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ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR - OSCARS

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1. 7th Heaven (1927)
1927/1928 (Dramatic) - Frank Borzage

Nominees:
Herbert Brenon – Sorrell and Son
King Vidor – The Crowd

People who added this item 6  Average listal rating (2 ratings) 7.5  IMDB Rating 7.1 
2. Two Arabian Knights (1927)
1927/1928 (Comedy) - Lewis Milestone

Nominees:
Charles Chaplin – The Circus
Ted Wilde – Speedy

People who added this item 5  Average listal rating (1 ratings) 8  IMDB Rating 6.8 
3. The Divine Lady (1929)
1928/1929 - Frank Lloyd

Nominees:
Lionel Barrymore – Madame X
Harry Beaumont – The Broadway Melody
Irving Cummings – In Old Arizona
Ernst Lubitsch – The Patriot

People who added this item 112  Average listal rating (60 ratings) 7.7  IMDB Rating 8.1 
4. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
1929/1930 - Lewis Milestone

Nominees:
Clarence Brown – Anna Christie and Romance
Robert Z. Leonard – The Divorcée
Ernst Lubitsch – The Love Parade
King Vidor – Hallelujah

People who added this item 8  Average listal rating (2 ratings) 5.5  IMDB Rating 6.8 
5. Skippy (1931)
1930/1931 - Norman Taurog

Nominees:
Clarence Brown – A Free Soul
Lewis Milestone – The Front Page
Wesley Ruggles – Cimarron
Josef von Sternberg – Morocco

People who added this item 8  Average listal rating (3 ratings) 5.3  IMDB Rating 6.8 
6. Bad Girl (1931)
1931/1932 - Frank Borzage

Nominees:
King Vidor – The Champ
Josef von Sternberg – Shanghai Express
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People who added this item 15  Average listal rating (2 ratings) 8  IMDB Rating 6.6 
7. Cavalcade (1933)
1932/1933 - Frank Lloyd

Nominees:
Frank Capra – Lady for a Day
George Cukor – Little Women

People who added this item 167  Average listal rating (95 ratings) 8.4  IMDB Rating 8.3 
8. It Happened One Night (1934)
1934 - Frank Capra

Nominees:
Victor Schertzinger – One Night of Love
W. S. Van Dyke – The Thin Man

People who added this item 24  Average listal rating (14 ratings) 6.6  IMDB Rating 7.6 
9. The Informer (1935)
1935 - John Ford

Nominees:
Henry Hathaway – The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Frank Lloyd – Mutiny on the Bounty

People who added this item 44  Average listal rating (19 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating
10. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
1936 - Frank Capra

Nominees:
Gregory La Cava – My Man Godfrey
Robert Z. Leonard – The Great Ziegfeld
W. S. Van Dyke – San Francisco
William Wyler – Dodsworth

People who added this item 44  Average listal rating (23 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating
11. The Awful Truth (1937)
1937 - Leo McCarey

Nominees:
William Dieterle – The Life of Emile Zola
Sidney Franklin – The Good Earth
Gregory La Cava – Stage Door
William A. Wellman – A Star Is Born

People who added this item 51  Average listal rating (26 ratings) 7.7  IMDB Rating 8.1 
12. You Can't Take It with You (1938)
1938 - Frank Capra

Nominees:
Michael Curtiz – Angels with Dirty Faces
Michael Curtiz – Four Daughters
Norman Taurog – Boys Town
King Vidor – The Citadel

People who added this item 679  Average listal rating (407 ratings) 7.5  IMDB Rating 8.2 
13. Gone with the Wind (1939)
1939 - Victor Fleming

Nominees:
Frank Capra – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
John Ford – Stagecoach
Sam Wood – Goodbye, Mr. Chips
William Wyler – Wuthering Heights
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People who added this item 164  Average listal rating (88 ratings) 7.6  IMDB Rating 8.2 
14. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
1940 - John Ford

Nominees:
George Cukor – The Philadelphia Story
Alfred Hitchcock – Rebecca
Sam Wood – Kitty Foyle
William Wyler – The Letter

