Academy Award Nominees for Best Director - Statistics

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Year	Film	Director	% Correct
		Steven Spielberg	95%
	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Quentin Tarantino	93%
2004	Million Dollar Baby	Clint Eastwood	91%
		Jane Campion	91%
	The Irishman	Martin Scorsese	91%
2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Peter Jackson	91%
1997	Titanic	James Cameron	89%
	The Wolf of Wall Street	Martin Scorsese	89%
	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Peter Jackson	89%
	1917	Sam Mendes	89%
1998	Saving Private Ryan	Steven Spielberg	89%
2005	Brokeback Mountain	Ang Lee	86%
2019	Parasite	Bong Joon-ho	86%
	The Godfather Part III	Francis Ford Coppola	86%
	Avatar	James Cameron	86%
2006	The Departed	Martin Scorsese	86%
1995	Braveheart	Mel Gibson	86%
	Inglourious Basterds	Quentin Tarantino	86%
	Pulp Fiction	Quentin Tarantino	86%
	BlacKkKlansman	Spike Lee	86%
1993	Schindler's List	Steven Spielberg	86%
	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Steven Spielberg	86%
	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Wes Anderson	86%
2012	Life of Pi	Ang Lee	84%
2008	Slumdog Millionaire	Danny Boyle	84%
	The Shape of Water	Guillermo del Toro	84%
2007	No Country for Old Men	Joel & Ethan Coen	84%
2009	The Hurt Locker	Kathryn Bigelow	84%
		Kenneth Branagh	84%
	Hugo	Martin Scorsese	84%
	The Aviator	Martin Scorsese	84%
1986	Platoon	Oliver Stone	84%
1994	Forrest Gump	Robert Zemeckis	84%
1992	Unforgiven	Clint Eastwood	82%
2016	La La Land	Damien Chazelle	82%
	Fargo	Joel Coen	82%
1990	Dances with Wolves	Kevin Costner	82%
	Lost in Translation	Sofia Coppola	82%
2018	Roma	Alfonso Cuarón	80%
	The Godfather	Francis Ford Coppola	80%
	Star Wars	George Lucas	80%
	Get Out	Jordan Peele	80%
	Goodfellas	Martin Scorsese	80%
	Hacksaw Ridge	Mel Gibson	80%
	Gladiator	Ridley Scott	80%
	Life Is Beautiful	Roberto Benigni	80%
2002	The Pianist	Roman Polanski	80%
1999	American Beauty	Sam Mendes	80%
	12 Years a Slave	Steve McQueen	80%
	Lincoln	Steven Spielberg	80%
	Midnight in Paris	Woody Allen	80%
1977	Annie Hall	Woody Allen	80%
2015	The Revenant	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	77%
2013	Gravity	Alfonso Cuarón	77%
2017	Dunkirk	Christopher Nolan	77%
	Black Swan	Darren Aronofsky	77%
	The Social Network	David Fincher	77%
1974	The Godfather Part II	Francis Ford Coppola	77%
	True Grit	Joel & Ethan Coen	77%
	Raging Bull	Martin Scorsese	77%
	The Sixth Sense	M. Night Shyamalan	77%
2001	A Beautiful Mind	Ron Howard	77%
	A Clockwork Orange	Stanley Kubrick	77%
	2001: A Space Odyssey	Stanley Kubrick	77%
	Munich	Steven Spielberg	77%
	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Steven Spielberg	77%
2014	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	75%
		Chloé Zhao	75%
	The Piano	Jane Campion	75%
	Gangs of New York	Martin Scorsese	75%
1984	Amadeus	Miloš Forman	75%
		Paul Thomas Anderson	75%
	There Will Be Blood	Paul Thomas Anderson	75%
2000	Traffic	Steven Soderbergh	75%
	Psycho	Alfred Hitchcock	73%
	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Ang Lee	73%
	Apocalypse Now	Francis Ford Coppola	73%
1991	The Silence of the Lambs	Jonathan Demme	73%
1989	Born on the Fourth of July	Oliver Stone	73%
	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Steven Spielberg	73%
2010	The King's Speech	Tom Hooper	73%
	Letters from Iwo Jima	Clint Eastwood	70%
	Mad Max: Fury Road	George Miller	70%
	Lady Bird	Greta Gerwig	70%
	Good Will Hunting	Gus Van Sant	70%
