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Oscars for Best Director 1990-2023

Can you name Academy Award winners for Best Director since 1990?
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1. 1990
Stephen Frears (The Grifters)
Barbet Schroeder (Reversal of Fortune)
Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves)
Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather Part III)
2. 1991
Barry Levinson (Bugsy)
John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood)
Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs)
Ridley Scott (Thelma & Louise)
3. 1992
James Ivory (Howards End)
Robert Altman (The Player)
Martin Brest (Scent of a Woman)
Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven)
4. 1993
Jane Campion (The Piano)
James Ivory (The Remains of the Day)
Robert Altman (Short Cuts)
Steven Spielberg (Schindler's List)
5. 1994
Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump)
Woody Allen (Bullets over Broadway)
Robert Redford (Quiz Show)
Krzysztof Kieślowski (Three Colours: Red)
6. 1995
Mel Gibson (Braveheart)
Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas)
Chris Noonan (Babe)
Michael Radford (Il Postino: The Postman)
7. 1996
Anthony Minghella (The English Patient)
Scott Hicks (Shine)
Joel Coen (Fargo)
Miloš Forman (The People vs. Larry Flynt)
8. 1997
James Cameron (Titanic)
Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter)
Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty)
Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential)
9. 1998
Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan)
John Madden (Shakespeare in Love)
Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line)
Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful)
10. 1999
Lasse Hallström (The Cider House Rules)
Michael Mann (The Insider)
Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich)
Sam Mendes (American Beauty)
11. 2000
Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot)
Steven Soderbergh (Traffic)
Ridley Scott (Gladiator)
12. 2001
Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind)
Robert Altman (Gosford Park)
Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
David Lynch (Mulholland Drive)
13. 2002
Roman Polanski (The Pianist)
Rob Marshall (Chicago)
Pedro Almodóvar (Talk to Her)
Stephen Daldry (The Hours)
14. 2003
Clint Eastwood (Mystic River)
Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation)
Fernando Meirelles (City of God)
Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
15. 2004
Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby)
Mike Leigh (Vera Drake)
Taylor Hackford (Ray)
Alexander Payne (Sideways)
16. 2005
Paul Haggis (Crash)
George Clooney (Good Night, and Good Luck)
Bennett Miller (Capote)
Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain)
17. 2006
Stephen Frears (The Queen)
Paul Greengrass (United 93)
Clint Eastwood (Letters from Iwo Jima)
Martin Scorsese (The Departed)
18. 2007
Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton)
Jason Reitman (Juno)
Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood)
Coen Brothers (No Country for Old Men)
19. 2008
Stephen Daldry (The Reader)
David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon)
Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)
20. 2009
Lee Daniels (Precious)
Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
Jason Reitman (Up in the Air)
James Cameron (Avatar)
21. 2010
David Fincher (The Social Network)
Coen Brothers (True Grit)
Tom Hooper (The King's Speech)
Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)
22. 2011
Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris)
Alexander Payne (The Descendants)
Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)
Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life)
23. 2012
David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)
Michael Haneke (Amour)
Steven Spielberg (Lincoln)
Ang Lee (Life of Pi)
24. 2013
David O. Russell (American Hustle)
Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)
Alexander Payne (Nebraska)
Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)
25. 2014
Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman)
Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Richard Linklater (Boyhood)
Bennett Miller (Foxcatcher)
26. 2015
Tom McCarthy (Spotlight)
Lenny Abrahamson (Room)
Adam McKay (The Big Short)
Alejandro González Iñárritu (The Revenant)
27. 2016
Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)
Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge)
Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea)
Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
28. 2017
Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird)
Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water)
Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread)
Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk)
29. 2018
Adam McKay (Vice)
Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman)
Alfonso Cuarón (Roma)
Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite)
30. 2019
Bong Joon-ho (Parasite)
Martin Scorsese (The Irishman)
Sam Mendes (1917)
Todd Phillips (Joker)
31. 2020
Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round)
Chloe Zhao (Nomadland)
Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)
David Fincher (Mank)
32. 2021
Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)
Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car)
Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)
Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)
33. 2022
Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans)
Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Ruben Ostlund (Triangle of Sadness)
34. 2023
Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things)
Jonathan Glazer (The Zone of Interest)
Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon)
Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)
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