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Description

The Best Director award is given to the nominee who has shown the most outstanding film direction in a feature film.

At the 1928 awards, there were three Director awards given out. The category was divided into Best Director of a Comedy, and Best Director of a Drama. The Comedy award was given to Lewis Milestone for "Two Arabian Knights" and the Drama award went to Frank Borzage for his work on "7th Heaven." Charlie Chaplin was also given special recognition for "The Circus." This practice was dropped after the first ceremony, and from then on, only one award would be given.


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Movie Award

Name Year Film
Lewis Milestone 1927/28 TWO ARABIAN KNIGHTS
Frank Borzage 1927/28 7TH HEAVEN
Frank Lloyd 1928/29 THE DIVINE LADY
Lewis Milestone 1929/30 ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Norman Taurog 1930/31 SKIPPY
Frank Borzage 1931/32 BAD GIRL
Frank Lloyd 1932/33 CAVALCADE
Frank Capra 1934 IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
John Ford 1935 THE INFORMER
Frank Capra 1936 MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN
Leo McCarey 1937 THE AWFUL TRUTH
Frank Capra 1938 YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU
Victor Fleming 1939 GONE WITH THE WIND
John Ford 1940 THE GRAPES OF WRATH
John Ford 1941 HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
William Wyler 1942 MRS. MINIVER
Michael Curtiz 1943 CASABLANCA
Leo McCarey 1944 GOING MY WAY
Billy Wilder 1945 THE LOST WEEKEND
William Wyler 1946 THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
Elia Kazan 1947 GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT
John Huston 1948 THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE
Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1949 A LETTER TO THREE WIVES
Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1950 ALL ABOUT EVE
George Stevens 1951 A PLACE IN THE SUN
John Ford 1952 THE QUIET MAN
Fred Zinnemann 1953 FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
Elia Kazan 1954 ON THE WATERFRONT
Delbert Mann 1955 MARTY
George Stevens 1956 GIANT
David Lean 1957 THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
Vincente Minnelli 1958 GIGI
William Wyler 1959 BEN-HUR
Billy Wilder 1960 THE APARTMENT
Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise 1961 WEST SIDE STORY
David Lean 1962 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
Tony Richardson 1963 TOM JONES
George Cukor 1964 MY FAIR LADY
Robert Wise 1965 THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Fred Zinnemann 1966 A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
Mike Nichols 1967 THE GRADUATE
Carol Reed 1968 OLIVER!
John Schlesinger 1969 MIDNIGHT COWBOY
Franklin J. Schaffner 1970 PATTON
William Friedkin 1971 THE FRENCH CONNECTION
Bob Fosse 1972 CABARET
George Roy Hill 1973 THE STING
Francis Ford Coppola 1974 THE GODFATHER PART II
Milos Forman 1975 ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
John G. Avildsen 1976 ROCKY
Woody Allen 1977 ANNIE HALL
Michael Cimino 1978 THE DEER HUNTER
Robert Benton 1979 KRAMER VS. KRAMER
Robert Redford 1980 ORDINARY PEOPLE
Warren Beatty 1981 REDS
Richard Attenborough 1982 GANDHI
James L. Brooks 1983 TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
Milos Forman 1984 AMADEUS
Sydney Pollack 1985 OUT OF AFRICA
Oliver Stone 1986 PLATOON
Bernardo Bertolucci 1987 THE LAST EMPEROR
Barry Levinson 1988 RAIN MAN
Oliver Stone 1989 BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY
Kevin Costner 1990 DANCES WITH WOLVES
Jonathan Demme 1991 THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
Clint Eastwood 1992 UNFORGIVEN
Steven Spielberg 1993 SCHINDLER'S LIST
Robert Zemeckis 1994 FORREST GUMP
Mel Gibson 1995 BRAVEHEART
Anthony Minghella 1996 THE ENGLISH PATIENT
James Cameron 1997 TITANIC
Steven Spielberg 1998 SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
Sam Mendes 1999 AMERICAN BEAUTY
Steven Soderbergh 2000 TRAFFIC
Ron Howard 2001 A BEAUTIFUL MIND
Roman Polanski 2002 THE PIANIST 



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