Academy Award For Best Director - Oscars

1927/1928 (Dramatic) - Frank Borzage

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

1927/1928 (Comedy) - Lewis Milestone

Nominees:
Charles Chaplin – The Circus
Ted Wilde – Speedy

1928/1929 - Frank Lloyd

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

1929/1930 - Lewis Milestone

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

1930/1931 - Norman Taurog

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

1931/1932 - Frank Borzage

Nominees:
King Vidor – The Champ
Josef von Sternberg – Shanghai Express

1932/1933 - Frank Lloyd

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

1934 - Frank Capra

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

1935 - John Ford

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

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

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

1938 - Frank Capra

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

1939 - Victor Fleming

Nominees:
Frank Capra – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
John Ford – Stagecoach
Sam Wood – Goodbye, Mr. Chips
William Wyler – Wuthering Heights

1940 - John Ford

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

1941 - John Ford

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

1942 - William Wyler

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

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

1944 - Leo McCarey

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

1945 - Billy Wilder

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

1946 - William Wyler

Nominees:
Clarence Brown – The Yearling
Frank Capra – It's a Wonderful Life
David Lean – Brief Encounter
Robert Siodmak – The Killers

1947 - Elia Kazan

Nominees:
George Cukor – A Double Life
Edward Dmytryk – Crossfire
Henry Koster – The Bishop's Wife
David Lean – Great Expectations

1948 - John Huston

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

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

1950 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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

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

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

1953 - Fred Zinnemann

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

1954 - Elia Kazan

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

1955 - Delbert Mann

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

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

1957 - David Lean

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

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!

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

1960 - Billy Wilder

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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?

1970 - Franklin J. Schaffner

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

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

1972 - Bob Fosse

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

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

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

1975 - Miloš Forman

Nominees:
Robert Altman – Nashville
Federico Fellini – Amarcord aka I Remember
Stanley Kubrick – Barry Lyndon
Sidney Lumet – Dog Day Afternoon

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

1977 - Woody Allen

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