Best Director Winners Flashcards by Jacob Reed

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1927/1928

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Frank Borzage (7th Heaven) and Lewis Milestone (Two Arabian Knights)

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1928/1929

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Frank Lloyd (The Divine Lady)

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1929/1930

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Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front)

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1930/1931

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Norman Taurog (Skippy)

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1931/1932

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Frank Borzage (Bad Girl)

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1932/1933

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Frank Lloyd (Cavalcade)

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1934

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Frank Capra (It Happened One Night)

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1935

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John Ford (The Informer)

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1936

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Frank Capra (Mr. Deed Goes to Town)

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1937

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Leo McCarey (The Awful Truth)

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1938

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Frank Capra (You Can’t Take It with You)

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1939

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Victor Fleming (Gone with the Wind)

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1940

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John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath)

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1941

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John Ford (How Green Was My Valley)

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1942

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William Wyler (Mrs. Miniver)

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1943

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Michael Curtiz (Casablanca)

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1944

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Leo McCarey (Going My Way)

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1945

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Billy Wilder (The Lost Weekend)

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1946

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William Wyler (The Best Year of Our Lives)

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1947

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Elia Kazan (Gentleman’s Agreement)

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1948

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John Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)

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1949

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Joseph L. Mankiewicz (A Letter to Three Wives)

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1950

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Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve)

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1951

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George Stevens (A Place in the Sun)

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1952

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John Ford (The Quiet Man)

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1953

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Fred Zinnemann (From Here to Eternity)

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1954

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Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront)

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1955

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Delbert Mann (Marty)

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1956

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George Stevens (Giant)

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1957

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David Lean (Bridge on the River Kwai)

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1958

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Vincente Minnelli (Gigi)

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1959

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William Wyler (Ben-Hur)

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1960

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Billy Wilder (The Apartment)

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1961

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Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise (West Side Story)

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1962

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David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia)

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1963

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Tony Richardson (Tom Jones)

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1964

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George Cukor (My Fair Lady)

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1965

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Robert Wise (The Sound of Music)

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1966

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Fred Zinnemann (A Man for All Seasons)

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1967

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Mike Nichols (The Graduate)

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1968

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Carol Reed (Oliver!)

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1969

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John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy)

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1970

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Franklin J. Schaffner (Patton)

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1971

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William Friedkin (The French Connection)

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1972

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Bob Fosse (Cabaret)

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1973

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George Roy Hill (The Sting)

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1974

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Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather Part II)

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1975

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Miloš Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)

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1976

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John G. Avildsen (Rocky)

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1977

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Woody Allen (Annie Hall)

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1978

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Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter)

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1979

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Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer)

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1980

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Robert Redford (Ordinary People)

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1981

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Warren Beatty (Reds)

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1982

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Richard Attenborough (Gandhi)

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1983

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James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment)

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1984

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Miloš Forman (Amadeus)

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1985

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Sydney Pollack (Out of Africa)

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1986

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Oliver Stone (Platoon)

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1987

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Bernardo Bertolucci (The Last Emperor)

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1988

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Barry Levinson (Rain Man)

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1989

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Oliver Stone (Born on the Fourth of July)

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1990

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Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves)

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1991

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Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs)

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1992

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Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven)

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1993

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Steven Spielberg (Schindler’s List)

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1994

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Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump)

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1995

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Mel Gibson (Braveheart)

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1996

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Anthony Minghella (The English Patient)

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1997

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James Cameron (Titanic)

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1998

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Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan)

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1999

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Sam Mendes (American Beauty)

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2000

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Steven Soderbergh (Traffic)

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2001

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Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind)

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2002

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Roman Polanski (The Pianist)

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2003

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Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)

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2004

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Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby)

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2005

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Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain)

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2006

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Martin Scorsese (The Departed)

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2007

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Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men)

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2008

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Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)

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2009

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Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)

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2010

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Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech)

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2011

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Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)

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2012

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Ang Lee (Life of Pi)

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2013

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Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)

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2014

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Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman)

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2015

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Alejandro González Iñárritu (The Revenant)

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2016

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Damien Chazelle (La La Land)

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2017

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Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water)

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2018

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Alfonso Cuarón (Roma)

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2019

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Bong Joon-ho (Parasite)

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2020

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Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)

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2021

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Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)