Every Best Director Winner

1935-The Informer

1940-The Grapes of Wrath

1941-How Green Was My Valley

1952-The Quiet Man

1934-It Happened One Night

1936-Mr. Deed Goes to Town

1938-You Can't Take it With You

1942- Mrs. Miniver

1946-The Best Years of Our Lives

1959-Ben-Hur

1927 (Best Dramatic Picture)-7th Heaven

1931-Bad Girl

1927 (Best Comedic Picture)-Two Arabian Knights\

1929-All Quiet on the Western Front

1928-The Divine Lady

1932-Cavalcade

1937-The Awful Truth

1944-Going My Way

1945-The Lost Weekend

1960-The Apartment

1947-Gentleman's Agreement

1954- On the Waterfront

1949-A Letter to Three Wives

1950-All About Eve

1951-A Place in the Sun

1956-Giant

1953-From Here to Eternity

1966-A Man for All Seasons

1957-The Bridge on the River Kwai

1962-Lawrence of Arabia

1961-West Side Story

1965-The Sound of Music

1975-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1984-Amadeus

1986-Platoon

1989-Born on the Fourth of July

1992-Unforgiven

2004-Million Dollar Baby

1993-Schindler's List

1998-Saving Private Ryan

2005-Brokeback Mountain

2012-The Life of Pi

2013-Gravity

2018-Roma

2014-Birdman

2015-The Revenant

1930-Skippy

1939-Gone With the Wind

1943-Casablanca

1948-The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

1955-Marty

1958-Gigi

1961-West Side Story

1963-Tom Jones

1964-My Fair Lady

1967-The Graduate

1968-Oliver!

1969-Midnight Cowboy

1970-Patton

1971-The French Connection

1972-Cabaret

1973-The Sting

1974-The Godfather Part II

1976-Rocky

1977-Annie Hall

1978-The Deer Hunter

1979-Kramer vs. Kramer

1980-Ordinary People

1981-Reds

1982-Gandhi

1983-Terms of Endearment

1985-Out of Africa

1987-The Last Emperor

1988-Rain Man

1990-Dances With Wolves