Oscars British Directors Quiz

Name the British directors who were nominated/won the Oscars in the Best Director category. 🇬🇧

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Year	Movie	Director
2023	The Banshees of Inisherin	Martin McDonagh
2022	Belfast	Kenneth Branagh
2021	Promising Young Woman	Emerald Fennell
2020	1917	Sam Mendes
2018	Dunkirk	Christopher Nolan
2014	12 Years a Slave	Steve McQueen
2011	The King's Speech	Tom Hooper
2009	Slumdog Millionaire	Danny Boyle
2009	The Reader	Stephen Daldry
2007	United 93	Stephen Frears
2007	The Queen	Paul Greengrass
2005	Vera Drake	Mike Leigh
2003	The Hours	Stephen Daldry
2002	Black Hawk Down	Ridley Scott
2001	Gladiator	Ridley Scott
2001	Billy Elliot	Stephen Daldry
2000	American Beauty	Sam Mendes
1999	Shakespeare in Love	John Madden
1998	The Full Monty	Peter Cattaneo
1997	Secrets & Lies	Mike Leigh
1997	The English Patient	Anthony Minghella
1996	Leaving Las Vegas	Mike Figgis
1996	The Postman	Michael Radford
1992	Thelma & Louise	Ridley Scott
1991	The Grifters	Stephen Frears
1990	Henry V	Kenneth Branagh
1989	Mississippi Burning	Alan Parker
1989	A Fish Called Wanda	Charles Crichton
1988	Hope and Glory	Adrian Lyne
1988	Fatal Attraction	John Boorman
1987	The Mission	Ronald Joffé
1985	The Killing Fields	Ronald Joffé
1985	A Passage to India	David Lean
1984	The Dresser	Peter Yates
1983	Gandhi	Richard Attenborough
1982	Chariots of Fire	Hugh Hudson

Year	Movie	Director
1980	Breaking Away	Peter Yates
1979	Midnight Express	Alan Parker
1973	Deliverance	John Boorman
1972	Sunday Bloody Sunday	John Schlesinger
1971	Women in Love	Ken Russell
1970	Midnight Cowboy	John Schlesinger
1969	The Lion in Winter	Anthony Harvey
1969	Oliver!	Carol Reed
1966	Doctor Zhivago	David Lean
1966	Darling	John Schlesinger
1965	Becket	Peter Glenville
1965	Mary Poppins	Robert Stevenson
1964	Tom Jones	Tony Richardson
1963	Lawrence of Arabia	David Lean
1962	The Guns of Navarone	J. Lee Thompson
1961	Psycho	Alfred Hitchcock
1961	Sons and Lovers	Jack Cardiff
1960	Room at the Top	Jack Clayton
1958	The Bridge on the River Kwai	David Lean
1957	Around the World in 80 Days	Michael Anderson
1956	Summertime	David Lean
1955	Rear Window	Alfred Hitchcock
1951	The Third Man	Carol Reed
1950	The Fallen Idol	Carol Reed
1949	Hamlet	Laurence Olivier
1948	Great Expectations	David Lean
1946	Brief Encounter	David Lean
1946	Spellbound	Alfred Hitchcock
1945	Lifeboat
1941	Rebecca
1936	Mutiny on the Bounty	Frank Lloyd
1934	Cavalcade
1933	The Divine Lady
1930	Weary River
1929	Drag

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