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Oscars for Best Director 1990-2025
Can you guess the Academy Award winners for Best Director since 1990?
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Last updated: March 16, 2026
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1. 1990
Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves)
Barbet Schroeder (Reversal of Fortune)
Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather Part III)
Stephen Frears (The Grifters)
2. 1991
Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs)
Ridley Scott (Thelma & Louise)
John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood)
Barry Levinson (Bugsy)
3. 1992
Martin Brest (Scent of a Woman)
James Ivory (Howards End)
Robert Altman (The Player)
Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven)
4. 1993
James Ivory (The Remains of the Day)
Steven Spielberg (Schindler's List)
Jane Campion (The Piano)
Robert Altman (Short Cuts)
5. 1994
Woody Allen (Bullets over Broadway)
Krzysztof Kieślowski (Three Colours: Red)
Robert Redford (Quiz Show)
Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump)
6. 1995
Mel Gibson (Braveheart)
Michael Radford (Il Postino: The Postman)
Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas)
Chris Noonan (Babe)
7. 1996
Joel Coen (Fargo)
Scott Hicks (Shine)
Anthony Minghella (The English Patient)
Miloš Forman (The People vs. Larry Flynt)
8. 1997
Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter)
Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty)
Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential)
James Cameron (Titanic)
9. 1998
Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan)
Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful)
Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line)
John Madden (Shakespeare in Love)
10. 1999
Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich)
Sam Mendes (American Beauty)
Michael Mann (The Insider)
Lasse Hallström (The Cider House Rules)
11. 2000
Ridley Scott (Gladiator)
Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot)
Steven Soderbergh (Traffic)
Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
12. 2001
Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind)
David Lynch (Mulholland Drive)
Robert Altman (Gosford Park)
Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
13. 2002
Roman Polanski (The Pianist)
Pedro Almodóvar (Talk to Her)
Stephen Daldry (The Hours)
Rob Marshall (Chicago)
14. 2003
Fernando Meirelles (City of God)
Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation)
Clint Eastwood (Mystic River)
Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
15. 2004
Mike Leigh (Vera Drake)
Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby)
Taylor Hackford (Ray)
Alexander Payne (Sideways)
16. 2005
Bennett Miller (Capote)
George Clooney (Good Night, and Good Luck)
Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain)
Paul Haggis (Crash)
17. 2006
Clint Eastwood (Letters from Iwo Jima)
Paul Greengrass (United 93)
Stephen Frears (The Queen)
Martin Scorsese (The Departed)
18. 2007
Jason Reitman (Juno)
Coen Brothers (No Country for Old Men)
Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood)
Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton)
19. 2008
Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon)
Stephen Daldry (The Reader)
Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)
David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
20. 2009
Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
James Cameron (Avatar)
Jason Reitman (Up in the Air)
Lee Daniels (Precious)
21. 2010
Tom Hooper (The King's Speech)
Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)
Coen Brothers (True Grit)
David Fincher (The Social Network)
22. 2011
Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life)
Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)
Alexander Payne (The Descendants)
Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris)
23. 2012
Michael Haneke (Amour)
Steven Spielberg (Lincoln)
David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)
Ang Lee (Life of Pi)
24. 2013
Alexander Payne (Nebraska)
Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)
David O. Russell (American Hustle)
Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)
25. 2014
Richard Linklater (Boyhood)
Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman)
Bennett Miller (Foxcatcher)
26. 2015
Lenny Abrahamson (Room)
Adam McKay (The Big Short)
Tom McCarthy (Spotlight)
Alejandro González Iñárritu (The Revenant)
27. 2016
Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge)
Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea)
Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)
28. 2017
Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread)
Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird)
Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water)
Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk)
29. 2018
Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman)
Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite)
Alfonso Cuarón (Roma)
Adam McKay (Vice)
30. 2019
Sam Mendes (1917)
Martin Scorsese (The Irishman)
Todd Phillips (Joker)
Bong Joon-ho (Parasite)
31. 2020
Chloe Zhao (Nomadland)
Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round)
David Fincher (Mank)
Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)
32. 2021
Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)
Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car)
Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)
Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)
33. 2022
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Ruben Ostlund (Triangle of Sadness)
Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans)
Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin)
34. 2023
Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)
Jonathan Glazer (The Zone of Interest)
Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon)
Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things)
35. 2024
James Mangold (A Complete Unknown)
Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez)
Sean Baker (Anora)
Brady Corbet (The Brutalist)
36. 2025
Joachim Trier (Sentimental Value)
Ryan Coogler (Sinners)
Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)
Chloé Zhao (Hamnet)
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