Oscars for Best Director 1990-2024

Can you guess the Academy Award winners for Best Director since 1990?

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1. 1990

Stephen Frears (The Grifters)

Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather Part III)

Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves)

Barbet Schroeder (Reversal of Fortune)

2. 1991

Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs)

Ridley Scott (Thelma & Louise)

John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood)

Barry Levinson (Bugsy)

3. 1992

James Ivory (Howards End)

Robert Altman (The Player)

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)

Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump)

Krzysztof Kieślowski (Three Colours: Red)

Robert Redford (Quiz Show)

6. 1995

Michael Radford (Il Postino: The Postman)

Chris Noonan (Babe)

Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas)

Mel Gibson (Braveheart)

7. 1996

Scott Hicks (Shine)

Joel Coen (Fargo)

Anthony Minghella (The English Patient)

Miloš Forman (The People vs. Larry Flynt)

8. 1997

James Cameron (Titanic)

Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential)

Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter)

Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty)

9. 1998

Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line)

John Madden (Shakespeare in Love)

Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan)

Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful)

10. 1999

Michael Mann (The Insider)

Sam Mendes (American Beauty)

Lasse Hallström (The Cider House Rules)

Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich)

11. 2000

Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot)

Ridley Scott (Gladiator)

Steven Soderbergh (Traffic)

Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)

12. 2001

David Lynch (Mulholland Drive)

Robert Altman (Gosford Park)

Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind)

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

13. 2002

Pedro Almodóvar (Talk to Her)

Stephen Daldry (The Hours)

Roman Polanski (The Pianist)

Rob Marshall (Chicago)

14. 2003

Clint Eastwood (Mystic River)

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

Fernando Meirelles (City of God)

Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation)

15. 2004

Alexander Payne (Sideways)

Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby)

Mike Leigh (Vera Drake)

Taylor Hackford (Ray)

16. 2005

Bennett Miller (Capote)

George Clooney (Good Night, and Good Luck)

Paul Haggis (Crash)

Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain)

17. 2006

Martin Scorsese (The Departed)

Paul Greengrass (United 93)

Clint Eastwood (Letters from Iwo Jima)

Stephen Frears (The Queen)

18. 2007

Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton)

Coen Brothers (No Country for Old Men)

Jason Reitman (Juno)

Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood)

19. 2008

Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)

Stephen Daldry (The Reader)

Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon)

David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)

20. 2009

James Cameron (Avatar)

Jason Reitman (Up in the Air)

Lee Daniels (Precious)

Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)

21. 2010

David Fincher (The Social Network)

Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)

Tom Hooper (The King's Speech)

Coen Brothers (True Grit)

22. 2011

Alexander Payne (The Descendants)

Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life)

Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris)

Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)

23. 2012

Ang Lee (Life of Pi)

David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)

Steven Spielberg (Lincoln)

Michael Haneke (Amour)

24. 2013

Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)

Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)

Alexander Payne (Nebraska)

David O. Russell (American Hustle)

25. 2014

Richard Linklater (Boyhood)

Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman)

Bennett Miller (Foxcatcher)

Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel)

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)

Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge)

Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)

28. 2017

Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk)

Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread)

Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water)

Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird)

29. 2018

Alfonso Cuarón (Roma)

Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite)

Adam McKay (Vice)

Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman)

30. 2019

Sam Mendes (1917)

Martin Scorsese (The Irishman)

Todd Phillips (Joker)

Bong Joon-ho (Parasite)

31. 2020

Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)

Chloe Zhao (Nomadland)

David Fincher (Mank)

Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round)

32. 2021

Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car)

Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)

Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)

Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)

33. 2022

Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans)

Ruben Ostlund (Triangle of Sadness)

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

Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin)

34. 2023

Jonathan Glazer (The Zone of Interest)

Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things)

Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)

Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon)

35. 2024

Brady Corbet (The Brutalist)

Sean Baker (Anora)

James Mangold (A Complete Unknown)

Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez)

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