Best Director Winners

Question 1

1927/1928

Answer 1

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

Question 2

1928/1929

Answer 2

Frank Lloyd (The Divine Lady)

Question 3

1929/1930

Answer 3

Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front)

Question 4

1930/1931

Answer 4

Norman Taurog (Skippy)

Question 5

1931/1932

Answer 5

Frank Borzage (Bad Girl)

Question 6

1932/1933

Answer 6

Frank Lloyd (Cavalcade)

Question 7

1934

Answer 7

Frank Capra (It Happened One Night)

Question 8

1935

Answer 8

John Ford (The Informer)

Question 9

1936

Answer 9

Frank Capra (Mr. Deed Goes to Town)

Question 10

1937

Answer 10

Leo McCarey (The Awful Truth)

Question 11

1938

Answer 11

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

Question 12

1939

Answer 12

Victor Fleming (Gone with the Wind)

Question 13

1940

Answer 13

John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath)

Question 14

1941

Answer 14

John Ford (How Green Was My Valley)

Question 15

1942

Answer 15

William Wyler (Mrs. Miniver)

Question 16

1943

Answer 16

Michael Curtiz (Casablanca)

Question 17

1944

Answer 17

Leo McCarey (Going My Way)

Question 18

1945

Answer 18

Billy Wilder (The Lost Weekend)

Question 19

1946

Answer 19

William Wyler (The Best Year of Our Lives)

Question 20

1947

Answer 20

Elia Kazan (Gentleman’s Agreement)

Question 21

1948

Answer 21

John Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)

Question 22

1949

Answer 22

Joseph L. Mankiewicz (A Letter to Three Wives)

Question 23

1950

Answer 23

Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve)

Question 24

1951

Answer 24

George Stevens (A Place in the Sun)

Question 25

1952

Answer 25

John Ford (The Quiet Man)

Question 26

1953

Answer 26

Fred Zinnemann (From Here to Eternity)

Question 27

1954

Answer 27

Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront)

Question 28

1955

Answer 28

Delbert Mann (Marty)

Question 29

1956

Answer 29

George Stevens (Giant)

Question 30

1957

Answer 30

David Lean (Bridge on the River Kwai)

Question 31

1958

Answer 31

Vincente Minnelli (Gigi)

Question 32

1959

Answer 32

William Wyler (Ben-Hur)

Question 33

1960

Answer 33

Billy Wilder (The Apartment)

Question 34

1961

Answer 34

Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise (West Side Story)

Question 35

1962

Answer 35

David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia)

Question 36

1963

Answer 36

Tony Richardson (Tom Jones)

Question 37

1964

Answer 37

George Cukor (My Fair Lady)

Question 38

1965

Answer 38

Robert Wise (The Sound of Music)

Question 39

1966

Answer 39

Fred Zinnemann (A Man for All Seasons)

Question 40

1967

Answer 40

Mike Nichols (The Graduate)

Question 41

1968

Answer 41

Carol Reed (Oliver!)

Question 42

1969

Answer 42

John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy)

Question 43

1970

Answer 43

Franklin J. Schaffner (Patton)

Question 44

1971

Answer 44

William Friedkin (The French Connection)

Question 45

1972

Answer 45

Bob Fosse (Cabaret)

Question 46

1973

Answer 46

George Roy Hill (The Sting)

Question 47

1974

Answer 47

Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather Part II)

Question 48

1975

Answer 48

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

Question 49

1976

Answer 49

John G. Avildsen (Rocky)

Question 50

1977

Answer 50

Woody Allen (Annie Hall)

Question 51

1978

Answer 51

Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter)

Question 52

1979

Answer 52

Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer)

Question 53

1980

Answer 53

Robert Redford (Ordinary People)

Question 54

1981

Answer 54

Warren Beatty (Reds)

Question 55

1982

Answer 55

Richard Attenborough (Gandhi)

Question 56

1983

Answer 56

James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment)

Question 57

1984

Answer 57

Miloš Forman (Amadeus)

Question 58

1985

Answer 58

Sydney Pollack (Out of Africa)

Question 59

1986

Answer 59

Oliver Stone (Platoon)

Question 60

1987

Answer 60

Bernardo Bertolucci (The Last Emperor)

Question 61

1988

Answer 61

Barry Levinson (Rain Man)

Question 62

1989

Answer 62

Oliver Stone (Born on the Fourth of July)

Question 63

1990

Answer 63

Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves)

Question 64

1991

Answer 64

Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs)

Question 65

1992

Answer 65

Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven)

Question 66

1993

Answer 66

Steven Spielberg (Schindler's List)

Question 67

1994

Answer 67

Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump)

Question 68

1995

Answer 68

Mel Gibson (Braveheart)

Question 69

1996

Answer 69

Anthony Minghella (The English Patient)

Question 70

1997

Answer 70

James Cameron (Titanic)

Question 71

1998

Answer 71

Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan)

Question 72

1999

Answer 72

Sam Mendes (American Beauty)

Question 73

2000

Answer 73

Steven Soderbergh (Traffic)

Question 74

2001

Answer 74

Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind)

Question 75

2002

Answer 75

Roman Polanski (The Pianist)

Question 76

2003

Answer 76

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

Question 77

2004

Answer 77

Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby)

Question 78

2005

Answer 78

Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain)

Question 79

2006

Answer 79

Martin Scorsese (The Departed)

Question 80

2007

Answer 80

Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men)

Question 81

2008

Answer 81

Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)

Question 82

2009

Answer 82

Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)

Question 83

2010

Answer 83

Tom Hooper (The King's Speech)

Question 84

2011

Answer 84

Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)

Question 85

2012

Answer 85

Ang Lee (Life of Pi)

Question 86

2013

Answer 86

Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)

Question 87

2014

Answer 87

Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman)

Question 88

2015

Answer 88

Alejandro González Iñárritu (The Revenant)

Question 89

2016

Answer 89

Damien Chazelle (La La Land)

Question 90

2017

Answer 90

Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water)

Question 91

2018

Answer 91

Alfonso Cuarón (Roma)

Question 92

2019

Answer 92

Bong Joon-ho (Parasite)

Question 93

2020

Answer 93

Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)

Question 94

2021

Answer 94

Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)