Aquí un repaso por todos aquellos ganadores al Oscar en la categoría de Mejor Director.
Año |
Director |
Película que dirigió |
| 2008 | ||
| 2007 | Martin Scorsese | The Departed |
| 2006 | Ang Lee | Brokeback Mountain |
| 2005 | Clint Eastwood | Million Dollar Baby |
| 2004 | Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
| 2003 | Roman Polansky | The Pianist |
| 2002 | Ron Howard | A Beautiful Mind |
| 2001 | Steven Soderbergh | Traffic |
| 2000 | Sam Mendes | American Beauty |
| 1999 | Steven Spielberg | Saving Private Ryan |
| 1998 | James Cameron | Titanic |
| 1997 | Anthony Minghella | The English patient |
| 1996 | Mel Gibson | Braveheart |
| 1995 | Robert Zemeckis | Forrest Gump |
| 1994 | Steven Spielberg | Schindler's list |
| 1993 | Clint Eastwood | Unforgiven |
| 1992 | Jonathan Demme | The Silence of the Lambs |
| 1991 | Kevin Costner | Dances with Wolves |
| 1990 | Oliver Stone | Born on the 4th of July |
| 1989 | Barry Levinson | Rain Man |
| 1988 | Bernardo Bertolucci | The Last Emperor |
| 1987 | Oliver Stone | Platoon |
| 1986 | Sydney Pollack | Out of Africa |
| 1985 | Miloš Forman | Amadeus |
| 1984 | James L. Brooks | Terms of endearment |
| 1983 | Richard Attenborough | Gandhi |
| 1982 | Warren Beatty | Reds |
| 1981 | Robert Redford | Ordinary People |
| 1980 | Robert Benton | Kramer vs Kramer |
| 1979 | Michael Cimino | The Deer Hunter |
| 1978 | Woody Allen | Annie Hall |
| 1977 | John G. Avildsen | Rocky |
| 1976 | Miloš Forman | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| 1975 | Francis Ford Coppola | The Godfather II |
| 1974 | George Roy Hill | The Sing |
| 1973 | Bob Fosse | Cabaret |
| 1972 | William Friedkin | The French Connection |
| 1971 | Franklin J. Schaffner | Patton |
| 1970 | John Schlesinger | Midnight Cowboy |
| 1969 | Carol Reed | Oliver |
| 1968 | Mike Nichols | The Graduate |
| 1967 | Fred Zinnemann | One Man for All Seasons |
| 1966 | Robert Wise | The Sound of Music |
| 1965 | George Cukor | My Fair Lady |
| 1964 | Tony Richardson | Tom Jones |
| 1963 | David Lean | Lawrence de Arabia |
| 1962 | Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins | West Side Story |
| 1961 | Billy Wilder | The Apartment |
| 1960 | William Wyler | Ben Hur |
| 1959 | Vincente Minnelli | Gigi |
| 1958 | David Lean | The Bridge on the River Kwai |
| 1957 | George Stevens | Giant |
| 1956 | Delbert Mann | Marty |
| 1955 | Elia Kazan | On the Waterfront |
| 1954 | Fred Zinnemann | From Here to Eternity |
| 1953 | John Ford | The Quiet Man |
| 1952 | George Stevens | A Place in the Sun |
| 1951 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | All About Eve |
| 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | A Letter To Three Wives |
| 1949 | John Huston | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| 1948 | Elia Kazan | Gentleman's Agreement |
| 1947 | William Wyler | The Best Years of Our Lives |
| 1946 | The Lost Weekend | Billy Wilder |
| 1945 | Leo McCarey | Going My Way |
| 1944 | Michael Curtiz | Casablanca |
| 1943 | William Wyler | Mrs Miniver |
| 1942 | John Ford | How Green Was My Valley |
| 1941 | John Ford | The Grapes of Wrath |
| 1940 | Victor Fleming | Gone With the Wind |
| 1939 | Frank Capra | You Can't Take It with You |
| 1938 | Leo McCarey | The Awful Truth |
| 1937 | Frank Capra | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town |
| 1936 | John Ford | The Informer |
| 1935 | Frank Capra | It Happened One Night |
| 1934 | Frank Lloyd | Cavalcade |
| 1933 | Frank Borzage | Bad Girl |
| 1932 | Norman Taurog | Skippy |
| 1931 | Lewis Milestone | All Quiet on the Western Front |
| 1930 | Frank Lloyd | The Divine Lady |
| 1928-1929 | Frank Borzage (drama) | Seventh Heaven |
| 1928-1929 | Lewis Milestone (comedia) | Two Arabian Knights |
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