoslovakian actor, director and writer.
- Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Director: 1975, for One Flew Over the Cuckoo''s Nest; 1984, for Amadeus
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Fred Zinnemann (born 1907, died 1997)
Austrian actor, director and producer.
- Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Director: 1953, for From Here to Eternity; 1966, for A Man for All Seasons
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Frank Capra (born 1897, died 1991)
Italian-American writer, director and producer.
- Three-time Academy Award winner for Best Director: 1934, for It Happened One Night; 1936, for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town; 1938, for You Can''t Take It With You
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Jerome Robbins (born 1918, died 1998)
Director and choreographer.
- 1961 Academy Award winner for West Side Story
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Steven Spielberg (born 1947)
American director and producer.
- 1993 Academy Award winner for Schindler''s List
- 1998 Academy Award winner for Saving Private Ryan
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George Roy Hill (born 1922)
Actor, director and producer.
- 1973 Academy Award winner for The Sting
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Sir Carol Reed (born 1906, died 1976)
Director, producer and writer.
- 1968 Academy Award winner for Oliver!
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James L. Brooks (born 1940)
American actor, writer, director and producer.
- 1983 Academy Award winner for Terms of Endearment
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John G. Avildsen (born 1937)
Director, editor, cinematographer and producer.
- 1976 Academy Award winner for Rocky
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David Lean (born 1908, died 1991)
English director.
- Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Director: 1957, for The Bridge on the River Kwai; 1991, for Lawrence of Arabia
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Tony Richardson (born 1928, died 1991)
English writer, director and producer.
- 1963 Academy Award winner for Tom Jones
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Mike Nichols (born 1931)
Actor, director and producer.
- 1967 Academy Award winner for The Graduate
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John Schlesinger (born 1926)
English actor, writer, director and producer.
- 1969 Academy Award winner for Midnight Cowboy
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Franklin J. Schaffner (born 1920, died 1989)
Director and producer.
- 1970 Academy Award winner for Patton
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William Friedkin (born 1939)
American writer, director and producer.
- 1971 Academy Award winner for The French Connection
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Bob Fosse (born 1927, died 1987)
American choreographer, actor, director and writer.
- 1972 Academy Award winner for Cabaret
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Michael Cimino (born 1943)
American writer, director and producer.
- 1978 Academy Award winner for The Deer Hunter
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Robert Benton (born 1932)
American writer and director.
- 1979 Academy Award winner for Kramer vs. Kramer
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Warren Beatty (born 1937)
American actor, writer, director and producer.
- 1981 Academy Award winner for Reds
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Richard Attenborough (born 1923)
English actor, director, and producer.
- 1982 Academy Award winner for Gandhi
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Sydney Pollack (born 1934)
American actor, director and producer.
- 1985 Academy Award winner for Out of Africa
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Oliver Stone (born 1946)
American actor, writer, director and producer.
- Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Director: 1986, for Platoon; 1989, for Born on the Fourth of July
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Bernardo Bertolucci (born 1940)
Italian director, writer and actor.
- 1987 Academy Award winner for The Last Emperor
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Barry Levinson (born 1942)
American director, producer and actor.
- 1988 Academy Award winner for Rain Man
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Jonathan Demme (born 1944)
American actor, writer, director and producer.
- 1991 Academy Award winner for The Silence of the Lambs
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Robert Zemeckis (born 1952)
American writer, director and producer.
- 1994 Academy Award winner for Forrest Gump
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James Cameron (born 1954)
Canadian screenwriter and director.
- 1998 Academy Award winner for Titanic.
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Anthony Minghella (born 54)
English writer and director.
- 1996 Academy Award winner for The English Patient
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Sam Mendes
British born film director
- 1999 Academy Award winner for American Beauty
Oscar Winners for Best Director
The Oscars have been awarded annually since 1927 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Elia Kazan (born 1909)
Turkish-born American writer, director and producer.
- Two-time Academy Award winner for Best Director: 1947, for Gentleman''s Agreement; 1954, for On the Waterfront
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