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Academy Award Nominees for Best Director

Name all the directors that have ever been nominated at the Academy Awards.
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Year
Film
Director
2021
The Power of the Dog
Jane Campion
Licorice Pizza
Paul Thomas Anderson
Belfast
Kenneth Branagh
Drive My Car
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
West Side Story
Steven Spielberg
2020
Nomadland
Chloé Zhao
Minari
Lee Isaac Chung
Promising Young Woman
Emerald Fennell
Mank
David Fincher
Another Round
Thomas Vinterberg
2019
Parasite
Bong Joon-ho
1917
Sam Mendes
Joker
Todd Phillips
The Irishman
Martin Scorsese
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino
2018
Roma
Alfonso Cuarón
The Favourite
Yorgos Lanthimos
BlacKkKlansman
Spike Lee
Vice
Adam McKay
Cold War
Paweł Pawlikowski
2017
The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro
Phantom Thread
Paul Thomas Anderson
Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig
Dunkirk
Christopher Nolan
Get Out
Jordan Peele
2016
La La Land
Damien Chazelle
Hacksaw Ridge
Mel Gibson
Moonlight
Barry Jenkins
Manchester by the Sea
Kenneth Lonergan
Arrival
Denis Villeneuve
2015
The Revenant
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Room
Lenny Abrahamson
Spotlight
Tom McCarthy
The Big Short
Adam McKay
Mad Max: Fury Road
George Miller
2014
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson
Boyhood
Richard Linklater
Foxcatcher
Bennett Miller
The Imitation Game
Morten Tyldum
2013
Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón
12 Years a Slave
Steve McQueen
Nebraska
Alexander Payne
American Hustle
David O. Russell
The Wolf of Wall Street
Martin Scorsese
2012
Life of Pi
Ang Lee
Amour
Michael Haneke
Silver Linings Playbook
David O. Russell
Lincoln
Steven Spielberg
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Benh Zeitlin
2011
The Artist
Michel Hazanavicius
Midnight in Paris
Woody Allen
The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick
The Descendants
Alexander Payne
Hugo
Martin Scorsese
2010
The King's Speech
Tom Hooper
Black Swan
Darren Aronofsky
True Grit
Joel & Ethan Coen
The Social Network
David Fincher
The Fighter
David O. Russell
2009
The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow
Avatar
James Cameron
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
Lee Daniels
Up in the Air
Jason Reitman
Inglourious Basterds
Quentin Tarantino
2008
Slumdog Millionaire
Danny Boyle
The Reader
Stephen Daldry
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
David Fincher
Frost/Nixon
Ron Howard
Milk
Gus Van Sant
2007
No Country for Old Men
Joel & Ethan Coen
There Will Be Blood
Paul Thomas Anderson
Michael Clayton
Tony Gilroy
Juno
Jason Reitman
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Julian Schnabel
2006
The Departed
Martin Scorsese
Letters from Iwo Jima
Clint Eastwood
The Queen
Stephen Frears
United 93
Paul Greengrass
Babel
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
2005
Brokeback Mountain
Ang Lee
Good Night, and Good Luck
George Clooney
Crash
Paul Haggis
Capote
Bennett Miller
Munich
Steven Spielberg
2004
Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood
Ray
Taylor Hackford
Vera Drake
Mike Leigh
Sideways
Alexander Payne
The Aviator
Martin Scorsese
2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Peter Jackson
Lost in Translation
Sofia Coppola
Mystic River
Clint Eastwood
City of God
Fernando Meirelles
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Peter Weir
2002
The Pianist
Roman Polanski
Talk to Her
Pedro Almodóvar
The Hours
Stephen Daldry
Chicago
Rob Marshall
Gangs of New York
Martin Scorsese
2001
A Beautiful Mind
Ron Howard
Gosford Park
Robert Altman
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Peter Jackson
Mulholland Drive
David Lynch
Black Hawk Down
Ridley Scott
2000
Traffic
Steven Soderbergh
Billy Elliot
Stephen Daldry
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Ang Lee
Gladiator
Ridley Scott
Erin Brockovich
Steven Soderbergh
1999
American Beauty
Sam Mendes
The Cider House Rules
Lasse Hallström
Being John Malkovich
Spike Jonze
The Insider
Michael Mann
The Sixth Sense
M. Night Shyamalan
1998
Saving Private Ryan
Steven Spielberg
Life Is Beautiful
Roberto Benigni
Shakespeare in Love
John Madden
The Thin Red Line
Terrence Malick
The Truman Show
Peter Weir
1997
Titanic
James Cameron
The Full Monty
Peter Cattaneo
The Sweet Hereafter
Atom Egoyan
L.A. Confidential
Curtis Hanson
Good Will Hunting
Gus Van Sant
1996
The English Patient
Anthony Minghella
Fargo
Joel Coen
