Oscar al mejor director
Keywords: Oscar al mejor director, Alguien voló sobre el nido del cuco, Amadeus, American Beauty, Annie Hall, Bailando con lobos, Ben-Hur, Bernardo Bertolucci
En la tabla siguiente se muestra la relación de los ganadores del Oscar al mejor director entregados desde los orígenes de los premios hasta la actualidad.
| Año | Ganador | Película |
| 2004 | Clint Eastwood | Million Dollar Baby (Million dollar baby) |
| 2003 | Peter Jackson | El señor de los anillos: El retorno del rey (The lord of the rings: The return of the king) |
| 2002 | Roman Polanski | El pianista (The pianist) |
| 2001 | Ron Howard | Una mente maravillosa (A beautiful mind) |
| 2000 | Steven Soderbergh | Traffic (Traffic) |
| 1999 | Sam Mendes | American Beauty (American Beauty) |
| 1998 | Steven Spielberg | Salvar al soldado Ryan (Saving Private Ryan) |
| 1997 | James Cameron | Titanic (Titanic) |
| 1996 | Anthony Minghella | El paciente inglés (The English patient) |
| 1995 | Mel Gibson | Braveheart (Braveheart) |
| 1994 | Robert Zemeckis | Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump) |
| 1993 | Steven Spielberg | La lista de Schindler (Schindler's list) |
| 1992 | Clint Eastwood | Sin perdón (Unforgiven) |
| 1991 | Jonathan Demme | El silencio de los corderos (The silence of the lambs) |
| 1990 | Kevin Costner | Bailando con lobos (Dances with wolves) |
| 1989 | Oliver Stone | Nacido el cuatro de julio (Born on the fourth of july) |
| 1988 | Barry Levinson | Rain Man (Rain Man) |
| 1987 | Bernardo Bertolucci | El último emperador (The last Emperor) |
| 1986 | Oliver Stone | Platoon (Platoon) |
| 1985 | Sydney Pollack | Memorias de África (Out of Africa) |
| 1984 | Milos Forman | Amadeus (Amadeus) |
| 1983 | James L. Brooks | La fuerza del cariño (Terms of endearment) |
| 1982 | Richard Attenborough | Gandhi (Gandhi) |
| 1981 | Warren Beatty | Rojos (Reds) |
| 1980 | Robert Redford | Gente corriente (Ordinary people) |
| 1979 | Robert Benton | Kramer contra Kramer (Kramer vs Kramer) |
| 1978 | Michael Cimino | El cazador (The deer hunter) |
| 1977 | Woody Allen | Annie Hall (Annie Hall) |
| 1976 | John G. Avildsen | Rocky (Rocky) |
| 1975 | Milos Forman | Alguien voló sobre el nido del cuco (One flew over the cuckoo's nest) |
| 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | El Padrino: segunda parte (The Godfather. Part II) |
| 1973 | George Roy Hill | El golpe (The sting) |
| 1972 | Bob Fosse | Cabaret (Cabaret) |
| 1971 | William Friedkin | Contra el imperio de la droga (The French connection) |
| 1970 | Franklin J. Schaffner | Patton (Patton) |
| 1969 | John Schlesinger | Cowboy de medianoche (Midnight cowboy) |
| 1968 | Carol Reed | Oliver (Oliver!) |
| 1967 | Mike Nichols | El graduado (The graduate) |
| 1966 | Fred Zinnemann | Un hombre para la eternidad (A man for all seasons) |
| 1965 | Robert Wise | Sonrisas y lágrimas (The sound of music) |
| 1964 | George Cukor | My Fair Lady (My Fair Lady) |
| 1963 | Tony Richardson | Tom Jones (Tom Jones) |
| 1962 | David Lean | Lawrence de Arabia (Lawrence of Arabia) |
| 1961 | Robert Wise y Jerome Robbins | West Side Story (West Side Story) |
| 1960 | Billy Wilder | El apartamento (The apartment) |
| 1959 | William Wyler | Ben-Hur (Ben-Hur) |
| 1958 | Vincente Minnelli | Gigi (Gigi) |
| 1957 | David Lean | El puente sobre el río Kwai (The bridge on the river Kwai) |
| 1956 | George Stevens | Gigante (Giant) |
| 1955 | Delbert Mann | Marty (Marty) |
| 1954 | Elia Kazan | La ley del silencio (On the waterfront) |
| 1953 | Fred Zinnemann | De aquí a la eternidad (From here to eternity) |
| 1952 | John Ford | El hombre tranquilo (The quiet man) |
| 1951 | George Stevens | Un lugar en el sol (A place in the sun) |
| 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Eva al desnudo (All about Eve) |
| 1949 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Carta a tres esposas (A letter to three wives) |
| 1948 | John Huston | El tesoro de la Sierra Madre (The treasure of the Sierra Madre) |
| 1947 | Elia Kazan | La barrera invisible (Gentleman's agreement) |
| 1946 | William Wyler | Los mejores años de nuestra vida (The best years of our lives) |
| 1945 | Billy Wilder | Días sin huella (The lost weekend) |
| 1944 | Leo McCarey | Siguiendo mi camino (Going my way) |
| 1943 | Michael Curtiz | Casablanca (Casablanca) |
| 1942 | William Wyler | La señora Miniver (Mrs. Miniver) |
| 1941 | John Ford | ¡Qué verde era mi valle! (How green was my valley) |
| 1940 | John Ford | Las uvas de la ira (The grapes of the wrath) |
| 1939 | Victor Fleming | Lo que el viento se llevó (Gone with the wind) |
| 1938 | Frank Capra | Vive como quieras (You can't take it with you) |
| 1937 | Leo McCarey | La pícara puritana (The awful truth) |
| 1936 | Frank Capra | El secreto de vivir (Mr. Deeds goes to town) |
| 1935 | John Ford | El delator (The informer) |
| 1934 | Frank Capra | Sucedió una noche (It happened one night) |
| 1932-1933 | Frank Lloyd | Cabalgata (Cavalcade) |
| 1931-1932 | Frank Borzage | Bad Girl (Bad girls) |
| 1930-1931 | Norman Taurog | Las peripecias de Skippy (Skippy) |
| 1929-1930 | Lewis Milestone | Sin novedad en el frente (All quiet on the western front) |
| 1928-1929 | Frank Lloyd | Trafalgar. The divine lady (The divine lady) |
| 1927-1928 | Frank Borzage | El séptimo cielo (Seventh heaven) |
| Lewis Milestone | Hermanos de armas (Two Arabian knights) |
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