Statistics for Best Director Nominees of the 21st Century

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Year	Film	Director	% Correct
2013	The Wolf of Wall Street	Martin Scorsese	95%
2023	Killers of the Flower Moon	Martin Scorsese	95%
2011	Hugo	Martin Scorsese	95%
2019	The Irishman	Martin Scorsese	95%
2006	The Departed	Martin Scorsese	95%
2004	The Aviator	Martin Scorsese	95%
2002	Gangs of New York	Martin Scorsese	95%
2023	Oppenheimer	Christopher Nolan	90%
2017	Dunkirk	Christopher Nolan	90%
2006	Letters from Iwo Jima	Clint Eastwood	90%
2003	Mystic River	Clint Eastwood	90%
2004	Million Dollar Baby	Clint Eastwood	90%
2021	West Side Story	Steven Spielberg	90%
2012	Lincoln	Steven Spielberg	90%
2005	Munich	Steven Spielberg	90%
2022	The Fabelmans	Steven Spielberg	90%
2019	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Quentin Tarantino	86%
2009	Inglourious Basterds	Quentin Tarantino	86%
2019	Parasite	Bong Joon-Ho	81%
2009	Avatar	James Cameron	81%
2007	There Will Be Blood	Paul Thomas Anderson	81%
2021	Licorice Pizza	Paul Thomas Anderson	81%
2017	Phantom Thread	Paul Thomas Anderson	81%
2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Peter Jackson	81%
2001	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Peter Jackson	81%
2001	Black Hawk Down	Ridley Scott	81%
2000	Gladiator	Ridley Scott	81%
2002	The Pianist	Roman Polanski	81%
2014	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Wes Anderson	81%
2014	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	76%
2006	Babel	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	76%
2015	The Revenant	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	76%
2018	Roma	Alfonso Cuarón	76%
2013	Gravity	Alfonso Cuarón	76%
2000	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Ang Lee	76%
2005	Brokeback Mountain	Ang Lee	76%
2012	Life of Pi	Ang Lee	76%
2016	La La Land	Damien Chazelle	76%
2008	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	David Fincher	76%
2010	The Social Network	David Fincher	76%
2020	Mank	David Fincher	76%
2017	The Shape of Water	Guillermo del Toro	76%
2007	No Country for Old Men	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	76%
2010	True Grit	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	76%
2017	Get Out	Jordan Peele	76%
2018	BlacKkKlansman	Spike Lee	76%
2019	Joker	Todd Phillips	71%
2020	Nomadland	Chloé Zhao	67%
2001	Mulholland Drive	David Lynch	67%
2021	The Power of the Dog	Jane Campion	67%
2009	The Hurt Locker	Kathryn Bigelow	67%
2001	A Beautiful Mind	Ron Howard	67%
2008	Frost/Nion	Ron Howard	67%
2019	1917	Sam Mendes	67%
2003	Lost in Translation	Sofia Coppola	67%
2018	Vice	Adam McKay	62%
2015	The Big Short	Adam McKay	62%
2008	Slumdog Millionaire	Danny Boyle	62%
2010	The Fighter	David O. Russell	62%
2012	Silver Linings Playbook	David O. Russell	62%
2013	American Hustle	David O. Russell	62%
2017	Lady Bird	Greta Gerwig	62%
2016	Hacksaw Ridge	Mel Gibson	62%
2010	The King's Speech	Tom Hooper	62%
2011	Midnight in Paris	Woody Allen	62%
2010	Black Swan	Darren Aronofsky	57%
2016	Arrival	Denis Villeneuve	57%
2021	Belfast	Kenneth Branagh	57%
2013	12 Years a Slave	Steve McQueen	57%
2000	Traffic	Steven Soderbergh	57%
2000	Erin Brockovich	Steven Soderbergh	57%
2023	Poor Things	Yorgos Lanthimos	57%
2018	The Favourite	Yorgos Lanthimos	57%
2013	Nebraska	Aleander Payne	52%
2011	The Descendants	Alexander Payne	52%
2004	Sideways	Alexander Payne	52%
2014	Foxcatcher	Bennett Miller	52%
2005	Capote	Bennett Miller	52%
2022	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert	52%
2005	Good Night, and Good Luck	George Clooney	52%
2015	Mad Max: Fury Road	George Miller	52%
2023	Anatomy of a Fall	Justine Triet	52%
2011	The Artist	Michel Hazanavicius	52%
2014	Boyhood	Richard Linklater	52%
2011	The Tree of Life	Terrence Malick	48%
2016	Moonlight	Barry Jenkins	43%
2020	Promising Young Woman	Emerald Fennell	43%
2023	The Zone of Interest	Jonathan Glazer	43%
2009	Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire	Lee Daniels	43%
2020	Another Round	Thomas Vinterberg	43%
2007	Juno	Jason Reitman	38%
2009	Up in the Air	Jason Reitman	38%
2022	The Banshees of Inisherin	Martin McDonagh	38%
2012	Amour	Michael Haneke	38%
2006	United 93	Paul Greengrass	38%
2018	Cold War	Paweł Pawlikowski	38%
2003	City of God	Fernando Meirelles	33%
2016	Manchester by the Sea	Kenneth Lonergan	33%
2020	Minari	Lee Isaac Chung	33%
2005	Crash	Paul Haggis	33%
2002	Talk to Her	Pedro Almodóvar	33%
2002	Chicago	Rob Marshall	33%
2022	Tár	Todd Field	33%
2007	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	Julian Schnabel	29%
2003	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Peter Weir	29%
2001	Gosford Park	Robert Altman	29%
2021	Drive My Car	Ryusuke Hamaguchi	29%
2006	The Queen	Stephen Frears	29%
2012	Beasts of the Southern Wild	Benh Zeitlin	24%
2015	Room	Lenny Abrahamson	24%
2014	The Imitation Game	Morten Tyldum	24%
2022	Triangle of Sadness	Ruben Östlund	24%
2000	Billy Elliot	Stephen Daldry	24%
2008	The Reader	Stephen Daldry	24%
2002	The Hours	Stephen Daldry	24%
2015	Spotlight	Tom McCarthy	24%
2008	Milk	Gus Van Sant	19%
2004	Vera Drake	Mike Leigh	19%
2004	Ray	Taylor Hackford	14%
2007	Michael Clayton	Tony Gilroy	14%