Oscar Winners from the Best Director category: Check out the complete list from 1929-2022

The Academy nominates various acclaimed directors in its Best Director category but only one of them wins the award. Here's a list of Winners from the category, in a descending order.

• 2022: Jane Campion, Power of the Dog
• 2021: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
• 2020: Bong Joon Ho, Parasite
• 2019: Alfonso Cuarón, Roma
• 2018: Guillermo Del Toro, The Shape of Water
• 2017: Damien Chazelle, La La Land
• 2016: Alejandro González Iñárritu, The Revenant
• 2015: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• 2014: Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity
• 2013: Ang Lee, The Life of Pi
• 2012: Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
• 2011: Tom Hooper, The King's Speech
• 2010: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
• 2009: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
• 2008: Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
• 2007: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
• 2006: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
• 2005: Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
• 2004: Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• 2003: Roman Polanski, The Pianist
• 2002: Ron Howard, A Beautiful Mind
• 2001: Steven Soderbergh, Traffic
• 2000: Sam Mendes, American Beauty
• 1999: Steven Spielberg, Saving Private Ryan
• 1998: James Cameron, Titanic
• 1997: Anthony Minghella, The English Patient
• 1996: Mel Gibson, Braveheart
• 1995: Robert Zemeckis, Forrest Gump
• 1994: Steven Spielberg, Schindler's List
• 1993: Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven
• 1992: Jonathan Demme, The Silence of the Lambs
• 1991: Kevin Costner, Dances with Wolves
• 1990: Oliver Stone, Born on the Fourth of July 
• 1989: Barry Levinson, Rain Man
• 1988: Bernardo Bertolucci, The Last Emperor
• 1987: Oliver Stone, Platoon
• 1986: Sydney Pollack, Out of Africa
• 1985: Miloš Forman, Amadeus
• 1984: James L. Brooks, Terms of Endearment
• 1983: Richard Attenborough, Gandhi
• 1982: Warren Beatty, Reds
• 1981: Robert Redford, Ordinary People
• 1980: Robert Brenton, Kramer vs. Kramer
• 1979: Michael Cimino, The Deer Hunter
• 1978: Woody Allen, Annie Hall
• 1977: John G. Avildsen, Rocky
• 1976: Miloš Forman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• 1975: Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II
• 1974: George Roy Hill, The Sting
• 1973: Bob Fosse, Cabaret
• 1972: William Friedkin, The French Connection
• 1971: Franklin J. Schaffner, Patton
• 1970: John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy
• 1969: Carol Reed, Oliver!
• 1968: Mike Nichols, The Graduate
• 1967: Fred Zinnemann, A Man for all Seasons
• 1966: Robert Wise, The Sound of Music
• 1965: George Cukor, My Fair Lady
• 1964: Tony Richardson, Tom Jones
• 1963: David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia
• 1962: Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise, West Side Story
• 1961: Billy Wilder, The Apartment
• 1960: William Wyler, Ben-Hur
• 1959: Vincente Minnelli, Gigi
• 1958: David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai
• 1957: George Stevens, Giant
• 1956: Delbert Mann, Marty
• 1955: Elia Kazan, On the Waterfront
• 1954: Fred Zinnemann, From Here to Eternity
• 1953: John Ford, The Quiet Man
• 1952: George Stevens, A Place in the Sun
• 1951: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve
• 1950: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, A Letter to Three Wives
• 1949: John Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• 1948: Elia Kazan, Gentleman's Agreement
• 1947: William Wyler, The Best Years of Our Lives
• 1946: Billy Wilder, The Lost Weekend
• 1945: Leo McCarey, Going My Way
• 1944: Michael Curtis, Casablanca
• 1943: William Wyler, Mrs. Miniver
• 1942: John Ford, How Green Was My Valley
• 1941: John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath
• 1940: Victor Fleming, Gone with the Wind
• 1939: Frank Capra, You Can't Take It with You
• 1938: Leo McCarey, The Awful Truth
• 1937: Frank Capra, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
• 1936: John Ford, The Informer
• 1935: Frank Capra, It Happened One Night
• 1934: Frank Lloyd, Cavalcade
• 1933: Frank Borzage, Bad Girl
• 1932: Norman Taurog, Skippy
• 1931: Lewis Milestone, All Quiet on the Western Front
• 1930: Frank, Lloyd, The Divine Lady
• 1929: Lewis Milestone, Two Arabian Knights & Frank Borzage, 7th Heaven