The People vs. Larry Flynt
Miloš Forman
Shine
Scott Hicks
Secrets & Lies
Mike Leigh
1995
Braveheart
Mel Gibson
Leaving Las Vegas
Mike Figgis
Babe
Chris Noonan
Il Postino: The Postman
Michael Radford
Dead Man Walking
Tim Robbins
1994
Forrest Gump
Robert Zemeckis
Bullets over Broadway
Woody Allen
Three Colors: Red
Krzysztof Kieślowski
Quiz Show
Robert Redford
Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino
1993
Schindler's List
Steven Spielberg
Short Cuts
Robert Altman
The Piano
Jane Campion
The Remains of the Day
James Ivory
In the Name of the Father
Jim Sheridan
1992
Unforgiven
Clint Eastwood
The Player
Robert Altman
Scent of a Woman
Martin Brest
Howards End
James Ivory
The Crying Game
Neil Jordan
1991
The Silence of the Lambs
Jonathan Demme
Bugsy
Barry Levinson
Thelma & Louise
Ridley Scott
Boyz n the Hood
John Singleton
JFK
Oliver Stone
1990
Dances with Wolves
Kevin Costner
The Godfather Part III
Francis Ford Coppola
The Grifters
Stephen Frears
Reversal of Fortune
Barbet Schroeder
Goodfellas
Martin Scorsese
1989
Born on the Fourth of July
Oliver Stone
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Woody Allen
Henry V
Kenneth Branagh
My Left Foot
Jim Sheridan
Dead Poets Society
Peter Weir
1988
Rain Man
Barry Levinson
A Fish Called Wanda
Charles Crichton
Working Girl
Mike Nichols
Mississippi Burning
Alan Parker
The Last Temptation of Christ
Martin Scorsese
1987
The Last Emperor
Bernardo Bertolucci
Hope and Glory
John Boorman
My Life as a Dog
Lasse Hallström
Moonstruck
Norman Jewison
Fatal Attraction
Adrian Lyne
1986
Platoon
Oliver Stone
Hannah and Her Sisters
Woody Allen
A Room with a View
James Ivory
The Mission
Roland Joffé
Blue Velvet
David Lynch
1985
Out of Africa
Sydney Pollack
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Héctor Babenco
Prizzi's Honor
John Huston
Ran
Akira Kurosawa
Witness
Peter Weir
1984
Amadeus
Miloš Forman
Broadway Danny Rose
Woody Allen
Places in the Heart
Robert Benton
The Killing Fields
Roland Joffé
A Passage to India
David Lean
1983
Terms of Endearment
James L. Brooks
Tender Mercies
Bruce Beresford
Fanny and Alexander
Ingmar Bergman
Silkwood
Mike Nichols
The Dresser
Peter Yates
1982
Gandhi
Richard Attenborough
The Verdict
Sidney Lumet
Das Boot
Wolfgang Petersen
Tootsie
Sydney Pollack
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Steven Spielberg
1981
Reds
Warren Beatty
Chariots of Fire
Hugh Hudson
Atlantic City
Louis Malle
On Golden Pond
Mark Rydell
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Steven Spielberg
1980
Ordinary People
Robert Redford
The Elephant Man
David Lynch
Tess
Roman Polanski
The Stunt Man
Richard Rush
Raging Bull
Martin Scorsese
1979
Kramer vs. Kramer
Robert Benton
Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola
All That Jazz
Bob Fosse
La Cage aux Folles
Édouard Molinaro
Breaking Away
Peter Yates
1978
The Deer Hunter
Michael Cimino
Interiors
Woody Allen
Coming Home
Hal Ashby
Heaven Can Wait
Warren Beatty and Buck Henry
Midnight Express
Alan Parker
1977
Annie Hall
Woody Allen
Star Wars
George Lucas
The Turning Point
Herbert Ross
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Steven Spielberg
Julia
Fred Zinnemann
1976
Rocky
John G. Avildsen
Face to Face
Ingmar Bergman
Network
Sidney Lumet
All the President's Men
Alan J. Pakula
Seven Beauties
Lina Wertmüller
1975
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Miloš Forman
Nashville
Robert Altman
Amarcord
Federico Fellini
Barry Lyndon
Stanley Kubrick
Dog Day Afternoon
Sidney Lumet
1974
The Godfather Part II
Francis Ford Coppola
A Woman Under the Influence
John Cassavetes
Lenny
Bob Fosse
Chinatown
Roman Polanski
Day for Night
François Truffaut
1973
The Sting
George Roy Hill
Cries and Whispers
Ingmar Bergman
Last Tango in Paris
Bernardo Bertolucci
The Exorcist
William Friedkin
American Graffiti
George Lucas
1972
Cabaret
Bob Fosse
Deliverance
John Boorman
The Godfather
Francis Ford Coppola
Sleuth
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
The Emigrants
Jan Troell
1971
The French Connection
William Friedkin
The Last Picture Show
Peter Bogdanovich
Fiddler on the Roof
Norman Jewison
A Clockwork Orange
Stanley Kubrick
Sunday Bloody Sunday
John Schlesinger
1970
Patton
Franklin J. Schaffner
M*A*S*H
Robert Altman
Fellini Satyricon
Federico Fellini
Love Story
Arthur Hiller
Women in Love
Ken Russell
1969
Midnight Cowboy
John Schlesinger
Z
Costa-Gavras
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
George Roy Hill
Alice's Restaurant
Arthur Penn
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Sydney Pollack
1968
Oliver!
