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