Best Director 2023

Frank Borzage for Seventh Heaven and Lewis Milestone for Two Arabian Knights

Frank Lloyd for The Divine Lady

Lewis Milestone for All Quiet on the Western Front

Norman Taurog for Skippy

Frank Borzage for Bad Girl

Frank Lloyd for Cavalcade

Frank Capra for It Happened One Night

John Ford for The Informer

Frank Capra for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Leo McCarey for The Awful Truth

Frank Capra for You Can't Take it With You

Victor Fleming for Gone With the Wind

John Ford for The Grapes of Wrath

John Ford for How Green Was My Valley

William Wyler for Mrs. Miniver

Michael Curtiz for Casablanca

Leo McCarey for Going My Way

Billy Wilder for The Lost Weekend

William Wyler for The Best Years of Our Lives

Elia Kazan for Gentleman's Agreement

John Huston for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Joseph L. Mankiewicz for A Letter to Three Wives

Joseph L. Mankiewicz for All About Eve

George Stevens for A Place in the Sun

John Ford for The Quiet Man

Fred Zinnemann for From Here to Eternity

Elia Kazan for On the Waterfront

Delbert Mann for Marty

George Stevens for Giant

David Lean for The Bridge on the River Kwai

Vincente Minnelli for Gigi

William Wyler for Ben-Hur

Billy Wilder for The Apartment

Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for West Side Story

David Lean for Lawrence of Arabia

Tony Richardson for Tom Jones

George Cukor for My Fair Lady

Robert Wise for The Sound of Music

Fred Zinnemann for A Man for All Seasons

Mike Nichols for The Graduate

Carol Reed for Oliver!

John Schlesinger for Midnight Cowboy

Franklin J. Schaffner for Patton

William Friedkin for The French Connection

Bob Fosse for Cabaret

George Roy Hill for The Sting

Francis Ford Coppola for The Godfather Part II

Milos Forman for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

John G. Avildsen for Rocky

Woody Allen for Annie Hall

Michael Cimino for The Deer Hunter

Robert Benton for Kramer vs. Kramer

Robert Redford for Ordinary People

Warren Beatty for Reds

Richard Attenborough for Gandhi

James L. Brooks for Terms of Endearment

Milos Forman for Amadeus

Sydney Pollock for Out of Africa

Oliver Stone for Platoon

Bernardo Bertolucci for The Last Emporer

Barry Levinson for Rain Man

Oliver Stone for Born on the Fourth of July

Kevin Costner for Dances With Wolves

Jonathan Demme for The Silence of the Lambs

Clint Eastwood for Unforgiven

Steven Spielberg for Schindler's List

Robert Zemeckis for Forrest Gump

Mel Gibson for Braveheart

Anthony Minghella for The English Patient

James Cameron for Titanic

Steven Spielberg for Saving Private Ryan

Sam Mendes for American Beauty

Steven Soderbergh for Traffic

Ron Howard for A Beautiful Mind

Roman Polanski for The Pianist

Peter Jackson for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Clint Eastwood for Million Dollar Baby

Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain

Martin Scorcese for The Departed

Joel & Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men

Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire

Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker

Tom Hooper for The King's Speech

Michel Hazanavicius for The Artist

Ang Lee for Life of Pi

Alfonso Cuaron for Gravity

Alejandro G. Iñárritu for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Alejandro G. Iñárritu for The Revenant

Damien Chazelle for La La Land

Guillermo del Toro for The Shape of Water

Alfonso Cuarón for Roma

Bong Joon Ho for Parasite

Chloé Zhao for Nomadland

Jane Campion for The Power of the Dog

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
Everything Everywhere All at Once