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Six directors won the award for their feature film debut: Delbert Mann for Marty (1955), Jerome Robbins for West Side Story (1961), Robert Redford for Ordinary People (1980), James L. Brooks for Terms of Endearment (1983), Kevin Costner for Dances with Wolves (1990), and Sam Mendes for American Beauty (1999).
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Academy Award for best director, award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, located in Beverly Hills, California. It honours outstanding achievement by a director in a movie from a given year, as determined by the academy’s voting members. At the first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929, the award recognized the work in films from 1927–28, and it was offered in two categories: drama and comedy. However, the two Oscars were subsequently combined into one award that covered all genres. In addition, beginning with the seventh ceremony (1935), only work in movies released the previous year was eligible for consideration. The winning directors are given a gold-plated statuette known as an Oscar.
John Ford has won the most Academy Awards for best director (four), and Frank Capra and William Wyler each have received three. Other notable recipients include Kathryn Bigelow, who is the first woman to earn the award (2010), and Chloé Zhao, the first director of colour to win (2021). Below is a list of the winning directors and the films for which they won. The year is when the award was presented.
•1929: best drama: Frank Borzage (7th Heaven [1927]); best comedy: Lewis Milestone (Two Arabian Knights [1927])
•1930: Frank Lloyd (The Divine Lady [1928])
•1931: Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front [1930])
•1932: Norman Taurog (Skippy [1931])
•1933: Frank Borzage (Bad Girl [1931])
•1934: Frank Lloyd (Cavalcade [1933])
•1940: Victor Fleming (Gone with the Wind)
•1941: John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath)
•1942: John Ford (How Green Was My Valley)
•1943: William Wyler (Mrs. Miniver)
•1944: Michael Curtiz (Casablanca)
•1945: Leo McCarey (Going My Way)
•1960: William Wyler (Ben-Hur)
•1961: Billy Wilder (The Apartment)
•1962: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins (West Side Story)
•1963: David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia)
•1964: Tony Richardson (Tom Jones)
•1965: George Cukor (My Fair Lady)
•1980: Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer)
•1981: Robert Redford (Ordinary People)
•1982: Warren Beatty (Reds)
•1983: Richard Attenborough (Gandhi)
•1984: James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment)
•1985: Milos Forman (Amadeus)
•2000: Sam Mendes (American Beauty)
•2001: Steven Soderbergh (Traffic)
•2002: Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind)
•2003: Roman Polanski (The Pianist)
•2004: Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
•2005: Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby)
•2020: Bong Joon-Ho (Parasite)
•2021: Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)
•2022: Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)
•2023: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
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- William Wyler. The other director to have won the Academy Award for Best Director three times is filmmaker William Wyler. Wyler first won the award at the 15th Academy Awards for 1942's Mrs. Miniver.
- Frank Capra. Director Frank Capra is one of only two directors to have won the Academy Award for Best Director only three times. Capra first won the award at the 7th Academy Awards for 1934's It Happened One Night.
- Fred Zinnemann. Going in alphabetical order, Fred Zinnemann is the final director to have won the Academy Award for Best Director only twice. Zinnemann first won it at the 26th Academy Awards for 1953's From Here to Eternity.
- Robert Wise. Robert Wise not only won the Academy Award for Best Director twice, but he was also part of the first duo to win the award. Wise first won the Oscar alongside co-director Jerome Robbins at the 34th Academy Awards for 1961's West Side Story.
- 2023: Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once. Everything Everywhere All at Once and its directors Kwan and Scheinert took home seven awards during the 2023 ceremony, the most of any film that year.
- 2022: Jane Campion, Power of the Dog. Becoming the third woman in Academy Awards history to win Best Director, Jane Campion snagged the Oscar for her modern-day Western at the 2022 ceremony.
- 2021: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland. In another history-making win, not only was Zhao the second woman to ever win in the category, but she was the first Asian woman to take an Oscar for directing.
- 2020: Bong Joon Ho, Parasite. "Once you overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films," said South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho when he accepted the Golden Globe for best motion picture, foreign language in 2020.
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