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Academy Awards For Best Director Deservers

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202

7.6

Wings (1927)

1927/28!

Winner: William A. Wellman!

Nominees:
Frank Borzage - Seventh Heaven
King Vidor - The Crowd

Best Director, Comedy Picture!

Winner: Lewis Milestone, Two Arabian Knights!

Nominees:
Ted Wilde - Speedy

7.1

The Patriot (1928)

1928/29!

Winner: Ernst Lubitsch!

Nominees:
Lionel Barrymore - Madame X
Harry Beaumont - The Broadway Melody
Irving Cummings - In Old Arizona
Frank Lloyd - The Divine Lady

669

8.1

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

1929/30!

Winner: Lewis Milestone!

Nominees:
Clarence Brown - Anna Christie
Robert Z. Leonard - The Divorcee
Ernst Lubitsch - The Love Parade
King Vidor - Hallelujah!

1338

8.6

8.5

City Lights (1931)

1930/31!

Winner: Charlie Chaplin!

Nominees:
Clarence Brown - A Free Soul
Fritz Lang - M
Lewis Milestone - The Front Page
Norman Tuarog - Skippy

6.5

Bad Girl

1931/32!

Winner: Frank Borzage!

Nominees:
King Vidor - The Champ
Josef van Sternberg - Shanghai Express

1270

7.5

7.9

King Kong (1933)

1932/33!

Winner: Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack!

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

908

8.1

It Happened One Night (1934)

1934!

Winner: Frank Capra!

Nominees:
Howard Hawks - Twentieth Century
Victor Schertzinger - One Night of Love
W. S. Van Dyke - The Thin Man
Jean Vigo - L'Atalante

334

7.7

Top Hat (1935)

1935!

Winner: Mark Sandrich!

Nominees:
Michael Curtiz - Captain Blood
John Ford - The Informer
Henry Hathaway - The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Frank Lloyd - Mutiny on the Bounty

1886

8.4

8.5

Modern Times (1936)

1936!

Winner: Charlie Chaplin!

Nominees:
William Wyler - Dodsworth
Frank Capra - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Gregory La Cava - My Man Godfrey
W.S. Van Dyke - San Francisco

119

7.3

A Star Is Born (1937)

1937!

Winner: William A. Wellman!

Nominees:
William Dieterle - The Life of Emile Zola
Sidney Franklin - The Good Earth
Gregory La Cava - Stage Door
Leo McCarey - The Awful Truth

615

7.8

7.9

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

1938!

Winner: Michael Curtiz and William Keighley!

Nominees:
Frank Capra - You Can't Take It With You
Howard Hawks - Bringing Up Baby
Norman Taurog - Boys Town
King Vidor - The Citadel

2528

7.9

8.1

Gone with the Wind (1939)

1939!

Winner: Victor Fleming!

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

719

8.1

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

1940!

Winner: John Ford!

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

2864

8.2

8.3

Citizen Kane (1941)

1941!

Winner: Orson Welles!

Nominees:
John Ford - How Green Was My Valley
Alexander Hall - Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Howard Hawks - Sergeant York
William Wyler - The Little Foxes

3368

8.2

8.5

Casablanca (1942)

1942!

Winner: Michael Curtiz!

Nominees:
Sam Wood - Kings Row
William Wyler - Mrs. Miniver
Mervyn LeRoy - Random Harvest
John Farrow - Wake Island

808

7.9

7.8

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

1943!

Winner: Alfred Hitchcock!

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

1044

8.3

Double Indemnity (1944)

1944!

Winner: Billy Wilder!

Nominees:
Leo McCarey - Going My Way
Otto Preminger - Laura
Alfred Hitchcock - Lifeboat
Henry King - Wilson

526

Brief Encounter (1945)

1945!

Winner: David Lean!

Nominees:
Clarence Brown - National Velvet
Alfred Hitchcock - Spellbound
Leo McCarey - The Bells of St. Mary's
Billy Wilder - The Lost Weekend

2288

8.2

8.6

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

1946!

Winner: Frank Capra!

Nominees:
Clarence Brown - The Yearling
Laurence Olivier - Henry V
Robert Siodmak - The Killers
William Wyler - The Best Years of Our Lives

434

7.9

Out of the Past (1947) (1948)

1947!

Winner: Jacques Tourneur!

Nominees:
George Cukor - A Double Life
Edward Dmytryk - Crossfire
Elia Kazan - Gentleman's Agreement
David Lean - Great Expectations

816

8.3

8.2

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) (2012)

1948!

Winner: John Huston!

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

1145

8.3

8.1

The Third Man (1949)

1949!

Winner: Carol Reed!

Nominees:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - A Letter to Three Wives
Robert Rossen - All the King's Men
William A. Wellman - Battleground
William Wyler - The Heiress

1584

8.5

8.4

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

1950!

Winner: Billy Wilder!

Nominees:
George Cukor - Born Yesterday
John Huston - The Asphalt Jungle
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - All About Eve
Carol Reed - The Third Man

1268

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

1951!

Winner: Elia Kazan!

Nominees:
John Huston - The African Queen
Vincente Minnelli - An American in Paris
George Stevens - A Place in the Sun
Alfred Hitchcock - Strangers on a Train

1938

8.1

8.3

Singin' in the Rain (1952)

1952!

Winner: Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen!

Nominees:
John Ford - The Quiet Man
John Huston - Moulin Rouge
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Five Fingers
Fred Zinnemann - High Noon

530

7.6

From Here to Eternity (1953)

1953!

