Oscars for Best Director 1990-2023

Can you name Academy Award winners for Best Director since 1990?

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1. 1990

Barbet Schroeder (Reversal of Fortune) ✓

Stephen Frears (The Grifters) ✓

Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather Part III) ✓

Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves) ✓

2. 1991

Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs) ✓

Ridley Scott (Thelma & Louise) ✓

John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood) ✓

Barry Levinson (Bugsy) ✓

3. 1992

Robert Altman (The Player) ✓

Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven) ✓

James Ivory (Howards End) ✓

Martin Brest (Scent of a Woman) ✓

4. 1993

Steven Spielberg (Schindler's List) ✓

Jane Campion (The Piano) ✓

James Ivory (The Remains of the Day) ✓

Robert Altman (Short Cuts) ✓

5. 1994

Krzysztof Kieślowski (Three Colours: Red) ✓

Robert Redford (Quiz Show) ✓

Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump) ✓

Woody Allen (Bullets over Broadway) ✓

6. 1995

Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas) ✓

Mel Gibson (Braveheart) ✓

Chris Noonan (Babe) ✓

Michael Radford (Il Postino: The Postman) ✓

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) ✓

Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential) ✓

James Cameron (Titanic) ✓

Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter) ✓

9. 1998

Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan) ✓

Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line) ✓

John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) ✓

Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful) ✓

10. 1999

Sam Mendes (American Beauty) ✓

Michael Mann (The Insider) ✓

Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich) ✓

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

Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring) ✓

Robert Altman (Gosford Park) ✓

David Lynch (Mulholland Drive) ✓

Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) ✓

13. 2002

Pedro Almodóvar (Talk to Her) ✓

Roman Polanski (The Pianist) ✓

Stephen Daldry (The Hours) ✓

Rob Marshall (Chicago) ✓

14. 2003

Fernando Meirelles (City of God) ✓

Clint Eastwood (Mystic River) ✓

Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation) ✓

Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King) ✓

15. 2004

Alexander Payne (Sideways) ✓

Taylor Hackford (Ray) ✓

Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby) ✓

Mike Leigh (Vera Drake) ✓

16. 2005

Bennett Miller (Capote) ✓

Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) ✓

Paul Haggis (Crash) ✓

George Clooney (Good Night, and Good Luck) ✓

17. 2006

Paul Greengrass (United 93) ✓

Martin Scorsese (The Departed) ✓

Stephen Frears (The Queen) ✓

Clint Eastwood (Letters from Iwo Jima) ✓

18. 2007

Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood) ✓

Jason Reitman (Juno) ✓

Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton) ✓

Coen Brothers (No Country for Old Men) ✓

19. 2008

Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) ✓

Stephen Daldry (The Reader) ✓

David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) ✓

Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon) ✓

20. 2009

James Cameron (Avatar) ✓

Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) ✓

Jason Reitman (Up in the Air) ✓

Lee Daniels (Precious) ✓

21. 2010

Coen Brothers (True Grit) ✓

Tom Hooper (The King's Speech) ✓

Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan) ✓

David Fincher (The Social Network) ✓

22. 2011

Alexander Payne (The Descendants) ✓

Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life) ✓

Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) ✓

Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris) ✓

23. 2012

David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook) ✓

Michael Haneke (Amour) ✓

Ang Lee (Life of Pi) ✓

Steven Spielberg (Lincoln) ✓

24. 2013

Alexander Payne (Nebraska) ✓

Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) ✓

Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity) ✓

David O. Russell (American Hustle) ✓

25. 2014

Bennett Miller (Foxcatcher) ✓

Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel) ✓

Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman) ✓

Richard Linklater (Boyhood) ✓

26. 2015

Alejandro González Iñárritu (The Revenant) ✓

Tom McCarthy (Spotlight) ✓

Lenny Abrahamson (Room) ✓

Adam McKay (The Big Short) ✓

27. 2016

Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) ✓

Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea) ✓

Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge) ✓

Damien Chazelle (La La Land) ✓

28. 2017

Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water) ✓

Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk) ✓

Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) ✓

Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread) ✓

29. 2018

Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite) ✓

Alfonso Cuarón (Roma) ✓

Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman) ✓

Adam McKay (Vice) ✓

30. 2019

Martin Scorsese (The Irishman) ✓

Todd Phillips (Joker) ✓

Sam Mendes (1917) ✓

Bong Joon-ho (Parasite) ✓

31. 2020

Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round) ✓

David Fincher (Mank) ✓

Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) ✓

Chloe Zhao (Nomadland) ✓

32. 2021

Kenneth Branagh (Belfast) ✓

Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car) ✓

Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza) ✓

Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog) ✓

33. 2022

Ruben Ostlund (Triangle of Sadness) ✓

Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans) ✓

Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin) ✓

Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once) ✓

34. 2023

Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon) ✓

Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things) ✓

Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer) ✓

Jonathan Glazer (The Zone of Interest) ✓

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