	Chinatown	Roman Polanski	70%
	Mystic River	Clint Eastwood	68%
	Mulholland Drive	David Lynch	68%
	Henry V	Kenneth Branagh	68%
	The Last Temptation of Christ	Martin Scorsese	68%
	JFK	Oliver Stone	68%
	Erin Brockovich	Steven Soderbergh	68%
	The Tree of Life	Terrence Malick	68%
1981	Reds	Warren Beatty	68%
	Rear Window	Alfred Hitchcock	66%
	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	David Fincher	66%
	American Graffiti	George Lucas	66%
2011	The Artist	Michel Hazanavicius	66%
1975	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Miloš Forman	66%
1982	Gandhi	Richard Attenborough	66%
	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	Stanley Kubrick	66%
1985	Out of Africa	Sydney Pollack	66%
	Hannah and Her Sisters	Woody Allen	66%
	The Big Short	Adam McKay	64%
1987	The Last Emperor	Bernardo Bertolucci	64%
	Some Like It Hot	Billy Wilder	64%
	American Hustle	David O. Russell	64%
	Silver Linings Playbook	David O. Russell	64%
	8½	Federico Fellini	64%
	Citizen Kane	Orson Welles	64%
	Phantom Thread	Paul Thomas Anderson	64%
	The Truman Show	Peter Weir	64%
	Boyhood	Richard Linklater	64%
	Thelma & Louise	Ridley Scott	64%
1980	Ordinary People	Robert Redford	64%
	Barry Lyndon	Stanley Kubrick	64%
1996	The English Patient	Anthony Minghella	61%
	Moonlight	Barry Jenkins	61%
1988	Rain Man	Barry Levinson	61%
1960	The Apartment	Billy Wilder	61%
	Sunset Boulevard	Billy Wilder	61%
1972	Cabaret	Bob Fosse	61%
		David Fincher	61%
	The Elephant Man	David Lynch	61%
1940	The Grapes of Wrath	John Ford	61%
1943	Casablanca	Michael Curtiz	61%
1967	The Graduate	Mike Nichols	61%
	Crash	Paul Haggis	61%
	Black Hawk Down	Ridley Scott	61%
	Gosford Park	Robert Altman	61%
	Being John Malkovich	Spike Jonze	61%
	The Thin Red Line	Terrence Malick	61%
	Joker	Todd Phillips	61%
	Vice	Adam McKay	59%
1957	The Bridge on the River Kwai	David Lean	59%
1954	On the Waterfront	Elia Kazan	59%
	It's a Wonderful Life	Frank Capra	59%
	Good Night, and Good Luck	George Clooney	59%
	Fanny and Alexander	Ingmar Bergman	59%
	Juno	Jason Reitman	59%
1978	The Deer Hunter	Michael Cimino	59%
	12 Angry Men	Sidney Lumet	59%
1971	The French Connection	William Friedkin	59%
	Ran	Akira Kurosawa	57%
	Sideways	Alexander Payne	57%
1962	Lawrence of Arabia	David Lean	57%
	Blue Velvet	David Lynch	57%
	Up in the Air	Jason Reitman	57%
1948	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	John Huston	57%
1939	Gone with the Wind	Victor Fleming	57%
	The Exorcist	William Friedkin	57%
	Bullets over Broadway	Woody Allen	57%
1983	Terms of Endearment	James L. Brooks	55%
	Boyz n the Hood	John Singleton	55%
	United 93	Paul Greengrass	55%
	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Peter Weir	55%
	Short Cuts	Robert Altman	55%
	The Player	Robert Altman	55%
	MAS*H	Robert Altman	55%
1961	West Side Story	Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins	55%
	Dog Day Afternoon	Sidney Lumet	55%
	Crimes and Misdemeanors	Woody Allen	55%
	The Descendants	Alexander Payne	52%
	Rebecca	Alfred Hitchcock	52%
	Double Indemnity	Billy Wilder	52%
	Doctor Zhivago	David Lean	52%
	A Streetcar Named Desire	Elia Kazan	52%
		Emerald Fennell	52%
	La Dolce Vita	Federico Fellini	52%
	A Woman Under the Influence	John Cassavetes	52%
1979	Kramer vs. Kramer	Robert Benton	52%
1965	The Sound of Music	Robert Wise	52%
	Tess	Roman Polanski	52%
	Tootsie	Sydney Pollack	52%
		Thomas Vinterberg	52%
	Broadway Danny Rose	Woody Allen	52%
	The Favourite	Yorgos Lanthimos	52%
