Academy Award Best Director

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Since the very first Oscar ceremony in 1929, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has honored the year’s most outstanding achievement in directing.

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  1. 1 -

    7th Heaven

    1927, in 11 top lists Check
  2. 24 -

    All About Eve

    1950, in 25 top lists Check
  3. 4 -

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    1930, in 19 top lists Check
  4. 58 -

    Amadeus

    1984, in 24 top lists Check
  5. 73 -

    American Beauty

    1999, in 25 top lists Check
  6. 51 -

    Annie Hall

    1977, in 34 top lists Check
  7. 34 -

    The Apartment

    1960, in 28 top lists Check
  8. 85 -

    The Artist

    2011, in 8 top lists Check
  9. 11 -

    The Awful Truth

    1937, in 15 top lists Check
  10. 6 -

    Bad Girl

    1931, in 1 top list Check
  11. 75 -

    A Beautiful Mind

    2001, in 12 top lists Check
  12. 33 -

    Ben-Hur

    1959, in 22 top lists Check
  13. 20 -

    The Best Years of Our Lives

    1946, in 30 top lists Check
  14. 88 -

    Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

    2014, in 8 top lists Check
  15. 63 -

    Born on the Fourth of July

    1989, in 6 top lists Check
  16. 69 -

    Braveheart

    1995, in 19 top lists Check
  17. 31 -

    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    1957, in 32 top lists Check
  18. 79 -

    Brokeback Mountain

    2005, in 21 top lists Check
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    Cabaret

    1972, in 24 top lists Check
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    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  21. 7 -

    Cavalcade

    1933, in 4 top lists Check
  22. 64 -

    Dances with Wolves

    1990, in 18 top lists Check
  23. 52 -

    The Deer Hunter

    1978, in 26 top lists Check
  24. 80 -

    The Departed

    2006, in 20 top lists Check
  25. 3 -

    The Divine Lady

    1928, in 1 top list Check
  26. 70 -

    The English Patient

    1996, in 19 top lists Check
  27. 96 new

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    2022, in 8 top lists
    Check
  28. 68 -

    Forrest Gump

    1994, in 25 top lists Check
  29. 45 -

    The French Connection

    1971, in 23 top lists Check
  30. 27 -

    From Here to Eternity

    1953, in 13 top lists Check
  31. 56 -

    Gandhi

    1982, in 15 top lists Check
  32. 21 -

    Gentleman's Agreement

    1947, in 4 top lists Check
  33. 30 -

    Giant

    1956, in 10 top lists Check
  34. 32 -

    Gigi

    1958, in 11 top lists Check
  35. 93 -

    Gisaengchung

    2019 — a.k.a. Parasite, in 22 top lists
    Check
  36. 48 -

    The Godfather Part II

    1974, in 32 top lists Check
  37. 18 -

    Going My Way

    1944, in 6 top lists Check
  38. 13 -

    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  39. 41 -

    The Graduate

    1967, in 29 top lists Check
  40. 14 -

    The Grapes of Wrath

    1940, in 24 top lists Check
  41. 87 -

    Gravity

    2013, in 12 top lists Check
  42. 15 -

    How Green Was My Valley

    1941, in 11 top lists Check
  43. 83 -

    The Hurt Locker

    2008, in 13 top lists Check
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    The Informer

    1935, in 7 top lists Check
  45. 8 -

    It Happened One Night

    1934, in 29 top lists Check
  46. 84 -

    The King's Speech

    2010, in 13 top lists Check
  47. 53 -

    Kramer vs. Kramer

    1979, in 8 top lists Check
  48. 90 -

    La La Land

    2016, in 18 top lists Check
  49. 61 -

    The Last Emperor

    1987, in 14 top lists Check
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    Lawrence of Arabia

    1962, in 40 top lists Check
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