Oscar for Best Director Films

Using only the director's names, how many movies can you name which took home the Oscar for Best Director?

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Year	Director	Film
2023	Christopher Nolan	Oppenheimer
2022	Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert	Everything Everywhere All at Once
2021	Jane Campion	The Power of the Dog
2020	Chloé Zhao	Nomadland
2019	Bong Joon-Ho	Parasite
2018	Alfonso Cuarón	Roma
2017	Guillermo Del Toro	The Shape of Water
2016	Damien Chazelle	La La Land
2015	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	The Revenant
2014	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	Birdman
2013	Alfonso Cuarón	Gravity
2012	Ang Lee	Life of Pi
2011	Michel Hazanavicius	The Artist
2010	Tom Hooper	The King's Speech
2009	Kathryn Bigelow	The Hurt Locker
2008	Danny Boyle	Slumdog Millionaire
2007	Joel Coen & Ethan Coen	No Country for Old Men
2006	Martin Scorsese	The Departed
2005	Ang Lee	Brokeback Mountain
2004	Clint Eastwood	Million Dollar Baby
2003	Peter Jackson	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2002	Roman Polanski	The Pianist
2001	Ron Howard	A Beautiful Mind
2000	Steven Soderbergh	Traffic
1999	Sam Mendes	American Beauty
1998	Steven Spielberg	Saving Private Ryan
1997	James Cameron	Titanic
1996	Anthony Minghella	The English Patient
1995	Mel Gibson	Braveheart
1994	Robert Zemeckis	Forrest Gump
1993	Steven Spielberg	Schindler's List
1992	Clint Eastwood	Unforgiven
1991	Jonathan Demme	The Silence of the Lambs
1990	Kevin Costner	Dances with Wolves
1989	Oliver Stone	Born on the Fourth of July
1988	Barry Levinson	Rain Man
1987	Bernardo Bertolucci	The Last Emperor
1986	Oliver Stone	Platoon
1985	Syndey Pollack	Out of Africa
1984	Miloš Forman	Amadeus
1983	James L. Brooks	Terms of Endearment
1982	Richard Attenborough	Gandhi
1981	Warren Beatty	Reds
1980	Robert Redford	Ordinary People
1979	Robert Benton	Kramer vs. Kramer
1978	Michael Cimino	The Deer Hunter
1977	Woody Allen	Annie Hall
1976	John G. Avildsen	Rocky
1975	Miloš Forman	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1974	Francis Ford Coppola	The Godfather: Part II
1973	George Roy Hill	The Sting

Year	Director	Film
1972	Bob Fosse	Cabaret
1971	William Friedkin	The French Connection
1970	Franklin J. Schaffner	Patton
1969	John Schlesinger	Midnight Cowboy
1968	Carol Reed	Oliver!
1967	Mike Nichols	The Graduate
1966	Fred Zinneman	A Man for All Seasons
1965	Robert Wise	The Sound of Music
1964	George Cukor	My Fair Lady
1963	Tony Richardson	Tom Jones
1962	David Lean	Lawrence of Arabia
1961	Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins	West Side Story
1960	Billy Wilder	The Apartment
1959	William Wyler	Ben-Hur
1958	Vincente Minnelli	Gigi
1957	David Lean	The Bridge on the River Kwai
1956	George Stevens	Giant
1955	Delbert Mann	Marty
1954	Elia Kazan	On the Waterfront
1953	Fred Zinneman	From Here to Eternity
1952	John Ford	The Quiet Man
1951	George Stevens	A Place in the Sun
1950	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	All About Eve
1949	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	A Letter to Three Wives
1948	John Huston	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1947	Elia Kazan	Gentleman's Agreement
1946	William Wyler	The Best Years of Our Lives
1945	Billy Wilder	The Lost Weekend
1944	Leo McCarey	Going My Way
1943	Michael Curtiz	Casablanca
1942	William Wyler	Mrs. Miniver
1941	John Ford	How Green was my Valley
1940	John Ford	The Grapes of Wrath
1939	Victor Fleming	Gone with the Wind
1938	Frank Capra	You Can't Take it With You
1937	Leo McCarey	The Awful Truth
1936	Frank Capra	Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1935	John Ford	The Informer
1934	Frank Capra	It Happened One Night
1933	Frank Lloyd	Cavalcade
1932	Frank Borzage	Bad Girl
1931	Norman Taurog	Skippy
1930	Lewis Milestone	All Quiet on the Western Front
1929	Frank Lloyd	The Divine Lady
1928	Frank Milestone	Two Arabian Knights
1928	Frank Borzage	Seventh Heaven

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