	Last Tango in Paris	Bernardo Bertolucci	50%
1945	The Lost Weekend	Billy Wilder	50%
	All That Jazz	Bob Fosse	50%
	L.A. Confidential	Curtis Hanson	50%
	The Fighter	David O. Russell	50%
	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	Frank Capra	50%
1934	It Happened One Night	Frank Capra	50%
1952	The Quiet Man	John Ford	50%
	Stagecoach	John Ford	50%
	Prizzi's Honor	John Huston	50%
	Manchester by the Sea	Kenneth Lonergan	50%
	Secrets & Lies	Mike Leigh	50%
	Nashville	Robert Altman	50%
	Das Boot	Wolfgang Petersen	50%
	Interiors	Woody Allen	50%
	Nebraska	Alexander Payne	48%
	Lenny	Bob Fosse	48%
1969	Midnight Cowboy	John Schlesinger	48%
	Room	Lenny Abrahamson	48%
	Moonstruck	Norman Jewison	48%
	Talk to Her	Pedro Almodóvar	48%
	The Last Picture Show	Peter Bogdanovich	48%
	Witness	Peter Weir	48%
	Chicago	Rob Marshall	48%
	The Hours	Stephen Daldry	48%
	Babel	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	45%
	A Passage to India	David Lean	45%
	East of Eden	Elia Kazan	45%
1964	My Fair Lady	George Cukor	45%
	Milk	Gus Van Sant	45%
	The Remains of the Day	James Ivory	45%
	A Room with a View	James Ivory	45%
	The African Queen	John Huston	45%
	Hamlet	Laurence Olivier	45%
	Vera Drake	Mike Leigh	45%
	Dead Poets Society	Peter Weir	45%
	Quiz Show	Robert Redford	45%
	Network	Sidney Lumet	45%
	Billy Elliot	Stephen Daldry	45%
	Fatal Attraction	Adrian Lyne	43%
1968	Oliver!	Carol Reed	43%
	The Third Man	Carol Reed	43%
	Brief Encounter	David Lean	43%
	Arrival	Denis Villeneuve	43%
1936	Mr. Deeds Goes to Town	Frank Capra	43%
1973	The Sting	George Roy Hill	43%
	Chariots of Fire	Hugh Hudson	43%
	Howards End	James Ivory	43%
	In the Name of the Father	Jim Sheridan	43%
	My Left Foot	Jim Sheridan	43%
	Shakespeare in Love	John Madden	43%
	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	Julian Schnabel	43%
	Blowup	Michelangelo Antonioni	43%
	Working Girl	Mike Nichols	43%
	Dead Man Walking	Tim Robbins	43%
	Heaven Can Wait	Warren Beatty and Buck Henry	43%
	Great Expectations	David Lean	41%
	Romeo and Juliet	Franco Zeffirelli	41%
	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	George Roy Hill	41%
	Deliverance	John Boorman	41%
	Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire	Lee Daniels	41%
	Atlantic City	Louis Malle	41%
	Amour	Michael Haneke	41%
	The Full Monty	Peter Cattaneo	41%
	Midnight Express	Alan Parker	39%
	Fellini Satyricon	Federico Fellini	39%
	Kiss of the Spider Woman	Héctor Babenco	39%
1941	How Green Was My Valley	John Ford	39%
	The Cider House Rules	Lasse Hallström	39%
	My Life as a Dog	Lasse Hallström	39%
	Leaving Las Vegas	Mike Figgis	39%
	The Mission	Roland Joffé	39%
	Frost/Nixon	Ron Howard	39%
	They Shoot Horses, Don't They?	Sydney Pollack	39%
1963	Tom Jones	Tony Richardson	39%
1959	Ben-Hur	William Wyler	39%
	Roman Holiday	William Wyler	39%
	Spellbound	Alfred Hitchcock	36%
	City of God	Fernando Meirelles	36%
1938	You Can't Take It with You	Frank Capra	36%
	The Philadelphia Story	George Cukor	36%
	Hope and Glory	John Boorman	36%
1976	Rocky	John G. Avildsen	36%
	Sunday Bloody Sunday	John Schlesinger	36%
	The Insider	Michael Mann	36%
	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Mike Nichols	36%
	The People vs. Larry Flynt	Miloš Forman	36%
	Ray	Taylor Hackford	36%
1958	Gigi	Vincente Minnelli	36%
1946	The Best Years of Our Lives	William Wyler	36%
	Lifeboat	Alfred Hitchcock	34%
	A Fish Called Wanda	Charles Crichton	34%
	Cries and Whispers	Ingmar Bergman	34%
1950	All About Eve	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	34%
