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Every director to win the Academy Award for Best Director, each shown with the film they won for.
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| Year & Film | Director |
|---|---|
| 1993 · Schindler's List | — |
| 2006 · The Departed | — |
| 1974 · The Godfather Part II | — |
| 1997 · Titanic | — |
| 2023 · Oppenheimer | — |
| 1992 · Unforgiven | — |
| 2003 · The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | — |
| 2019 · Parasite | — |
| 2017 · The Shape of Water | — |
| 2009 · The Hurt Locker | — |
| 2016 · La La Land | — |
| 2018 · Roma | — |
| 1995 · Braveheart | — |
| 1990 · Dances with Wolves | — |
| 2001 · A Beautiful Mind | — |
| 2008 · Slumdog Millionaire | — |
| 1986 · Platoon | — |
| 2012 · Life of Pi | — |
| 1999 · American Beauty | — |
| 2002 · The Pianist | — |
| 2014 · Birdman | — |
| 2020 · Nomadland | — |
| 2024 · Anora | — |
| 1994 · Forrest Gump | — |
| 1975 · One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | — |
| 1977 · Annie Hall | — |
| 1981 · Reds | — |
| 1982 · Gandhi | — |
| 1985 · Out of Africa | — |
| 1988 · Rain Man | — |
| 1991 · The Silence of the Lambs | — |
| 1996 · The English Patient | — |
| 2010 · The King's Speech | — |
| 2011 · The Artist | — |
| 2021 · The Power of the Dog | — |
| 1945 · The Lost Weekend | — |
| 1941 · How Green Was My Valley | — |
| 1934 · It Happened One Night | — |
| 1957 · The Bridge on the River Kwai | — |
| 1964 · My Fair Lady | — |
| 1965 · The Sound of Music | — |
| 1942 · Mrs. Miniver | — |
| 1947 · Gentleman's Agreement | — |
| 1948 · The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | — |
| 1967 · The Graduate | — |
| 1929 · All Quiet on the Western Front | — |
| 1930 · Skippy | — |
| 1931 · Bad Girl | — |
| 1933 · Cavalcade | — |
| 1939 · Gone with the Wind | — |
| 1943 · Casablanca | — |
| 1944 · Going My Way | — |
| 1950 · All About Eve | — |
| 1953 · From Here to Eternity | — |
| 1955 · Marty | — |
| 1956 · Giant | — |
| 1958 · Gigi | — |
| 1961 · West Side Story | — |
| 1963 · Tom Jones | — |
| 1968 · Oliver! | — |
| 1969 · Midnight Cowboy | — |
| 1970 · Patton | — |
| 1971 · The French Connection | — |
| 1972 · Cabaret | — |
| 1973 · The Sting | — |
| 1976 · Rocky | — |
| 1978 · The Deer Hunter | — |
| 1979 · Kramer vs. Kramer | — |
| 1980 · Ordinary People | — |
| 1983 · Terms of Endearment | — |
| 1987 · The Last Emperor | — |
| 2000 · Traffic | — |
| 2007 · No Country for Old Men | — |
| 2022 · Everything Everywhere All at Once | — |
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