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