Best Director

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--Sydney Pollack, Out of Africa
1984--Milos 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--Milos Forman, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
1974--Fracis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II
1973--George Roy Hill, The Sting
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 Zinnemann, 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 and Jerome Robbins, West Side Story
1960--Billy Wilder, The Apartment
1959--William Wyler, Ben-Hur
1958--Vicente 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 Zinnemann, 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
1933/32--Frank Lloyd, Cavalcade
1932/31--Frank Borzage, Bad Girl
1931/30--Norman Taurog, Skippy
1930/29--Lewis Milestone, All Quiet on the Western Front
1929/28--Frank Lloyd, The Divine Lady
1928/27--Lewis Milestone, Two Arabian Knights