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