Statistics for Oscars for Best Director 1990-2023

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Question	Answer	% Correct
2023	Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)	95%
2017	Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water)	90%
1991	Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs)	90%
2019	Bong Joon-ho (Parasite)	86%
1992	Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven)	86%
2022	Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once)	86%
1997	James Cameron (Titanic)	86%
1994	Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump)	86%
1999	Sam Mendes (American Beauty)	86%
1993	Steven Spielberg (Schindler's List)	86%
2020	Chloe Zhao (Nomadland)	81%
2004	Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby)	81%
1995	Mel Gibson (Braveheart)	81%
2008	Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)	76%
1990	Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves)	76%
2006	Martin Scorsese (The Departed)	76%
2016	Damien Chazelle (La La Land)	71%
2009	Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)	71%
2003	Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)	71%
2010	Tom Hooper (The King's Speech)	71%
2014	Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman)	67%
2007	Coen Brothers (No Country for Old Men)	67%
2021	Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)	67%
2001	Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind)	67%
2005	Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain)	62%
2011	Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)	62%
1996	Anthony Minghella (The English Patient)	57%
1998	Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan)	57%
2015	Alejandro González Iñárritu (The Revenant)	52%
2002	Roman Polanski (The Pianist)	52%
2018	Alfonso Cuarón (Roma)	48%
2013	Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)	43%
2012	Ang Lee (Life of Pi)	33%
2000	Steven Soderbergh (Traffic)	29%