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DIRECTINGhas been at the Oscars for 97 years. These are the winners.

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Year	Film	Nominee
2025	One Battle after Another IMDB	Paul Thomas Anderson
2024	Anora IMDB	Sean Baker
2023	Oppenheimer IMDB	Christopher Nolan
2022	Everything Everywhere All at Once IMDB	Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
2021	The Power of the Dog IMDB	Jane Campion
2020	Nomadland IMDB	Chloé Zhao
2019	Parasite IMDB	Bong Joon Ho
2018	Roma IMDB	Alfonso Cuarón
2017	The Shape of Water IMDB	Guillermo del Toro
2016	La La Land IMDB	Damien Chazelle
2015	The Revenant IMDB	Alejandro G. Iñárritu
2014	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) IMDB	Alejandro G. Iñárritu
2013	Gravity IMDB	Alfonso Cuarón
2012	Life of Pi IMDB	Ang Lee
2011	The Artist IMDB	Michel Hazanavicius
2010	The King's Speech IMDB	Tom Hooper
2009	The Hurt Locker IMDB	Kathryn Bigelow
2008	Slumdog Millionaire IMDB	Danny Boyle
2007	No Country for Old Men IMDB	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
2006	The Departed IMDB	Martin Scorsese
2005	Brokeback Mountain IMDB	Ang Lee
2004	Million Dollar Baby IMDB	Clint Eastwood
2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King IMDB	Peter Jackson
2002	The Pianist IMDB	Roman Polanski
2001	A Beautiful Mind IMDB	Ron Howard
2000	Traffic IMDB	Steven Soderbergh
1999	American Beauty IMDB	Sam Mendes
1998	Saving Private Ryan IMDB	Steven Spielberg
1997	Titanic IMDB	James Cameron
1996	The English Patient IMDB	Anthony Minghella
1995	Braveheart IMDB	Mel Gibson
1994	Forrest Gump IMDB	Robert Zemeckis
1993	Schindler's List IMDB	Steven Spielberg
1992	Unforgiven IMDB	Clint Eastwood
1991	The Silence of the Lambs IMDB	Jonathan Demme
1990	Dances With Wolves IMDB	Kevin Costner
1989	Born on the Fourth of July IMDB	Oliver Stone
1988	Rain Man IMDB	Barry Levinson
1987	The Last Emperor IMDB	Bernardo Bertolucci
1986	Platoon IMDB	Oliver Stone
1985	Out of Africa IMDB	Sydney Pollack
1984	Amadeus IMDB	Milos Forman
1983	Terms of Endearment IMDB	James L. Brooks
1982	Gandhi IMDB	Richard Attenborough
1981	Reds IMDB	Warren Beatty
1980	Ordinary People IMDB	Robert Redford
1979	Kramer vs. Kramer IMDB	Robert Benton
1978	The Deer Hunter IMDB	Michael Cimino
1977	Annie Hall IMDB	Woody Allen
1976	Rocky IMDB	John G. Avildsen
1975	One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest IMDB	Milos Forman
1974	The Godfather Part II IMDB	Francis Ford Coppola
1973	The Sting IMDB	George Roy Hill
1972	Cabaret IMDB	Bob Fosse
1971	The French Connection IMDB	William Friedkin
1970	Patton IMDB	Franklin J. Schaffner
1969	Midnight Cowboy IMDB	John Schlesinger
1968	Oliver! IMDB	Carol Reed
1967	The Graduate IMDB	Mike Nichols
1966	A Man for All Seasons IMDB	Fred Zinnemann
1965	The Sound of Music IMDB	Robert Wise
1964	My Fair Lady IMDB	George Cukor
1963	Tom Jones IMDB	Tony Richardson
1962	Lawrence of Arabia IMDB	David Lean
1961	West Side Story IMDB	Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
1960	The Apartment IMDB	Billy Wilder
1959	Ben-Hur IMDB	William Wyler
1958	Gigi IMDB	Vincente Minnelli
1957	The Bridge on the River Kwai IMDB	David Lean
1956	Giant IMDB	George Stevens
1955	Marty IMDB	Delbert Mann
1954	On the Waterfront IMDB	Elia Kazan
1953	From Here to Eternity IMDB	Fred Zinnemann
1952	The Quiet Man IMDB	John Ford
1951	A Place in the Sun IMDB	George Stevens
1950	All about Eve IMDB	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1949	A Letter to Three Wives IMDB	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1948	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre IMDB	John Huston
1947	Gentleman's Agreement IMDB	Elia Kazan
1946	The Best Years of Our Lives IMDB	William Wyler
1945	The Lost Weekend IMDB	Billy Wilder
1944	Going My Way IMDB	Leo McCarey
1943	Casablanca IMDB	Michael Curtiz
1942	Mrs. Miniver IMDB	William Wyler
1941	How Green Was My Valley IMDB	John Ford
1940	The Grapes of Wrath IMDB	John Ford
1939	Gone with the Wind IMDB	Victor Fleming
1938	You Can't Take It with You IMDB	Frank Capra
1937	The Awful Truth IMDB	Leo McCarey
1936	Mr. Deeds Goes to Town IMDB	Frank Capra
1935	The Informer IMDB	John Ford
1934	It Happened One Night IMDB	Frank Capra
1932/33	Cavalcade IMDB	Frank Lloyd
1931/32	Bad Girl IMDB	Frank Borzage
1930/31	Skippy IMDB	Norman Taurog
1929/30	All Quiet on the Western Front IMDB	Lewis Milestone
1928/29	The Divine Lady IMDB	Frank Lloyd

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