Academy Award for Best Director
With the Oscar for Best Director, the performance of the directors of a film to be honored.
- Eight directors were nominated for best director and best actor for the same film: Warren Beatty for ( Heaven Can Wait and Reds ), Clint Eastwood (dollar Unforgiven and Million Baby ), Orson Welles (Citizen Kane ), Laurence Olivier ( Hamlet), Woody Allen ( Annie Hall ), Kenneth Branagh (Henry V), Kevin Costner ( Dances with Wolves ) and Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful ).
- The only brothers who were jointly nominated, were Joel and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men (2007) and True Grit (2010).
- John Ford and Joseph L. Mankiewicz are the only defending champion
Films have qualified in the following year of its publication for an Oscar. The table below shows the winners after the year of the award are ordered.
1929-1930
1931-1940
1941-1950
1951-1960
1961-1970
1971-1980
1981-1990
1991-2000
2001-2010
Since 2011
Best Film | Best Director | Best Actor | Best Actress | Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress | Best Original Screenplay | Best Adapted Screenplay | Best Camera | Best Art Direction | Best Costume Design | Best Sound | Best Editing | Best Sound Editing | Best Visual Effects | Best Make - up and Best hairstyles | Best Song | Best Film Music | Best Animated short film | Best Short film | Best Documentary | Best short Documentary | Best Animated film | Best Foreign Language Film
Former categories: Best Assistant Director | Best Original Story | Best Dance Director
Alphabetical list of all winning films
- Oscar