Seen/Unseen: Best Director winners

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  • 1929/28 Lewis Milestone (Two Arabian Knights)
  • 1930/29 Frank Lloyd (The Divine Lady)
  • 1931/30 Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front)
  • 1932/31 Norman Taurog (Skippy)
  • 1933/32 Frank Borzage (Bad Girl)
  • 1934/33 Frank Lloyd (Cavalcade)
  • 1935 Frank Capra (It Happened One Night)
  • 1936 John Ford (The Informer)
  • 1937 Frank Capra (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town)
  • 1938 Leo McCarey (The Awful Truth)
  • 1939 Frank Capra (You Can't Take It with You)
  • 1940 Victor Fleming (Gone with the Wind)
  • 1941 John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath)
  • 1942 John Ford (How Green Was My Valley)
  • 1943 William Wyler (Mrs. Miniver)
  • 1944 Michael Curtiz (Casablanca)
  • 1945 Leo McCarey (Going My Way)
  • 1946 Billy Wilder (The Lost Weekend)
  • 1947 William Wyler (The Best Years of Our Lives)
  • 1948 Elia Kazan (Gentleman's Agreement)
  • 1949 John Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
  • 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz (A Letter to Three Wives)
  • 1951 Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve)
  • 1952 George Stevens (A Place in the Sun)
  • 1953 John Ford (The Quiet Man)
  • 1954 Fred Zinnemann (From Here to Eternity)
  • 1955 Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront)
  • 1956 Delbert Mann (Marty)
  • 1957 George Stevens (Giant)
  • 1958 David Lean (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
  • 1959 Vincente Minnelli (Gigi)
  • 1960 William Wyler (Ben-Hur)
  • 1961 Billy Wilder (The Apartment)
  • 1962 Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins (West Side Story)
  • 1963 David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia)
  • 1964 Tony Richardson (Tom Jones)
  • 1965 George Cukor (My Fair Lady)
  • 1966 Robert Wise (The Sound of Music)
  • 1967 Fred Zinnemann (A Man for All Seasons)
  • 1968 Mike Nichols (The Graduate)
  • 1969 Carol Reed (Oliver!)
  • 1970 John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy)
  • 1971 Franklin J. Schaffner (Patton)
  • 1972 William Friedkin (The French Connection)
  • 1973 Bob Fosse (Cabaret)
  • 1974 George Roy Hill (The Sting)
  • 1975 Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather Part II)
  • 1976 Milos Forman (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest)
  • 1977 John G. Avildsen (Rocky)
  • 1978 Woody Allen (Annie Hall)
  • 1979 Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter)
  • 1980 Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer)
  • 1981 Robert Redford (Ordinary People)
  • 1982 Warren Beatty (Reds)
  • 1983 Richard Attenborough (Gandhi)
  • 1984 James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment)
  • 1985 Milos Forman (Amadeus)
  • 1986 Sydney Pollack (Out of Africa)
  • 1987 Oliver Stone (Platoon)
  • 1988 Bernardo Bertolucci (The Last Emperor)
  • 1989 Barry Levinson (Rain Man)
  • 1990 Oliver Stone (Born on the Fourth of July)
  • 1991 Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves)
  • 1992 Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs)
  • 1993 Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven)
  • 1994 Steven Spielberg (Schindler's List)
  • 1995 Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump)
  • 1996 Mel Gibson (Braveheart)
  • 1997 Anthony Minghella (The English Patient)
  • 1998 James Cameron (Titanic)
  • 1999 Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan)
  • 2000 Sam Mendes (American Beauty)
  • 2001 Steven Soderbergh (Traffic)
  • 2002 Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind)
  • 2003 Roman Polanski (The Pianist)
  • 2004 Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King)
  • 2005 Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby)
  • 2006 Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain)
  • 2006 Martin Scorsese (The Departed)