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