	Women in Love	Ken Russell	34%
	The Crying Game	Neil Jordan	34%
	Fiddler on the Roof	Norman Jewison	34%
	Spotlight	Tom McCarthy	34%
	Mississippi Burning	Alan Parker	32%
	Sabrina	Billy Wilder	32%
	Z	Costa-Gavras	32%
	Amarcord	Federico Fellini	32%
	The Verdict	Sidney Lumet	32%
	The Queen	Stephen Frears	32%
	Michael Clayton	Tony Gilroy	32%
1942	Mrs. Miniver	William Wyler	32%
	Foxcatcher	Bennett Miller	30%
	Capote	Bennett Miller	30%
	Summertime	David Lean	30%
1947	Gentleman's Agreement	Elia Kazan	30%
1951	A Place in the Sun	George Stevens	30%
	Darling	John Schlesinger	30%
	The Imitation Game	Morten Tyldum	30%
	Cold War	Paweł Pawlikowski	30%
	Breaking Away	Peter Yates	30%
		Ryusuke Hamaguchi	30%
	Bugsy	Barry Levinson	27%
	Stalag 17	Billy Wilder	27%
	The Greatest Show on Earth	Cecil B. DeMille	27%
	Day for Night	François Truffaut	27%
1966	A Man for All Seasons	Fred Zinnemann	27%
1956	Giant	George Stevens	27%
	Face to Face	Ingmar Bergman	27%
	The Asphalt Jungle	John Huston	27%
	Three Colors: Red	Krzysztof Kieślowski	27%
	In the Heat of the Night	Norman Jewison	27%
	The Killing Fields	Roland Joffé	27%
	The Reader	Stephen Daldry	27%
	An American in Paris	Vincente Minnelli	27%
	Bonnie and Clyde	Arthur Penn	25%
	Witness for the Prosecution	Billy Wilder	25%
	Tender Mercies	Bruce Beresford	25%
	Coming Home	Hal Ashby	25%
	Moulin Rouge	John Huston	25%
		Lee Isaac Chung	25%
	Il Postino: The Postman	Michael Radford	25%
	The Grifters	Stephen Frears	25%
	All the President's Men	Alan J. Pakula	23%
	Reversal of Fortune	Barbet Schroeder	23%
	Beasts of the Southern Wild	Benh Zeitlin	23%
1955	Marty	Delbert Mann	23%
	America America	Elia Kazan	23%
1970	Patton	Franklin J. Schaffner	23%
1953	From Here to Eternity	Fred Zinnemann	23%
	The Battle of Algiers	Gillo Pontecorvo	23%
1944	Going My Way	Leo McCarey	23%
	Seven Beauties	Lina Wertmüller	23%
	Yankee Doodle Dandy	Michael Curtiz	23%
	Silkwood	Mike Nichols	23%
	Laura	Otto Preminger	23%
	Places in the Heart	Robert Benton	23%
	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	Stanley Kramer	23%
	The Sweet Hereafter	Atom Egoyan	20%
	A Man and a Woman	Claude Lelouch	20%
	High Noon	Fred Zinnemann	20%
1935	The Informer	John Ford	20%
1949	A Letter to Three Wives	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	20%
1937	The Awful Truth	Leo McCarey	20%
	Hud	Martin Ritt	20%
	Zorba the Greek	Michael Cacoyannis	20%
	In Cold Blood	Richard Brooks	20%
	To Kill a Mockingbird	Robert Mulligan	20%
	Shine	Scott Hicks	20%
	Judgment at Nuremberg	Stanley Kramer	20%
	Alice's Restaurant	Arthur Penn	18%
	The Miracle Worker	Arthur Penn	18%
	Julia	Fred Zinnemann	18%
	Born Yesterday	George Cukor	18%
	Little Women	George Cukor	18%
	The Diary of Anne Frank	George Stevens	18%
	The Turning Point	Herbert Ross	18%
	The Southerner	Jean Renoir	18%
	The Guns of Navarone	J. Lee Thompson	18%
	Sleuth	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	18%
	War and Peace	King Vidor	18%
	The Bells of St. Mary's	Leo McCarey	18%
	On Golden Pond	Mark Rydell	18%
	Scent of a Woman	Martin Brest	18%
	The Cardinal	Otto Preminger	18%
	Becket	Peter Glenville	18%
	The Dresser	Peter Yates	18%
	Divorce Italian Style	Pietro Germi	18%
	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Richard Brooks	18%
	The Stunt Man	Richard Rush	18%
	All the King's Men	Robert Rossen	18%
	Mary Poppins	Robert Stevenson	18%
	The Defiant Ones	Stanley Kramer	18%
	The Collector	William Wyler	18%
	Friendly Persuasion	William Wyler	18%