People who added this item 73  Average listal rating (41 ratings) 7.6  IMDB Rating 7.9 
15. How Green Was My Valley (1941)
1941 - John Ford

Nominees:
Alexander Hall – Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Howard Hawks – Sergeant York
Orson Welles – Citizen Kane
William Wyler – The Little Foxes

People who added this item 24  Average listal rating (11 ratings) 7.7  IMDB Rating 7.7 
16. Mrs. Miniver (1942)
1942 - William Wyler

Nominees:
Michael Curtiz – Yankee Doodle Dandy
John Farrow – Wake Island
Mervyn LeRoy – Random Harvest
Sam Wood – Kings Row

People who added this item 922  Average listal rating (558 ratings) 8.1  IMDB Rating 8.8 
17. Casablanca (1942)
1943 - Michael Curtiz

Nominees:
Clarence Brown – The Human Comedy
Henry King – The Song of Bernadette
Ernst Lubitsch – Heaven Can Wait
George Stevens – The More the Merrier

People who added this item 25  Average listal rating (12 ratings) 6.8  IMDB Rating 7.5 
18. Going My Way (1944)
1944 - Leo McCarey

Nominees:
Alfred Hitchcock – Lifeboat
Henry King – Wilson
Otto Preminger – Laura
Billy Wilder – Double Indemnity

People who added this item 106  Average listal rating (59 ratings) 7.7  IMDB Rating 8.2 
19. The Lost Weekend (1945)
1945 - Billy Wilder

Nominees:
Clarence Brown – National Velvet
Alfred Hitchcock – Spellbound
Leo McCarey – The Bells of St. Mary's
Jean Renoir – The Southerner

People who added this item 91  Average listal rating (42 ratings) 8  IMDB Rating 8.2 
20. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
1946 - William Wyler

Nominees:
Clarence Brown – The Yearling
Frank Capra – It's a Wonderful Life
David Lean – Brief Encounter
Robert Siodmak – The Killers
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People who added this item 42  Average listal rating (23 ratings) 7.3  IMDB Rating 7.4 
21. Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
1947 - Elia Kazan

Nominees:
George Cukor – A Double Life
Edward Dmytryk – Crossfire
Henry Koster – The Bishop's Wife
David Lean – Great Expectations
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People who added this item 178  Average listal rating (113 ratings) 8.1  IMDB Rating 8.5 
22. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
1948 - John Huston

Nominees:
Anatole Litvak – The Snake Pit
Jean Negulesco – Johnny Belinda
Laurence Olivier – Hamlet
Fred Zinnemann – The Search

People who added this item 22  Average listal rating (14 ratings) 7.5  IMDB Rating 7.7 
23. A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
1949 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Nominees:
Carol Reed – The Fallen Idol
Robert Rossen – All the King's Men
William A. Wellman – Battleground
William Wyler – The Heiress
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People who added this item 260  Average listal rating (156 ratings) 8.2  IMDB Rating 8.5 
24. All About Eve (1950)
1950 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Nominees:
George Cukor – Born Yesterday
John Huston – The Asphalt Jungle
Carol Reed – The Third Man
Billy Wilder – Sunset Boulevard

People who added this item 60  Average listal rating (28 ratings) 7.3  IMDB Rating 7.8 
25. A Place in the Sun (1951)
1951 - George Stevens

Nominees:
John Huston – The African Queen
Elia Kazan – A Streetcar Named Desire
Vincente Minnelli – An American in Paris
William Wyler – Detective Story

People who added this item 76  Average listal rating (47 ratings) 7.7  IMDB Rating
26. The Quiet Man (1952)
1952 - John Ford

Nominees:
Cecil B. DeMille – The Greatest Show on Earth
John Huston – Moulin Rouge
Joseph L. Mankiewicz – 5 Fingers
Fred Zinnemann – High Noon

People who added this item 106  Average listal rating (52 ratings) 7.4  IMDB Rating 7.9 
27. From Here to Eternity (1953)
1953 - Fred Zinnemann

Nominees:
George Stevens – Shane
Charles Walters – Lili
Billy Wilder – Stalag 17
William Wyler – Roman Holiday

