Statistics for Oscars for Best Director 1990-2023

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Question	Answer	% Correct
2023	Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)	96%
2017	Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water)	91%
1991	Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs)	91%
2019	Bong Joon-ho (Parasite)	87%
1992	Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven)	87%
2022	Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once)	87%
1997	James Cameron (Titanic)	87%
1994	Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump)	87%
1999	Sam Mendes (American Beauty)	87%
1993	Steven Spielberg (Schindler's List)	87%
2020	Chloe Zhao (Nomadland)	83%
2004	Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby)	83%
1995	Mel Gibson (Braveheart)	83%
2008	Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)	78%
1990	Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves)	78%
2006	Martin Scorsese (The Departed)	78%
2016	Damien Chazelle (La La Land)	74%
2009	Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)	74%
2003	Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)	74%
2014	Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman)	70%
2007	Coen Brothers (No Country for Old Men)	70%
2021	Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)	70%
2001	Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind)	70%
2010	Tom Hooper (The King's Speech)	70%
2011	Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)	65%
2005	Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain)	61%
1996	Anthony Minghella (The English Patient)	61%
2015	Alejandro González Iñárritu (The Revenant)	57%
2002	Roman Polanski (The Pianist)	57%
1998	Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan)	57%
2018	Alfonso Cuarón (Roma)	52%
2013	Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)	48%
2012	Ang Lee (Life of Pi)	35%
2000	Steven Soderbergh (Traffic)	30%