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Mar 11, 2024 · Click through our updated visual history of every winner of the Academy Award for Best Director, from the most recent Oscar winner to the very first champion. Gallery updated March 2024.
Feb 12, 2020 · This list will include all winners that won the Academy Award for best director. Not all films that won Best Picture will have their directors win the award for Best Director. A film may win the award for best picture.
The Academy Award for Best Director (officially known as the Academy Award of Merit for Directing) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given in honor of a film director who has exhibited outstanding directing while working in the film industry .
- Excellence in Cinematic Direction Achievement
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
- ((John Ford)) (5)
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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)
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The 78th Academy Awards presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 5, 2006, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:00 p.m. PST / 8:00 p.m. EST.
- March 5, 2006
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The 78th Academy Awards | 2006. Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center. Sunday, March 5, 2006. Honoring movies released in 2005. Share.