People who added this item 229  Average listal rating (142 ratings) 8.1  IMDB Rating 8.4 
28. On the Waterfront (1954)
1954 - Elia Kazan

Nominees:
Alfred Hitchcock – Rear Window
George Seaton – The Country Girl
William A. Wellman – The High and the Mighty
Billy Wilder – Sabrina

People who added this item 38  Average listal rating (16 ratings) 7.2  IMDB Rating 7.8 
29. Marty (1955)
1955 - Delbert Mann

Nominees:
Elia Kazan – East of Eden
David Lean – Summertime
Joshua Logan – Picnic
John Sturges – Bad Day at Black Rock

People who added this item 110  Average listal rating (61 ratings) 7.4  IMDB Rating 7.7 
30. Giant (1956)
1956 - George Stevens

Nominees:
Michael Anderson – Around the World in Eighty Days
Walter Lang – The King and I
King Vidor – War and Peace
William Wyler – Friendly Persuasion

People who added this item 290  Average listal rating (187 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating 8.5 
31. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
1957 - David Lean

Nominees:
Joshua Logan – Sayonara
Sidney Lumet – 12 Angry Men
Mark Robson – Peyton Place
Billy Wilder – Witness for the Prosecution

People who added this item 71  Average listal rating (35 ratings) 6.9  IMDB Rating 6.9 
32. Gigi (1958)
1958 - Vincente Minnelli

Nominees:
Richard Brooks – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Stanley Kramer – The Defiant Ones
Mark Robson – The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Robert Wise – I Want to Live!

People who added this item 374  Average listal rating (224 ratings) 7.2  IMDB Rating 8.2 
33. Ben-Hur (1959)
1959 - William Wyler

Nominees:
Jack Clayton – Room at the Top
George Stevens – The Diary of Anne Frank
Billy Wilder – Some Like It Hot
Fred Zinnemann – The Nun's Story

People who added this item 261  Average listal rating (162 ratings) 8.3  IMDB Rating 8.4 
34. The Apartment (1960)
1960 - Billy Wilder

Nominees:
Jack Cardiff – Sons and Lovers
Jules Dassin – Never on Sunday
Alfred Hitchcock – Psycho
Fred Zinnemann – The Sundowners

People who added this item 328  Average listal rating (190 ratings) 7  IMDB Rating 7.8 
35. West Side Story (1961)
1961 - Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins

Nominees:
Federico Fellini – La dolce vita aka The Sweet Life
Stanley Kramer – Judgment at Nuremberg
Robert Rossen – The Hustler
J. Lee Thompson – The Guns of Navarone

People who added this item 371  Average listal rating (210 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating 8.6 
36. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
1962 - David Lean

Nominees:
Pietro Germi – Divorzio all'italiana aka Divorce, Italian Style
Robert Mulligan – To Kill a Mockingbird
Arthur Penn – The Miracle Worker
Frank Perry – David and Lisa

People who added this item 26  Average listal rating (12 ratings) 7  IMDB Rating 7.1 
37. Tom Jones (1963)
1964 - George Cukor

Nominees:
Michael Cacoyannis – Zorba the Greek
Peter Glenville – Becket
Stanley Kubrick – Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Robert Stevenson – Mary Poppins

People who added this item 769  Average listal rating (509 ratings) 7.3  IMDB Rating 7.9 
38. The Sound of Music (1965)
1965 - Robert Wise

Nominees:
David Lean – Doctor Zhivago
John Schlesinger – Darling
Hiroshi Teshigahara – Suna no onna aka Woman in the Dunes
William Wyler – The Collector

People who added this item 52  Average listal rating (23 ratings) 7.4  IMDB Rating 8.1 
39. A Man for All Seasons (1966)
1966 - Fred Zinnemann

Nominees:
Michelangelo Antonioni – Blow-Up
Richard Brooks – The Professionals
Claude Lelouch – Un homme et une femme aka A Man and a Woman
Mike Nichols – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

People who added this item 628  Average listal rating (383 ratings) 7.6  IMDB Rating 8.2 
40. The Graduate (1967)
1967 - Mike Nichols

Nominees:
Richard Brooks – In Cold Blood
Norman Jewison – In the Heat of the Night
Stanley Kramer – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Arthur Penn – Bonnie and Clyde

