Oscar Winning Directors
| Year | Winning Director | Movie |
| 2008
2007
2006 | Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Martin Scorsese
| Slumdog Millionaire
No Country For Old Men
The Departed
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| 2005 | Ang Lee | Brokeback Mountain
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| 2004 | Clint Eastwood | Million Dollar Baby
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| 2003 | Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
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| 2002 | Roman Polanski | The Pianist
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| 2001 | Ron Howard | A Beautiful Mind
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| 2000 | Steven Soderbergh | Trafic
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| 1999 | Sam Mendes | American Beauty |
| 1998 | Steven Spielberg | Saving Private Ryan |
| 1997 | James Cameron | Titanic |
| 1996 | Anthony Minghella | The English Patient |
| 1995 | Mel Gibson | Braveheart |
| 1994 | Robert Zemeckis | Forrest Gump |
| 1993 | Steven Spielberg | Schindler's List |
| 1992 | Clint Eastwood | Unforgiven |
| 1991 | Jonathan Demme | The Silence Of The Lambs |
| 1990 | Kevin Costner | Dances With Wolves |
| 1989 | Oliver Stone | Born On The Fourth Of July |
| 1988 | Barry Levinson | Rain Man |
| 1987 | Bernardo Bertolucci | The Last Emperor |
| 1986 | Oliver Stone | Platoon |
| 1985 | Sydney Pollack | Out Of |
| 1984 | | Amadeus |
| 1983 | James L. Brooks | Terms Of Endearment |
| 1982 | Richard Attenborough | Gandhi |
| 1981 | | Reds |
| 1980 | Robert Redford | Ordinary People |
| 1979 | Robert Benton 2 | Kramer Vs. Kramer |
| 1978 | Michael Cimino | The Deer Hunter |
| 1977 | Woody Allen | Annie Hall |
| 1976 | John G. Avildsen | Rocky |
| 1975 | | One Flew Over The Cuckoo'S Nest |
| 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | The Godfather Part Ii |
| 1973 | George Roy Hill | The Sting |
| 1972 | Bob Fosse | Cabaret |
| 1971 | William Friedkin | The French Connection |
| 1970 | Franklin J. Schaffner | Patton |
| 1969 | John Schlesinger | |
| 1968 | Carol Reed | Oliver! |
| 1967 | Mike Nichols | The Graduate |
| 1966 | Fred Zinnemann | A Man For All Seasons |
| 1965 | Robert Wise | The Sound Of Music |
| 1964 | George Cukor | My Fair Lady |
| 1963 | Tony Richardson | Tom Jones |
| 1962 | David Lean | |
| 1961 | Jerome Robbins &
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| 1960 | Billy Wilder | The Apartment |
| 1959 | William Wyler | Ben Hur |
| 1958 | Vincente Minnelli | Gigi |
| 1957 | David Lean | The Bridge On The River Kwai |
| 1956 | George Stevens | Giant |
| 1955 | Delbert Mann | Marty |
| 1954 | Elia Kazan | On The Waterfront |
| 1953 | Fred Zinnemann | From Here To Eternity |
| 1952 | John Ford | The Quiet Man |
| 1951 | George Stevens | |
| 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | All About Eve |
| 1949 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | A Letter To Three Wives |
| 1948 | John Huston | The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre |
| 1947 | Elia Kazan | Gentleman'S Agreement |
| 1946 | William Wyler | The Best Years Of Our Lives |
| 1945 | Billy Wilder | The Lost Weekend |
| 1944 | Leo McCarey | Going My Way |
| 1943 | Michael Curtiz | |
| 1942 | William Wyler | Mrs. Miniver |
| 1941 | John Ford | How Green Was My Valley |
| 1940 | John Ford | The Grapes Of Wrath |
| 1939 | Victor Fleming | Gone With The Wind |
| 1938 | Frank Capra | You Can'T Take It With You |
| 1937 | Leo McCarey | The Awful Truth |
| 1936 | Frank Capra | Mr. Deeds Goes To Town |
| 1935 | John Ford | The Informer |
| 1934 | Frank Capra | It Happened One Night |
| 1933 | Frank Lloyd | Cavalcade |
| 1932 | Frank Borzage | Bad Girl |
| 1931 | Norman Taurog | Skippy |
| 1930 | Lewis Milestone | All Quiet On The Western Front |
| 1929 | Frank Lloyd | The Divine Lady |
| 1928 | Lewis Milestone | Two Arabian Knights |
| 1927 | Frank Borzage | 7th Heaven |
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