Carol Reed
The Lion in Winter
Anthony Harvey
2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick
The Battle of Algiers
Gillo Pontecorvo
Romeo and Juliet
Franco Zeffirelli
1967
The Graduate
Mike Nichols
In Cold Blood
Richard Brooks
In the Heat of the Night
Norman Jewison
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Stanley Kramer
Bonnie and Clyde
Arthur Penn
1966
A Man for All Seasons
Fred Zinnemann
Blowup
Michelangelo Antonioni
The Professionals
Richard Brooks
A Man and a Woman
Claude Lelouch
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Mike Nichols
1965
The Sound of Music
Robert Wise
Doctor Zhivago
David Lean
Darling
John Schlesinger
Woman in the Dunes
Hiroshi Teshigahara
The Collector
William Wyler
1964
My Fair Lady
George Cukor
Zorba the Greek
Michael Cacoyannis
Becket
Peter Glenville
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Stanley Kubrick
Mary Poppins
Robert Stevenson
1963
Tom Jones
Tony Richardson
Federico Fellini
America America
Elia Kazan
The Cardinal
Otto Preminger
Hud
Martin Ritt
1962
Lawrence of Arabia
David Lean
Divorce Italian Style
Pietro Germi
To Kill a Mockingbird
Robert Mulligan
The Miracle Worker
Arthur Penn
David and Lisa
Frank Perry
1961
West Side Story
Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins
La Dolce Vita
Federico Fellini
Judgment at Nuremberg
Stanley Kramer
The Hustler
Robert Rossen
The Guns of Navarone
J. Lee Thompson
1960
The Apartment
Billy Wilder
Sons and Lovers
Jack Cardiff
Never on Sunday
Jules Dassin
Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock
The Sundowners
Fred Zinnemann
1959
Ben-Hur
William Wyler
Room at the Top
Jack Clayton
The Diary of Anne Frank
George Stevens
Some Like It Hot
Billy Wilder
The Nun's Story
Fred Zinnemann
1958
Gigi
Vincente Minnelli
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Richard Brooks
The Defiant Ones
Stanley Kramer
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Mark Robson
I Want to Live!
