Oscar Best Directors - Statistics

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Answer Stats
Year Movie Director % Correct
1994, 1999 Schindler's List / Saving Private Ryan Steven Spielberg
88%
2024 Oppenheimer Christopher Nolan
83%
2007 The Departed Martin Scorsese
79%
1998 Titanic James Cameron
78%
2004 The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King Peter Jackson
75%
1975 The Godfather Part II Francis Ford Coppola
74%
1993, 2005 Unforgiven / Million Dollar Baby Clint Eastwood
73%
2026 One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
73%
2008 No Country for Old Men Ethan Coen / Joel Coen
67%
1996 Braveheart Mel Gibson
65%
2018 The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro
63%
2006, 2013 Brokeback Mountain / Life of Pi Ang Lee
61%
1978 Annie Hall Woody Allen
59%
1991 Dances with Wolves Kevin Costner
57%
2020 Parasite Bong Joon-ho
54%
2003 The Pianist Roman Polanski
53%
2010 The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow
52%
1995 Forrest Gump Robert Zemeckis
51%
2014, 2019 Gravity, Roma Alfonso Cuarón
49%
1987, 1990 Platoon / Born on the Fourth of July Oliver Stone
49%
2021 Nomadland Chloé Zhao
48%
2015, 2016 Birdman / The Revenant Alejandro González Iñárritu
47%
2009 Slumdog Millionaire Danny Boyle
47%
2017 La La Land Damien Chazelle
44%
1981 Ordinary People Robert Redford
41%
2002 A Beautiful Mind Ron Howard
41%
1936, 1941, 1942, 1953 The Informer, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, The Quiet Man John Ford
40%
2000 American Beauty Sam Mendes
40%
1976, 1985 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest / Amadeus Milos Forman
37%
2025 Anora Sean Baker
37%
2023 Everything Everywhere All at Once Daniel Kwan / Daniel Scheinert
34%
2022 The Power of the Dog Jane Campion
34%
1992 The Silence of the Lambs Jonathan Demme
34%
2001 Traffic Steven Soderbergh
32%
1945, 1961 The Lost Weekend / The Apartment Billy Wilder
31%
1983 Gandhi Richard Attenborough
31%
1958, 1963 The Bridge on the River Kwai / Lawrence of Arabia David Lean
30%
1935, 1937, 1939 It Happened One Night / Mr. Deeds Goes to Town / You Can't Take It with You Frank Capra
30%
1982 Reds Warren Beatty
28%
1948, 1955 Gentleman's Agreement / On the Waterfront Elia Kazan
27%
1979 The Deer Hunter Michael Cimino
27%
1968 The Graduate Mike Nichols
26%
2011 The King's Speech Tom Hooper
26%
1988 The Last Emperor Bernardo Bertolucci
25%
1949 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre John Huston
24%
1973 Cabaret Bob Fosse
23%
1986 Out of Africa Sydney Pollack
23%
1944 Casablanca Michael Curtiz
22%
1972 The French Connection William Friedkin
22%
1997 The English Patient Anthony Minghella
21%
1943, 1947, 1960 Mrs. Miniver / The Best Years of Our Lives / Ben-Hur William Wyler
21%
1989 Rain Man Barry Levinson
20%
1984 Terms of Endearment James L. Brooks
20%
2012 The Artist Michel Hazanavicius
20%
1950, 1951 A Letter to Three Wives / All About Eve Joseph L. Mankiewicz
18%
1962, 1966 West Side Story / The Sound of Music Robert Wise
18%
1940 Gone with the Wind Victor Fleming
18%
1959 Gigi Vincente Minnelli
18%
1974 The Sting George Roy Hill
17%
1952, 1957 A Place in the Sun / Giant George Stevens
17%
1977 Rocky John G. Avildsen
17%
1965 My Fair Lady George Cukor
16%
1969 Oliver! Carol Reed
15%
1970 Midnight Cowboy John Schlesinger
15%
1954, 1967 From Here to Eternity / A Man for All Seasons Fred Zinnemann
14%
1962 West Side Story Jerome Robbins
13%
1980 Kramer vs. Kramer Robert Benton
13%
1956 Marty Delbert Mann
12%
1964 Tom Jones Tony Richardson
12%
1971 Patton Franklin J. Schaffner
11%
1929, 1931 Two Arabian Nights / All Quiet on the Western Front Lewis Milestone
11%
1929, 1933 Seventh Heaven, Bad Girl Frank Borzage
10%
1930, 1934 The Divine Lady / Cavalcade Frank Lloyd
10%
1938, 1945 The Awful Truth / Going My Way Leo McCarey
10%
1932 Skippy Norman Taurog
9%
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