Oscar Winners: Best Director
Chronicling the films that have won their directors the Academy Award for Best Director, from the Oscars' inception in 1927 to the present day. (Incidentally, John Ford holds the record for most Best Director awards; he received four. And, scandalous though it may be, poor old Alfred Hitchcock was never graced with a single one.)
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Seventh Heaven (1927) (1927, Unrated)
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Two Arabian Knights (1927, G)
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The Divine Lady (1929, Unrated)
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All Quiet on the Western Front (1930, Unrated)
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Skippy (1931, Unrated)
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Bad Girl (1931, Unrated)
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Cavalcade (1933, Unrated)
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It Happened One Night (1934, Unrated)
"Screwball comedy", as they call it, just isn't my genre. |
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The Informer (1935, Unrated)
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936, Unrated)
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The Awful Truth (1937, Unrated)
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You Can't Take It with You (1938, Unrated)
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Gone With the Wind (1939, G)
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The Grapes of Wrath (1940, Unrated)
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How Green Was My Valley (1941, Unrated)
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Mrs. Miniver (1942, Unrated)
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Casablanca (1943, PG)
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Going My Way (1944, Unrated)
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The Lost Weekend (1945, Unrated)
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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946, Unrated)
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Gentleman's Agreement (1947, Unrated)
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, Unrated)
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A Letter to Three Wives (1949, Unrated)
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All About Eve (1950, Unrated)
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A Place in the Sun (1951, Unrated)
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The Quiet Man (1952, Unrated)
Unquestionably the Duke's greatest non-western. |
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From Here to Eternity (1953, Unrated)
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On the Waterfront (1954, Unrated)
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Marty (1955, Unrated)
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Giant (1956, G)
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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, PG)
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Gigi (1958, G)
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Ben-Hur (1959, G)
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The Apartment (1960, Unrated)
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West Side Story (1961, Unrated)
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962, PG)
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Tom Jones (1963, Unrated)
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My Fair Lady (1964, G)
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The Sound of Music (1965, G)
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A Man for All Seasons (1966, G)
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The Graduate (1967, PG)
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Oliver! (1968, G)
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Midnight Cowboy (1969, R)
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Patton (1970, PG)
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The French Connection (1971, R)
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Cabaret (1972, PG)
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The Sting (1973, PG)
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The Godfather, Part II (1974, R)
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One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975, R)
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Rocky (1976, PG)
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Annie Hall (1977, PG)
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The Deer Hunter (1978, R)
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Kramer vs. Kramer (1979, PG)
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Ordinary People (1980, R)
I can't believe Robert Redford snatched the Academy Award for Best Director away from Martin Scorsese and "Raging Bull" with this film. |
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Reds (1981, PG)
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Gandhi (1982, PG)
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Terms of Endearment (1983, PG)
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Amadeus (1984, R)
About as historically accurate as Disney's "Pocahontas", but a great movie nonetheless. |
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Out of Africa (1985, PG)
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Platoon (1986, R)
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The Last Emperor (1987, PG-13)
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Rain Man (1988, R)
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Born on the Fourth of July (1989, R)
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Dances With Wolves (1990, PG-13)
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The Silence of the Lambs (1991, R)
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Unforgiven (1992, R)
Though the legend of the Old West is our great American mythology (virtually all great nations idealize and revere a certain chapter in their history), Clint Eastwood and company dare to give us a western completely stripped of all the romance and magnificence that typically defines the genre. In this film, there's no glory or triumph; no real heroes or villains. Just an assortment of flawed human beings doing often inexplicable things to each other. |
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Schindler's List (1993, R)
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Forrest Gump (1994, PG-13)
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Braveheart (1995, R)
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The English Patient (1996, R)
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Titanic (1997, PG-13)
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Saving Private Ryan (1998, R)
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American Beauty (1999, R)
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Traffic (2000, R)
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A Beautiful Mind (2001, PG-13)
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The Pianist (2002, R)
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The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King (2003, PG-13)
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Million Dollar Baby (2004, PG-13)
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Brokeback Mountain (2005, R)
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The Departed (2006, R)
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No Country for Old Men (2007, R)
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Slumdog Millionaire (2008, R)
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