Winner: Fred Zinnemann!

Nominees:
George Stevens - Shane
Charles Walter - Lili
Billy Wilder - Stalag 17
William Wyler - Roman Holiday

1020

8.1

On the Waterfront (1954)

1954!

Winner: Elia Kazan!

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

893

8.2

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

1955!

Winner: Charles Laughton!

Nominees:
Elia Kazan - East of Eden
David Lean - Summertime
Delbert Mann - Marty
John Sturges - Bad Day at Black Rock

830

7.9

7.8

The Searchers (1956)

1956!

Winner: John Ford!

Nominees:
Michael Anderson - Around the World in 80 Days
Cecil B. DeMille - The Ten Commandments
Walter Lang - The King and I
George Stevens - Giant

1126

8.1

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

1957!

Winner: David Lean!

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

2862

8.3

Vertigo (1958)

1958!

Winner: Alfred Hitchcock!

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!

1439

7.6

8.1

Ben-Hur (1959)

1959!

Winner: 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

4211

8.3

8.5

Psycho (1960)

1960!

Winner: Alfred Hitchcock!

Nominees:
Billy Wilder - The Apartment
Jules Dassin - Never on Sunday
Jack Cardiff - Sons and Lovers
Fred Zinnemann - The Sundowners

1231

7.1

7.5

West Side Story (1961)

1961!

Winner: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins!

Nominees:
Frederico Fellini - La Dolce Vita
Stanley Kramer - Judgment at Nuremberg
Robert Rossen - The Hustler
J. Lee Thompson - The Guns of Navarone

1614

8.2

8.3

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

1962!

Winner: David Lean!

Nominees:
John Ford - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
John Frankenheimer - The Manchurian Candidate
Arthur Penn - The Miracle Worker
Robert Mulligan - To Kill a Mockingbird

1562

8.3

8½ (1963)

1963!

Winner: Frederico Fellini!

Nominees:
Elia Kazan - America, America
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Cleopatra
Otto Preminger - The Cardinal
Martin Ritt - Hud

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

3030

8.3

8.4

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb... (1964)

1964!

Winner: Stanley Kubrick!

Nominees:
Peter Glenville - Becket
Robert Stevenson - Mary Poppins
George Cukor - My Fair Lady
Michael Cacoyannis - Zorba the Greek

930

7.6

7.9

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

1965!

Winner: David Lean!

Nominees:
John Schlesinger - Darling
Hiroshi Teshigahara - The Woman in the Dunes
Robert Wise - The Sound of Music
William Wyler - The Collector

913

8.1

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

1966!

Winner: Mike Nichols!

Nominees:
Michelangelo Antonioni - Blowup
Richard Brooks - The Professionals
Claude Lelouch - A Man and a Woman
Fred Zinnemann - A Man for All Seasons

1562

7.7

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

1967!

Winner: Arthur Penn!

Nominees:
Richard Brooks - In Cold Blood
Norman Jewison - In the Heat of the Night
Stanley Kramer - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Mike Nichols - The Graduate

4419

8.1

8.3

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

1968!

Winner: Stanley Kubrick!

Nominees:
Anthony Harvey - The Lion In Winter
Sergio Leone - Once Upon a Time in the West
Roman Polanski - Rosemary's Baby
Sergei Bondarchuk - War and Peace

1045

7.7

7.8

Midnight Cowboy (1969)

1969!

Winner: John Schlesinger!

Nominees:
George Roy Hill - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Sydney Pollack - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Sam Peckinpah - The Wild Bunch
Costa-Gavras - Z

707

7.6

7.9

Patton (1970)

1970!

Winner: Franklin J. Schaffner!

Nominees:
Robert Altman - MASH
Frederico Fellini - Fellini Satyricon
Arthur Hiller - Love Story
Ken Russell - Women in Love

603

7.9

The Last Picture Show (1971)

1971!

Winner: Peter Bogdanovich!

Nominees:
Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange
Don Siegel - Dirty Harry
Norman Jewison - Fiddler on the Roof
William Friedkin - The French Connection

6404

8.8

9.2

The Godfather (1972)

1972!

Winner: Francis Ford Coppola!

Nominees:
John Boorman - Deliverance
Bob Fosse - Cabaret
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Sleuth
Jan Troell - The Emigrants

1161

8.3

The Sting (1973)

1973!

Winner: George Roy Hill!

Nominees:
George Lucas - American Graffiti
Terrence Malick - Badlands
William Friedkin - The Exorcist
Peter Bogdanovich - Paper Moon

4549

8.6

The Godfather: Part II (1974)

1974!

Winner: Francis Ford Coppola!

Nominees:
John Cassavetes - A Woman Under the Influence
Bob Fosse - Lenny
Roman Polanski - Chinatown
Francois Truffaut - Day for Night

4466

8.5

8.7

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

1975!

Winner: Milos Forman!

Nominees:
Stanley Kubrick - Barry Lyndon
Sidney Lumet - Dog Day Afternoon
Steven Spielberg - Jaws
Robert Altman - Nashville

1217

8.3

8.1

Network (1976)

1976!

Winner: Sidney Lumet!

Nominees:
Alan J. Pakula - All the President's Men
Clint Eastwood - The Outlaw Josey Wales
John G. Avildsen - Rocky
Martin Scorsese - Taxi Driver

6466

8.6

Star Wars (1977)

1977!

Winner: George Lucas!

Nominees:
Woody Allen - Annie Hall
Steven Spielberg - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Fred Zinnemann - Julia
Herbert Ross - The Turning Point

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