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