Robert Wise
1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai
David Lean
Sayonara
Joshua Logan
12 Angry Men
Sidney Lumet
Peyton Place
Mark Robson
Witness for the Prosecution
Billy Wilder
1956
Giant
George Stevens
Around the World in 80 Days
Michael Anderson
The King and I
Walter Lang
War and Peace
King Vidor
Friendly Persuasion
William Wyler
1955
Marty
Delbert Mann
East of Eden
Elia Kazan
Summertime
David Lean
Picnic
Joshua Logan
Bad Day at Black Rock
John Sturges
1954
On the Waterfront
Elia Kazan
Rear Window
Alfred Hitchcock
The Country Girl
George Seaton
The High and the Mighty
William A. Wellman
Sabrina
Billy Wilder
1953
From Here to Eternity
Fred Zinnemann
Shane
George Stevens
Lili
Charles Walters
Stalag 17
Billy Wilder
Roman Holiday
William Wyler
1952
The Quiet Man
John Ford
The Greatest Show on Earth
Cecil B. DeMille
Moulin Rouge
John Huston
5 Fingers
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
High Noon
Fred Zinnemann
1951
A Place in the Sun
George Stevens
The African Queen
John Huston
A Streetcar Named Desire
Elia Kazan
An American in Paris
Vincente Minnelli
Detective Story
William Wyler
1950
All About Eve
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Born Yesterday
George Cukor
The Asphalt Jungle
John Huston
The Third Man
Carol Reed
Sunset Boulevard
Billy Wilder
1949
A Letter to Three Wives
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
The Fallen Idol
Carol Reed
All the King's Men
Robert Rossen
Battleground
William A. Wellman
The Heiress
William Wyler
1948
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
John Huston
The Snake Pit
Anatole Litvak
Johnny Belinda
Jean Negulesco
Hamlet
Laurence Olivier
The Search
Fred Zinnemann
1947
Gentleman's Agreement
Elia Kazan
A Double Life
George Cukor
Crossfire
Edward Dmytryk
The Bishop's Wife
Henry Koster
Great Expectations
David Lean
1946
The Best Years of Our Lives
William Wyler
The Yearling
Clarence Brown
It's a Wonderful Life
Frank Capra
Brief Encounter
David Lean
The Killers
Robert Siodmak
1945
The Lost Weekend
Billy Wilder
National Velvet
Clarence Brown
Spellbound
Alfred Hitchcock
The Bells of St. Mary's
Leo McCarey
The Southerner
Jean Renoir
1944
Going My Way
Leo McCarey
Lifeboat
Alfred Hitchcock
Wilson
Henry King
Laura
Otto Preminger
Double Indemnity
Billy Wilder
1943
Casablanca
Michael Curtiz
The Human Comedy
Clarence Brown
The Song of Bernadette
Henry King
Heaven Can Wait
Ernst Lubitsch
The More the Merrier
George Stevens
1942
Mrs. Miniver
William Wyler
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Michael Curtiz
Wake Island
John Farrow
Random Harvest
Mervyn LeRoy
Kings Row
Sam Wood
1941
How Green Was My Valley
John Ford
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Alexander Hall
Sergeant York
Howard Hawks
Citizen Kane
Orson Welles
The Little Foxes
William Wyler
1940
The Grapes of Wrath
John Ford
The Philadelphia Story
George Cukor
Rebecca
Alfred Hitchcock
Kitty Foyle
Sam Wood
The Letter
William Wyler
1939
Gone with the Wind
Victor Fleming
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Frank Capra
Stagecoach
John Ford
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Sam Wood
Wuthering Heights
William Wyler
1938
You Can't Take It with You
Frank Capra
Angels with Dirty Faces
Michael Curtiz
Four Daughters
Michael Curtiz
Boys Town
Norman Taurog
The Citadel
King Vidor
1937
The Awful Truth
Leo McCarey
The Life of Emile Zola
William Dieterle
The Good Earth
Sidney Franklin
Stage Door
Gregory La Cava
A Star Is Born
William A. Wellman
1936
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Frank Capra
My Man Godfrey
Gregory La Cava
The Great Ziegfeld
Robert Z. Leonard
San Francisco
W.S. Van Dyke
Dodsworth
William Wyler
1935
The Informer
John Ford
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Henry Hathaway
Mutiny on the Bounty
Frank Lloyd
1934
It Happened One Night
Frank Capra
One Night of Love
Victor Schertzinger
The Thin Man
W.S. Van Dyke
1932-33
Cavalcade
Frank Lloyd
Lady for a Day
Frank Capra
Little Women
George Cukor
1931-32
Bad Girl
Frank Borzage
The Champ
King Vidor
Shanghai Express
Josef von Sternberg
1930-31
Skippy
Norman Taurog
A Free Soul
Clarence Brown
The Front Page
Lewis Milestone
Cimarron
Wesley Ruggles
Morocco
Josef von Sternberg
1929-30
All Quiet on the Western Front
Lewis Milestone
Anna Christine
Clarence Brown
Romance
Clarence Brown
The Divorcee
Robert Z. Leonard
The Love Parade
Ernst Lubitsch
Hallelujah!
King Vidor
1928-29
The Divine Lady
Frank Lloyd
Madame X
Lionel Barrymore
The Broadway Melody
Harry Beaumont
In Old Arizona
Irving Cummings
Drag
Frank Lloyd
Weary River
Frank Lloyd
The Patriot
Ernst Lubitsch
1927-28
7th Heaven
Frank Borzage
Sorrell and Son
Herbert Brenon
The Crowd
King Vidor
Two Arabian Knights
Lewis Milestone
Speedy
Ted Wilde
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Level 59
Sep 20, 2017
Cool quiz, but.....could you please add the type-ins? I can't remember the full names of people if my life depended on it ;)
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Level 22
Jun 6, 2022
I like this quiz but you should add type-ins and make last names suitable as answers, otherwise it's way too tedious