People who added this item 98  Average listal rating (59 ratings) 7.6  IMDB Rating 7.6 
41. Oliver! (1968)
1968 - Carol Reed

Nominees:
Anthony Harvey – The Lion in Winter
Stanley Kubrick – 2001: A Space Odyssey
Gillo Pontecorvo – La battaglia di Algeri aka The Battle of Algiers
Franco Zeffirelli – Romeo and Juliet

People who added this item 210  Average listal rating (117 ratings) 7.7  IMDB Rating
42. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
1969 - John Schlesinger

Nominees:
Costa-Gavras – Z
George Roy Hill – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Arthur Penn – Alice's Restaurant
Sydney Pollack – They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

People who added this item 161  Average listal rating (97 ratings) 7.3  IMDB Rating 8.1 
43. Patton (1970)
1970 - Franklin J. Schaffner

Nominees:
Robert Altman – MASH
Federico Fellini – Satyricon
Arthur Hiller – Love Story
Ken Russell – Women in Love

People who added this item 270  Average listal rating (168 ratings) 7.6  IMDB Rating 7.9 
44. The French Connection (1971)
1971 - William Friedkin

Nominees:
Peter Bogdanovich – The Last Picture Show
Norman Jewison – Fiddler on the Roof
Stanley Kubrick – A Clockwork Orange
John Schlesinger – Sunday Bloody Sunday

People who added this item 196  Average listal rating (107 ratings) 7.4  IMDB Rating 7.8 
45. Cabaret (1972)
1972 - Bob Fosse

Nominees:
John Boorman – Deliverance
Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather
Joseph L. Mankiewicz – Sleuth
Jan Troell – Utvandrarna aka The Emigrants

People who added this item 292  Average listal rating (194 ratings) 7.9  IMDB Rating 8.4 
46. The Sting (1973)
1973 - George Roy Hill

Nominees:
William Friedkin – The Exorcist
Bernardo Bertolucci – Last Tango in Paris
Ingmar Bergman – Viskningar och rop aka Cries and Whispers
George Lucas – American Graffiti

People who added this item 1215  Average listal rating (769 ratings) 8.5  IMDB Rating
47. The Godfather Part II (1974)
1974 - Francis Ford Coppola

Nominees:
John Cassavetes – A Woman Under the Influence
Bob Fosse – Lenny
Roman Polanski – Chinatown
François Truffaut – La nuit américaine aka Day for Night
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People who added this item 1184  Average listal rating (788 ratings) 8.4  IMDB Rating 8.9 
48. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
1975 - Miloš Forman

Nominees:
Robert Altman – Nashville
Federico Fellini – Amarcord aka I Remember
Stanley Kubrick – Barry Lyndon
Sidney Lumet – Dog Day Afternoon
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People who added this item 760  Average listal rating (520 ratings) 7.1  IMDB Rating
49. Rocky (1976)
1976 - John G. Avildsen

Nominees:
Ingmar Bergman – Ansikte mot ansikte aka Face to Face
Sidney Lumet – Network
Alan J. Pakula – All the President's Men
Lina Wertmüller – Pasqualino Settebellezze aka Seven Beauties

People who added this item 595  Average listal rating (354 ratings) 8  IMDB Rating 8.2 
50. Annie Hall (1977)
1977 - Woody Allen

Nominees:
George Lucas – Star Wars
Herbert Ross – The Turning Point
Steven Spielberg – Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Fred Zinnemann – Julia


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The Academy Award for Achievement in Directing (Best Director) is one of the Awards of Merit presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to directors working in the motion picture industry. While nominations for Best Director are made by members in the Academy's Directing branch, the award winners are selected by the Academy membership as a whole.

DIRECTOR WITH MOST AWARDS:
John Ford (4)
Frank Capra (3)
William Wyler (3)

DIRECTOR WITH MOST NOMINATIONS:
William Wyler (12)

DIRECTOR TIED FOR MOST NOMINATIONS WITHOUT A WIN (5 EACH):
Robert Altman
Clarence Brown
Alfred Hitchcock
King Vidor


Source: Wikipedia

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