	The Heiress	William Wyler	18%
	The Lion in Winter	Anthony Harvey	16%
	La Cage aux Folles	Édouard Molinaro	16%
	Heaven Can Wait	Ernst Lubitsch	16%
1932-33	Cavalcade	Frank Lloyd	16%
	The Sundowners	Fred Zinnemann	16%
	The Nun's Story	Fred Zinnemann	16%
	The Country Girl	George Seaton	16%
	Shane	George Stevens	16%
	Woman in the Dunes	Hiroshi Teshigahara	16%
	Sons and Lovers	Jack Cardiff	16%
	The Emigrants	Jan Troell	16%
	Bad Day at Black Rock	John Sturges	16%
	Picnic	Joshua Logan	16%
	Never on Sunday	Jules Dassin	16%
1929-30	All Quiet on the Western Front	Lewis Milestone	16%
	Two Arabian Knights	Lewis Milestone	16%
	Around the World in 80 Days	Michael Anderson	16%
	Angels with Dirty Faces	Michael Curtiz	16%
1930-31	Skippy	Norman Taurog	16%
	The Hustler	Robert Rossen	16%
	Detective Story	William Wyler	16%
	Wuthering Heights	William Wyler	16%
	The Snake Pit	Anatole Litvak	14%
	Love Story	Arthur Hiller	14%
	The Fallen Idol	Carol Reed	14%
	Babe	Chris Noonan	14%
	Crossfire	Edward Dmytryk	14%
1927-28	7th Heaven	Frank Borzage	14%
	Mutiny on the Bounty	Frank Lloyd	14%
	The Search	Fred Zinnemann	14%
	A Double Life	George Cukor	14%
	Room at the Top	Jack Clayton	14%
	5 Fingers	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	14%
	Peyton Place	Mark Robson	14%
	The Professionals	Richard Brooks	14%
	The Killers	Robert Siodmak	14%
	Kitty Foyle	Sam Wood	14%
	The King and I	Walter Lang	14%
	The Little Foxes	William Wyler	14%
	Dodsworth	William Wyler	14%
	Lili	Charles Walters	11%
	The Yearling	Clarence Brown	11%
	National Velvet	Clarence Brown	11%
1931-32	Bad Girl	Frank Borzage	11%
	My Man Godfrey	Gregory La Cava	11%
	The Lives of a Bengal Lancer	Henry Hathaway	11%
	Sergeant York	Howard Hawks	11%
	Johnny Belinda	Jean Negulesco	11%
	Wake Island	John Farrow	11%
	Shanghai Express	Josef von Sternberg	11%
	Morocco	Josef von Sternberg	11%
	Sayonara	Joshua Logan	11%
	The Citadel	King Vidor	11%
	The Inn of the Sixth Happiness	Mark Robson	11%
	I Want to Live!	Robert Wise	11%
	Kings Row	Sam Wood	11%
	Goodbye, Mr. Chips	Sam Wood	11%
	The Good Earth	Sidney Franklin	11%
	The High and the Mighty	William A. Wellman	11%
	A Star Is Born	William A. Wellman	11%
	The Life of Emile Zola	William Dieterle	11%
	The Letter	William Wyler	11%
	San Francisco	W.S. Van Dyke	11%
	The Thin Man	W.S. Van Dyke	11%
	The Human Comedy	Clarence Brown	9%
	Anna Christine	Clarence Brown	9%
	Lady for a Day	Frank Capra	9%
1928-29	The Divine Lady	Frank Lloyd	9%
	David and Lisa	Frank Perry	9%
	The More the Merrier	George Stevens	9%
	Stage Door	Gregory La Cava	9%
	The Song of Bernadette	Henry King	9%
	The Bishop's Wife	Henry Koster	9%
	Random Harvest	Mervyn LeRoy	9%
	Boys Town	Norman Taurog	9%
	Battleground	William A. Wellman	9%
	A Free Soul	Clarence Brown	7%
	Wilson	Henry King	7%
	The Champ	King Vidor	7%
	The Crowd	King Vidor	7%
	Four Daughters	Michael Curtiz	7%
	My Great Ziegfeld	Robert Z. Leonard	7%
	Here Comes Mr. Jordan	Alexander Hall	5%
	Romance	Clarence Brown	5%
	Sorrell and Son	Herbert Brenon	5%
	The Front Page	Lewis Milestone	5%
	Madame X	Lionel Barrymore	5%
	The Broadway Melody	Harry Beaumont	2%
	The Divorcee	Robert Z. Leonard	2%
	Speedy	Ted Wilde	2%
	One Night of Love	Victor Schertzinger	2%
	Cimarron	Wesley Ruggles	2%
	The Love Parade	Ernst Lubitsch	0%
	The Patriot	Ernst Lubitsch	0%
	Drag	Frank Lloyd	0%
	Weary River	Frank Lloyd	0%
	In Old Arizona	Irving Cummings	0%
	Hallelujah!	King Vidor	0%

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