best director 97
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Paul Thomas Anderson
One Battle after Another (2025)
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Sean Baker
Anora (2024)
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Christopher Nolan
Oppenheimer (2023)
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Daniel Kwan
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
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Jane Campion
The Power of the Dog (2021)
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Chloé Zhao
Nomadland (2020)
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Bong Joon Ho
Parasite (2019)
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Alfonso Cuarón
Roma (2018)
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Guillermo del Toro
The Shape of Water (2017)
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Damien Chazelle
La La Land (2016)
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Alejandro González Iñárritu
The Revenant (2015)
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Alejandro González Iñárritu
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
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Alfonso Cuarón
Gravity (2013)
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Ang Lee
Life of Pi (2012)
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Michel Hazanavicius
The Artist (2011)
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Tom Hooper
The King's Speech (2010)
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Kathryn Bigelow
The Hurt Locker (2009)
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Danny Boyle
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
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Joel Coen
No Country for Old Men (2007)
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Martin Scorsese
The Departed (2006)
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Ang Lee
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
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Clint Eastwood
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
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Peter Jackson
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
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Roman Polanski
The Pianist (2002)
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Ron Howard
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
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Steven Soderbergh
Traffic (2000)
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Sam Mendes
American Beauty (1999)
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Steven Spielberg
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
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James Cameron
Titanic (1997)
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Anthony Minghella
The English Patient (1996)
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Mel Gibson
Braveheart (1995)
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Robert Zemeckis
Forrest Gump (1994)
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Steven Spielberg
Schindler's List (1993)
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Clint Eastwood
Unforgiven (1992)
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Jonathan Demme
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
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Kevin Costner
Dances With Wolves (1990)
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Oliver Stone
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
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Barry Levinson
Rain Man (1988)
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Bernardo Bertolucci
The Last Emperor (1987)
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Oliver Stone
Platoon (1986)
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Sydney Pollack
Out of Africa (1985)
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Milos Forman
Amadeus (1984)
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James L. Brooks
Terms of Endearment (1983)
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Richard Attenborough
Gandhi (1982)
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Warren Beatty
Reds (1981)
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Robert Redford
Ordinary People (1980)
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Robert Benton
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
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Michael Cimino
The Deer Hunter (1978)
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Woody Allen
Annie Hall (1977)
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John G. Avildsen
Rocky (1976)
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Milos Forman
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
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Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather Part II (1974)
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George Roy Hill
The Sting (1973)
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Bob Fosse
Cabaret (1972)
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William Friedkin
The French Connection (1971)
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Franklin J. Schaffner
Patton (1970)
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John Schlesinger
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
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Carol Reed
Oliver! (1968)
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Mike Nichols
The Graduate (1967)
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Fred Zinnemann
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
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Robert Wise
The Sound of Music (1965)
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George Cukor
My Fair Lady (1964)
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Tony Richardson
Tom Jones (1963)
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David Lean
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
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Robert Wise
West Side Story (1961)
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Billy Wilder
The Apartment (1960)
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William Wyler
Ben-Hur (1959)
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Vincente Minnelli
Gigi (1958)
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David Lean
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
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George Stevens
Giant (1956)
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Delbert Mann
Marty (1955)
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Elia Kazan
On the Waterfront (1954)
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Fred Zinnemann
From Here to Eternity (1953)
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John Ford
The Quiet Man (1952)
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George Stevens
A Place in the Sun (1951)
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz
All about Eve (1950)
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz
A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
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John Huston
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
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Elia Kazan
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
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William Wyler
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
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Billy Wilder
The Lost Weekend (1945)
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Leo McCarey
Going My Way (1944)
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Michael Curtiz
Casablanca (1943)
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William Wyler
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
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John Ford
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
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John Ford
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
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Victor Fleming
Gone with the Wind (1939)
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Frank Capra
You Can't Take It with You (1938)
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Leo McCarey
The Awful Truth (1937)
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Frank Capra
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
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John Ford
The Informer (1935)
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Frank Capra
It Happened One Night (1934)
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Frank Lloyd
Cavalcade (1933)
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Frank Borzage
Bad Girl (1932)
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Norman Taurog
Skippy (1931)
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Lewis Milestone
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
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Frank Lloyd
The Divine Lady (1929)